This guest post is from Christians For Liberty 2016 Conference speaker David Gornoski, and originally appeared on FEE.org. Warning: The following is an anthropological account of the origins of the ...
If black lives matter to you, you wouldn’t use violence to punish nonviolent behaviors. As the late Philando Castile’s mother said, “He lived by the law, he died by the ...
Review of Robert Emmet Meagher, Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War (Cascade Books, 2014), xxi + 161 pgs, paperback. Much has been written about just war theory in ...
I always enjoy getting interesting questions from readers via our Contact Page, and when I’m really on top of things I actually get to answer them! Here are a few ...
This guest post is by Jeremy Mack of The Evangelical Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. The Insanity of Interventionism If insanity can be defined as ...
I cannot overstate my excitement to promote Brian Zahnd’s latest book, A Farewell to Mars. I am passionate about the message of Jesus as it addresses all of life, including politics. ...
On this Good Friday, Christians are focused on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a propitiation for the sins of the world. But on every other day of the year ...
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire Critics of the wars in Iraq ...
I have been called many things since I began writing in 2003 about the immoral, unjust invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the menacing warfare state, the U.S. evil empire of ...
The Catholic Patriarch of Syria has recently stated that a United States attack on Syria would be a “criminal act,” highlighting how U.S. government interventionism not only affects millions of ...
Just war theory is not perfect, but insofar as it can be used as a “bludgeon” against war I am not entirely against it. To that end, here is an ...
Is it okay to kill? I don’t mean a bug in your house, a snake in your garage, or a deer in the woods. Deer tastes good; you may not ...
Is killing another human being ever justifiable? Is committing acts of violence ever permissible? Is murder ever legitimate? In an otherwise good article on self-defense, “The Use of Deadly Force ...
It is bad enough that Republican warmongers like Mitt Romney, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Allan West are whining about the supposed cuts to the defense budget that are due ...
“Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders ...
For the time being, I’m going to be continuing “Q&A Week” until I have caught up with all of the FAQ submissions… Dave asks: For a libertarian Christian, is there ...
This talk was given on August 20 at the Florida Liberty Summit 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Thank you Campaign for Liberty for the opportunity to speak about a subject I ...
“My God, what have we done?” — Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay Americans love anniversaries, and especially of horrific events. Every year at this time we are reminded ...
Defenders of U.S. wars and military interventions look like the majority of Americans. They also dress like them, eat like them, work like them, play like them, and talk like ...
Thanks, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, for this enlightening comic. Down with war!
The Sunday before Memorial Day is not one of my favorites. The “patriotic” things that go on in churches in celebration or acknowledgment of Memorial Day are downright sickening. Churches ...
Even without the WikiLeaks revelations that U.S. helicopter pilots gunned down twelve Iraqi civilians, that U.S. soldiers ignored brutal torture carried out by Iraqi security forces, that the U.S. military ...
This is a serious and controversial question to ask anytime, but especially in the midst of a war. But that is exactly what Bennie Lee Fudge did — in 1943. ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article, slightly abridged, appeared in The Lutheran Scholar, October, 1970. —- Most ...
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.
It Was All a Lie… The recent revelation that the man most responsible for the myth that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, a.k.a “Curveball” ...
My good friend Stephan Kinsella, who is not a Christian, recently attended an event with great relevance to our time and situation within the church today. He had the following ...
Did this post title turn your head? Did you wonder what this would be about? Me too. Actually, I have been lax about answering some of the Libertarian FAQ Questions ...
On the morning of Tuesday, September 28, the University of Texas community was alerted to the terrifying situation of a gunman on campus. Students, staff, and faculty were told via ...
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but it is for a good reason. I’ve been carefully writing this article and I really hope you benefit from it. If you ...
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