war

“War is the health of the state,” says Randolph Bourne.

Christians should be against war in all but the rarest of circumstances (even then we should double-check!).

News of the Week: Obama the Warrior

News

It has been a few weeks since I have done a “News” post like this, and for good reason. I’ve driven across the country, moved from a condo to a ...

Christian Pacifism, 30th Anniversary Edition–Free on Kindle

President's Blog

I have said many times that I am not a pacifist, but that I have genuine respect for those who are. I also believe it is important to understand the ...

Ron Paul is Right About United States Overseas Military Bases

War and Peace

“We don’t need to pay all this money to keep troops all over the country, 130 countries, 900 bases. But also, just think, bringing all the troops home rather rapidly, ...

The Real Reason Guantanamo Should Be Closed

History

It has been ten years now since the first “terrorists” arrived at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Of the 779 people who have been detained at Guantánamo ...

News of the Week: War, books, and Romans

News

Recapping the interesting and significant news of this past week. Economist, Mises Institute scholar, and friend Bob Murphy gives his perspective on Romans 13, pehaps the first of several posts ...

News of the Week, January 15-21, 2012

News

Today we restart the traditional News of the Week posts, where we highlight a few significant, interesting, and amusing stories each week. David Neff at Christianity Today wonders if an ...

Idols of the Heart: Baptizing the War Prayer

Idols of the Heart: Baptizing the War Prayer

Christian Ethics

Since the bombs began to fall on Baghdad in March of 2003, churches, Christian leaders, religious organizations, and individual Christians have been telling us to pray for U.S. soldiers fighting ...

A Bad Way to Argue Against Being a Christian Libertarian

Theology

A few days after the Washington Post published my article on Christianity, libertarianism, and Ron Paul, one Dana Loesch, a former talk-show radio host and leader in the St. Louis, ...

Rand Paul may have prevented conflict with Russia, but what does it mean?

Libertarianism

I do not want to overstate the event, but there has been some very interesting stuff going on in the Senate these past few days. Jack Hunter reports in the ...

Romans 13 and National Defense

Christian Ethics

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, ...

Are You an Imperial Christian?

American History

The tenets of imperial Christianity include things like blind nationalism, belief in American exceptionalism, willful ignorance of U.S. foreign policy, childish devotion to the military, cheerleading for the Republican Party, ...

Five Lies of the Religious Right About Ron Paul

Libertarianism

Although I am a theological and cultural Christian conservative, I am not a member of the Religious Right and never have been. Adherents of the Religious Right are oftentimes more ...

Freakonomics on the Ten Commandments of The American Religion, and more.

Christian Ethics

More from the “blog posts you should read” department… The gentlemen at the Freakonomics blog had some excellent things to say about the Ten Commandments of The American Religion. Some ...

“Why do the nations rage?” and more on Biblical nations

Theology

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column is the ...

Torture isn’t Christian (Part 2)

Christian Ethics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- If someone is ...

Torture is not Christian (Part 1)

Christian Ethics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Contemporary Christians face ...

Can a Christian fight?

Christian Ethics

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- Standing for truth ...

How to have an ethical war

President's Blog

Thanks, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, for this enlightening comic. Down with war!

Our Men and Women in Uniform

Culture

Our men and women in uniform have stood in the forefront of the war on terror since soon after 9/11. Our men and women in uniform are our first line ...

Another war?

Media

Jon Stewart tells it like it is. Pardon the colorful language (it is bleeped out), but this is great.

Pro-Lifers for Mass Murder

Christian Worldview

“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and ...

Michael Moore is Right

War and Peace

“Terrorists aren’t trying to kill us because they hate our freedom. They’re killing us because we’re in their countries killing them.”  – Michael Moore In his new book Decision Points, ...

Laurence Vance joins LCC Contributors

Announcements

I am very happy to announce that Laurence Vance will be joining LCC as a guest contributor and syndicated columnist. Laurence is well-known to many LCC readers already for his ...

A Declaration of Peace for the New Year

War and Peace

This article was released by the Wrights 2012 Campaign, for which I am currently the webmaster. —- “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and ...

Wikileaks releases embarrassing diplomatic cables, governments unsurprisingly continue to hate them.

News

The whistleblowing organization Wikileaks has released their latest expose on the unseemly activities of governments around the world. And surprise surprise, governments around the world are ticked off. Now, the ...

News of the Week: November 21 to 27, 2010

History

Recapping interesting things in the news and on the net in the past week. LRC reminds us that the war of our dear “Christian” president George W. Bush has resulted ...

News of the Week: November 7-13, 2010

News

Recapping interesting things in the news and on the net in the past week. The internet is going crazy right now with talk about the TSA nekkid-scanners and groping, it’s ...

Jesus and Soldiers

Christian Ethics

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 ...

He can’t do it alone!

President's Blog

The Doctrine of a Christian Warmonger

Appearances

Today we continue the podcast series of the Christianity and War Audiobook, by Laurence Vance, with the essay “The Doctrine of the Christian Warmonger.” https://libertarianchristians.com/audio/lcc_vance_18.mp3 Right click here to download ...

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