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!).

Podcast: Falwell’s Folly

Appearances

This is the second installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast, covering the essay entitled “Falwell’s Folly.” https://libertarianchristians.com/audio/lcc_vance_02.mp3 Right click here to download the entire audio file. [13 minutes, ...

Podcast: Christianity and War Part 1

Appearances

Today marks the release of the first installment of the Christianity and War Audiobook Podcast. As many of you know, Christianity and War is the work of Laurence Vance, who ...

Special Announcement: Audiobook of Vance’s "Christianity and War" Releases Today!

Announcements

If you listened to the most recent LCC Podcast, you already have heard the big news. But, for those who have not, Laurence Vance has given his blessing to me ...

Links for this Memorial Day

Christian Ethics

Laurence Vance and Bob Murphy report how the church has gone wacko in worship of the State rather than God: LewRockwell.com Blog: Temple Prostitution. Free Advice: Awkward Thoughts on Memorial ...

What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?

Christian Ethics

Yesterday was Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. Happy birthday, our heroic anti-war American muse. Here are some other articles of libertarian Christian interest that came up this weekend… Bob Murphy writes ...

Obama’s First 100 Days: Madmen, Blunders, Death Defined

News

The score thus far: 100 days down, 1361 to go. Then we get another dictator. Greeeeeaaaat. :-/ I’d like to highlight briefly a few articles of note to commemorate history ...

Fail or Win? – National Review can’t decide

News

I found this excerpt from the April 6 National Review issue to be rather ironic: Obama’s wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights. It is not a new policy; ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #5: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Economics

Think about all the crazy things you know your tax money pays for...

Christians and War… and Battlestar Galactica

Christian Ethics

Tom Woods and Laurence Vance are two excellent examples of Christian libertarians, so I am delighted to share a few links that involve both of them today in follow-up to ...

Speedlinking Friday

Christian Ethics

First off, congrats to Baroness_Fel for writing the 100th comment on LCC (and on the 50th post, no less), in the Washington to the Rescue post! That’s a lot of ...

Obama Orders First Murder

News

Congratulations are in order for President Barack Obama, who today has successfully completed the common rite of passage of Presidents: ordering his first murder. See folks, don’t forget that morality ...

5 Predictions for 2009

Economics

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” ~Niels Bohr I know as well as anyone that the future is uncertain and that much has yet to transpire. But now ...

GW’s Presidential Review

News

Over at The Humble Libertarian, Sir Messamore has put together an excellent post-mortem of the last eight years of accomplishments from the Oval Office. Twice, the so-called conservative wing of ...

Christian Thoughts on Israel-Palestine

Christian Ethics

LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Scott Ritsema of CivicsNews.com to write our first-ever guest post. Scott is the editor of CivicsNews.com and the author of The Way, The Truth, and ...

“Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce” Book Review

Book Reviews

A Book Review of Stanley Weintraub’s Silent Night. Some book reviews that I write are rather long, primarily because they were originally written for a theology class or something similar. ...

The Christmas Truce

History

In celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Peace… All those who know Him, rejoice in the Lord! Update: Incidentally, historian Stanley Weintraub has written an interesting book on ...

Dick Cheney Admits He is a War Criminal

Christian Ethics

In this exclusive ABC interview (transcript) Cheney does not outright say “I am a war criminal, please put cuffs on me,” but the implications are pretty clear. He knew about, ...

Bush REGRETS the war now?

News

So, I have had an very taxing weekend and was unable to put up a new article. Hopefully I’ll get that done tomorrow. However, I did notice this in my ...

The War Prayer

Media

Mark Twain wrote a short work in 1905 called The War Prayer in response to the American military intervention in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. This short film adaptation ...

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