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J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir by Ned Bernard Stonehouse
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Taking up Machen’s Torch: An Archetype for Christian Libertarians Originally published for The Christian Libertarian Institute
Libertarians have often fumbled over where we stand on the so-called political spectrum. We tend to have a sense of feeling “liberal among conservatives,” and “conservative among liberals.” Even among libertarians, you can sometimes find a form of...
Prolife Matters with Kerry Baldwin – Part 2 Interview on Saving Elephants Podcast
Continuing our discussion with Kerry Baldwin, we cover a wide array of prolife issues such as: how does poverty play a role in the abortion debate, and what might we do to reduce the death toll through better economics? Does a woman have a right to an abortion? ...
Prolife Matters with Kerry Baldwin – Part 1 Interview on Saving Elephants Podcast
Joining the podcast today is Kerry Baldwin, an independent researcher and writer with a B.A. in Philosophy from Arizona State University. Kerry grew up closely with the prolife movement and was a strong activist in prolife causes. However, dissatisfaction with the...
Does the Reformed Doctrine of Inerrancy Threaten Christian Libertarians? Originally published for The Libertarian Christian Institute
The Libertarian Christian Institute is an ecumenical Christian organization which brings together Christians from a variety of theological backgrounds. Though our theological differences don’t affect libertarianism, sometimes they intersect it. And when...
How is liberty violated? ... it's different from rights violations
We get terms confused: rights, liberty, responsibility… and in getting them confused we often misuse or misapply them. We call things rights because we have a need, or a want, for them, or a liberty because we don’t want to concern ourselves with others....
Gary North’s Ethics of Taxation Originally published for the Libertarian Christian Institute
This is the third in a series evaluating Gary North’s book, Christian Economics in One Lesson. North’s work is a spin-off of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson, which is itself based on Frederic Bastiat’s analogy of the broken window. Before reading...
Gary North’s Christian Economics: The Ethics of Destruction Originally published for the Libertarian Christian Institute
In my last article, I introduced Gary North and his book, Christian Economics in One Lesson. This book is a spin-off of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. North is a Christian Reconstructionist adherent of the Austrian School who believes that most...
Is there a Christian view of economics? Originally published for The Libertarian Christian Institute
I had the pleasure of attending for the first time FEEcon this month. I met several interesting people, from fellow attendees to some of the speakers, including the president, Lawrence W. Reed. He spoke about the influence of his Christian faith on his...