I enjoy dialoguing with followers of the blog on social media and directly, when and if I can. A few weeks ago, I solicited some answers to the question of what might hold libertarians back from considering Christianity and, just as well, what might commonly hold back Christians from considering libertarianism. Among the answers were
What Motivates Suicide Terrorism?
There are few more polarizing terms, concepts more emotionally and viscerally motivating than that of “terrorism.” Much like the “Nazi”, “racist”, or “bigot” moniker popular today, or perhaps the “Communist” label during the Cold War, the label of “terrorist” is one that immediately discredits and tends to quickly disqualify an individual or group from any
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Apologetics
Much Ado About Genesis 2
The creation account found in Genesis 1 of the Christian Bible has been revered and studied, scrutinized and criticized, for millennia. Believers and non-believers alike can often quote its first words: ‘In the beginning, God created’. Its literary rhythm of the days of creation, with their mornings and evenings, and its fantastical account of the
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Foreign Policy
How Truman Started the Cold War
For those of us who have weathered the storm that is K-12 public education or have successfully completed an undergraduate degree, you’ve probably completed a course or two in American and/or world history through the 20th century. And if you are anything like me, your interest in history was not strong during those years and
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Economics
Economic Lessons from an Amusement Park
My wife and I found ourselves in Orlando a few months ago for a leadership conference supporting our home business with doTERRA (Check her out over at www.smallqueendom.com). She had made flight arrangements beforehand and found an awesome deal flying out of a regional airport nearby that had us both arriving and departing with some
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Were Adam and Eve Historical Humans?
Some of history’s most iconic stories, those that have pervaded and impacted culture, come from the Christian Bible. And perhaps no other characters, apart from Christ Himself, have left such a broad and lasting legacy on so many institutions of human culture than those of Adam and Eve. The first humans encountered during many a
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Public School: Short History of A Progressive Triumph
Back to school time is here again and it feels as though it comes earlier every year. And in honor of this momentous occasion, I thought it might be interesting to learn a bit about the history of American public education. In doing so, I think we will find a rich legacy of the myriad
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Current Events
The Only Necessary Question to Ask Someone Who Says “There Ought to Be a Law!”
“There ought to be a law!” Perhaps more than any other modern era, Americans today are obsessed with the proper role of law. Some citizens, old and young, lament the loss of a long ago time of some unified, less partisan, less divided polity. Whether that has ever been the case in our past (it
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Politics
All Government Programs are Welfare Programs
Prevalent in conservative politics today is a common theme of animosity towards the “welfare state.” Programs that go by a number of names like “the government dole”, or simply stated, “welfare programs.” At best, this nomenclature includes any number of subsets of agencies and programs depending on how informed and how principled the objector claims
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Theology
The Trouble with Having a “Child-Like” Faith
There is an old adage that gets repeated from time to time in church circles regarding the merits of a “child-like” faith. It tends to go something like this: “We ought to trust in God with the faith of a child, a faith that resembles a child’s faith in the nature of their parents.” The