Screaming “Romans 13!” to someone who is pointing out the immoral deeds of the State is like shouting “turn the other cheek!” to someone who was just knocked hard in the jaw by some thug. It is an inappropriate response. […]
It is not contradictory to long for a better ideal and vocally oppose the deeds of the State and at the same time adhere to the calls of Peter and Paul in subjecting oneself to “rulers and authorities.” It would […]
This one runs a bit long… Introduction Russia’s Global Anti-Libertarian Crusade: How Vladimir Putin’s desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics, by Cathy Young and published byReason.com. Yes, it’s all Putin’s fault – even at Reason Magazine. The […]
The best essay on war in the libertarian tradition is Rothbard’s War, Peace and the State. Another brilliant essay on the matter is Robert Nisbet’s conservative Prevalence of War, which was publish in his The Present Age. I recently read it for […]
I’ve been quiet since February. Blog posts were scarce, formal articles even more so. Not only that, I turned off my Facebook notifications and was silent in the RL group, in which I’m normally quite active. I didn’t read a […]
In 2000, Bob Brown of Reformed Baptist Church gave a lecture titled “All Things Lawful: Or, a Biblical Perspective on Resisting Authority.” It was part of a series on the civil magistrate and it seeks to explain 24.3 of the […]
James Renihan posted a short quote today at the Institute for Reformed Baptist Studies blog from a resolution written by Massachusetts Baptists to the Massachusetts General Assembly (Congress). The quote and historical account provided by Isaac Backus are very helpful […]
Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian member of the Westminster Assembly, which was an assembly of Scottish and English ministers gathered together as an agreement between the two countries called the Solemn League and Covenant, wherein Scotland promised the English parliament […]
The End of the Old Order The 18th century marked a stunning challenge to the millennia of anti-individual and anti-liberty despotism, tyranny, and century-long economic stagnation. Before this transitional era to the modern systems, societies were defined largely by the […]