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What Makes a Law Just and a Nation Righteous
Season 3 Episode 146
David takes today’s episode to develop a historical context for next week’s discussion of neo-Baptist engagement with law and politics. Without this …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Neo-Covenanters: Who They Are and Why Their View of Law and Politics is Gnostic
Season 3 Episode 145
Are you part of the neo-Covenantal tradition or the neo-Baptist tradition when it comes to law and politics? Today, David defines these two groups ba…
1 year, 5 months ago
What a Gnostic Benthamite Christian Lawyer Looks Like: Me.
Season 3 Episode 144
David begins his examination of what he considers the two predominate views among Christians on law and politics, those he calls the neo-Covenanters …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Law of Nature Jeremy Bentham and I Overlooked
Season 3 Episode 143
Common law authority William Blackstone said that man “must in all points conform to the will of his nature,” and this will was called the “natural l…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Pursuit of Righteous Laws and the Presidential Election
Season 3 Episode 142
Evangelicals of all stripes want to live in a country that has righteous laws or, we might say, law in accord with God’s law. And to that end the deb…
1 year, 6 months ago
Have Christian Legal and Policy Advocates “Kept God’s Law”?
This week David shares four statements by Jonathan Burnside, Professor of Biblical Law at the University of Bristol (England) Law School, about how t…
1 year, 6 months ago
What Do Concerns About Electoral and Legislative Outcomes Say About Us?
Season 3 Episode 140
At a recent gathering of political and legal advocates from around the nation, most of whom were Christians, these questions were asked: “What keeps …
1 year, 6 months ago
Can Dionysius and Christians Both Sit at the Republican Party’s Table?
Season 3 Episode 139
This week’s episode will spring from the relationship between Dionysius’s table depicted at the Olympics and common Christian wisdom about political …
1 year, 7 months ago
What Political Alternatives Do Christian Have?
Season 3 Episode 138
After the events of the last 10 days, some Christian policy organizations are circling back to how Christians should respond to the new Republican Pa…
1 year, 7 months ago
Examining the Pagan Predicates of the New Republican Party Platform
Changes in the Republican Party’s platform’s planks regarding abortion and marriage riled Christian political advocates who actively sought a minorit…
1 year, 7 months ago