Podcast Episodes

Thinking Through “Practical Christian Politics” with Kuyper

In a speech given in 1891 to open the First Christian Social Congress, Abraham Kuyper nailed the problem Europe was experiencing and that America is now experiencing. His precise definition of the pr…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Religious Victory or Retreat?

Season 3 Episode 121

A Christian legal organization recently trumpeted a “victory for religious liberty,” but whether it was a victory depends on one’s theology. Today David uses Colossians 2 and Robert Haldane’s comment…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Did SCOTUS's Trump Decision Expose the Folly of a Faithless Christianity?

Season 3 Episode 120

With its 9 to zero decision on Monday reversing Colorado’s removal of Donald Trump from the ballot, the United States Supreme Court schooled some Christian legal and policy organizations on how the F…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Exposing the Christian Divide over a Civilization-Defining SCOTUS Decision

Season 3 Episode 119

When the United States Supreme Court held in 2015 that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited states from issuing marriage licenses to only male and female applicants, it didn’t expand the definition of…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Justice Alito Scorches Christian Policy Leaders and Pastors

Season 3 Episode 118

This week Justice Alito released an opinion in a case in which Christians were presumed to be unfit to sit as jurors in a case involving a lesbian. David uses remarks from the Hale Institute’s Jeff S…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

What Would Exercising Dominion in Law Look Like?

Do you think of the world as an allegory? If not, why not? Today David takes a look at those questions using exchanges between Choc Knox and Jason Farley and then explains how the “world as allegory”…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Lessons for the Dominion Mandate from Recent Pro-Abortion Victories

Season 3 Episode 116

The United States Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence got better with the reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer. So, why, if the “law” got better at the constitutional level is the law in the states…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Satan Clubs and the Cosmological Soil for Exercising Dominion

Today David uses the Satanic Temple’s description of its after school Satan Clubs, Karl Marx’s critique of religion, and an exchange between Jason Farley and George Grant to look at the fundamental c…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

The Dominion Mandate Meets Positive Law

The proposed federal “Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act, and similar legislation in the states, may look like it is in furtherance of the dominion mandate, because parents have God-given right…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Looking at the Dominion Mandate in Real Time

Season 3 Episode 13

In recent years, the “dominion mandate” in Genesis 1 has come alive for many Christians. Today David begins a three-week series that looks at various considerations for its fulfillment. This week, he…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago