A great example of double speak is that of the “Right to Work” states. Interference in the “free market” is perceived by libertarians anything that challenges the right of the wealthy to their wealth. This is way they can run on “tax breaks” but only give them to the wealthiest while raising them on the […]
The reliance of the Virginia School upon the Mont Pelerin Society and the work of F. A. Hayek, and Milton Friedman reveals the depth of its foundational false dichotomy, “Should government control markets or should markets control the government?” Uncontrolled government places political power and public decisions into the hands of the politically connected. Uncontrolled […]
One of Libertarianism’s key ideas is ‘freedom of choice’. School choice in particular reveals that this idea is rooted in the ideal of keeping races separate and controlling who gains the benefit of the states tax revenues. This came to the fore in the issue of Brown vs. the Board of Education which declared that […]
In the mind of the Virginia school, economy is a form of exchange while politics is a form of coercion. True liberty can thus only be economic freedom. Free markets, they argue, will create free people. Their concern is that an electorate will elect politicians that promise to do the will of the people. Then […]
The Virginia school of Economics would lay the foundation of Modern Libertarianism and the Tea Party Movement by creating an understanding of “liberty” quite unlike that of the framers. Claiming to be constitutionalists, they might be better connected to the dissenting voice of the post-Constitutional generation, John Calhoun. Based on the work of James Buchanan […]
As Paul spoke to the Romans about sin in the life of humans, he did so using the effect of Torah to illustrate the issue. In making this illustration he was careful to say that the Law is holy (Romans 7:12), the Law is Spiritual (Romans 7:14), and the Law is good (Romans 7:16)) and […]
Passover teaches us that the Torah is rooted in a liberating event and in the movement from Egypt to Sinai we are given the pattern for keeping the freedom which we were given. When we see Torah in light of this liberating impulse, we understand better what the Spirit of the Law is, and what […]
Two or three times in as many years, I have had conversations about Jesus’ parable in Mark 12 of the vine growers. The argument posited to me ran like this, “Doesn’t this parable prove that in Messiah, God was taking His Kingdom from Israel and giving it to the gentiles? Look at what Jesus says, […]
For all the times Jesus was accused of working on the Sabbath on the one in which He seemed to be resting, He was doing His greatest work of all. As He lay in the tomb, no one accused Him of healing on the Sabbath, though even then, He was giving us the one healing […]
Whether we hear the cry from the lips of David or from the dying Savior “My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?” the cry makes little sense from either. These are two people with a sense of the LORD’s presence and intimacy and yet the draw from the well of the deepest human pain, alienation. […]
