Where Oppression is on the Menu
Whether or not President Trump wins reelection, the current state of politics exposes the fact that Americans–including many Republicans and and Christians–are not sure if they want liberty. We take a look at this problem this week and at the only path forward to liberty.
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Politicians love power. However, most of them understand that “Power to the Politician” is not a very good campaign slogan. This week on Episode 23 of the Liberty Café, we talk with local government expert and liberty lover James Quintero with the Texas Public Policy Foundation about how politicians keep secrets and what can done to get information–and power–back to the people.
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A recent conversation with friends helped me to see more clearly the connection between the Houston Astros and President Donald Trump: liberals hate them both. And as a result we get a lot of fake news about each of them. This week on the Liberty Café we explore what that means for the upcoming presidential election. Hint: do not lose hope.
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A lot of folks may find theological debates within the church boring and not worth their time. But what happens in the church is a pretty good predictor of what is going to happen in the culture. Put another way, if the church caves to worldly wisdom, it is a good bet that that the rest of society will soon follow. We draw the lines between church and state–and Trump and Biden–in this week’s edition of The Liberty Café.
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Many Christian leaders claim that the Bible doesn’t really tell us all that much about how civil government should be operated. Yet Scripture is full of direction both for civil rulers and citizens about the limits of civil government. And about how we are to worship no one other than God.
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Over the past 18 years, the Texas GOP has missed two revolutions. Today on the Liberty Café we take a look at missed opportunities and some steps on the path forward to liberty.
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In 2016 I did not vote for Donald Trump. But after watching him for almost two years, I decided I would do so in 2018. There are still those out there, though, who are considering not voting for him in 2020 for some of the same reasons I did not four years ago. While I understand where many of them might be coming from, I believe now more than ever that a vote for Trump in 2020 might be part of God’s means for restoring a God-fearing future for America.
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Most Americans have been rightfully battling the left to reopen the economy and our lives. But perhaps we should rethink the current push to reopen the public schools, which have produced one new generation after another “who [do] not know the LORD or the work that he [has] done.” Instead of defunding the police, it is time that conservatives and Christians work to defund and eliminate public education.
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Renewable energy disappeared almost overnight from the Western world once we could afford to build the infrastructure needed to benefit from reliable and affordable coal, oil, and natural gas. On this week’s Liberty Café, we discuss how renewable energy will disappear once again if Texans, Americans, and citizens across the world are willing stop their governments from giving billions of their tax dollars to banks and businesses with multi-billion dollar market caps in the form of renewable energy subsidies.
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A lot of people in the evangelical church are trying to hold fast to Biblical wisdom while many others around them slip and slide into worldly wisdom. On this episode of the Liberty Café, we discuss how to lovingly deal with those who are on our side even when it seems like they are not.
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