God, Law & Liberty
God, Law & Liberty
God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast featuring David Fowler, an attorney who served in the Tennessee state Senate from 1994 to 2006 and thereafter lobbied the legislature on matters affecting God's design for marriage and the family, life, and rights of religious conscience. He retired at the end of 2024. David seeks to educate listeners on law and current issues with a view toward recovering a Chr…Social links:
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Is Saving America from [fill in the blank] Like Making “Mud pies in the slums?”
With mid-term elections on the horizon, David provides a sobering assessment of his 12 years as a state senator and 18 years as a pro-family lobbyist in answer to two haunting questions drawn from Scripture and the writings of John Owen, Abraham Kuyper, and John Owen. His answer looks at the glory …
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Why Socialism Is Not an “Economic Problem.”
Today is a short, hopefully helpful bridge between Tuesday's episode and the one Saturday pertaining to a politics for the glory of Christ. David explains what every Christians knows about the problem of socialism that most economists and politicians don't.
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What Will Stop the Rise of Socialism?
In today's limited episode, David uses a fundraising letter from a national Christian public policy and political advocacy organization to help us consider whether its proposed work toward stopping the rise of socialism will be fruitful or unfruitful.
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Fruitful Politics or Unfruitful? That is the Question.
Today David explains the foundational beliefs drawn from Scripture and expounded by 17th century Puritan John Owen that re-sculptured his political imagination from one of making proverbial "mud pies in the slums" (C.S. Lewis) to something beyond what he had ever thought to ask for or think of fro…
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Gospel Grounds for Developing a Christ-Centered Political and Legal Imagination
Today David provides “gospel grounds” upon which he believes the imagination of Christians - their vision - for legal and public policy advocacy might be expanded beyond doing politics the way the world does but only better because “we believe in Jesus.” You won’t want to miss what’s in his modern…
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Re-evaluating the Christian Political and Legal Imagination
Today David dives into insights he gained from his interview with Jason Farley. He applies the assessments Farley made of today's Christian mind to the sphere of political and legal advocacy. Most importantly, David offers a way forward for expanding the Christian political imagination beyond just …
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Jason Farley Interview Part 2: Change Culture or the Church?
Today's episode continues where David's interview with Jason Farley left off last week. The audio picks up with a look at SCOTUSs abortion decisions and flows into a look at the Court’s decision in 2015 about state marriage licensing statutes, Obergefell v. Hodges. It's an eye-opening look at the c…
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Interview with Jason Farley on Law and Shaping Culture
Today’s episode is the first part of an interview with Jason Farley (regular on Knox Unplugged) on law and its influence or effect on forming or transforming a culture. The discussion raises a serious question: Is the way some Christian leaders think about and speak into the sphere of politics and …
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Very Important Limited Episode: Does Apologist William Lane Craig Need Metaphysics?
This short episode is very important to understanding a video clip of apologist William Lane Craig circulating on social media in which he says he is unable to affirm or deny the Nicene Creed (325 A.D.) about the Son of God being begotten of the Father. His agnosticism on this subject drives home t…
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Will enacting “Christian laws” Have a Positive Educative Effect in our Day?
Today, David explains something in his first book on politics (published in 2013) that needs fixing. He goes public with the reason, because the thinking he once held to seems prominent among many Christians today. David walks us through a consideration of whether a sound knowledge of the Holy Spir…
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