God, Law & Liberty
God, Law & Liberty
God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast of the Family Action Council of Tennessee featuring David Fowler. We seek to educate listeners on matters of law and current issues relating to how we understand liberty and the Constitution per a Christian worldview. We will also address current political news, recent state and federal court rulings and commentary on elections and political campaigns. For years,…Follow the podcast:
What Does “Disciple the Nations” Mean for Law and Politics?
God promised “nations” would come from Abraham and Jesus told his disciples to disciple the nations. With that in mind, David uses scripture and some observations from Choc Knox and Jason Farley (Knox Unplugged) to explain how this kind of “nation building” is influencing the focus of his work in l…
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Nation Saving or Nation Building?
Many Christians, including preachers, politicians, and policy organizations, seem bent on “saving” America from further ruin by various means. Is that really the purpose for which the mystery of God was revealed in the person of Christ? Does the covenant with Abraham, illuminated by the new covenan…
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How and Why Jesus Matters in Law and Civil Government
Eric Metaxas’s new book, Letter to the American Church, Biden’s use of the image of God in proclaiming Transgender Awareness Day, and 29 years of direct legal and policy advocacy have brought home to me with increasing urgency observations made about Christianity and society by Abraham Kuyper in th…
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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 problem and concise explanation of it will help us evaluate whether the “practical politics” practiced…
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Religious Victory or Retreat?
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 commentary on Romans 2:1 to show what many Christian legal and policy organizations think “victory” means, …
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Did SCOTUS's Trump Decision Expose the Folly of a Faithless Christianity?
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 Fourteenth Amendment works. And in doing so it exposed the “Hagar method” of legal advocacy they are …
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Exposing the Christian Divide over a Civilization-Defining SCOTUS Decision
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 marriage, but abolished it. Today David explains why this was a civilization defining decision, how…
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Justice Alito Scorches Christian Policy Leaders and Pastors
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 Shafer and from Rosaria Butterfield to explain why Christian legal and policy leaders and pastors sho…
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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” could better inform our understanding of the dominion mandate in relation to law and its developmen…
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Lessons for the Dominion Mandate from Recent Pro-Abortion Victories
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 getting worse than under Roe’s abortion regime? David tackles that question using observations by C…
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