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The Libertarian Party removed its abortion plank in 2022, ending fifty years of failed attempts to articulate a consistent position on women's and children's rights. This episode traces that history — from the LP's first platform in 1972 through the debates that led to removal — and examines what the change does and doesn't mean. Removing the plank doesn't make the LP officially pro-life, and it d...

| SUMMARY - Nancy Pearcey Explains The Toxic War on Masculinity |  TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   In this episode of Dare to Think, Kerry Baldwin interviews Professor Nancy Pearcey about her book, The Toxic War on Masculinity. This book is not intended to take sides in cultural-religious debate between Complementarianism and Egalitarianism. Instead, Pearcey examines a soc...

The Socratic method, properly understood, is not a debate technique — it is a tool for inquiry-based discovery. Kerry Baldwin, Mike Leavitt, and Jacob Winograd discuss how this approach to critical thinking shapes the Liberty Seminar, an online course for learners aged 14 and older. Topics include the decline of careful reasoning in professional and academic settings, practical applications in par...

TIP JAR: https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   New Mexico is facing challenges in terms of violent crime, property crime, education, healthcare access, and economic stability. Despite being a "blue state," historically, Democrats in New Mexico have been pro-Second Amendment and have had few gun control laws. The majority of the population in New Mexico is Hispanic, with Nuevomexicanos bei...

Summary - A First Person Perspective of the First Battle of Loc Ninh, Vietnam TIP JAR: https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   mereliberty.com/038 My father died a two weeks ago today, March 21st. It was expected, as he suffered for many years from COPD. In 2011, he composed a brief memoir. This was meant as catharsis for therapy we was receiving for PTSD he had suffered from his service in...

Exploring Foster Adoption with Doc Dixon Doc Dixon and his wife Bethany wanted children. When that proved impossible through other means, they pursued foster adoption — and eventually raised six boys and a daughter. In this conversation, Doc walks through what that process actually looks like and what he wishes more people understood about it. Foster adoption begins with foster certification. Ther...

Seventy-three percent of women who seek abortions cite financial hardship as a primary factor. If that statistic is accurate — and the research supports it — then a significant portion of abortions are not exercises of free choice but of no other perceived choice. This episode examines what it looks like to take that seriously: what Let Them Live does, how it works, and why addressing the financia...

Hyperlinked show notes found at mereliberty.com/035 TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary - Decriminalizing Sex: Where Prostitution Meets Purity Culture An odd twist in my research on a libertarian theory of reproductive rights (and abortion), I've had to dive into how the criminal justice system treats the crime of rape. In doing so, I've been led to what might appear t...

TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary - Reformed Libertarians with Gregory Baus Today I'm announcing a new podcast that I've been working on and will be co-hosting. Many of you know that I'm a Reformed Christian who is also libertarian. But what you may not realize, is the extent to which my libertarian views are grounded in the Reformed faith. For the past years, I've b...

TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Shane Rosenthal | Featured Guest Shane Rosenthal is the founder and host of The Humble Skeptic podcast which seeks to explore the beliefs and ideas that shape our lives. He was one of the original creators of the White Horse Inn radio broadcast, which he also hosted from 2019-2021. Shane was one of the authors of the book Defending the Faith...

TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary |  Is the Billy Graham Rule Above Reproach? What do I mean by this question? It's been suggested by many holding to biblical sexual ethic that the Billy Graham Rule is a prudential "rule of thumb" intended to mitigate the temptation for sexual sin. But is this true? As I've discussed and interacted with Christians over the years, I'v...

TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary | Restorative Justice and Christianity with Kathleen McGoey Kathleen McGoey is a trainer and facilitator of Restorative Justice Practices & Conflict Transformation. She has Master's in International Peace & Conflict Studies from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame. Kathleen...

Summary | Reformed Christians Discuss a Libertarian View of Abortion TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   See all links at mereliberty.com/030 Since 2020, Christians (in particular, but certainly Christians more broadly) have been faced with real questions about the proper, God-ordained role of civil governance, love of neighbor, liberty of conscience, and human flourishing. On...

Response to John Stossel on Abortion | Kerry Baldwin and Doug Stuart TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   John Stossel on abortion For the past 50 years, the abortion debate has been a polarized issue with common ground on either side. This polarization has created a perfect storm that suggests a deeply divided country. A single data point gets twisted by both sides. 61% of Ame...

Thinking Well in High Stakes Situations| Show Notes TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary It's easy to believe high stakes situations - like a pandemic - create an imperative to act first. But this is false! We cannot take purposeful action, or well-reasoned action without thinking first. This is counterintuitive to most us. When we're under pressure to make a life-alter...

Mistaken Christian Views of Culture | Show Notes TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary American Christians are no stranger to the idea of culture. But there are number of ways in which they treat the Christian's relation to culture poorly. Some mistaken Christian views of culture are derived from two broader theoretical views: Scholasticism and Theonomy. This is part two...

Rethinking a Reformed Christian View of Culture | Show Notes TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary Culture is important since it's the second most important thing we can do as humans: love our neighbor. But how exactly does this play out. Evangelicalism has tried to create a "moral majority" through various political activities. But this politicization of our cultural ac...

Interpersonal Communication, A Dialogue with Antony Sammeroff | Show Notes TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   It's very easy to think of libertarianism and the principle of self-ownership as being an extreme form of individualism. In fact, cynics of libertarian thought chide libertarians for being atomistic, selfish, egotistical, and the like. While any student of libertarian...

Kerry Baldwin on Abuse, Sphere Sovereignty | Show Notes TIP JAR:  https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV   Summary In this episode, Jacob Winograd invites  Kerry Baldwin  to discuss some cultural aspects of relationship from a Reformed and anarchist perspective. Winograd is concerned is the church is failing to "be the church" as a means of societal preservation ( Matt 5:13-16 ). We begin wi...

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Much of what is being said on the news and social media about abortion by both pro-choice and pro-life activists is just plain wrong. In this episode, three pro-life libertarian women "take the mic" to discuss some of the most common myths about abortion Listen to the full episode: https://libertarianchristians.com/2019/06/10/episode-122/

Resources Referenced Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love by Dietrich von Hildebrand ( https://amzn.to/2UxRaQa ) The Myth of Religious Neutrality by Dr. Roy Clouser ( https://amzn.to/2UxRaQa ) The Wisdom of Trauma produced by Science and Nonduality What does the Bible say about loving one another? "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also l...

Can Reformed Women be Ordained Deacons? | Show Notes Are ordained Deaconesses compatible with historic Christian orthodoxy? Complementarians insist not, egalitarians insist, yes! A recently published book, by Medieval Historian and Baptist egalitarian, Beth Allison Barr claims that women were most definitely ordained as deacons and that patriarchalist church leaders today are unjustly barring wome...

What is Feminism in Simple Terms? | Show Notes What is feminism in simple terms? The question sounds naive. It isn't. The word gets thrown around as a pejorative by its critics and as a self-evident good by its proponents — and neither side tends to define it. That imprecision is not incidental. It is the problem. The word itself has a complicated etymology. In 1851 it referred to qualities of fem...

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