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In this episode, R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott interview Joseph McAuliffe about his Christian faith and business ministry. McAuliffe recounts his conversion in 1971 at Bowling Green State University, his early dispensational training, and eventual realization through Rushdoony’s Institutes of Biblical Law that God’s kingdom is relevant to all areas of life, including business. He emphasizes that b...

Docetism denies Christ’s true incarnation and, in doing so, empties Christianity of its power in history. By treating salvation as escape from the material world rather than deliverance from sin, it undermines God’s law, Christ’s kingship, and the biblical call to exercise dominion. The incarnate, crucified, and risen Christ redeems flesh and history, restoring His people to righteous rule under G...

A church advertisement urging people to “Follow the crowd” reveals how deeply modern Christians have adopted pagan assumptions about majorities. Scripture never tells us to follow the crowd only to follow Christ, even when that means standing alone like Elijah or Caleb, who “followed [the Lord] fully.” Today the crowd has become a false god; people assume the majority is always right, though the B...

Christianity brought a moral revolution the ancient world could scarcely imagine. In pagan thought, only the strong were close to the gods, pity was a weakness, generosity was calculated reciprocity, and envy ruled society. But Jesus overturned that entire order, teaching His followers to give freely, expect reward from God rather than from men, and show kindness even to those who could never repa...

As our great High Priest, Jesus Christ stands as our representative before God. He offered Himself once and for all as the perfect, unblemished sacrifice, reconciling us to God, and He now continually intercedes for His people. Because we are united to Him by faith, we approach God accepted, forgiven, and heard secure in the priestly work of Christ who “ever liveth to make intercession for us.”

Rushdoony’s theme is that forgotten victories become present defeats: the church has lost strength because it remembers Scripture but forgets how earlier Christians applied it. He cites 1 Corinthians 6: churches formed courts of arbitration so just that even pagans sought their rulings making Christianity an “empire within the empire” that Rome resented. He then sketches a long shift from Christia...

When Jesus declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” He reveals that truth is not an abstract idea or a set of facts it is God Himself. Whenever people detach “truth” from the Person of the Lord, they fall into grave error, whether it’s Gandhi identifying truth with India or Marxists equating truth with their political cause, becoming self-righteous and ruthless in the process. The same d...

In this episode of  Preschool Pioneers , Jeremy Walker explores the idea that “culture is religion externalized,” arguing that a society’s values and behaviors reflect its underlying worldview and are most clearly seen in actions rather than slogans. Using a contemporary clip that redefines “white” and “whiteness,” he contends that these terms are increasingly used as coded language for Christian...

Are you tempted to think the Church is losing, that the nations are defying God without consequence, and that the best we can do is manage decline? Micah 4:1-4 gives us a stunning corrective. In this episode, we work through one of the most hope-filled passages in the Old Testament — a prophetic vision of God's kingdom growing from a mustard seed into a mountain that fills the entire earth, not ju...

The U.S. is showing signs of becoming a “postage stamp republic,” a term I first learned as a boy from my stamp collection. Historically, “postage stamp republics” were weak, unstable nations, issuing new stamps frequently to raise money and signaling constant inflation through fluctuating postal rates. Today, the U.S. mirrors that pattern: new stamps appear constantly, often sold more to collecto...

Paul’s declaration in Colossians 2:10 “Ye are complete in him” teaches that true human fulfillment is impossible apart from Jesus Christ, the true and last Adam in whom a new humanity is formed. Our potential, our identity, and our wholeness all flow from union with Him. But Paul goes further: Christ is also “the head of all principality and power,” the rightful ruler over every sphere individuals...

Rushdoony argues that Christian reconstruction rests on God’s promise of victory: the meek shall inherit the earth. Scripture consistently teaches that God’s kingdom advances in history, fulfilled in Christ the true lawgiver and judge who inaugurates the new creation through His resurrection. Regenerated believers are therefore called to bring every area of life into obedience to Christ the King....

Docetism denies the full humanity of Christ, treating His incarnation as a mere appearance rather than real flesh and blood. Scripture condemns this error plainly: “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” (2 John 7). By spiritualizing Christ, Docetism also devalues God’s law, history, and the physical world, leading to retreatism and powerlessness in the church. A Christ who is not truly incarnate cann...

Christmas is a season of profound joy because it celebrates the astonishing truth that God became man to redeem us. As St. Ephrem the Syrian wrote, in the cold month when seeds lie hidden, “there sprouted forth from the Womb the Ear of Life.” This is why Christmas overflows with song, warmth, and gifts because it reflects God’s own great gift of salvation. Even when the world tries to recast the d...

Studies show that roughly 95% of unborn babies diagnosed with cystic fibrosis are aborted. In this episode, host Andrea Schwartz sits down with her granddaughter Elliot, a 17-year-old senior and high-performing basketball player who has lived with cystic fibrosis since birth. Elliot shares what daily life looks like managing CF — from nebuliser treatments and vest therapy to enzyme protocols — and...

Isaiah condemned Judah for two telling signs of moral collapse: their silver had become dross and their wine was diluted fraud in both money and daily life. Scripture repeatedly commands just weights and honest measures, and for centuries even America’s gold-standard currency reflected that biblical integrity: a dollar meant a fixed weight of real metal. Today’s paper money cheap to print, endless...

When a repeatedly arrested, probation-bound assemblyman is easily renominated, it reveals not merely the corruption of leaders but the deeper corruption of the people who elect them. As voters tolerate sins in their children and demand tolerance for their own, it is no wonder they tolerate the same in their legislators. Isaiah warned that in times of judgment, guilt runs through every class and st...

Jesus Christ is not only our Savior but God’s final and complete revelation. As Prophet, He reveals the will of God to us by His Word and Spirit, making the unknowable God known. In Christ, true knowledge is restored: nothing in creation or in our lives can be understood apart from Him. Because God has spoken fully and finally through His Son, there is no greater or further revelation to seek.

God’s law isn’t a list of cold rules it’s direction, light, and life itself. Scripture teaches that torah means a God-given path to walk, not just commands to obey. When men and societies abandon that direction, they don’t become “free” they become lost, blind, and eventually ungovernable. Proverbs makes it clear: God’s law is a lamp for the path, a fountain of life, and the only true source of wi...

Modern Gnosticism repeats an ancient error: it elevates elite “knowledge,” symbolism, and changing ideas above the plain Word of God. It rejects the literal meaning of Scripture, especially Genesis, downplays God’s law, and scorns ordinary believers as naïve, while adapting Christianity to current philosophy, science, and cultural fashion. Whether in theology, art, politics, or even conservatism,...

The French Revolution exposes less the strength of revolutionary forces and more the weakness and moral collapse of the royalists and the church. As pornography, occultism, and every imaginable perversion flooded France under the banner of “liberty,” the church softened by Enlightenment compromise proved too timid, too pietistic, and too eager for intellectual respectability to resist. Robespierre...

In this wide-ranging episode (Sept. 16, 1986), R.J. Rushdoony opens with Tertullian’s striking line “Your Emperor is more our Emperor than he is yours” to argue that Christians alone can truly interpret civil power because they know rulers come by God’s providence, whether as judgment or blessing, and this certainty is part of why the early Church outlasted Rome. From there he surveys the spiritua...

In Haggai 2, God teaches a striking truth: holiness is not contagious, but sin is. A clean towel cannot purify dirty hands rather, the dirt spreads. Judah needed to learn, as we do today, that no one becomes godly by belonging to a good church, a good family, or a wholesome community; righteousness does not transfer by proximity. But sin, injustice, and foolishness rub off easily unless we stand f...

What does it really mean when Jesus says, “Love your enemies” (Luke 6:27–36)? Is it emotional softness? Is it becoming a doormat? Or is it something far deeper — rooted in God’s law, God’s justice, and God’s mercy? In this episode of Out of the Question, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts unpack the biblical definition of love, the true meaning of “enemy,” and why modern humanism has disto...

Condition of Christianity (Christian Reconstruction and the Future) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/condition-of-christianity-christian-reconstruction-and-the-future Rushdoony argues that the book of Acts shows persecution is inevitable wherever Christianity becomes effective. The real issue is always lordship by what power and by what name things are done. The early church was not persecuted for i...