God, Law & Liberty Podcast

S2E20: Roe v. Wade

S2E19: Absolute Rights and Due Process

S2E18: Understanding Civil Law and Natural Law

S2E17: Episode 17: Constitutional History of First Amendment

S2E16: The First Amendment

S2E15: Conscience Cleansed

In this episode, David continues his look at how liberty of conscience was understood and how it framed the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. Specifically, he looks at the “bondage” under which conscience operated as prelude to understanding the nature of it is liberty and why its liberty was so important.  Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, David looks to the theological roots of the conscience, the role it plays in our lives, and why it was of such importance to the people of England during the English Reformation, providing background to the liberty of conscience that became the Liberty of Conscience Provision in the Tennessee Constitution and the Free Exercise of Religion Provision in the First Amendment.   Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s no secret why the First Amendment is under attack. When the theological roots of law are not understood, many parts of the law appear to lack an underlying source of validity. In this episode, David explains the secularization of the law and provides insight into the theological foundations of the Establishment Clause in the United States Constitution. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

They say you can’t fight the Establishment, but don’t tell that to those dissenters—the Puritans—who took on the King of England and the direction in which he was moving the established Church of England. Today’s episode introduces the historical backdrop you must have if you want to have any clue about the First Amendment’s religion clauses—the fight between the Crown, as head of the established Church of England, and the Puritan dissenters.

If you want to know why Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is such a pitched battle, then today’s episode will explain why. David takes a look at how the United States Supreme Court rejected God’s relevance to human law and effectively deified itself in place of God. [Playing off the Latin for Trinity, Judge Barrett would make up part of the “Novemity” (9 person god) that rules the United States.] It is the age-old problem confronted by Christians of rulers thinking they are God’s voice on the earth, that they mediate God to us instead of Christ.

Who would have ever thought that the Christian doctrine that Jesus was fully God and fully man had anything to do with civil liberty? In this episode, David explains how the doctrine became the foundation for civil liberty in the West and and how the United States Supreme Court has presumed to vest in itself powers that belong only to God without any protest from the evangelical church. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, David introduces a new series which examines the idea of liberty. In the series, he will trace the history of liberty and show two fundamental types of liberty—liberty of conscious and personal liberty—were critical to the development of civil liberty and show how these three types of liberty were infused into the US Constitution. Today’s podcast covers the experiments in government and liberty up to time of Rome, and how those experiments paved the way for the Christian conception of liberty. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Drawing parallels between the rise of the Renaissance period and what we are seeing in the modern church, David examines the dangers of a spiritual life that ignores the dual nature of man as both body and spirit and what happens when we deny the human condition.

In this episode, David examines the root of the “civil unrest” that is burning down some of our nation’s larger cities and destroying the properties and livelihoods of innocent persons. Through the lens of Russian dissent Alexander Solzhenitsyn, he examines the question, “How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development?”