Cantus Firmus
132 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKingdom theology for Christians without a country.
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Problem Passages for Libertarian Christians: “Go Buy a Sword” (Libertarian Christian Podcast)
June 24, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes - 24.9 MBI was recently a guest on the Libertarian Christian Podcast to talk problem passages for libertarian Christians. This episode focused on New Testament passages appealed […]
Problem Passages for Libertarian Christians: Romans 13 (Libertarian Christian Podcast)
June 17, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes - 25.7 MBI was recently a guest on the Libertarian Christian Podcast to talk problem passages for libertarian Christians. This episode focused on Romans 13. Official description: […]
Problem Passages for Libertarian Christians: “Render Unto Caesar” (Libertarian Christian Podcast)
June 10, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes - 26.2 MBI was recently a guest on the Libertarian Christian Podcast to talk problem passages for libertarian Christians. This episode focused on the “render unto Caesar” […]
Progressive Christianity (Protestant Libertarian Podcast)
May 15, 2024 14:41 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBFrom my recent appearance on the Protestant Libertarian Podcast. Episode description: In this episode I talk with Cody Cook and Doug Stuart about progressive Christianity. […]
Reading the Apostolic Fathers (part 2)
May 06, 2024 12:00 - 31 minutes - 27.5 MBThis episode consists of sections from my short-lived Patreon podcast where I shared my thoughts and insights on the apostolic fathers. Part 2 contains the […]
Reading the Apostolic Fathers (part 1)
April 29, 2024 04:01 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBThis episode consists of sections from my short-lived Patreon podcast (circa 2017) where I shared my thoughts and insights on the apostolic fathers. Part 1 […]
The Bad Roman Podcast – God’s Country or Jesus’s Kingdom? Navigating the Nexus of Nationalism and Faith in America
April 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBA few months ago I was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion about Christian Nationalism on The Bad Roman Podcast. We discussed the theological […]
Stateless Prehistoric Societies and the Evolution of Human Cooperation w/ Dr. Charles Stanish
March 21, 2024 23:00 - 57 minutes - 43.1 MBDr. Charles Stanish was my guest to talk about his archaeological work and what it tells us about the evolution of human cooperation and complex […]
What hath Geneva to do with Ancapistan? – Can Reformed Christians Be Libertarian? (w/ Gregory Baus)
March 13, 2024 22:30 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBGregory Baus of the Reformed Libertarians Podcast was my guest to discuss how he grounds his libertarian views as a Reformed Christian. As an Anabaptist […]
The Bad Roman Podcast – Navigating Revivals in Christianity
February 20, 2024 12:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBLast summer I was a guest on the Bad Roman podcast to discuss revivals and why so many are suspicious of them. How well does […]
The Fourth Way – Christian Anarchism and Conservative Theology
February 01, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBIn 2022, I was invited on The Fourth Way podcast to defend Christian Anarchism from a theologically conservative, Bible believing perspective. It was a really […]
The Fourth Way – The Propaganda of Hell
January 07, 2024 12:06 - 1 hour - 1 ByteLast year I was a guest with Keith Giles on The Fourth Way Podcast, discussing whether Christian doctrines of hell could count as propaganda. It […]
Hoppe Meets Dunder Mifflin: When NBC’s The Office Taught Us About the Dangers of Democracy (FreedomHub)
December 18, 2023 05:47 - 58 minutes - 42.1 MBI was recently a guest on FreedomHub to give a presentation based on my article for FEE about NBC’s The Office offering a subtle critique […]
A Very Libertarian Christmas (The Protestant Libertarian Podcast)
December 02, 2023 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBI was recently a guest on The Protestant Libertarian Podcast to discuss the libertarian dimensions of Christmas. Here’s the official episode description: In this episode, […]
Why We Can’t Unhitch the Old Testament from Christianity (The Protestant Libertarian Podcast)
September 18, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBI was on the Protestant Libertarian Podcast to talk about my book Unhitched and the movement to disconnect Christianity from the Old Testament. Official episode […]
The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel (The Protestant Libertarian Podcast)
August 31, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBI was recently on The Protestant Libertarian Podcast to discuss The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.In short, we weren’t big fans.Listen to more […]
Medieval Christianity and the Journey to Religious Freedom (w/ Alex Bernardo)
August 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBAlex Bernardo was my guest to discuss medieval Christianity’s integration of church and state, how liberalism paved the way for freedom of religion, and why […]
Aliens, Ghosts, & Mothmen: a conversation with minister and exorcist Scott Johnson
July 17, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBScott Johnson, fresh from the premiere of the first season of his Travel Channel series The Legion of Exorcists, was my guest to dish about […]
Is the Law of Moses Still Binding? w/ Matthew Ferris
June 26, 2023 23:00 - 52 minutes - 41.7 MBI talked with Matthew Ferris, author of If One Uses It Lawfully: The Law of Moses and the Christian Life, about whether Christians should obey […]
The Cases Against Closed Borders, Education, Populism, and Feminism w/ Bryan Caplan
April 21, 2023 00:49 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBBryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University and a New York Times bestselling author of books that challenge conventional wisdom on […]
The Demonic Origin of Nationalism w/ David Ritchie
January 09, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBPastor, author, and theologian David Ritchie was my guest to discuss his book Why Do the Nations Rage?: The Demonic Origin of Nationalism. We discussed […]
Sermon: The Upside Down Kingdom
January 02, 2023 01:00 - 16 minutes - 10.7 MBI was asked to preach a short sermon and suggested the topic “the upside down kingdom.” And here it is! Audio: https://cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20230101-upsidedownkingdom.mp3
The Mad Ones – The Birth of Love
December 08, 2022 13:00 - 2 hours - 170 MBThis was a guest appearance I did on The Mad Ones in December 2021. Here was the original description: “This week, Cody Cook rejoin us […]
Why Do Tyrants Fear Authentic Christianity?
December 02, 2022 12:00 - 3.46 MBA reading from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago and N. T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope which illustrate why tyrants fear authentic Christianity so much. Audio: […]
Baptized into Nonviolence: Rejecting the Sacrament of Caesar
November 27, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.56 MBA reading of an earlier version of the article that recently appeared at the Libertarian Christian Institute’s website at https://libertarianchristians.com/2022/11/22/sacrament-allegiance-to-christ/ Audio ripped from a video […]
Women’s rights, unborn rights: anarchism and pro-life philosophy w/ Kerry Baldwin
November 21, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBJohn Dangelo (antiwarwarvet.com) was my co-host as we asked philosopher Kerry Baldwin about what it means to be pro-life as a Christian anarchist who seeks […]
The Mad Ones – Women, Know Your Place with Nick Quient
August 18, 2022 13:00 - 2 hours - 225 MBI was recently a guest co-host on The Mad Ones podcast to talk about women in church leadership with egalitarian theologian Nick Quient. It was […]
Book Review: America’s History: A Series of Tuttle Twins Stories (Volume 1)
July 20, 2022 03:16 - 16 minutes - 12.9 MBAfter a previous video recommending homeschool resources, I got some questions about one resource–the Tuttle Twins book series–which some had heard was Republican propaganda. After […]
Against Intellectual Property w/ Stephan Kinsella
July 08, 2022 15:37 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBStephan Kinsella was my guest to talk about “intellectual property,” the concept that an individual’s ideas belong to them and should be protected from free […]
How to have more productive conversations about abortion w/ Jessica Green
July 02, 2022 16:15 - 56 minutes - 40 MBAccording to some estimates, 1/4 of women in the United States have had an abortion before the age of 45. If you’re pro-life and are […]
Called to Be Separate? – a conversation with Hannah about Christianity, Homeschooling, and Agorism
June 26, 2022 20:11 - 31 minutes - 22.4 MBOne idea I’ve been flirting with is the idea of separation. Christians are told to be holy, which means separate, throughout the Bible. They’re also […]
Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes – a conversation with author E. Randolph Richards
June 12, 2022 14:07 - 57 minutes - 38.8 MBE. Randolph Richards was my guest to discuss how understanding collectivist cultures helps us to understand key ideas and important stories in the Bible. We […]
The Mad Ones: Enemy Love w/ John Dangelo (The Anti-War War Vet)
May 29, 2022 16:55 - 2 hours - 202 MBI was recently on The Mad Ones to talk enemy love, forgiveness, nonviolence, and political polarization. Here’s the audio of the conversation we had, but […]
Should Christian parents cancel their Disney+ subscription? – an interview with Amber Carroll of EQUIP
April 29, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes - 34.4 MBAmber Carroll was my guest to discuss how Christian parents should respond to increased LGBTQ+ content in children’s programming. Should we cancel our Disney+ subscriptions […]
Anarchy in the L.D.S. – an interview with Connor Boyack about the Mormon case for liberty
April 22, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.9 MBConnor Boyack was my guest to discuss his book Christ versus Caesar and the Mormon case for libertarianism. We also dove into some difficult topics […]
The Mad Ones: What is the Gospel?
April 09, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBI was recently on the podcast The Mad Ones to answer the question “what is the Gospel?” If you grew up hearing the answer is […]
Thinking about homeschooling? Start here!
March 23, 2022 01:45 - 39 minutes - 28.6 MBI’ve noticed a lot more parents who are curious about homeschooling. I had my daughter Ava join me to talk about different approaches to homeschooling, […]
No King But Christ: a conversation with author Alexandre Christoyannopoulos about Christian Anarchism
March 02, 2022 17:12 - 1 hour - 42 MBAlexandre Christoyannopoulos was my guest to talk about Christian anarchism, Christian pacifism, and whether these ideas are practical and achievable. He is a lecturer in […]
Living a Good Life Without the State: The Ethics of Anarcho-Capitalism w/ author Kristopher Borer
February 17, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutes - 26.1 MBKristopher Borer was my guest to discuss his book The Ethics of Anarcho-Capitalism, which is a fascinating, fun, and engaging thought experiment about building a […]
I Didn’t Sign No Social Contract – A conversation with author Andrew Kern about the legitimacy of the state
February 06, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes - 25.1 MBAndrew Kern is the author of the book The Myth of the Social Contract: Refuting Common Arguments for Government Authority. We talked about why the […]
Too Good to Be False w/ author Tom Gilson
December 31, 2021 21:10 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBI had the privilege of speaking with Tom Gilson–Christian apologist, senior editor at the news and commentary website The Stream, and author of numerous books […]
The Mad Ones: Piercing the Darkness: A Walk Through The Unseen Realm
November 15, 2021 00:57 - 2 hours - 101 MBI was recently a guest on The Mad Ones where we talked about angels, demons, and the unseen realm. I had lots of fun discussing […]
Libertarian Christians on the Afghanistan Withdrawal (w/ John Dangelo the Anti-War War Vet)
August 18, 2021 11:15 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBThe Anti-War War Vet John Dangelo was my guest to talk about his experience in Afghanistan and his thoughts now as a Christian anarchist on […]
The Gospel According to Brak – A Conversation with Andy Merrill
July 28, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBAndy Merrill, the voice of Brak and co-creator of The Brak Show (also known for his work on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Adventure Time, […]
Saved By Baptism?
July 27, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 31.7 MBWhat are protestants, who believe in salvation by faith alone, supposed to do with passages in the New Testament that suggest that Christians are saved […]
-Be perfect? Surely, you can’t be serious! -I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
March 13, 2021 21:59 - 53 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this conversation with artist Jackson Ferrell (http://www.bigjstudios.com), we investigate what Jesus meant when He told His followers to be perfect just as God is […]
On Shunning Loved Ones for Christ
March 01, 2021 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.48 MBA few quick reflections on why love is more than “truth telling.” Audio:http://cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20210227-ShunningLovedOnes.mp3
Christian Duties and Human Rights; PLUS Babies on the Sidewalk, Babies at the Capitol
January 13, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBIn a recording from January 8th, I chat with the Anti-War War Vet John Dangelo III about how the classical liberal/libertarian concept of negative rights […]
Christmas vs. the State
December 22, 2020 10:01 - 11 minutes - 7.68 MBA reading of my article at The Stream about how tyrants from Herod the Great to Stalin and Hitler tried to cancel or co-opt Christmas. […]
Leaving Sola Scriptura
December 15, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 1 ByteAree Spivey (of Failed Kingdoms) was my guest to discuss his move toward Eastern Orthodoxy and away from the Protestant idea of sola scriptura–that scripture […]