The Protestant Libertarian Podcast

This week I will be encouraging us to think about why good arguments should be based on our ideas and not on the personalities of those with whom we debate. We look at the negative effect that polemics has on our society, how James and Paul encourage us to think about what we say, and ways in which we can have more productive conversations. Next week, we will be looking at the book Who is an Evangelical by Thomas Kidd. It details the history of the evangelical movement in the US, how it became increasingly political and identified with the Republican party, and if this branch of Protestantism has a future.Episode Outline:I. The media cares more about personality than it does about ideas.II. Biblical scholars also often resort to personality attacksIII. How should Christians go about arguing with others with which they disagree?IV. How Protestants can learn to argue better.Media Referenced:D.A. Carson’s podcast series on the New Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-new-perspective-on-paul/id378879786The Irrepressible Rothbard, Rothbard The Foucoult Reader, Rabinow Questions, comments, suggestions? Please reach out to me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com.  You can also follow the podcast on Twitter: @prolibertypod. If you like the show and want to support it, you can! Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Also, please consider giving me a star rating and leaving me a review, it really helps expand the shows profile! Thanks!

This week we are looking at what the Bible is and how we will be interpreting it on this show. We will return to these interpretive methods and analyze them in more detail on future episodes, but this will provide us with a starting point for thinking about how the Bible works.  Episode Outline:I. Reformation and the problem of Biblical interpretation. II. How should we interpret the Bible – hermeneutics. III. What the Bible is not – popular fallacies. IV. What the Bible is.V. Morality, theology, and devotion.  VI. Danger of importing our own theological preferences into the text   Media Referenced: Biblical Exegesis, John Hayes, Carl Holladay How to Read the Bible For All It’s Worth, Gordon Fee, Douglas Stuart Elements of Biblical Exegesis, Michael Gorman  The Last Word, N.T. Wright Questions, comments, suggestions? Please reach out to me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com. You can also follow the podcast on Twitter: @prolibertypod. If you like the show and want to support it, you can! Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Also, please consider giving me a star rating and leaving me a review, it really helps expand the shows profile! Thanks!

In part two of our mini-series on creeds, we take a look at how Marxism, and the historical philosophy of G.F. Hegel which undergirds it, has operated as a social, historical, and political creed for nearly 200 years.  Episode Outline:I. A review of part one (episode 5)II. Georg Fredric Wilhelm Hegel (1770 – 1831)III. Carl Marx (1818-1883)IV. The Interpretive Problem Next Week: We will be discussing Biblical interpretation – how do we come to an understanding of what the authors of the Bible were trying to say, and discussing what the Bible is and is not. Media Referenced:Carl Marx – The Communist Manifesto Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy Robin Diangelo, White FragilityQuestions, comments, suggestions? Please reach out to me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com.  You can also follow the podcast on Twitter: @prolibertypod.If you like the show and want to support it, you can! Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Also, please consider giving me a star rating and leaving me a review, it really helps expand the shows profile! Thanks!

You can now follow the Protestant Libertarian Podcast on Twitter! My handle is @prolibertypod. I still believe that social media can be toxic and am using this mostly for promotional purposes, so the best way to contact me is still theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com. I will, however, update the Twitter every week so you know what is coming up on each week's episode! Plus, I will be following lots of cool protestant and libertarian thinkers for you all to explore! Check it out!

In week one of a two-part series, we look at creeds that have defined the Christian church and examine some of the issues of thinking about the Bible through the lens of the creeds. We explore how the creeds are not just the product of theological debate within the early church but are also driven by political forces within the Roman Empire. Episode Outline:I. Are creeds compatible with Biblical authority?II. The creeds that defined the church.III. The problem with the creeds.Next week: We will look at various political creeds and the way in which libertarianism offers both an empirical corrective to those creeds and actually solves social problems that are raised by them. Media Referenced:Magnus Zetterholm, Approaches to Paul Gerald McDermott, The Great TheologiansRaymond Brown, An Introduction to New TestamentJames Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus Bart Ehrman, When Jesus Became GodQuestions, comments, suggestions? Please reach out to me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com. If you like the show and want to support it, you can! You can also follow the podcast on Twitter: @prolibertypod. Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Also, please consider giving me a star rating and leaving me a review, it really helps expand the shows profile! Thanks!

In this episode I discuss how my protestant worldview led me to embrace libertarian politics.Questions? Comments? Thoughts? Email me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com.If you really like what you heard and want to give me money, you can! Donate at buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast and help me feed my family!Episode Outline:I. Growing up in different churches. II. Being a political nomad. III. Taking Ideas to their logical conclusions.  Media Referenced:Economic Facts and Fallacies, Sowell The Road to Serfdom, Hayek Enough Already, Horton The Tom Woods Show, Woods Reason Magazine, The Reason Roundtable

In this episode, we will define both 'capitalism' and 'socialism' and discuss how Biblical scholars often get capitalism wrong. We will be doing this by comparing Michael Gorman's Reading Revelation Responsibly with The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Ludwig von Mises. Episode Outline:I. Language is flexible and productive conversations need shared definitions. II. Defining ‘Capitalism’ and ‘Socialism’.III. Introducing Gorman and MisesIV. Overview of Reading Revelation Responsibly.V. A response from The Anti-Capitalist Mentality.  VI. The need for economic literacy.  Media Referenced:Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein  Survey of Economics: 8th Edition, Tucker Cruciformity, GormanReading Revelation Responsibly, GormanThe Anti-Capitalist Mentality, MisesNext Week: My Libertarian Conversion – how reading the Bible in an ecumenical context shaped my worldview.If you like the show and would like to support it, you can! Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Thanks!

This week, we will be defining what we mean by the term 'protestant' and the term 'libertarian'. If you want to know how I am going to use these two terms in this show, listen to this episode!Episode Outline:I. The importance of defining terms.  II. Defining ‘Protestantism’III. Defining ‘Libertarianism’IV. Why disagreement is productive. Next week, we will be looking at an example of how Biblical scholars oftentimes misunderstand economics by comparing Michael Gorman’s Reading Revelation Responsibly with LVM’s The Anti-Capitalist Mentality. Media Referenced:A Short Life of Martin Luther, Kaufman The Anatomy of the State, Rothbard What Kind of Libertarian are You, Slade: https://reason.com/2022/03/19/two-libertarianisms/If you like the show and would like to support it, you can! Check out the Protestant Libertarian Podcast page at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast. Thanks!

In this episode I, the host, Alex Bernardo, introduce myself and talk about my background. I discuss what I want to do with the show and ask (but don't answer) the question of why so many libertarians are either not religious or Catholic. If you are interested in either protestantism or libertarianism and you want to know why I am making this show, check it out! New episodes drop every week!Questions? Comments? Thoughts? Email me at theprotestantlibertarian@gmail.com.If you really like what you heard and want to give me money, you can! Donate at buymeacoffee.com/theplpodcast and help me feed my family!Episode Outline:I. Introduction and background. II. Why are most libertarians either not particularly religious or Catholic?III. What am I trying to accomplish

The Protestant Libertarian Podcast explores the intersection between protestant Biblical studies and libertarian philosophy. We will discuss the Bible, history, culture, philosophy, and current events from both protestant and libertarian perspectives. Episodes will be uploaded once a week beginning in early May 2022.