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God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast of the Family Action Council of Tennessee featuring David Fowler. We seek to educate listeners on matters of law and current issues relating to how we understand liberty and the Constitution per a Christian worldview. For years, FACT has been engaged with members of the Tennessee General Assembly in advocating for life, marriage, family values, and religious liberty issues in our state. As a family policy council, we are tackling head-on, current issues that have a national impact such as same-sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, and other issues related to what we consider God's design for the family. How we address these issues in our culture in terms of how we treat them in law will have an impact for generations to come. Please join us on this journey.

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God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast of the Family Action Council of Tennessee featuring David Fowler. We seek to educate listeners on matters of law and current issues relating to how we understand liberty and the Constitution per a Christian worldview. For years, FACT has been engaged with members of the Tennessee General Assembly in advocating for life, marriage, family values, and religious liberty issues in our state. As a family policy council, we are tackling head-on, current issues that have a national impact such as same-sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, and other issues related to what we consider God's design for the family. How we address these issues in our culture in terms of how we treat them in law will have an impact for generations to come. Please join us on this journey.

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English

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615-591-2090


Episodes

Thinking Through “Practical Christian Politics” with Kuyper

3/22/2024
In a speech given in 1891 to open the First Christian Social Congress, Abraham Kuyper nailed the problem Europe was experiencing and that America is now experiencing. His precise definition of the problem and concise explanation of it will help us evaluate whether the “practical politics” practiced by evangelical legal and policy organizations is exposes the absence of something vital to Christianity and culture. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:33

S3E121: Religious Victory or Retreat?

3/14/2024
A Christian legal organization recently trumpeted a “victory for religious liberty,” but whether it was a victory depends on one’s theology. Today David uses Colossians 2 and Robert Haldane’s commentary on Romans 2:1 to show what many Christian legal and policy organizations think “victory” means, why that is their sole objective, and what a different theology might have them doing. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:33:36

S3E120: Did SCOTUS's Trump Decision Expose the Folly of a Faithless Christianity?

3/7/2024
With its 9 to zero decision on Monday reversing Colorado’s removal of Donald Trump from the ballot, the United States Supreme Court schooled some Christian legal and policy organizations on how the Fourteenth Amendment works. And in doing so it exposed the “Hagar method” of legal advocacy they are employing to “protect” parental rights. Don’t be seduced by the promise this method holds out because God seems slack in His promises. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:27:45

S3E119: Exposing the Christian Divide over a Civilization-Defining SCOTUS Decision

3/1/2024
When the United States Supreme Court held in 2015 that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited states from issuing marriage licenses to only male and female applicants, it didn’t expand the definition of marriage, but abolished it. Today David explains why this was a civilization defining decision, how gay rights lawyers are using it to redefine the parent-child relationship, and how certain Christian legal and policy organizations seem not to understand what happened to our nation. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:34:46

S3E118: Justice Alito Scorches Christian Policy Leaders and Pastors

2/23/2024
This week Justice Alito released an opinion in a case in which Christians were presumed to be unfit to sit as jurors in a case involving a lesbian. David uses remarks from the Hale Institute’s Jeff Shafer and from Rosaria Butterfield to explain why Christian legal and policy leaders and pastors should have known such a result was coming. In doing so you will also learn how Christian organizations are working to “queer” parental rights in the states. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:27:28

S3E118: Justice Alito Scorches Christian Policy Leaders and Pastors

2/23/2024
This week Justice Alito released an opinion in a case in which Christians were presumed to be unfit to sit as jurors in a case involving a lesbian. David uses remarks from the Hale Institute’s Jeff Shafer and from Rosaria Butterfield to explain why Christian legal and policy leaders and pastors should have known such a result was coming. In doing so you will also learn how Christian organizations are working to “queer” parental rights in the states. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:26:30

What Would Exercising Dominion in Law Look Like?

2/16/2024
Do you think of the world as an allegory? If not, why not? Today David takes a look at those questions using exchanges between Choc Knox and Jason Farley and then explains how the “world as allegory” could better inform our understanding of the dominion mandate in relation to law and its development. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:25:15

S3E116: Lessons for the Dominion Mandate from Recent Pro-Abortion Victories

2/9/2024
The United States Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence got better with the reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer. So, why, if the “law” got better at the constitutional level is the law in the states getting worse than under Roe’s abortion regime? David tackles that question using observations by Choc Knox, Jason Farley, and George Grant. The answer may surprise you. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:34:10

Satan Clubs and the Cosmological Soil for Exercising Dominion

2/2/2024
Today David uses the Satanic Temple’s description of its after school Satan Clubs, Karl Marx’s critique of religion, and an exchange between Jason Farley and George Grant to look at the fundamental change that took place in our “creation cosmology” and how that relates to the dominion mandate. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:29:40

The Dominion Mandate Meets Positive Law

1/26/2024
The proposed federal “Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act, and similar legislation in the states, may look like it is in furtherance of the dominion mandate, because parents have God-given rights and a God-given jurisdiction in relation to their children. Today David explains why there could be nothing further from the truth than that assumption. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:59

S3E13: Looking at the Dominion Mandate in Real Time

1/19/2024
In recent years, the “dominion mandate” in Genesis 1 has come alive for many Christians. Today David begins a three-week series that looks at various considerations for its fulfillment. This week, he looks at its application in the context of abortion legislation, and the divisions it has exposed among Christians. Has this situation exposed something that must precede taming the wilderness? Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:28:42

S3E12: How I Would Analyze and Vote on Upcoming Abortion Legislation

1/11/2024
Today David explains why, if he were still a state Senator, he would evaluate forthcoming legislation in several states that would subject pregnant women to a criminal sanction through the prism of Matthew 6:33 and how he would do it. Then he will give the remarks he would provide in a legislative hearing. Finally, he closes with a challenge to Christians on both sides of the issue. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:35:11

S3E11: Re-Evaluating the Pro-Life Establishment’s Approach

1/5/2024
Recent videos by EndAbortionNow have focused on two approaches often taken by mainline pro-life organizations to justify their approach to abortion legislation. David looks at those approaches, as well as his own in times past, to see if they align with the gospel. He points to aspects of the gospel that would have Christians re-calibrate their perspective on this and any number of other political and electoral issues. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:38:34

Do Some Abortion Abolitionist Have a Gospel Problem?

12/29/2023
A new video by EndAbortionNow.com asserts that women who make an abortion decision should be subject to criminal penalties. Some in the video contend that not doing so denies to her the gospel. Today, David uses Sinclair Ferguson’s The Whole Christ and Robert Haldane’s Exposition of Romans to consider whether such thinking reveals a problem with our understanding of the gospel. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:30:59

S3E109: Applying the Christmas Story to the Abortion Abolition Movement’s Proposed Law

12/22/2023
Last week another video was released by EndAbortionNow.com “revealing the main issue” that “is keeping abortion alive in this nation.” Surprised by what it was, David puts in under the microscope of the good news that is the Christmas story, asking if the new law the movement proposes can be the death knell to abortion in our nation? Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:31:57

S3E108: What’s Missing from Christian Political Engagement?

12/15/2023
Fundamental theological truths about God are generally considered unimportant to Christian political engagement. David explains why that is the problem. This episode will help you evaluate whether the politicians and policy and legal organizations you support can make a difference. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:20:16

S3E107: A 1938 SCOTUS Decision and the Rise of “Nominal Christianity”

12/8/2023
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1938 rejected the Christian understanding of the world and, therefore, it changed our understanding of law. David will explain the decision and give examples from his lobbying work to demonstrate how it helped change Christianity. It gave rise to what he calls “nominal Christianity.” Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:28:05

S3E106: Thinking Through the Pastor Jeff Durbin-Speaker Mike Johnson Abortion Law Differences

12/1/2023
Last week pastor Jeff Durbin of Arizona released a video that “revealed” new U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s opposition to a bill two years ago in Louisiana that would have treated the unborn as persons entitled to equal protection of the laws. Today David wades into the controversy to examine what kind of cosmological thinking may lie behind it with the hope that God might use the situation to edify and build up in love the Body of Christ. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:39:49

S3E105: What Arguing for a Biblical Cosmology in Law Looks Like

11/17/2023
David takes the issue of abortion pending before the Supreme Court in Iowa and contrasts the way in which the pro-life cause was argued by the state’s attorney general to the way he presented the argument in a brief he wrote filed on behalf of pro-family organizations in 32 states. You’ll see the difference between just trying to win and trying to win in a way that restores the cosmology that produces a right to life. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:29:22

S3E104: Exposing the Subtle Breaking of a State’s Constitutional Covenant and its Consequences

11/10/2023
In today’s episode, David uses a lawsuit pending in the Iowa Supreme Court testing its judicially created state “constitutional” right to abortion to show what the breaking of that de facto covenant by the judicial branch looks like. The Court’s high sounding but meaningless words hide what amounts to a road to tyranny our founding fathers would have recognized and resisted. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:28:26