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God, Law & Liberty Podcast

God, Law, and Liberty is a podcast featuring David Fowler, a licensed attorney, who served 12 years in the Tennessee Senate and, until retiring at the end of 2024, served as president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee. David is the author of The Politics of Loving God-Courageous Truths for Contentious Times and Recovering the Constitution-Using the Ninth Amendment to Restore Civil Liberty, along with other titles and monographs.

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S3E106: Thinking Through the Pastor Jeff...

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2023/12/01

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/donateSee

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S3E105: What Arguing for a Biblical Cosmology in Law...

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2023/11/17

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/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener

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28:26

S3E104: Exposing the Subtle Breaking of a State’s...

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2023/11/10

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/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:56

S3E103: Is Christian Nationalism Going to Work

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2023/11/03

David responds to a listener’s question about how to restore in our law the Biblical cosmology on which the Western Legal Tradition was grounded, and how such an effort would inform and shape “Christian nationalism.”Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:34

S3E102: Listener’s Email Helps Identify the Political...

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2023/10/27

Today, David offers his thoughts and analysis on comments and questions he received by email from an astute listener. This episode will provide a great overview of recent topics leading to a challenging observation by Jeff Shafer, director of the Hale Institute, about the way the cosmos was once conceived by lawyers vis-à-vis the cosmos the U.S. Supreme Court has foisted on us all.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37:30

S3E101: What Guarantees Success in Politics and...

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2023/10/20

Today, David brings together past episodes on the “law of faith” and the eternal covenant to evaluate the justification for laws protecting minors from “gender transition procedures” that was given in a national op-ed written by a Christian state legislator. He will look at how to evaluate the legislator’s labor—was it “in the Lord” or “in vain”?Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E100: A big picture look at the Hamas – Israeli war

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2023/10/12

The outbreak of war in the Middle East provides the perfect context for today's episode as David provides the scriptural support for why the biblical covenants need to fit into our cosmology and, therefore, into our engagement with law and public policy. The material David covers today challenged the way he had been taught over the years to think about conflict in the Middle East. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:37

S3E99: The Foundation for Knowing What We Should be...

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2023/10/06

David uses A.W. Pink, noted 20th century theologian, to look at whether we can know what we should be doing—in our lives and our politics—if we do not understand the various covenants in the Bible. As Pink notes, the temporal covenants reveal to us “the divine side” of what God planned to do with his creation, from beginning to the end, even before He created.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E98: The Missing Worldview Element for a Faithful...

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2023/09/29

Today David notes a pervasive aspect of social order and law that seems to be wholly missing from the Christian worldview or, more broadly, Christian cosmology. He uses Herman Bavinck, A.W. Pink, William Blackstone, the U.S. Constitution, and a familiar 1992 SCOTUS decision to demonstrate his point. Faithful politics must begin to deal with this forgotten cosmological reality.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:47

S3E97: Does Your Favorite Politician “Contend for the...

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2023/09/22

Today, David reports on a meeting in Washington, DC featuring remarks by four Christian conservative members of Congress and one former member. God, Jesus, faith, and Bible verses were referenced easily during the evening, with one prominent leader saying he would continue to “contend for the faith.” But was he doing that? Find out why David ended the evening saying, “I just can’t do this kind of thing anymore.”Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for

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S3E96: What Does Faith-Filled and Faith-less Politics...

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2023/09/14

If Christians are to live “by the law of faith” what does that look like as a practical matter? Today, David uses two real-life examples to demonstrate the difference and then gives his thoughts, drawn from his own failure and from Luke 18, on the principle from which faith-filled politics should spring.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E95: What Does a Son of Issachar Look Like in the...

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2023/09/08

Because the sons of Issachar had an “understanding of the times,” they knew what Israel should do. But do the people who lead us in politics and in law, even the Christians, really understand the times, what historian Carl Becker called the “climate of opinion” that determines whether any argument—for law or otherwise—can even make sense? Today David uses Becker and the Scriptures to help us understand the times and whether our leaders understand them.Support the show:

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What Is a Cosmology Worldview vis-à-vis a Biblical...

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2023/09/01

Today David explains why he ended last week’s program saying he was “giving up” on a Biblical worldview if it was not set in the context of a Cosmological worldview. He speaks to what the former led to in his political thinking and lays the foundation for putting a Biblical worldview inside a Cosmological worldview for the sake of reshaping the way Christians engage in politics and law.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E93: Power Politics and the Discipling of the Nations

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2023/08/25

Despite the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, and subsequent Christian policy and political organizations, Christian virtue in our society has waned. Some think that is a sign of the end times. David examines what this says about our knowledge of God and creation and offers a reason for hope found in the strangest of places.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E92: What Should We Expect Our Laws to Do?

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2023/08/18

Every year thousands of pieces of proposed legislation are filed by state legislators across the country, and hundreds become enacted law. Ever thought about what we expect those laws to do based on what the Bible says law does and how God uses law? David offers valuable insight on why the “good” laws we get enacted seem to do so little good.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S8E91: How Would William Blackstone Evaluate Today’s...

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2023/08/11

David uses a quote from William Blackstone’s famous Commentaries about common law that explains the two foundations for human law and how they were applied to various kinds of social issues. He uses it to test the legal arguments being made in court by leading pro-family advocates in defense of laws involving children and medical procedures affecting their reproductive systems. The contrast may shock you.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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S3E90: Can the U.S. Constitution be a Sufficient...

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2023/08/04

Having eliminated all the alternatives for grounding an ethical legal system to that grounded in a “transcendent and immanent” God, law professor Arthur Leff turns us to the U.S. Constitution as a possible substitute. Both David and Leff find trust in an authoritative Constitution misplaced and unworkable. The evidence is found even in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe v. Wade.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E89: Why Intelligent and Educated People Reject...

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2023/07/28

Ever wonder why some policy positions or legal arguments are not simply a matter of logic or reason or common senses. For you they are plain as day. For instance, how could any educated person think a biological boy can become a girl? David will explain what changed over the centuries that led educated people to throw out reasoning based on “the facts” as basis for law and public policy.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E88: Law and Cosmology: Other Vain Attempts to...

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2023/07/21

Today, David disposes of a couple of popular theories for establishing an authoritative ground for law once the God of the Bible is banished. He uses an exchange between Justice Clarence Thomas and the attorney for the United States in last year’s oral arguments on abortion to demonstrate how those systems cannot produce a consistent and coherent system of law. No wonder God sits in the heavens and laughs (Psalm 2:4).Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener

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S3E87: Law and Cosmology—The Folly of Alternatives to...

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2023/07/14

This week, David begins to examine the alternatives to a Christian based legal system that mankind has come up with and how the late Yale law professor Arthur Leff, an atheist, debunks them as non-authoritative and unworkable. Leff provides great insight into what he calls a search for the “metaphorical equivalent” to the God of the Bible.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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