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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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23:42

S3E86: Law and Cosmology: How Do You Answer, ‘Says who?”

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2023/07/07

Today David begins to take listeners through the question Yale law professor asked in 1971—on what basis can we have an authoritative legal system that can answer the equivalent of “sez who?” question of the playground bully. You will be surprised by Leff’s answer. Law professor Philip Johnson called it “the modernist impasse.” It is a guide to understanding what is going on in American law and the trouble law faces.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for

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S3E85: Law and Cosmology

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2023/06/30

We think we know what law is, but perhaps not. Law has always been rooted in an understanding of the nature of the cosmos, what it is for, and how it works, i.e., cosmology. Two cosmologies are and always have been at war with one another, and, in today’s podcast, David will use the preface to Berman’s Law and Revolution to explain the challenge we have in thinking of law cosmologically.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E84: What Kind of Cosmos Puts Juneteenth on its...

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2023/06/23

At the Choc Knox Live event we hosted in Franklin last month, panelist Dr. George Grant said, “If you want to change a culture, you have to change the calendar.” On today’s episode, panelists Jason Farley and George Grant will explain why that is so, and what changed that has turned Christmas into a holiday season and June into Pride Month?Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E83: The Forgotten War Over Law in America

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2023/06/15

Few today know of the contest between Thomas Jefferson and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story over the conception of law that would guide the newly formed United States.The legacy of Story’s victory—the triumph of common law over positivist law—is available to us today if we will employ it against the legal positivists of our day.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:50

S3E82: Why Common Law Meets Resistance on the Right...

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2023/06/09

When you talk about common law, you are likely to run into two kinds of opposition—the uninformed who you can help, and those who hate the thought we don’t get to make up the law. It’s not anything new to our country. David will help you answer the critics and use a SCOTUS decision to help you spot those critics who have a self-interested political agenda.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E81: Making Practical the Application of the...

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2023/06/01

Today David uses apparently contradictory verses in Proverbs to demonstrate how easy it is to read the Bible according to the legal positivism of Jeremy Bentham. Then he applies the wisdom hidden in that apparent contradiction to how we should argue in federal court in support of the constitutionality of state laws prohibiting the application of transgender procedures to minors. Today’s episode may tell you if you’re really a legal positivist.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee

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27:31

S3E80: From God to Man: The Transformation of...

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2023/05/26

Today David explains how America transitioned from the biblical conception of law espoused by Bracton and Blackstone from the 13th through the 18th centuries to Jeremy Bentham’s positivistic, utilitarian conception of law embraced by Oliver Wendell Holmes who changed the conception of law held today by most Christian lawyers. The applicability in our day of quotes from Holmes over a century ago will be eye-opening. To paraphrase Dorothy’s comment to Toto, you don’t live in a Christian cosmos

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S3E79: Do Christians Have a Biblical Conception of Law?

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2023/05/19

Today David uses the remarks of Dr. Jonathan Burnside, Professor of Biblical Law at a law school (believe it or not) but in the United Kingdom to demonstrate how the Christian’s conception of law may be more shaped by Jeremy Bentham than the way the Bible presents law to us. It explains why common law makes little sense to people today.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:08

S3E78: Lawyers and Legislators Who Don’t Know What...

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2023/05/12

Having previously explained what law is and that common law is real law, David takes audio clips from remarks made by a Representative in Tennessee who is a lawyer to demonstrate what you should not believe and yet so many, including Christian lawyers, believe. If you want insight into what is wrong in our legal and political system, this episode is for you.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E77: Is the Christian’s Conception of Law Biblical...

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2023/05/05

Everybody has a conception of law. So, what is the Christian’s conception of law today? Does it align with a biblical conception of law? What might be a sign that we do or don’t have a biblical conception of law? To answer these questions over the next few weeks, David begins with a short primer on what common law is and the modern conception of it invented by Oliver Wendell Holmes.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E76: S3E76 - “Christian” Political Power Plays

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2023/04/28

Do Christians abandon a biblical cosmology and conception of law to form alliances with those who reject those things for the sake of enacting legislation? Yes. But why would they do that? The answer explains the recent actions of the “Tennessee Three” and this week’s disruption of the Montana’s legislature by transgender activists.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:30

S3E88: Why are Political Alliances Important to...

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2023/04/18

Today David considers why he and others have thought that it was necessary for the enactment of good laws and public polices to develop alliances with influential persons and organizations who essentially mock God by treating Him as irrelevant. You may find surprising the fundamental reason his thinking in that regard changed.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E87: Transgenderism, Biological Sex, and the Image...

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2023/04/13

Conversations and controversies about transgenderism and the two biological sexes heat up by the week. But what is the connection between the image of God and the two biological sexes? Animals have two sexes and God is pure spirit, non-corporeal. So, what is the essential about being made in the image of God, and is it being overlooked?Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E86: Transgenderism—Turning Molehills into...

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2023/04/07

Following the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, the conversation about transgenderism seemed to turn up another notch. A particular news story caught my eye that made we wonder if evangelicals are prepared to engage in the conversation in a meaningful way that goes beyond mere behavior or biology.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E85: Is Transgenderism Something “New Under the Sun?”

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2023/03/31

“There is nothing new under the sun,” and, indeed, that is true of transgenderism. It answers three great philosophical questions raised by the ancient Greeks. Today David explains the questions and how they are answered by transgenderism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the triune God of creation.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E84: Dissecting Legislative Testimony Supporting...

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2023/03/24

Today, David examines the testimony given to the Tennessee House of Representatives in support of transgenderism by the ACLU's Deputy Director of transgender justice and a woman attired as a Christian cleric. Find out what their testimony says about the nature of human beings and God.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E83: Why Can’t Fathers Be Mothers?

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2023/03/17

Transgenderism says men can have babies and feminine products should go in men’s restrooms. There are only two reasons that stand in the way of such thinking. Today David covers the second, and it is a reason only available to Christians.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E82: Evangelical Deficiencies and the Rise of...

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2023/03/10

David introduces a short new series with transgender affirming testimony offered to the Tennessee legislature by an ACLU attorney and a minister who is a “follower of Jesus.” In the mini-series David will explain two doctrinal deficiencies within evangelicalism over the last 200 years that have made their testimony perfectly logical to so many. Only as these two doctrinal deficiencies are addressed will our nation’s present course change.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee

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S3E81: Is the Defense of State Transgender...

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2023/03/03

In today’s episode, David takes J. Gresham Machen’s explanation of justification by faith in his monograph, “What is Faith?” and, using audio clips from the Tennessee House floor, compares what Machen wrote to the way the state’s transgender legislation was defended. Justification by faith provides a conception of law that raises an important question, “Are Christians unwittingly undermining the gospel in the way we speak to this type of legislation?"Support the show:

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S3E80: Seeing “Transgender Care” for Minors and...

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2023/02/24

Today David draws on Abraham Kuyper to explain an “ah ha” moment he had last week regarding previous episodes discussing legislation in multiple states seeking to end “transgender care” for minors. It was the moment in which Kuyper’s distinction between religion for the sake of God vis-à-vis the sake of man came into focus and became practical and real.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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