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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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S3E59: Restoring the Ruins—Foundation for Hope

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2022/09/23

To close this series on the ruins of America’s legal tradition, rooted in the Western Legal Tradition, David explains the surest foundation any Christian can have that it can be restored. The foundation for that sure and certain hope, he explains, rests on a covenant seldom discussed in evangelicalism.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E58: Restoring the Ruins—Getting a Right Conception...

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2022/09/16

In today’s episode, David uses a conception of the Constitution expressed by five U.S. Supreme Court justices in the 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that affirmed the abortion holding in Roe v. Wade. He weaves it, along with a common every day legal practice involving millions of Americans a year, into the theme on which the whole story of the Bible rests.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E57: Restoring the Ruins- Is Restoring Law and the...

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2022/09/09

In the penultimate episode of this series, David addresses head on the prevailing pessimism for any expectation for cultural progress if Jesus is indeed returning soon. Is obedience then simply for the sake of personal sanctification? A close look at the thread of the Noahic covenant running from Genesis through the epistles gives us a different perspective that should attend our current labors. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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S3E56: Restoring the Ruins—Respect for Marriage Act...

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2022/09/01

Eschatology affects the way we look at legislation. Today David explains how eschatology affects the way Christians will look at the Respect for Marriage Act pending in Congress and an even more fundamental issue—what does pursuing the Kingdom of God and His righteousness look like in this context.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E55: Restoring the Ruins: Why Do Christians Think...

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2022/08/26

It is hard to work toward restoring our nation’s ruined legal and constitutional foundation when today’s prevailing eschatology says those efforts are divinely appointed to fail. The Christian eschatology that produced the Western Legal Tradition was rooted in the belief that by the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ all things were being made new. What changed? Is there any Scripture we can point to that objectively assures us our restorative labors in this world are not in vain

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S3E54: Restoring the Ruins—The Right Perspective is...

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2022/08/19

Last week David explained how a change in eschatology undermined the foundations of Western Legal Tradition. Today he begins to lay the foundation for how we need to think about time and history if that foundation is to be restored. He explains how an evolutionary view of time and history has replaced that which the Bible says is true of God and creation.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E53: Restoring the Ruins—What Does Eschatology...

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2022/08/11

Eschatology can be a contentious subject in evangelicalism. But few realize the critical role it played in development of the Western Legal Tradition. Even fewer know why today’s prevailing eschatology undermined and helped lead to the loss of the Western view of law. Don’t be “left behind” in your knowledge of the rise and fall of the Western view of law.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E52: Restoring the Ruins—Is the ‘Western Legal...

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2022/08/05

Colleges increasingly minimize or fail even to teach Western Civilization, and that means the Western Legal Tradition on which our law and Constitution rest are jettisoned too. But what is that tradition and is it even important now? Does it relate to anything the U.S. Supreme Court does now?Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E51: Restoring the Ruins—Justice Thomas Explains...

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2022/07/29

How is the Constitution relevant to our modern problems especially if it is going to be interpreted based on the common law meaning of the words at the time it was ratified? For example, how does that work when the “arms” referenced in the Second Amendment envisioned muskets? David walks us through Justice Clarence Thomas’ explanation of how the justices think about the common law, and then show how we all think the same way every day.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee

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S3E50: Restoring the Ruins- Justice Thomas Shows How...

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2022/07/22

Today, David takes Clarence Thomas’ majority opinion in the Court’s decision protecting the 2nd Amendment from encroachment by the state of New York to demonstrate a right understanding of common law and its importance to the Constitution. That five other Justices signed onto the opinion makes understanding it vitally important.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E49: Restoring the Ruins— What is Common Law and...

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2022/07/15

In 20th century, teaching common law fell into disrepute in law schools. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court based two constitutional decisions on the common law. Today, David explains why Christian should care about common law and insist that an understanding and appreciation of it be diffused throughout the church.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S3E48: Restoring the Ruins—A Godless View of ‘Law’...

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2022/07/08

Today David takes the previous series—Escaping Futility—to the next level with Restoring the Ruins. In this opening episode, David tells how the U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision in Dobbs exposed the ungodliness of his own views about law, and specifically the common law on which the Court’s majority and dissenting opinions rested. You will learn how the Court has laid waste to the foundation on which our Constitution and its values were framed. Knowing what created the ruins in which we live

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S3E47: Abortion Decision Debriefing—Breyer Bests Alito

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2022/07/01

The pro-life community should rejoice that Roe v. Wade was reversed. Many praised Justice Alito’s majority opinion for its treatment of abortion at common law, laying waste to the Roe Court’s “historical” justification for abortion. What Justice Alito really did was ignore the text of the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause and preserve the Court’s made up doctrine of substantive due process that gave us abortion and will soon give us “transgender rights’. Today David explains how Justice Breyer’s

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S3E46: Escaping Futility—Was Francis Schaeffer Wrong?

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2022/06/24

The late Francis Schaeffer set the standard for many Christians for how to engage in non-futile conversations with non-Christians. He clearly diagnosed the reason so many live futile lives. But his fellow Presbyterian, theologian and seminary professor Cornelius Van Til, took him to task for letting his diagnosis lead him into a futile apologetic that does not refute the post-modernists’ conclusion of meaningless. Today David “moderates” the debate between Schaeffer, Van Til, and the leading

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S3E45: Escaping Futility—Conforming to Culture to...

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2022/06/17

If Christians want to “join the conversation” in our culture in a way that can make a difference, they need to know what conversation they are in. But joining the conversation by conforming to the way the world thinks about things is futile. Today, David explains how evangelical leadership has led Christians into doing just that, which explains why Protestant cultural engagement has proved futile.Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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S3E44: Escape From Futility—Is Apologetics Helpful or...

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2022/06/10

In 1898 Abraham Kuyper said that people in America and Europe were “bent upon saving the ‘Christian Heritage.’” But things have been going from bad to worse on that front. Some think diffusing the tools of apologetics among Christians, particularly those in places of influence, is critical. So why did Kuyper say 100 years ago “apologetics have advanced us not one single step”? Find out why in today’s episode to avoid futility in “saving” our

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S3E43: Escaping Futility—How Scientific Methods...

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2022/05/18

Even as politics began to shape the Protestant view of Scripture during and following the Second Great Awakening, a new method for approaching and interpreting Scripture arose, drawn from effects in every field of study of the scientific revolution introduced by Francis Bacon. Sadly, as this new approach took hold in Protestantism, that continues to this day, science was in the process of rejecting that approach. It changed Christianity and the nature of the gospel itself and fostered its current

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S3E42: Escaping Futility—How Politics Came into and...

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2022/05/18

The worldview of many evangelicals who say the Bible is their basis for understanding the world, including law and government, don’t realize that their view of Scripture, and thus, their worldview, began to be shaped more by politics during and following the Second Great Awakening than by Scripture. If you want to understand “our times,” why so many Christians don’t heed the Bible in law and government, and why Protestantism is wandering aimlessly about, you need to

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S3E41: Escaping Futility—Conforming Scripture to the...

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2022/05/16

To build rightly, so that our lives and our political engagement do not prove meaningless, we must have a Scripturally informed worldview. Today, David uses excerpts from Creation Regained by Dr. Albert Wolters to show how many today limit Scripture’s relevance in ways they may not appreciate. He offers a free resource that demonstrates how the limitation works its way out in the pursuit of public policy—the Christian’s worldview conforming to that of the world. Support the show:

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S3E40: Escaping Futility-Do Christians Have A...

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2022/05/12

Do Christians professing to have a Biblical or Christian worldview have a scriptural worldview? What’s the difference? Today, David talks about the difference, and how the view of Scripture today is basically dualistic—creating a separation between head and heart, spirit and body, and religion and government/law. He offers a free monograph demonstrating that the presence of that dualism during that last legislative session. Support the show: https://www.factennessee.org/donateSee

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