ALR261 – The Gun Control Dog and Pony Show
In a longer-than-usual episode, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett review President Biden-Harris’ gun control executive orders and debunk a pile of misleading stats, obfuscations, and outright lies.
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ALR259 – Background Checks And Why You Should Oppose Them
If the purpose of background checks is to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people, why shouldn’t we support them? Lloyd and Pastor Bennett tackle the issue logically and theologically to help you better understand the consequences of new legislation and why they are bad ideas.
ALR254 – Why Do Churches Support Gun Control?
Turns out, the majority of American Christians may not actually be Christians. They like their religion with a strong dose of personal opinion, politics, and a heaping helping of heresy. Lloyd and Pastor Bennett discuss the vexing question of why American Christian churches get involved in social justice issues like…
ALR237 – What Can We Learn?
In this week’s Clinging to God & Guns episode, Pastor Bennett returns to discuss some recent news stories about gun violence and the ineffectiveness of gun laws. The discussion takes an unexpected turn and goes much longer than expected as we dive into the importance of valuing life from conception…
ALR215 – Devil in the Details
Lloyd discusses the parallels between the gun control movement and the national response to COVID-19 and the ways that numbers are manipulated to obscure the truth, and how the desire for security at all costs drives responses to both gun violence and the pandemic. At the same time it’s Easter…
ALR180 – The Minister of Gun Violence Prevention
In this week’s show Lloyd and Pastor Bennett are fisking an article from the Presbyterian Church USA (PC-USA) about the ordination of a new “Minister of Gun Violence Prevention.”
ALR163 – Stump the Pastor
This week’s Clinging to God & Guns episode we’re playing a new round of Gun Ban Theology, better known as “Stump the Pastor.” Lloyd reads three brief excerpts from gun-ban Christians who refer to Scripture to back up their arguments and Pastor Bennett gives us his reactions off the cuff.
ALR160 – Ash Wednesday, Gun Safety, and Bad Laws
This week is another variety show with a training tip about gun safety from Sgt. Bill Silvia, Mia Anstine’s thoughts on the new, Draconian gun-control bills that have just passed the House of Representatives, and Pastor Bennett pontificates about Sin and the season of Lent which begins this week.
ALR159 – Doctrine of The Lesser Magistrates
The doctrine of the lesser magistrates declares that when the superior or higher civil authority makes an unjust/immoral law or decree, the lesser or lower ranking civil authority has both the right and duty to refuse obedience to that superior authority. Lloyd and Pastor Bennett discuss how this 500-year-old doctrine…
ALR155 – Gun Ban Theology
In this week’s Clinging to God & Guns episode we’re doing a little Bible study called Gun Ban Theology. Lloyd reads anti-gun arguments from Christian authors and Pastor Bennett reacts, putting the verses used in proper context.
ALR138 – Government and Gun Control Revisited
This week Lloyd and Pastor Bennett take up an email from a listener who wants us to revisit the question of what Christians owe the government and whether limiting the tools available for self-defense and defense of neighbor is a violation of God’s Law. Plus tips from Mia and Sgt….
ALR134 – Of Christians, Gun Control and Government
In this episode we bring you a feature-length edition of Clinging to God and Guns where Lloyd and Pastor Bennett consider what God’s Word says about government and what we, as Christians, owe the ruling authorities. Leftist gun-grabbers accuse us of loving guns more than God. So we center our…
ALR126 – Where (Social) Justice and Peace Kiss
In March of 2018, progressive clergy held an interfaith press conference held at Augustana Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon, led by Augustana’s pastor, Mark Knutsen. Knutsen describes Augustana as a holy place where “justice and peace kiss.” That press conference launched the the “Lift Every Voice” campaign to gather signatures…
ALR125 – Micah and the Methodists
In this special episode, Lloyd and Pastor Bennett review the 2016 Resolution on Gun Violence from the United Methodist Church and it’s twisted interpretation of Micah 4:1-4.
Mid-Week Meditation #20 – The March for Our Lives
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Mid-Week Meditation #19 – Marching Against Civil Rights
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