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CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFaith
Some people treat faith like a possession something comforting, personal, and safe while others find that faith has taken hold of them and refuses to let go…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Key to Understanding
Throughout history men have sought a master concept by which to understand all things, yet every key that rests in human reason or material explanation falls…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAppendix: Law in Western Society (Remastered)
Notes on the Law in Western Society – The early church regarded biblical law as binding on believers, applying Levitical regulations to clergy, observing…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Faith of St. Patrick
He called himself a coward but history called him brave. When a runaway freight train hurtled down a mountain grade, every confident man jumped off except one…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Faith of St. Patrick
What made St. Patrick great wasn’t superior training, intellect, or strategy but an unshakable trust in God. Surrounded by danger, barbarian invasions, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 149, July the 9th, 1987 — Money and Debt: Paper Wealth, Real Slavery
In *Easy Chair 149* (July 9, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott warn that money and debt are not merely “economic” topics but **religious and moral…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRationalism and History
Rationalism consistently detaches truth from history, treating abstract ideas and human reasoning as ultimate rather than God’s acts in time. This stands in…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRelativism
In “Relativism,” Rushdoony argues that denying God leads inevitably to the denial of objective meaning, right and wrong, and moral limits, leaving society…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkInscription at Timgad
An ancient Roman inscription declared, “To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh that is life,” and it perfectly captured the mindset that led Rome to collapse…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGuerrilla Country
The future is often painted as dark, unstable, and full of hidden dangers but what if that’s not the real problem? While inflation rises and enemies seem to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHe That Walketh in Darkness
Isaiah’s striking description of the man of faith as one who “walketh in darkness, and hath no light” confronts our natural desire for clarity, explanations…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Trustee Family and Economics (Economics, Money, and Hope) (Remastered)
This session contends that economics rises or falls with the strength of the trustee family, not with state policy or abstract theory, exposing the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Right Way
A once-successful man plunged into gambling, then into theft first from his company, then from his own wife in the vain hope that a “lucky break” would undo…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWho Gets Hurt by Budget Cuts?
This passage argues that the public is often misled about budget cuts. Media and politicians claim that cuts primarily harm the poor and elderly, but in…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMoral Force
In “Moral Force,” Rushdoony argues that all lasting authority rests not on brute power but on moral force rooted in faith, and that when societies abandon…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs "God Loves You" The Whole Story?
God's love is not unconditional, and pretending otherwise has gutted the church. Andrea Schwartz sits down with Mark Rushdoony to trace how the modern gospel…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMoney, Inflation and Morality (Economics, Money, and Hope) (Remastered)
This session exposes inflation as a moral disease before it is an economic one, rooted in fiat money, statist power, and a humanistic belief that value can be…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Principle of Change
An old French proverb says, “The more things change, the more they are the same,” a truth many rediscover whenever election hopes collapse into the familiar…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Bankruptcy of Rationalism
Rationalism claims to prove God by human reason, but the “god” it produces is only a product of fallen imagination acceptable to man but not the living God of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkI Know People
People often boast, “I know people,” but such confidence usually appears just before they make a serious mistake about someone. The truth is, as Solomon said…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkUnder the Eye of God
A foreign visitor once marveled that Americans will sit at a red light at 2:00 a.m. with no car in sight an unconscious habit inherited from Puritan forebears…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPeace (Remastered) (The Church)
Peace in the biblical sense is the wholeness, prosperity, and well-being that flow from reconciliation with God and restoration under His order. It is more…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSifted in a Sieve
God’s declaration in Amos 9:9 that He will sift His people “as grain is sifted in a sieve” teaches a hard but necessary truth: the Christian life necessarily…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 148, June 4, 1987 — The French Revolution: The Revolution That Never Ended
In *Easy Chair 148* (June 4, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott argue that the French Revolution didn’t merely “happen” in history—it **still shapes the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Open Door
A grieving friend recently told how she has faced her sorrows by trusting that whenever God closes a door, He also opens another an outlook rooted in the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRationalism and Heresy
Rationalism becomes heresy when it places human reason in judgment over God’s revelation. By demanding that Scripture first satisfy the standards of fallen…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTrusting God
Charles Spurgeon observed that when a man is down, he has his greatest opportunity to trust God, for a false faith survives only in calm waters, but true faith…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Smiling Face of Evil
In “The Smiling Face of Evil,” Rushdoony warns that evil rarely appears brutal or grotesque but commonly presents itself as kind, helpful, idealistic, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow the Christian Will Reconquer Through Economics: The Problem and the Very Great Hope (Economics, Money, and Hope) (Remastered)
This opening session argues that economic collapse is not accidental but moral, the predictable fruit of a statist, fiat-driven world that has abandoned God’s…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkProblems
A man recently sighed, “Problems, problems how I wish I could be rid of them,” and in truth we all share that longing at times. Yet problems never disappear…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Lord Directeth
As we look back on our lives, we often see how little of it unfolded according to our own plans, and this can trouble us unless we grasp the truth Solomon…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAbominations
In “Abominations”, Rushdoony explains that Scripture’s strong language about sin reflects God’s holiness and justice, not vulgarity or excess, and that the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre We Suffering From a New Bigotry?
This passage argues that a new form of bigotry is emerging in the foster-care system, where devout Christians though responsible and moral are being rejected…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDuty
One of history’s recurring problems is the stubborn survival of false ideas, and among the most destructive is the Jeffersonian belief that evil is a product…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAbraham and Sarah: A Normative Marriage (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
This session presents Abraham and Sarah as Scripture’s model—or “normative”—marriage, not because it was easy or sentimental, but because it was forged through…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAgainst Spiritual People
One of the great heresies of our age is the notion that “being spiritual” is the same as being Christian, when Scripture never calls us to pursue spirituality…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRationalism and the Mind of Man
Rationalism fails because it ignores the Fall. Scripture teaches that man’s original sin was the desire to be his own god, and as a result every part of his…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe First Days of the New Creation
A great deal of nonsense is written about the supposed last days of California or the imminent end of the world, as though fear should drive us into the arms…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Price of Salvation
A young prince once demanded that economics be explained to him in ten words, until a courtier answered with nine: “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWho is Infallible?
Man’s recurring temptation is to claim infallibility for himself or his institutions whether in government, church, or popular opinion but such claims are…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPower and Authority (Remastered) (The Church)
Power and authority are inseparable from God’s law: power is mere force, but authority is the lawful right to rule, and only where both are grounded in God’s…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Biblical Doctrine of Civil Government (Educational Christian Faith) (Remastered)
This talk argues that the Christian is not an anarchist but a believer in God’s government, and that modern speech about “the government” wrongly treats the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDescartes and Rationalism
Modern rationalism begins with René Descartes, whose famous claim “I think, therefore I am” made human self-consciousness the starting point of reality…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 147, May 26, 1987 - The Tree of Hate, Dr. Philip Wayne Powell
In Easy Chair No. 147, R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott host Dr. Philip Wayne Powell to discuss his book The Tree of Hate, which exposes the historical myths and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkShiloh
When Jacob lay dying, he prophesied of the Messiah and called Him Shiloh “He whose right it is” the true King and Lawgiver to whom all authority and all…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkA Flawed Man Blessed the Land Judges 8:22–35
Israel offers Gideon the crown. He says the right thing — the Lord shall rule — and in the very next breath asks for the gold. He builds an ephod, fuses…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkBlind Faith
In “Blind Faith” (Chalcedon Report No. 419), Rushdoony argues that Darwinism functions not as proven science but as a massive act of blind faith, embraced…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMurder Mysteries
From the 1920s through the ’40s, the detective novel and Western were wildly popular because, in a culture where modern fiction was denying God and morality…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMoney, Inflation and Morality (Economics, Money, and Hope) (Remastered)
This session exposes inflation as a moral disease before it is an economic one, rooted in fiat money, statist power, and a humanistic belief that value can be…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Habit of Self-Justification
Self-justification the habit of excusing ourselves by appealing to our supposed overall goodness is not merely a weakness but a sin, because it denies God’s…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkStandards
A printer told me that 98 percent of students entering his trade drop out because printing demands an exactness and conscientiousness few young men now…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre the Courts an Enemy to Justice?
This passage argues that the courts, rather than serving justice, have increasingly become instruments of relativism and majority rule, often harming victims…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhat Do You Stand For?
A friend once read a woman a line from my book: “If we love that which is good, we will hate that which is evil.” The woman immediately rejected it, insisting…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHumanism and Education
In “Humanism and Education” (Chalcedon Report No. 54), Rushdoony argues that modern vandalism, campus unrest, and the collapse of public education are not…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre We Treating Sin Like a Symptom?
Job's three friends were eloquent, well-intentioned, and theologically active — and God was angry with every word they spoke. Their error was not ignorance of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs Christ's Ascencion a Neglected Doctrine?
The Ascension of Christ is observed on the church calendar forty days after Easter, yet for most evangelicals it passes with barely a mention. What does it…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Nature of the American System
What made America great is almost universally misunderstood — not only by secularists who have revised the record, but by Christians who have accepted the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMarriage and the Image Mandate (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
Marriage, this lesson insists, is not a “natural arrangement” built on biology or romance, but a vocation rooted in the image of God—a covenant designed to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFearfulness
Revelation 21:8 lists the reprobates, and strikingly, the first two are not murderers or the openly vile, but “the fearful and unbelieving” two qualities that…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkReason and Rationalism
Reason and rationalism are not the same. Reason is the God-given capacity to think, understand, and draw conclusions; rationalism makes human reason the final…