Carpe Fide Podcasts

Luke Saint walked into a debate at the Future of Christendom Conference, took the negative position on immigration regulation, and watched William Wolfe struggle to comprehend his position. We are here to get the full debrief. Luke walks through the biblical immigrant/invader distinction (defined by actions, not identity), why the vetting process is a violation of innocent until proven guilty before it's anything else, what Romans 13 actually authorizes the magistrate to do (avenge wrongs, not centrally plan the nation), and Job 29 as the blueprint of a biblical judge sitting in the gate and accomplishing everything without a single immigration checkpoint. Then: the Rodney King riots, the Korean rooftop defenders, what riots tell you about which laws are protecting who, and why America's slow death isn't from a thousand cuts — it's from a thousand seatbelts. If you've ever tried to explain theonomy to someone who was pretty sure it meant letting anyone do whatever they want (it's not), this is the episode you've been waiting for.

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New Jersey legislators are using the tragic murder of nine-year-old Maya Thomas — a case of parental abuse, not a homeschool case — to push for "health and wellness checks" inside every homeschool family's home, and HSLDA attorney Ralph Rodriguez joins to explain why this bill is unprecedented, vague by design, and constitutionally indefensible. Ralph and the guys dig into all three pending bills (notice, portfolio requirements, and the wellness check), what Pierce v. Society of Sisters says about parental rights, why Connecticut should be the cautionary tale every NJ homeschool family is studying right now, and how education choice appears nowhere in the research on risk factors for child abuse — while an unrelated adult in the home appears in almost all of it. If you're a homeschool family in New Jersey, or just someone who thinks parents should be the ones deciding what goes on inside their home, this episode is your briefing and your call to action.

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Rather than missing ANOTHER week, we're delivering a sermon from our church's Ephesians series. We'll be back next week. Working on something pretty interesting for you guys. ALSO. If you haven't visited our site recently, we've got our ENTIRE inventory up and discounted for you. So hit the link below and enjoy the savings!

Justin takes one verse — Ephesians 4:11 — and traces the five grace-filled roles God gave his church: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. He explains why apostles and prophets were time-sensitive foundational roles tied to the direct revelation and establishment of the church (and why you should think carefully before using those titles today), what the Greek word for "prophecy" actually means beyond predicting the future, and why the role of pastor has been quietly destroyed by a culture that turned a shepherd into a CEO and a calling into a career. The central image of the whole sermon: grace flowing from the twelve apostles into the world isn't like a bucket of water dumped on sand — spreading out until it disappears. It's a deluge. It only grows. And the reason the list in verse 11 ends with teachers — without saying "some as teachers" — is because teachers aren't for some. They're for everyone.

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Dr. Dan Samms holds a doctorate from Liberty University on the very topic his critics would rather bury, and he turned it into Christian Federalism: The Founding Vision and the Road Ahead, a 259-page field manual for Christians ready to stop spectating. Justin and Jesse dig into the surprising origin of the term "Christian nationalism," the founding documents that settle the debate, and the three competing Christian approaches to law: natural law, positive law (theonomic general equity), and the soft Christian-influence model that has, in Dan's words, gotten people killed. Then Dan gets practical: how to run candidates from your church for city council and school board, why local elections swing on fifty to two hundred votes, what Gideon's destruction of Baal's altar authorizes, and why federalism begins in the home with a man who leads. The Kindle pre-order is live on Amazon now (releases October 14). Print version soft-launching for Carpe Fide listeners any day.

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Bandit just needs five minutes — the spring rolls aren't ready, there's one table, two daughters, and a whole lot of waiting. In "Takeaway," Justin and Jesse find what happens when a dad's best-laid plans collide with the beautiful chaos of small children in dead time, and why a fortune cookie read from the floor of a Chinese restaurant might be the most quietly theological moment in the whole series. They dig into Jesus calling the children to him (Matthew 19:14), GK Chesterton's stunning passage from Orthodoxy about God's "eternal appetite of infancy," and what it means that we've sinned and grown old while our Father is younger than we. If you've ever stood in a waiting room with little kids and just tried to survive five minutes, this one's for you.

BD Fleming wrote a book about cigars, and it ends up being about so many good things: Christian liberty, masculine fellowship, fear of man, and whether the weaker brother should be idolized or discipled into health. Justin and Jesse bring their own receipts: a movie Bible study that got Jesse hauled into the senior pastor's office, and a youth group incident involving alcohol that got them temporarily removed from ministry. BD walks through Romans 14, 1 Corinthians 8–10, and Psalm 16:11 as they discuss the two ditches of legalism and antinomianism, why Spurgeon and CS Lewis and Tolkien and Chesterton all smoked and didn't hide it, and what it actually means to bring all of life under the Lordship of Christ. If you've ever driven two towns over to the liquor store so nobody would recognize you, this episode is both your conviction and your permission slip.

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Lindsey Clancy murdered her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Colin — on January 24, 2023. She is not disputing this. Her husband Patrick was not home. She orchestrated sending him out specifically so she would be alone with the children. The GoFundMe for her defense raised over a million dollars before it was shut down. Women in pink are organizing outside the courthouse. The jury is hung. Justin and Jesse walk through the full timeline of that day, compare it to how male defendants have been treated when pleading insanity (Dahmer, Gacy, Albert Fish — all denied), connect the cultural response directly to abortion law and what we've told women for fifty years, and ask the only question that matters: where is the cry for justice for three children whose voices were taken from them? If you've been avoiding this case because it's too dark and too heavy, this episode is not entertainment — it's the conversation the church needs to be having right now.

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The CEO of PragerU flagged it and Justin and Jesse ran it down: "adultism" is the newest critical theory movement, and it is currently being trained into educators at universities by a consulting firm that cannot run its own company according to its own principles. The idea is straightforward — adults oppress children by doing things like setting rules, making curriculum choices, and sometimes hugging them without asking first. Justin and Jesse trace the whole framework from Movement Consulting's anti-capitalist university trainings through a real April 2026 session at a San Francisco high school that explicitly labeled teachers as oppressors and students as the oppressed — and then explain where the "bodily autonomy for children" argument terminates, because that endpoint is not subtle. They also cover Karl Marx's actual family history (it is not good), the John Adams HBO scene about a drunk son that has more to say about parenting than any critical theory article, and why the church needs to be louder about this specifically. If you've ever had someone tell you that talking down to your child is oppression, this episode is the response.

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Two weeks after reacting to NYC Mayor Mamdani's Fourth of July speech, Justin and Jesse bring in the contrast: the founders, speaking for themselves. They read Benjamin Franklin's 1787 speech calling for prayer at the Constitutional Convention — the one where he quotes three Bible verses in three paragraphs and asks why a room full of the most educated men in America forgot to consult "the Father of lights." Then they read the part of the Declaration of Independence you've never seen: Thomas Jefferson's original draft included a full grievance against the king for forcing the slave trade on the colonies, calling it "piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers." It was removed — not because Virginia opposed it, but because South Carolina and Georgia refused to sign unless it was cut. James Madison predicted there would be war within 60 years if slavery wasn't resolved. He was right. If you've ever wanted to watch two founding fathers comprehensively out-argue every modern politician without even trying, this is the episode.

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