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FAQs about Rushdoony Radio:How many episodes does Rushdoony Radio have?The podcast currently has 168 episodes available.
May 28, 2026The Family as a Power Center (Remastered)This session argues that the family is the real power center of civilization, which is why every revolutionary system—from Plato’s philosopher-kings to modern statism—must first dismantle it. When the family governs children, property, inheritance, education, welfare, and faith, it generates responsibility, continuity, and disciplined freedom; when it is replaced by the state or by permissive sexuality, society decays into dependency, crime, and chaos. The lecture exposes the modern swap: family authority traded for sexual liberation, salvation redefined as orgasm, and “under-parenting” enforced by law—producing exactly what Scripture warned about: juvenile crime, instability, and social breakdown. History, sociology, and Scripture converge on one conclusion: the family is unmatched as a force for preserving what is good and reforming what is broken. The future will not be won by politics or money, but by families reclaiming their God-given calling as stewards, governors, and builders of the next generation under Christ.#FamilyAsPower #BiblicalFamily #ChristianReconstruction #ParentsNotState #AgainstStatism #CultureWar #JuvenileJustice #FaithAndFamily #Dominion #WorldviewMatters #CovenantLife...more40minPlay
May 26, 2026Juvenile Justice and the Family (Remastered)Modern “juvenile justice” can’t be understood until you see the sleight-of-hand behind it: the state keeps redefining what counts as “public” and “private” so it can seize what God assigned to the family while excusing what God calls public evil. Historically, Christian law carved life into distinct spheres under God—family, church, commerce, civil government—each with real jurisdiction; but modern statism claims that only the state is truly “public,” so it can declare childrearing, schooling, welfare, property, and inheritance “public concerns” (meaning state-controlled) while quietly reclassifying abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, drugs, and even the logic toward child corruption as “private choices.” The result is total jurisdiction by bureaucracy: if the state owns the delinquent child, it soon claims ownership of the obedient child too—public education becomes the pipeline, and courts begin speaking of children as “property of the state.” Even pagan regimes admit the truth they fear: without parental love and intact family authority, you don’t get citizens—you get deformed, predatory “wolf children.” This lecture’s punchline is sharp: juvenile justice is family justice—when the state replaces parents as the moral governor, it manufactures disorder, then expands again to “manage” the chaos it created.#JuvenileJustice #FamilyFirst #SphereSovereignty #AgainstStatism #ParentsNotState #BiblicalWorldview #ChristianReconstruction #EducationMatters #PropertyAndInheritance #WelfareStartsAtHome #LawAndOrder #Chalcedon...more34minPlay
May 21, 2026The Family as Trustee (Remastered)This message traces the modern war on the family to humanism’s twin goals: erasing God and dismantling the family as a governing institution. Drawing on history—from the French and Russian Revolutions to failed collectivist experiments in Soviet nurseries and Israeli kibbutzim—it shows that societies seeking rootlessness, anonymity, and radical equality consistently produce damaged children, social chaos, and state tyranny. Against this collapse, the lecture highlights a quiet but powerful recovery of the “trustee family”—the biblical model in which husband and wife steward law, education, work, and welfare under God, with Proverbs 31 as the classic picture of shared dominion. The current tensions within Christian families aren’t signs of decay but symptoms of renewal, as people resist atomistic freedom and rediscover responsibility under Christ’s rule. The takeaway is electric: civilization rises or falls with the family, and the rebuilding of society begins not with politics, but with families reclaiming their God-given trust.#TrusteeFamily #BiblicalFamily #ChristianReconstruction #FamilyUnderGod #AgainstHumanism #Dominion #FaithAndCulture #WorldviewMatters #RebuildingCivilization #CovenantLife...more38minPlay
May 19, 2026The Significance of the Family as a Social Institution (Remastered)This session confronts the social power of the biblical family and explains why it is relentlessly targeted by the modern state: under God, the family governs the future (children), property, inheritance, education, and welfare—the very foundations of society. From Theodora’s transformation of Roman law to Marx, Engels, Dewey, and modern democrats, the pattern is clear: destroy the family and Christianity collapses. Humanism insists religion and family are “private,” stripping God’s Law from public life while expanding state control over sexuality, schooling, property, and children. The result is social breakdown, dependency, unemployment, crime, and cultural decay—problems the state only worsens while the family, when ordered under God, historically solved them. The warning is stark and hopeful at once: every society that undermines the biblical family commits cultural suicide, and Christian reconstruction must therefore begin where God begins—with the family governed by His Law-Word.#BiblicalFamily #ChristianReconstruction #FamilyUnderGod #AgainstStatism #LawWord #FaithAndCulture #FamilyIsTheFuture #ChristianEducation #Dominion #WorldviewMatters...more34minPlay
May 14, 2026The Family and Religion (Remastered)This session frames the family as a fundamentally religious institution—not merely sociological or economic—and uses Psalm 127 to argue that true “security” (personal and national) is futile unless the Lord is the builder; the psalm’s startling point is that children, raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, are God’s appointed “weaponry” for cultural and spiritual conflict, “arrows” by which God’s people contend with enemies at the gate rather than cower behind walls. It rejects romantic myths of pre-Christian family virtue (noting pagan kinship could be violent and treacherous) and insists sin concentrates around what matters most, making the family either a holy stronghold or a nightmare power-system unless governed by God’s grace and Law-Word—illustrated by Lamech’s boastful brutality and the pagan tendency to locate ultimate power in tribe or state rather than God. Against this, the lecture highlights the Pilgrim/Puritan model of family-as-enterprise, school, vocation, church, correction, and welfare—an integrated “household order” under Scripture—and concludes that today’s growing pushback (homeschooling, Christian schooling, parental authority, discipline) signals a Spirit-driven recovery of the family in Christ, prepared to resist statist claims and rebuild household life as the frontline of dominion and kingdom advance.#FamilyAndReligion #Psalm127 #ExceptTheLordBuild #ChildrenAsArrows #KingdomConflict #BiblicalWorldview #HouseholdOrder #ChristianEducation #DominionUnderChrist #AgainstStatism #CovenantFamily #LawWord #MoreThanConquerors...more38minPlay
May 12, 2026The Centrality of the Family (Remastered)This session argues that the family is God’s central institution, deliberately placed at the heart of human life so that every person—husband, wife, child—participates in the most important sphere of God’s order. Because the family forms character, transmits faith, and teaches responsibility, it is both the place of greatest blessing and the deepest vulnerability, capable of profound joy or devastating harm. Modern culture wages war on the family through statism, radical individualism, abortion, sexual revolution, and rootlessness, all designed to sever loyalty, responsibility, and generational continuity, leaving isolated individuals ripe for control by the power state. Scripture, by contrast, treats family rebellion as life-destroying, honors genealogy, and insists that sexuality reflects religion—either godly love within covenant or ungodly aggression and domination. Precisely because the family is the key to life and the future, it is fiercely attacked by humanism and tragically underestimated by the church; yet it remains the decisive battleground where God’s order is either upheld or overthrown.#BiblicalFamily #FamilyCentrality #GodsOrder #AgainstStatism #CovenantLife #FaithAndFamily #CultureWar #SexualRevolution #ChristianWorldview #FamilyIsTheFuture...more43minPlay
May 07, 2026An Introduction to the Christian Family (Remastered)This opening to a study on the biblical doctrine of the family argues that modern society is fundamentally at war with the family because it has replaced God’s order with statist and naturalistic thinking. Scripture presents the family—not the state, church, or school—as God’s primary institution, with marriage as the first and basic religious vocation, governed by God’s Law rather than personal desire or biological impulse. To reduce marriage to a natural or sexual arrangement is to deny its moral and covenantal character and to embrace the logic of fallen humanity, which always rebels against God-given order. Biblical marriage, by contrast, is an act of dominion and new creation in Christ, restoring life, stability, and meaning where lawlessness produces chaos and death. The family is the one institution carried over from Eden, the chief means by which God orders human life, and the central target of a modern world that refuses to live by His design.#BiblicalFamily #MarriageAsVocation #GodsOrder #FamilyBeforeState #ChristianWorldview #CreationOrder #AgainstStatism #CovenantLife #Dominion #FaithAndFamily...more28minPlay
May 05, 2026Necessity for Christian Education (Remastered)This passage argues that modern Christianity has drifted into practical polytheism, affirming Christ with words while denying His Lordship in politics, education, economics, science, and daily life by surrendering those realms to humanism. When God’s Law-Word no longer governs every sphere, man enthrones himself, the state, or institutions as rival gods, reducing salvation to mere “fire insurance” instead of total allegiance to Christ. True Christian education, it insists, must restore the sovereignty of the Triune God everywhere—pulpit, family, school, and culture—because truth precedes goodness and no lasting good can exist apart from Jesus Christ as the Truth. Dominion is not rage, protest, or negation, but faithful, constructive obedience: living out regeneration publicly and continuously as God’s instruments in the ongoing work of creation and restoration. The warning is severe yet hopeful—if God is excluded, judgment follows; if Christ is confessed as Lord of all, history moves toward the promised triumph of His Kingdom.#ChristIsLord #NoOtherGods #BiblicalWorldview #ChristianEducation #Dominion #LawWord #KingdomOfGod #TruthBeforeGoodness #CovenantFaith #FaithInAction...more19minPlay
April 30, 2026Intellectual Schizophrenia - Q&A (Remastered)Public education is suffering from intellectual schizophrenia—torn between despair over humanity’s survival and blind confidence that centralized systems can remake man—because humanism treats man as both helpless and godlike. Even left-wing critics admit the system is failing: millions graduate functionally illiterate, Darwinian “survival of the fittest” has turned schools into bureaucratic weeding machines, and universities have become “multiversities” with no commitment to truth, excluding Christianity while embracing anything else. Massive studies show money doesn’t fix education and that the family is decisive, yet the statist response is more centralization, earlier intervention, and deeper assaults on the family—repeating the Soviet error with equally destructive results. In contrast, Christian schools, by reinforcing family, discipline, and truth, are quietly forming mature leaders while government education collapses under its own contradictions.#ChristianEducation #PublicSchoolFailure #FamilyMatters #BiblicalWorldview #AgainstStatism #EducationCrisis #TruthAndOrder #CovenantEducation #WorldviewMatters...more1h 29minPlay
April 28, 2026The Influence of Socialism in American Education (Remastered)This message argues that socialism in education can’t be defeated by chasing subversives—it must be confronted at its root. The real engine, it claims, is the doctrine of evolution, which teaches conflict as the basic law of life: class against class, race against race, sex against sex, generation against generation. Once that worldview is accepted, socialism becomes inevitable, because a world of permanent conflict demands a powerful state to manage it. Against this, the talk insists Scripture teaches a harmony of interests under God’s creation and law—peace, order, and mutual dependence, not endless war. The solution isn’t cosmetic reform or conservative outrage, but a full return to the doctrine of creation, which restores meaning, personal responsibility, true individuality, and limits the state. Bottom line: until education is rebuilt on biblical creation and God’s sovereign order, socialism will keep reproducing itself—no matter how hard we fight the symptoms.#ChristianEducation #CreationNotEvolution #AgainstSocialism #BiblicalWorldview #HarmonyOfInterests #LawAndOrder #Dominion #ChristianSchools #WorldviewMatters #FaithAndCulture...more1h 5minPlay
FAQs about Rushdoony Radio:How many episodes does Rushdoony Radio have?The podcast currently has 168 episodes available.