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February 18, 2025
PODCAST: Anabaptist Anarchy (Protestant Libertarian Podcast)
I was on The Protestant Libertarian Podcast to discuss my latest book The Anarchist Anabaptist and what separated the Anabaptists from the Protestant Reformation.
Listen here:
https://libertarianchristians.com/episode/ep-183-anabaptist-anarchy-with-cody-cook/
February 17, 2025
The Document That Explains Why Nationalists Keep Trying To Ban Porn (Reason)
For the second year in a row, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Dusty Deevers has introduced a bill that would criminalize pornography in the state. If passed, S.B. 593 would create “criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison for production, distribution, or possession” of consensual adult pornographic material and “10-to-30-year criminal penalties for organized pornography trafficking.“
The bill died last session after being assigned to, and ignored by, the Judiciary Committee, but its language was broad enough to criminalize the illustrator of erotic drawings or “even someone who simply sent someone who is not their spouse a sexually charged photo,” as Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown reported.
February 15, 2025
PODCAST: Cody Cook and the Anarchist Anabaptist (The Fourth Way)
I had the privilege of talking with Derek Kreider of The Fourth Way podcast about my new book The Anarchist Anabaptist, and whether capitalism can actually make a better world.
Click here to listen:
https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/interview-w-cody-cook
February 13, 2025
PODCAST: Anabaptist Lessons on Church & State (The Bad Roman)
Are you tired of feeling like your faith has been watered down by political allegiances and cultural compromises? Do you long for a Christianity that truly embodies the radical teachings of Jesus? In this eye-opening episode of the Bad Roman Podcast, you’ll dive deep into the world of Anabaptism with author and researcher Cody Cook. Get ready to challenge your assumptions and rediscover what it truly means to follow Christ in a world that often seems at odds with His teachings.
The Anabaptist movement emerged in the 16th century as a response to what many saw as a compromised Christianity. While the Protestant Reformation challenged some aspects of the Catholic Church, the Anabaptists took things further, seeking to return to the radical roots of the early church.
Listen here:
https://www.thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-128
Anabaptist Lessons on Church & State (The Bad Roman)
Are you tired of feeling like your faith has been watered down by political allegiances and cultural compromises? Do you long for a Christianity that truly embodies the radical teachings of Jesus? In this eye-opening episode of the Bad Roman Podcast, you’ll dive deep into the world of Anabaptism with author and researcher Cody Cook. Get ready to challenge your assumptions and rediscover what it truly means to follow Christ in a world that often seems at odds with His teachings.
The Anabaptist movement emerged in the 16th century as a response to what many saw as a compromised Christianity. While the Protestant Reformation challenged some aspects of the Catholic Church, the Anabaptists took things further, seeking to return to the radical roots of the early church.
Listen here:
https://www.thebadroman.com/show-notes/episode-128
February 11, 2025
Edward Hicks: Pacifist Patriot (Plough)
Edward Hicks was an artist, a Quaker, a pacifist, and a patriot. This might seem an unlikely combination. While some artists are patriotic, the creative personality is usually opposed to the groupthink that marks patriotic fervor. And can a pacifist be a true patriot? During the American Revolution, you were expected to be either loyal to Britain or a rebel who supported the revolution. The Quakers, who were opposed to war on principle, were considered by many to be unacceptably neutral. In this milieu, Hicks was a perplexing contradiction. How was he able to reconcile his pacifist convictions with his commitment to the foundational American ideals of freedom and liberty, which others had established through revolution and violence?
Is J. D. Vance Right About “Ordered Loves?” (LCI)
Those with even a surface knowledge of the New Testament might have been confused by Vance’s theological musings about a hierarchy of loves. Didn’t Jesus tell the story of the Good Samaritan in order to demonstrate that the “neighbor” we’re asked to love isn’t necessarily someone you know or even share an ethnicity with, but that God calls us to do good to anyone we can? Wasn’t the Christian church supposed to be a new family of differing economic statuses and ethnicities? Didn’t Paul pressure gentile Christians in Corinth to give beyond their means to help Jewish Christians in Jerusalem? There’s considerable evidence that the early church was interested in expanding the boundaries of love, not building walls around it.
February 5, 2025
Anarchist Anabaptist: A Libertarian Christian Origin Story (LCI)
My journey to faith and my journey to libertarianism ran on parallel tracks.
My mother’s family was nominally Christian, but my dad’s was Southern Baptist. I was baptized in my grandma’s Southern Baptist church at a young age, but self-selected out of theism altogether by the time I hit double digits. There were a few reasons for that. In particular, I thought their traditional view of hell as eternal conscious torment suggested a God who was too cruel and petty to be believable as the God of love who cared about us like a father…
