Communications Specialist at Acton Institute. M.A. in World Religions.
Posts by Elise Hilton
October 20, 2014
Acton’s Michael Miller, director of the documentary Poverty.Inc, spoke with Bill Frezza at RealClearPolitics. Miller asks listeners to rethink the foreign aid model, which has not been successful in alleviating poverty in the developing world.
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October 16, 2014
Don’t you love lists? Intercollegiate Press does too, and they’ve put together “12 Movies That Defined America.” Feel free to argue, debate, add on, cross off as you wish.
Here are just a couple of Intercollegiate Press’ choices:
The Birth of a Nation – 1915, silent. Continue Reading...
October 16, 2014
This story has so many things wrong with it, I hardly know where to start. Apple and Facebook have both announced that will now offer egg-freezing – for non-medical purposes – for their employees (which runs at least $10,000, plus a $500 to $800 annual storage fee.)
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October 16, 2014
In 1994, a clever man named James Finn Garner published
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner did fabulous send-ups of familiar stories, with a twist: all of them were carefully constructed so as to offend NO ONE:
There once was a young person named Red Riding Hood who lived with her mother on the edge of a large wood.
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October 15, 2014
ArtPrize, by any measure, is a successful venture. It allows artists to reach a huge audience, gives hundreds of thousands of people the chance to experience a variety of art, and gives the city of Grand Rapids a terrific financial boost.
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October 14, 2014
As mid-term elections creep closer (aren’t we done with those tv ads
yet?), one wonders which War on Women will be victorious.
First, there is the War on Women declared by the likes of Sandra Fluke and Senator Jeane Shaheen, who proclaim that women aren’t getting paid fairly and that while no one has the right to tell women what to do with their bodies, could you fork over the money for their birth control, please?
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October 14, 2014
In preparation for the Symposium on Common Grace in Business (co-sponsored by the Acton Institute and Calvin College), I spent time with Shirley Roels, one of the moderators for the event.
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October 13, 2014
I once read a fascinating book about the leper colony on Molokai. The Molokai lepers were literally cast out of society, sent as far away as possible, with almost no support systems.
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October 13, 2014
Church of England Archbishop Justin Welby thinks young bankers would be well served if they spent time as “quasi-monks” before entering the marketplace. In
The Telegraph, Welby says that ambitious young people should
…quit work temporarily so they can pray and serve the poor.
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October 07, 2014
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is considered by many to be one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 20th century. But you’d be hard-pressed to find him discussed in any public high school (or even most colleges or universities, for that matter.)
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