Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
Posts by Joe Carter
October 17, 2016
Why should we care about human dignity, creativity and flourishing? Why value human creativity? Why even believe that human beings possess dignity and rights? As Rev. Robert Sirico writes in the
Washington Times, the free market system assumes, rather than defends, the value of all these things—something easy to miss because most of us share these sentiments.
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October 17, 2016
About Those Unthinking, Backwards Catholics
Charles J. Chaput,
First Things
The cultural damage done by the current White House has—apparently—made courting America’s bishops unnecessary.
“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One over the Other
Stephanie Russell-Kraft,
Religous Dispatches
In most circles, “religious freedom” and “religious liberty” are interchangeable, but to call them identical wouldn’t quite be right.
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October 14, 2016
Many Christians assume that the Bible has nothing at all to say about economics, says Albert Mohler. But a biblical worldview actually has a great deal to teach us about economic matters.
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October 14, 2016
Why Evangelicals Are Divided over Trump
Joe Carter,
TGC
Here’s why conservative evangelicals are divided over Trump—and what we can do about it.
Should Christians Vote for Trump?
Eric Metaxas,
Wall Street Journal
Trump’s behavior is odious, but Clinton has a deplorable basketful of deal breakers.
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October 13, 2016
“There are many things government can’t do—many good purposes it must renounce,” said Lord Acton. “It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people.
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October 13, 2016
Whether directly connected with our passions or not, God calls us first and foremost to do the next thing well, to his glory, with all of our might, says John Stonestreet.
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October 13, 2016
How to understand the three A’s of religious liberty as Christians
Andrew T. Walker,
ERLC
Everyone worships something (adoration); everyone wants to live truthfully (authentically); and everyone has an ultimate standard for what they value (authority).
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October 12, 2016
Have you ever wondered what liberal political activists and politicians think of Catholics? Well, thanks to Wikileaks you can get a glimpse into their views. In a couple of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account there are exchanges in which conservative Catholics are mocked.
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October 12, 2016
Earlier this week the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics was jointly awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström on Monday for their shared contributions to our understanding of contract theory. “Taken together the work of Hart and Holmström has allowed all of us to understand more clearly what a “good” contract might look like,” says Victor V.
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October 12, 2016
Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life
Harvey C. Mansfield,
Modern economics makes its way without study of the “flourishing life,” which is one translation of what Aristotle meant by happiness.
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