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
February 01, 2017
In a new article for the
Lakeland Ledger, Rev. Robert Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, explains why ordered liberty depends on virtue:
What I have learned in these intervening decades is that it’s not enough simply to be a “free” society.
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January 31, 2017
Today is the last day of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. But ending human trafficking through education and awareness is a year-round task. As the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work notes, we need more public education around the practice of human trafficking in order to help aid the more than 20 million victims who live as modern-day slaves.
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January 31, 2017
Note: This is post #19 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics.
Speculation is often considered to be morally dubious. But, can speculation actually be useful to the market process?
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January 30, 2017
What just happened?
Today, President Trump signed an executive order titled, “Reducing Regulation And Controlling Regulatory Costs.” The stated purpose of the executive order is “to manage the costs associated with the governmental imposition of private expenditures required to comply with Federal regulations.”
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January 30, 2017
During his first week in office, President Trump has signed a number of executive orders, affecting a range of policies from trade to health care to immigration. Here is what you should know about executive orders:
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January 27, 2017
Many people complain about the poor quality of America’s public schools. But Bob Luddy did something about it.
Tired of trying to convince North Carolina bureaucrats to improve the state’s public schools, Luddy built his own network of low-cost private schools that the government can’t meddle with.
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January 26, 2017
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time when “we resolve to shine a light on every dark corner where human trafficking still threatens the basic rights and freedoms of others.”
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January 25, 2017
“When it’s too late to intimidate, it’s never too late to retaliate,” says Bruce Edward Walker in this week’s Acton Commentary.
It was in 2010 that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decided Citizens United by a 5-4 vote.
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January 25, 2017
Note: This is the second in a weekly series of explanatory posts on the officials and agencies included in the President’s Cabinet. See the series introduction here.
Cabinet position: Secretary of State
Department: U.S.
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January 24, 2017
A pastor and North Carolina native is being held in Turkey on unsubstantiated charges of terrorism related activity.
After more than 20 years of serving as an evangelical missionary in Turkey, Andrew Brunson, 48, thought he was being summoned to receive a long-awaited permanent residence card.
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