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An Evening with Laura Ingraham

Friday, August 29, 2008

Laura Ingraham, the popular talk radio host, will be in Grand Rapids for an event sponsored by the Acton Institute on September 17. Please make plans to join us for this exciting event. Currently there are still tickets available and you can purchase them online through the Acton Institute here.

The event will take place at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, where Ingraham will speak, followed by a question and answer session. Also, there will be a book signing of her newest book Power to the People, and a dessert reception.

Ingraham is a refreshing conservative voice with great intellectual depth. I have always enjoyed listening to her commentary. Here is an excerpt from Power to the People:

Too often we have believed that “freedom” means that we have no duties or responsibilities to others. That “anything goes” mentality may appear to be empowering, but it is not. Instead, it creates a sense of anarchy that makes most Americans very unhappy.

The Founding Fathers did not risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor so we could become spoiled, pampered, narcissistic and focused solely on our own pleasure. An ordered society was the Founders’ goal — a place where we could live our lives in limitless possibility — but only if we fulfilled our obligations. They wanted us to have the liberty to tap into our creative powers, for our own good and for the good of our countrymen. This is the pathway to true happiness. But that society is only possible if we, the people, have a shared set of values, a common set of beliefs that bind us together. The Founders did not view liberty as a license, but as a sacred responsibility to be used for the good. They understood that liberty cannot be separated from virtue.

Posted by Ray Nothstine in News and Events at 16:36 | Leave a comment | Trackback

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Acton Media Alert

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Rev. Robert Sirico is scheduled to appear on the Laura Ingraham Show this morning during the 11:00 hour to discuss the shootings that took place yesterday on the campus of Virginia Tech.

You can find a local affiliate for the show or listen online by checking out Laura’s website.

Update: Here’s a portion of the transcript:

Ingraham: Father Sirico, a number of people have e-mailed into our web-site after hearing me talk about the need, at this point in time, for faith. And that faith is ultimately what will get us through these tough times. And we don’t think about it much in the good times. But when something like this happens, I think it’s essential. And someone e-mailed in, “Can you define for me what faith is at a time like this?” How would you define it?

Sirico: Well, I suppose to try and put it in the most accessible language to people across religious perspectives, even for those who don’t have or don’t see themselves as having faith, I would say that life has a purpose. We do not exist simply as material beings and that the sum total of our existence is our materiality is important as our physicality is because when something like this goes wrong to the body, we mourn that. But that our life has a transcendent purpose. Our life has a value that transcends the physical. What faith attempts to do, what Biblical faith attempts to do, is give some shape and some orientation and some finality to the purpose. And that, even in the face of such horrendous tragedy, the purpose, the dignity of human life is not thwarted. It is offended, it is aggressed against, it is violated, but the ultimate purpose of human life, it’s ultimate dignity, is not. And I think that those who, at a time like this, speak about how senseless, not just that the act was senseless but that the act was senseless, really compound the problem. How can you face the families of those who have died and been hurt in this tragedy, and speak of senselessness? You know, intuitively, we know that our lives have a purpose. They have a finality. And it’s precisely this intuitive knowledge that makes tragedy tragic. That it could be something more and should be something more. And that it is a failure to respect the dignity of life that makes this kind of stuff happen.

Ingraham: One thing that I always think about, I try to think about when something like this happens, or, each of us has potholes that we hit and during our own lives, is that the moments of grace that come out of just horrible, horrible experiences. And I saw that in my own life several times. And, and I think in this case, you do see those moments of grace. They’re, they’re all over the television set. With the way people are reacting, the outpouring across the United States. And I think that really exists.

Sirico: I know it does, from personal experience. That even, we talk about purpose and life, but even in pain, or maybe especially in pain, and in the context of our limitations that we can see a light that illumines the darkest areas of our lives. I mean, the scripture says that Jesus, to speak from a Christian point of view, that Jesus endured the cross. That, for the joy that was set before Him. Because he knew that at the end of this suffering there was redemption. We’ve just come through the period of lent where we meditate intensely on the suffering of Christ. And I think that all of humanity, in a way, when seeing our suffering having purpose, can, can in that sense be redemptive.

Posted by Marc Vander Maas in News and Events at 09:56 | Leave a comment | Trackback

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Acton Media Roundup

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Rev. Robert A. Sirico made an appearance this morning on The Laura Ingraham Show. The discussion ranged from Rudy Giuliani’s recent comments about his support for taxpayer-funded abortion to the mystery and joy surrounding the events of Holy Week for Christians. If you missed his live appearance, you can check out this link to find a radio station near you that broadcasts Laura’s show on tape-delay, or (for a small fee) find the interview in Ingraham’s online audio archive.

One other notable Acton media appearance this week - and I want to apologize for the delay in bringing this to your attention. Acton’s own Dr. Kevin Schmiesing was featured in his hometown newspaper in the mid-80’s for his achievements as a high school “mathlete.” Far be it from us to withhold the evidence of this achievement from you, our beloved and well-respected readership:

Jordan Ballor notes that Dr. Schmiesing’s last name is misspelled in the caption. Shoddy journalism!

This achievement was likely one of many early glimpses of the peculiar genius of Dr. Schmiesing which would eventually earn him a position at the Acton Institute and would garner him a number of awards, including his recent second place finish in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards for Best Article. All this is in keeping with Acton’s commitment to bring you the finest scholarship available produced by award winning math nerds, not the run-of-the-mill math nerds you’re likely to find at other institutions.

I kid, of course. Congratulations again to Dr. Schmiesing, who has been and continues to be a much more impressive scholar than I could ever hope to be!

Posted by Marc Vander Maas in News and Events at 11:08 | Comments (4) | Trackback

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