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
June 14, 2019
I don’t like conferences.
I don’t like seminars or conventions, either. I also don’t like colloquiums, symposiums, forums, or summits. I love people (really, I do) and I love discussions about ideas.
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June 14, 2019
How the US Is Promoting Religious Liberty Around the World
Daniel Davis,
The Daily Signal
Around the world, religious liberty remains under threat. In China, a million Uighurs Muslims are now in internment camps—and it’s not the only nation where there’s no true freedom of religion.
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June 13, 2019
We live in a strange age when good Christian men are slandered in defense of men of low character. Still, I would have never suspected to see such calumny on the Acton PowerBlog.
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June 13, 2019
How Adam Smith became a (surprising) hero to conservative economists
Glory M. Liu,
Aeon
Whatever your political leanings, one thing is clear: Smith speaks on both sides of a longstanding debate about the fundamental values of modern market-oriented society.
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June 12, 2019
Later this month, Gateway Editions will be releasing
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization, the new book by Acton research director Samuel Gregg. John Zmirak, senior editor at
The Stream, has an early review of what he calls “a user’s guide to western civilization“:
Read.
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June 12, 2019
To most people, helping orphans and children in the foster system find stable homes seems like a top priority—the kind of priority that transcends politics and ideology,” says Kate Anderson in this week’s Acton Commentary.
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June 12, 2019
“People are tired of the nanny state and the growth of government, tired of having our money basically robbed,” said a demonstrator at a tea party rally in 2009. “[We] want to return to constitutional form of government, limited government that allows people to be free and independent.”
“I think it’s only a matter of time before these people quit carrying signs and start doing something else,” said Ed McQueen, an Ohio resident who attended a rally in Chicago.
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June 12, 2019
Thank Christianity, Not Secularism, for Religious Liberty
Casey Chalk,
The American Conservative
The First Amendment’s origins can be found in the early Church, not the Enlightenment.
Socialism Will Always Destroy Democracy
Jack H.
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June 11, 2019
Note: This is post #124 in a weekly video series on basic economics.
What is fiscal policy? As economist Tyler Cowen explains, it’s a government’s policies on taxes, spending, and borrowing.
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June 11, 2019
Who Occupational Licensing Hurts the Most
Marlo Safi,
National Review
The Council of Economic Advisors has found that licensing creates substantial costs, makes entry-level jobs even more difficult to access, and aren’t in sync with the skills needed to perform the job.
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