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 22, 2019
What just happened?
On Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled in the case of
Timbs v. Indiana that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies to state governments and that some state civil asset forfeitures violate the Clause.
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February 22, 2019
Why Religious Freedom Matters
Alan Sears,
Townhall
Those who founded this country understood intuitively the priority of giving each person elbow room to seek God, profess faith, and live out his or her deepest convictions.
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February 21, 2019
Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and one that seems to a have particular potent effect on politicians. Consider, for example, a recent tweet by Massachusetts’s senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.
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February 21, 2019
Must the president be a moral leader?
Michael Blake,
The Conversation
If someone is good at the difficult job of political leadership, must they demonstrate exceptional moral character as well?
What Would the Impartial Spectator Do?
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February 20, 2019
“The challenge … presents the possibility for hope and for worry with regard to the future of religion in American public life,” says Trey Dimsdale in this week’s Acton Commentary.
In 1919 the political landscape of Europe had been drastically rearranged, the United States had emerged from relative isolation onto the world scene, and the western world was in shock at the unprecedented scale of the carnage that the Great War had left in its wake.
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February 20, 2019
Cuba’s proposed constitution cuts religious freedom
Diana Chandler,
Baptist Press
Cuban pastors are resisting pressure to support a Feb. 24 constitutional referendum that further limits religious freedoms in the Communist nation, international religious liberty advocates said.
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February 19, 2019
Note: This is post #111 in a weekly video series on basic economics.
The long-run aggregate supply curve can show us an economy’s potential growth rate when all is going well.
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February 19, 2019
Covetousness and Inequality
James R. Rogers,
Law and Liberty
Once we indulge the taste to take away simply because others have, there is no end but desolation.
10 Books That Reveal the Idolatrous Nature of Marxism
Bruce Ashford
Here are ten books I recommend for people who wish to understand the idolatrous nature of Marxism and its corrosive effects on individuals and societies.
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February 18, 2019
Today is the U.S. federal holiday known as Washington’s Birthday (not “Presidents Day—see item #1). In honor of George Washington’s birthday, here are 5 things you should know about the day set aside for our America’s premier founding father.
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February 18, 2019
Five Steps to Developing a Christian View on Economics
Elise Daniel,
Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics
Mathematical data can be very helpful in economic analysis, but you don’t need to be a math whiz to understand economics.
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