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
April 26, 2019
If you’re a pro-life conservative Christian you’ll eventually hear someone on the left assert that you can’t be
consistently pro-life if you don’t support government policies to reduce poverty. If we truly cared about life in and out of the womb, they say, you’d support government intervention not only to ban abortion but to make abortion unnecessary.
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April 26, 2019
There are some steps a person can take to have a good chance at finding happiness and avoiding poverty in life, notes Brent Orrell, but despite what some researchers say, the truth is a little more complicated than a simple sequence.
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April 25, 2019
“President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported washing machines has had an odd effect,” notes Jim Tankersley in the
New York Times. “It raised prices on washing machines, as expected, but also drove up the cost of clothes dryers, which rose by $92 last year.
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April 24, 2019
During a CNN town hall on Monday, a student asked Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris whether they would allow felons in prison to vote:
You have said that you believe that people with felony records should be allowed to vote while in prison.
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April 23, 2019
Note: This is post #120 in a weekly video series on basic economics.
Last week we looked at how the U.S. Federal Reserve controlled the supply of money prior to the Great Recession.
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April 22, 2019
[Note: This is the first in an occasional series, Remedial Civics, which provides information on what you should have learned in school—but probably didn’t—about how the U.S. government works (or doesn’t).] Continue Reading...
April 22, 2019
[Note: This is the introduction to an occasional series that provides information on what you should have learned in school—but probably didn’t—about how the U.S. government works (or why it doesn’t).] Continue Reading...
April 19, 2019
Today is Good Friday*, the religious holiday that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. Christians have celebrated the event for over two millennia. But what was the date of the original Good Friday?Almost
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April 18, 2019
Earlier this week two presidential candidates made comments that how nationalism is dominating American politics.
The first came when South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg told Rachel Maddow “national service will become one of the themes of [my] 2020 campaign.”
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April 17, 2019
“Christians ended slavery. Do you think that’s a conservative simpleton’s mock-worthy bombast, embarrassing the rest of us with his black-and-white, unapologetic caricature of American history?” asks John B. Carpenter in this week’s Acton Commentary.
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