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
January 04, 2019
Catholic social teaching held up in efforts to overcome polarization Dennis Sadowski,
Catholic News Service
Pope Francis’s repeated invitations to practice mercy and charity have become the focus of efforts to defuse the widespread polarization that has wracked society and has crossed into Catholic circles.
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January 03, 2019
What makes your life meaningful?
For Christians the answer should be some variation of our faith in God. But if that’s your answer you are distinctly in the minority in the U.S.
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January 03, 2019
What If My Work Isn’t My Passion? Missy Wallace,
TGC
What I’m most passionate about doesn’t pay well. Is it okay to have a less exciting “day job” that pays the bills and allows me to pursue my passions as a side gig (that may turn into more eventually)?
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January 02, 2019
From mass shootings to terrorist attacks, political incompetence to racial unrest, there has been no shortage of bad news stories in 2018. Death, destruction, and divisiveness tend to dominate the news cycle leading us to despair over the direction our world is headed.
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December 28, 2018
As we come near to the end of another year, we want to thank readers of PowerBlog for reading, commenting, and sharing our posts over the past twelve months.
If you’re a new reader we encourage you to catch up by checking out our top ten most popular posts for 2018.
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December 28, 2018
10 Critical Religious Liberty Cases Coming in 2019 Joe Carter,
TGC
Although the new year is still a few days away, ADF is already preparing to defend a number of important legal challenges to freedom of religion.
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December 27, 2018
When we think of the concept “economic freedom” we often think about essential liberties and the factors that make them possible (e.g., free markets, the rule of law, and property rights).
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December 27, 2018
Repeal of tax on churches appears to fail in Congress Tom Strode,
Baptist Press
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Thursday (Dec. 20) to reverse a year-old law that calls for churches to file tax returns for the first time in American history, but it appears unlikely the effort will go any further in this Congress.
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December 26, 2018
What just happened?
On Friday the federal government entered a partial shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a spending bill that includes border wall funding. President Trump refuses to sign any additional funding that does not include $5.1 billion in additional money to pay for an extension of the border wall, allowing him to fulfill his primary campaign promise.
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December 21, 2018
Christmas is the most widely observed cultural holiday in the world. Here are five facts you should know about the annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus:
1. No one knows what day or month Jesus was born (though some scholars speculate that it was in September).
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