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
August 23, 2019
Why the Physical Earth Matters to God
Ian K. Smith,
Crossway
In our prayers at church, how often do we give thanks for those who labor in the mundane jobs that keep society going?
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August 22, 2019
In Wisconsin, Democratic state legislators are proposing the Clergy Mandatory Reporter Act (CMRA), which would require “that members of the clergy report any instances of child abuse, including sexual abuse, ending the loophole of unjust cover-ups and misreporting currently occurring in our state.”
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August 22, 2019
Today is the first observance of the “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.” The observance, as Alliance Defending Freedom notes, is considered by human rights experts to be an important step towards the prevention of religious persecution in the future.
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August 22, 2019
The Problem of Immoral Choices in the Marketplace
Murray N. Rothbard,
Mises Wire
Mises states, quite rightly, that anyone who advocates governmental dictation over one area of individual consumption must logically come to advocate complete totalitarian dictation over all choices.
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August 21, 2019
Several years ago economist Bryan Caplan provided the most succinct and helpful statement about how we should think about free trade: “We’d be better off if other countries gave us stuff for free.
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August 21, 2019
Edmund Burke, Free Marketeer
Kai Weiss,
The American Conservative
Big-government conservatives should try actually reading him before they claim him as their own.
Two Big Ways American Consumers Benefit from Trade With China
Art Carden,
FEE
In a recent study, economists Liang Bai and Sebastian Stumpner analyze price data from the Nielsen Homescan panel to estimate the effects of trade with China on American consumers.
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August 20, 2019
A recent study found that 66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues. An estimated 530,000 families turn to bankruptcy each year because of medical issues and bills, the research found.
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August 20, 2019
Currency and the Common Good
Peter J. Leithart,
First Things
In Christianity, profit doesn’t shatter a closed cosmos because the cosmos was never closed to begin with.
The High Cost of Occupational Licensing
Antony Sammeroff,
Mises Institute
Many policies can end up having the opposite effect from what is intended.
A Primer on Politics and Prudence
Derek Rotty,
Crisis Magazine
Can we overcome, even heal, this political climate of deep division and distrust?
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August 19, 2019
In his influential 1962 book
Capitalism and Freedom economist Milton Friedman promoted the position of shareholder primacy by declaring that a corporation has no real “social responsibility” to the public, since its only concern is to increase profits for the shareholders.
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August 19, 2019
Should Environmental Concerns Be a Major Priority for a Christian Business Owner?
Jeremy Weber,
Christianity Today
Experts weigh in from the Lausanne Movement’s Global Workplace Forum.
How One Entrepreneur Is Waging War on Poverty in Africa
Brittany Hunter,
FEE
For Senegalese-born Magatte Wade, her passion for business is driven by her desire to demonstrate firsthand the role entrepreneurship plays in creating prosperity.
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