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Joe Carter is a senior writer for The Gospel Coalition, author of The Life and Faith Field Guide for Parents, the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible, and coauthor of How to Argue Like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History’s Greatest Communicator. He also serves as an associate pastor at McLean Bible Church in Arlington, Va.

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August 24, 2015

How Protestant Missionaries Spread Democracy

Over the past 500 years, some countries have proven to be more receptive to democracy than others. What accounts for the disparity? What causes some countries to be more likely to embrace democratic forms of governance? Continue Reading...

August 21, 2015

Americans Don’t Know Pope’s Environmental Views (And What That Means For Us)

There has been no document by a world leader that has received more attention this year than Laudato Si. Three months have passed since Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, and yet the media coverage and political commentary on it has hardly waned. Continue Reading...

August 21, 2015

Could Wealth Redistribution End Global Poverty?

Americans make up around four percent of the world population and yet they control over 25 percent of the world’s wealth. What if we were to simply redistribute our wealth to the most needy people on the planet—wouldn’t that end global poverty almost overnight? Continue Reading...

August 20, 2015

The Denver City Council’s Despicable Disregard for the First Amendment

If you want to sell chicken sandwiches as the Denver Airport you need to check your First Amendment rights at the gate. That seems to be the message sent by the Denver City Council to Chick-fil-A, a fast-food chain that is seeking to open a store at the Denver International Airport. Continue Reading...

August 20, 2015

How Amazon is Like a Sweatshop (And What That Reveals About Flourishing and Justice)

Liberal and conservative, right and left, red state and blue state—there are dozens, if not hundreds of ways to divide political and economic lines. But one of the most helpful ways of understanding such differences is recognizing the divide between advocates of proximate justice and absolute justice. Continue Reading...

August 19, 2015

Gleaner Tech #4: A “Drinkable Book” That Turns Raw Sewage Into Drinking Water

[Note: See this introduction post for an explanation of gleaner technology.] Lack of clean drinking water is one of the greatest public health problems on the planet. Around the world there are 750 million people—approximately one in nine—who lack access to safe water, and millions will die each year from a water related disease. Continue Reading...

August 19, 2015

The Not So New Russian Orthodox Banking System

The Orthodox Church in Russia has proposed a banking model that corrects what it sees as the most serious of that global banking industry’s moral failings, says Rev. Gregory Jensen in this week’s Acton Commentary. Continue Reading...

August 18, 2015

Almost Half of American Voters Would Vote for a Socialist President

Earlier this summer a Gallup survey asked respondents to answer the following question: Between now and the 2016 political conventions, there will be discussion about the qualifications of presidential candidates—their education, age, religion, race, and so on. Continue Reading...

August 17, 2015

Amazon and the ‘All Jobs Delusion’

In the movie Annie Hall, Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) tells an old joke about two elderly women having dinner at a Catskill mountain resort. One of them says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” Continue Reading...

August 14, 2015

5 Facts About Islamic State’s Theology of Rape

A year ago this month, Islamic State (also known as IS, ISIS, or ISIL) began a systematic program of capturing women and girls for the purposes of rape, forced marriage, and sexual slavery. Continue Reading...

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