Joe Carter

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.

Posts by Joe Carter

June 29, 2018

What should you do to make an impact?

If you want to make a positive change in the world, what problems should you try to help solve? While that may seem like an easy question to answer. But a lot of what we think is having an impact does nothing to help—or can even be counterproductive. Continue Reading...
June 26, 2018

Does human capital depreciate?

Note: This is post #83 in a weekly video series on basic economics. In previous videos in this series, we’ve seen how the accumulation of physical capital only provides a temporary boost to economic growth. Continue Reading...
June 25, 2018

12 state-level religious liberty victories in 2018

Over the past six months there have been 139 bills acted on in states legislatures that deal with religion’s place in the public square. “What happens at the state level is a predicate for what happens at the federal level,” Rose Saxe, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Deseret News. Continue Reading...
June 22, 2018

What’s next for Spain?

In a surprise victory earlier this month, Pedro Sánchez, the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, became prime minister of Spain. Alejandro Chafuen, managing director of Acton Institute, International, considers what the change in government means for the future of Spain: A couple of weeks ago, Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, PSOE, who in the last 2016 election garnered the least amount of votes in his party’s history, became the seventh president of the post-Franco era. Continue Reading...
June 19, 2018

The overdue good news Juneteenth

Although bad news travels fast, good news often takes the scenic route. That appears to have been especially true during the Civil War. Although Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation became official on the first day of January 1863, word didn’t arrive in Texas until June 19, 1865. Continue Reading...