Joe Carter

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 31, 2016

Why chairs are cheap and EpiPens are expensive

Approximately 1 in 50 Americans are at risk of anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction caused by such conditions as food allergies or exposure to the venom of bee stings. Continue Reading...

August 30, 2016

Is Jesus’ parable of the workers about minimum wage laws?

There is an old preachers’ tale of a young man who turned to the Bible for guidance on making decisions. Using the text as a divining rod, he would flip through Scripture and let his finger land on a verse, using the result as a divine insight into how he should decide. Continue Reading...

August 29, 2016

Does the Catholic Church oppose the free market?

Modern Catholic social teaching has been articulated, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops notes, through a tradition of papal, conciliar, and episcopal documents. These documents developed a number of themes related to economic and social policy, such as the option for the poor and vulnerable and the dignity of work and the rights of workers. Continue Reading...

August 26, 2016

Colleges don’t need ‘trigger warnings’ — and neither do Christian students

In the early 1930s a student organization at the University of Chicago invited William Z. Foster, the Communist Party’s candidate for President, to give a lecture on campus. Not surprisingly, the event sparked outrage and criticism, both at the school and around the country. Continue Reading...

August 25, 2016

Explainer: What you should know about the American Solidarity Party platform

Note: This is the third in a series examining the positions of several minor party and independent presidential candidates on issues covered by the Acton Institute. A previous series covered the Democratic Party platform (see here and here) and the Republican Party Platform (see here and here). Continue Reading...

August 24, 2016

Joe Carter

Posts by Joe Carter

Why chairs are cheap and EpiPens are expensive

Is Jesus’ parable of the workers about minimum wage laws?

Does the Catholic Church oppose the free market?

Colleges don’t need ‘trigger warnings’ — and neither do Christian students

Explainer: What you should know about the American Solidarity Party platform

A ‘house of cards’ in Nicaragua

Explainer: What you should know about welfare reform

A biblical-theological case against chimeras

Does the state have imperium over the church?

What Jonathan Edwards can teach American Christians about economic justice