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October 23, 2013

Now Available from CLP: ‘Exodus’ by Cornelis Vonk

Christian’s Library Press has now released Exodus, the second primer in its Opening the Scriptures series. Written by Dutch Reformed pastor and preacher Cornelis Vonk, and translated by Theodore Plantinga and Nelson Kloosterman, the volume provides an introduction to the book of Exodus. Continue Reading...

October 22, 2013

Entrepreneurs, the Working Class, and the Mosaic of Culture

In an essay for AEI’s The American, Henry Olsen does a deep dive on the white working class, a group that Republicans have won by significant margins in recent years. Continue Reading...

October 21, 2013

DeMint on Changing Washington’s Political Culture

There’s a fascinating profile of Jim DeMint, the new president of the Heritage Foundation, in BusinessWeek, which makes a good pairing for this NYT piece that focuses on the GOP’s “civil war” between establishment Republicans and Tea Partiers. Continue Reading...

October 21, 2013

Human Trafficking Enters A New Marketplace: Organ Harvesting

There have been whispers of it before, but now it has been confirmed: trafficking humans in order to harvest organs. The Telegraph is reporting that an underage Somali girl was smuggled into Britain with the intent of harvesting her organs for those desperately waiting for transplants. Continue Reading...

October 18, 2013

Making The Family Farm Profitable

There is much nostalgia about America’s agricultural past that many seem incapable of releasing. But the reality is forcing a new narrative about the family farm. In an era of globalization and government subsidizing large agribusinesses, family farmers have no choice in the near future but to diversify the use of their land and do something that is actually profitable. Continue Reading...

October 18, 2013

The Moral Complexity of Inflation and Default

As the US federal government sidled up to the debt ceiling earlier this week without quite running into it, one of the key arguments in favor of raising the debt ceiling was that it is immoral to breach a contract. Continue Reading...

October 17, 2013

Samuel Gregg asks ‘Are We Living in Untruth?’

The U.S. government shutdown ended last night with a budget agreement that raises the debt limit, funding the government until February. Acton director of research, Samuel Gregg, addressed this in a new post at Aleteia. Continue Reading...

October 17, 2013

Pentecostalism and Spirit-Empowered Discipleship

What distinct features does Pentecostalism bring to our discussions about stewardship and whole-life discipleship? In Flourishing Churches and Communities, one of three tradition-specific primers on faith, work, and economics, Dr. Continue Reading...

October 16, 2013

Q&A: Peter Greer on Heroism, ‘Christian Karma,’ and the Dark Side of Charity

Peter Greer has spent his life doing good, from serving refugees in the Congo to leading HOPE International, a Christian-based network of microfinance institutions operating in 16 countries around the world. Continue Reading...

October 15, 2013

Autocam Files Petition with U.S. Supreme Court

The Thomas More Society stated today in a press release that they are working with Catholic Vote Defense League in a fight to seek “constitutional protection of religious freedom.” Specifically, they have filed a cert petition with the Supreme Court for the case, Autocam Vs. Continue Reading...

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