December 09, 2016
Month: December 2016
December 09, 2016
Leo XIII and Kuyper on the social question
This year marks the 125th anniversary of two key documents in the development of modern Christian social thought: the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII and the speech “The Social Question and the Christian Religion” by Abraham Kuyper. Continue Reading...
December 09, 2016
An ecumenical Methodist: Thomas Oden (1931–2016)
December 09, 2016
What standard should we use to judge school choice?
The United States spends a lot of money each year on public schooling. As a percentage of GDP, government expenditures on public education (five percent) exceed the amount we spend on defense (four percent) or welfare (two percent). Continue Reading...
December 09, 2016
Free to create: Why two Christian filmmakers are challenging the government
December 08, 2016
6 Quotes: John Glenn on faith, service, and government
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, died today at the age of 95. Glenn was a U.S. Marine, a pilot, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. Continue Reading...
December 08, 2016
Ryan Anderson gives Calihan Lecture, receives Novak Award
Leading thinkers from around the world along with other attendees gathered at the Bloomsbury Hotel in London to attend the Acton Institute’s ‘Crisis of Liberty in the West’ conference on December 1st. Continue Reading...
December 08, 2016
Rooted and grounded: New Kuyper anthology explores doctrine of the church
“‘First rooted, then grounded, but both bound together at their most inner core!’ Let that be the slogan of the church living from God’s Word.” -Abraham Kuyper
What is the social nature of our relation to God? Continue Reading...
December 08, 2016
‘Lies and Lethargies’ in Koestler’s The Age of Longing
December 08, 2016