November 09, 2010
October 19, 2010
Rev. Robert Sirico: Tea Party Must Define Ideas
October 18, 2010
Community, Culture, and Confession
September 22, 2010
Acton On Tap: Art, Patrimony, and Cultural Investment
If you couldn’t make it to Derby Station in East Grand Rapids last night, there are a couple of things you should know. First of all, you missed a great event and some good conversation. Continue Reading...
September 21, 2010
Work as if It Mattered
September 14, 2010
Leisure and Work, Art and Culture
September 13, 2010
Radio Free Acton: The Stewardship of Art, Part 1
September in Grand Rapids means the return of ArtPrize, which bills itself as a “radically open” art competition, juried by the general public, and awarding the largest cash prize for an art competition in the world – $250,000 for first place. Continue Reading...
September 08, 2010
Labor and the limits of work
There has been some good discussion over the past week and Labor Day holiday about the nature of work and its role in our lives (particularly here).
The first thing I’d like to point out about Lester DeKoster’s claims regarding work is that he has in mind, at least partially, the classical Greek philosophical distinction between the active and contemplative life, particularly its disdain of manual labor. Continue Reading...
September 03, 2010
Work and western civilization
September 02, 2010