Although most people probably haven’t noticed yet, there is a currently a writers strike happening in Hollywood. For the time being, the main programs affected have been late night and daytime talk shows (apparently, there are actual writersfor The View). Continue Reading...
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May 11, 2023
Jimmy Lai Denied Counsel Yet Again as Power Shifts to Pro-CCP Exec
Jimmy Lai is Hong Kong’s most persecuted freedom fighter. Jailed in December 2020 for the crime of protesting the Chinese Communist Party’s clampdown on civil rights in Hong Kong, the 75-year-old fashion mogul and entrepreneur faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of violating the CCP’s National Security Law, which took effect in June 2020. Continue Reading...
May 10, 2023
Reading Well for Your Spiritual Life
Widespread literacy is taken for granted in America today. Our global economy, societal structures, professional success, and everyday activities depend upon our ability to read, even as our interest in reading books appears to be declining. Continue Reading...
May 09, 2023
Engaging the Culture for Christ
Billy Graham was often called “America’s Pastor.” Throughout the 20th century, few rivaled his spiritual influence over the nation. But as we slink into the 21st century, its seems that the pastor for our day is Timothy Keller. Continue Reading...
May 04, 2023
The Death of Learning Breathes New Life into the Liberal Arts
For those of us who’ve devoted out lives to the liberal arts, it’s all too common to encounter doubters. As a high school English teacher, I encounter this all too frequently. Continue Reading...
May 04, 2023
Banned by TikTok: The CCP Doesn’t Want You to See The Hong Konger
TikTok and its overseers within the Chinese Communist Party have suspended the Acton Institute’s TikTok account for continuing to tell the story of the Chinese crackdown on civil rights in Hong Kong. Continue Reading...
May 03, 2023
Hollywood’s Lost Paradise
Dreams can often turn into nightmares. And dreams in Hollywood are a special kind, as are the nightmares that can follow. One day you’re getting ready to audition for a role in a movie. Continue Reading...
May 02, 2023
The Genesis Paradigm vs. the Gender Paradigm
Abigail Favale’s The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory presents a positive vision of gender as part of God’s good creation. She describes and responds to contemporary gender theory, showing how it is contradictory to the Christian understanding of gender in general. Continue Reading...
April 28, 2023
Jacques Maritain and Art for Beauty’s Sake
On this particular day … we had just said to one another that if our nature was so unhappy as to possess only a pseudo-intelligence capable of everything but the truth, if, sitting in judgment on itself, it had to debase itself to such a point, then we could neither think nor act with any dignity. Continue Reading...
April 27, 2023
New UK Report Slams CCP in Jimmy Lai Case
As 75-year-old Jimmy Lai languishes in prison, the Hong Kong government, pressured by the Chinese Community Party (CCP), is dedicated to ensuring that the country’s most famous freedom fighter fails to win any further support for his cause. Continue Reading...