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Chuck Colson: A Life Redeemed

mon thought many people have about conversion is that a person who has undergone the experience is wholly different before and after. Surely this is true in the order of grace, in that a man goes from darkness into light, from sin into being made cleansed. Yet, the personality remains the same even if it es reordered and redirected, sometimes astonishingly so. Such was the case with Peter, and with Paul, with Augustine and more contemporaneously, with my good friend...

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Let Us spray: fighting malaria

An article in today’s New York Times, “Push for New Tactics as War on Malaria Falters,” coincides nicely with Acton’s newest ad campaign (see the back cover of the July 1 issue of World). The article attacks government mismanagement of allocated funds in the global fight against malaria. Celia Dugger, the author, writes: Only 1 percent of the [United States Agency for International Development’s] 2004 malaria budget went for medicines, 1 percent for insecticides and 6 percent for mosquito nets....

Book Review: The Scandal Of The Evangelical Conscience

Ron Sider, The Scandal Of The Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like The Rest Of The World? (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2005), 144 pp. “Summing Up Sider’s Legacy” Ron Sider’s recent book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, is a noteworthy achievement. One the one hand, it represents an plete shift away from left-leaning government-oriented solutions to social and economic problems that characterize the first edition of his popular Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. This movement...

Use GoodSearch, support the Acton Institute

GoodSearch is a Yahoo!-powered search engine that allows you to designate a recipient charity of your choice. Once you pick a charity, each time you use GoodSearch that group will receive one cent. GoodSearch was founded by a brother and sister who lost their mother to cancer and wanted to find an easy way for people to support their favorite causes. The Acton Institute is now an option and can be designated as your GoodSearch recipient. Simply type in “Acton...

The bible and natural law

David VanDrunen’s new monograph, A Biblical Case for Natural Law, is a must read for Christians who are perplexed about the biblical standing of natural law. It makes a biblical case for the existence and practical importance of natural law. Through his examination of the redemptive-historical context of natural law, professor VanDrunen is helping to shift debate away from the badly caricatured doctrine of sola scriptura toward a fuller understanding of the biblical theology underlying natural law. As Protestants rediscover...

Journal of Markets & Morality, volume 9, issue 1

The newest edition of the Journal of Markets & Morality is now available online to subscribers (the print version should be along shortly). The newest issue features a “symposium” in which several authors discuss the “Dynamics of Faith-Based Policy Initiatives” (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). The editorial for this issue is available to the general, non-subscribing, public and can be read online. “The Economics of Information Control” examines the rising demand for free academic scholarship and literature,...

Antichrist Superman: the superhero and the suffering servant

A host of Christian and mentators have trumpeted the similarities between Superman and Jesus Christ in light of the ing movie, Superman Returns. Many Christians embraced the Superman hero when a trailer for the new movie was released using the words of Superman’s father Jor-El, voiced by Marlon Brando: “Even though you’ve been raised as a human being you’re not one of them. They can be a great people, Kal-El. They wish to be. They only lack the light to...

Google Books: ‘authors and publishers deserve to be rewarded’

This from the official Google blog: “We’ve always recognized the importance of copyright, because we believe that authors and publishers deserve to be rewarded for their creative endeavors. And we specifically designed Google Book Search to respect copyright law – never showing more than two or three snippets around a search term without the publisher’s prior permission, which they can give through our Partner Program.” ...

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Don’t Just Hear Your Spouse, Listen

　　Don’t Just Hear Your Spouse, Listen 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger… -James 1:1-19 (ESV) 　　Listening can be tough. Oh sure, we hear all day long. We hear our spouses talking about their day, we hear our children telling that fifteen-minute-long story from...

A Prayer When You Have Lost All Hope

　　A Prayer When You Have Lost All Hope 　　Written by: Vivian Bricker, Read by: Lia Girard 　　Bible Reading: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:13 　　Read or Listen Below: 　　Whenever I’m struggling with...

Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan

　　Our foreign policy debates today exceed in intensity those of the past four generations. This is not to say our debates are nastier—they have always been impolite—but rather that they cut to the core of the purpose of American foreign policy in a way that more recent debates have not. At the most basic level, the issue under question is...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

　　One of the most famous elements from Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is his discussion of “soft despotism.” Tocqueville’s description of soft despotism is familiar—“despotism of this kind does not ride roughshod over humanity,” “it does not tyrannize”—and the immediate result is that the nation is reduced “to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals...

Gorsuchs Broadside Against Overregulation

　　For decades, the administrative state has justified the accumulation of vast powers on the grounds of supposedly impartial expertise. In his new book, Over Ruled: The Human Toil of Too Much Law, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch argues that overregulation is choking nearly every aspect of American life, and it proves the danger of bureaucratic centralization. In this symposium, two...

The Holy Spirit Is Moving in Our Lives

　　The Holy Spirit Is Moving in Our Lives 　　By Whitney Hopler 　　Bible Reading: 　　“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” – John 3:8, NIV 　　When I left a grocery store one day in March, I...

Walking in the Light

　　Walking in the Light 　　This devotional was written by Jim Burns 　　This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him, there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we...

The Unlikely Candidate

　　Wednesday, March 12, 2025 　　The Unlikely Candidate 　　“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” (1 Samuel 16:7 NLT) 　　David was a complex person. He was a warrior...

The Breakfast Club at 40

　　One of the most important but largely unsung heroes of the Reagan Era was movie-maker John Hughes. A close friend of P. J. O’Rourke, Hughes wrote, directed, and/or produced a whole slew of movies, including Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink, to name a few. Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised during his teenage years in...

Strategic Deregulation to Spur Economic Growth

　　America’s central economic problem is preserving the nations capacity to sustain growth vigorous enough to counteract an impending fiscal crisis of escalating national debt. Part of the reason that growth has declined in the last decades is the stifling force of over-regulation. The new administration’s sweeping agenda for regulatory rollback thus need not represent merely political posturing, but has the...

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