Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how we, the website operator, collect, store and use any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, through our website.

Collection of Personal Information

We may collect personal information about you when you use our website, for instance, when you contact us via email, or when you fill in a contact form on our website. The personal information we may collect includes your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide to us.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you for the following purposes:

a) to provide you with the information or services you request;

b) to process and respond to your inquiries and requests;

c) to send you marketing emails or newsletters if you have opted in to receive them;

d) for internal recordkeeping; and

e) to improve our services and website.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any third party if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the rights of others.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required, or when you request that it be deleted.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you. If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you may request that it be corrected. To access or correct your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our website. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or device when you visit our website. We use cookies to track your use of our website, remember your preferences, and improve your user experience. We may also use cookies to serve targeted advertising and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly. We do not collect personal information for the purpose of targeting advertising. We do not sell or disclose any information about your use of our website to third parties.

Security of Personal Information

We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please note that no internet transmission is ever fully secure or error-free. In particular, email sent to or from our website may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information online, especially via email.

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Christian Unity and the Russian Orthodox Church
The miraculous post-Soviet revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, all but destroyed by the end of the Stalinist purges in the 1930s, is one of the great stories of 21st Century Christianity. This revival is now focused on the restoration of church life that saw its great institutions and spiritual treasures — churches, monasteries, seminaries, libraries — more or less obliterated by an aggressively atheist regime. Many of the Church’s best and brightest monks, clergy and theologians were martyred, imprisoned...
Men Seeking Absolute Power
David Lohmeyer turned up this excellent clip from the original Star Trek series: Kirk opens the clip by referencing the Nazi “leader principle” (das Führerprinzip). Soon after Hitler’s election as chancellor in 1933, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave a (partial) radio address and later lectured publicly on the topic of the “leader principle” and its meaning for the younger generation. These texts are important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that pares the office of...
Film Spanks U.N. Treaty on the Rights of the Child
There’s a free screening of a documentary critiquing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child this Friday evening at 7 p.m. at Grandville Church of Christ–3725 44th St. SW. The film makes the case that parental rights have already been dangerously eroded in the United States and would be further eroded if Congress ratified the U.N. treaty. The screening is sponsored by the area chapter of Generation Joshua and is open to the public. More against the treaty...
Stories from the Gulag
A new online exhibit: European Memories of the Gulag. (HT: Instapundit/Claire Berlinski) From 1939 to 1953, nearly one million people were deported to the Gulag from the European territories annexed by the USSR at the start of the Second World War and those that came under Soviet influence after the War: some to work camps but most as forced settlers in villages in Siberia and Central Asia. An international team of researchers has collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs...
Samuel Gregg: Benedict XVI in ‘No One’s Shadow’
In a special report, the American Spectator has published Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg’s new article on the “civilizational agenda” of Pope Benedict XVI. Special thanks also to RealClearReligion for linking the Gregg article. Benedict XVI: In No One’s Shadow By Samuel Gregg It was inevitable. In the lead-up to John Paul II’s beatification, a number of publications decided it was time to opine about the direction of Benedict XVI’s pontificate. The Economist, for example, portrayed a pontificate adrift, “accident-prone,”...
Acton on Tap: A Christian Economist Clarifies Fair Trade
The Acton Institute will be hosting another thought provoking and discussion orientated Acton on Tap on Tuesday, May 17. The event will begin at 6:30pm at the Derby Station (2237 Wealthy St. SE, East Grand Rapids 49506). Leading the discussion will be Victor Claar, who is a professor of Economics at Henderson State University. The Acton on Tap with Professor Claar is titled “Clarifying the Question of Fair Trade: A Christian Economist’s Perspective.” Claar will bring a unique perspective of...
Rising Food Prices and Regulation
In an article appearing on EWTN News, Acton Director of Research, Samuel Gregg, is interviewed on rising food prices and the effect on the developing world. In this article, Dr. Gregg contributed to a broad discussion on the many factors contributing to the rising food prices. He advocates for a free market economy in agriculture by discussing the effects agricultural subsides in Europe and the United State, and how these market distortions contribute to stifling the growth of agriculture in...
The Welfare State and the Moral High Ground
Writing in the Sacramento Bee, Margaret A. Bengs cites Rev. Robert A. Sirico’s Heritage Foundation essay “The Moral Basis for Economic Liberty” in her column on munities and government budget battles. As a priest, Sirico has met many entrepreneurs “who are disenfranchised and alienated from their churches,” with often little understanding by church leaders of the “vocation called entrepreneurship, of what it requires in the way of personal sacrifice, and of what it contributes to society.” This lack of understanding,...
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