Women are called to the workplace, so how do we make it work? An interview with Katelyn Beaty. Where are the resources for Christian women called to the workplace? Why isn’t there a larger discussion in churches about the life experiences of women? Asking these questions led Katelyn Beaty to write A Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World (Simon & Schuster 2016). Beaty was the first female and youngest...

Bulgaria unveils a statue to Ronald Reagan in the battleground for religious liberty. Ronald Reagan remains the most influential U.S. president of the latter half of the 20th century. He is remembered as an optimistic advocate of free minds, free markets, free elections and the free exercise of religion. But gratitude, a universal human emotion, is not limited to the United States. Instead, it extends across the transatlantic sphere to the former Soviet bloc. On May 10, in Sofia,...

Oftentimes during prayer I reflect on my good fortune. I grew up in a loving Italian-American family during an amazing era of progress both economically and technologically. My Italian roots were planted so strong. However, as they say, the Lord works in mysterious ways. Instead of leading a life in quiet near-obscurity, I pursued the public life of a free-market proponent. This entailed employing the Word and other theological and divinely inspired tools to support the small-“w” words of...

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it. Michael Novak was born in Pennsylvania on September 9, 1933. His parents instilled in him an appreciation for reading and critical thinking. His lifelong love of Catholicism came from his mother and led him, at 14, to seriously consider the priesthood. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy...

For this fall edition of Religion & Liberty, the cover story focuses heavily on an autumn staple: the apple. Over the summer I observed an Acton-sponsored event for pastors in Walla Walla, Washington. During this event, several Acton staff and event attendees had a chance to tour Broetje Orchards in Prescott, Washington, and meet several members of the Broetje family. This family not only runs one of the biggest fruit providers in the nation but also constantly finds new...

A collection of short essays by Acton writers, click a link to jump to that article: If you care about human flourishing, promote growth by Samuel Gregg Will free trade help the environment after Brexit? by Philip Booth Anti-Americanism at the Vatican by Kishore Jayabalan Our economic age of anxiety by Victor V. Claar and Greg Forster Making college expensive by making it free by Anne Rathbone Bradley Civil asset forfeiture: What you should know by Joe Carter The...

Review of Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin Press 2015). In the lead up to 1617, the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, a flood of celebratory and educational publications poured over Protestant Germany. These publications included sermons, plays, prayers, hymns and, of course, reprints of the works of Martin Luther. That the lead up to the Reformation’s five hundredth anniversary would be panied by an analogous flood of new books on...

Once men and women leave prison, they have few options and little hope. Edwins is working to change that. After someone has paid the price for their crime pleted a prison sentence, the difficulties of their life certainly don’t end there. In her research for When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry, Joan Petersilia found that nearly 75 percent of men and women remained jobless up to a year after release from prison. Department of Justice research found...

Tickling Giants (2017) tells how an edian found a way to fight against and call out abusive leaders using creative nonviolence. This new documentary directed and produced by Sara Taksler follows Dr. Bassem Youssef, the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” a heart surgeon turned edian who takes on Egyptian authority. It opens on Tahrir Square in Cairo, where protests have broken out against military control of the government. Youssef and a camera crew walk around talking to the fedup masses....

Anyone can fulfill an entrepreneurial vocation. Everyone today is a critic of “soulless” market economies and the machine-like view of economies taken by professional economists who, on the neo-classical side, think of that abstraction of humanity called homo economicus and, on the Keynesian side, see only aggregate views of supply and demand. Do we have to leave markets behind to find real flesh-and-blood humanpersons and allow them to flourish? Fr. John McNerney, an Irish priest who served as head...