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Recommended Post-Reformation Day Reading
In connection with the worldwide celebrations of the quincentenary of John Calvin’s birth in 2009, the Acton Institute BookShoppe recently made available a limited stock of the hard-to-find Light for...
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Celebrate Martin Luther King Day With The Birth of Freedom Film
The Birth of Freedom opens and closes with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. King appealed to Americans to live out the true meaning of this nation’s creed that all men are...
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The Birth of Freedom Documentary Airs Sunday on Detroit Public TV
Acton Media’s second documentary makes its public television debut Sunday, May 2, with a 3-4 p.m. airing on Detroit Public Television (HD channel 56.1). The film trailer is here. Update: Michigan PBS...
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Rev. Sirico: Don’t devalue Christian heritage
In a new column in the Detroit News, Rev. Robert A. Sirico warns of a “cultural shift which would reject Christian revelation’s role in the forming of American and Western civilization.” Read more on...
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The Birth of Freedom Comes to PBS for Independence Day
Acton’s The Birth of Freedom comes to six PBS stations this Independence Day weekend, and AEI’s Enterprise blog has a good post about the Christian foundations of American freedom and The Birth of...
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The Birth of Freedom Curriculum: YouTube Trailer and Pre-Order
Here is the new trailer for the 7-part Birth of Freedom DVD Curriculum, created by Acton Media and released next month by Zondervan. You can pre-order the curriculum at the Acton Book Shoppe. Read more...
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Work and Western Civilization
Leading up to next week’s Labor Day holiday we’ve been reflecting on the nature of work the last few days. Today I’d like to conclude this little series with a note on the relationship between work and...
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Review: Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers began Witness, the classic account of his time in the American Communist underground, with the declaration: “In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.” The line was...
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Last Chance to Register!
Is the “secular vs. sacred” worldview struggle just another first-world problem? Join us in a discussion of this topic in the AU Online series Freedom and Virtue in the Developed World. The first...
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Work as Service and Servant
I recently pondered what might come of the global economy if we were to to put God at the forefront of our motives and decision-making. The question came as a reaction to Tim Keller, whose recent book...
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Babel Inverted: The Power and Promise of Pentecost
Over at First Things, Peter Leithart uses the occasion of Pentecost as a launching pad for highlighting the primary theme of his latest book: “The West has been busy building neo-Babel” and the time is...
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Is FDR’s D-Day Prayer Now Considered Partisan?
Our changing culture and society has now largely pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s notable and resolute prayer over to the side of partisan politics. Today is of course the 69th anniversary of...
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Revival, Calvin Coolidge, and Recovering America’s Foundations
Often many on the political right believe that reform or change in the country is just one election or another president away. Some declare another Ronald Reagan can fix America’s problems, but...
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Reformation and the Need for Truth
Luther before the Diet of Worms in 1521.Martin Luther “did more than any single man to make modern history the development of revolution,” declared Lord Acton. (Lectures on Modern History) The...
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Richard Weaver on Liberty and Christianity
Painting of ‘Render Unto Caesar’ by Peter Paul Rubens.Richard Weaver, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th Century, and author of Ideas Have Consequences, published an essay in the early 1960s on...
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TCC: Lessons in Liberty & Restraint
Dan Clements, an American student studying at the University of Leuven, and I help greet conference attendeesLast week, an exciting new organization called the Transatlantic Christian Council (TCC)...
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A Cultural Case for Capitalism: Part 1 of 12
The West has made some remarkable steps forward culturally in the past several generations, as, for instance, in the areas of civil rights (the unborn being a notable exception), race relations, and...
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A Cultural Case for Capitalism: Part 5 of 12 — Capitalism from Christendom
[Part 1 is here.]A common reading of Western history holds that the principles of the free economy grew out of the secular Enlightenment and had little to do with Christianity. This is mistaken. The...
View ArticleJohn Stonestreet doesn’t want to talk about sex
On the latest edition of Radio Free Acton, John Stonestreet, the President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, joins Marc Vander Maas to talk about the current cultural and moral malaise of...
View ArticleVideo: John Stonestreet on the gospel in a culture of identity crisis
The changes in western culture over the past decades reflect a major shift in how we think of the nature of reality and, in particular, the human person. In light of these changes, how is the Church to...
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