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By Joe Carter
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”
The mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles. We seek to articulate a vision of society that is both free and virtuous, the end of which is…
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By Joseph Sunde
The following flowchart comes from “Theology That Works,” a 60-page manifesto on discipleship and economic work. The document was written by Greg Forster and published by the Oikonomia Network, a “learning community of theological educators and evangelical seminaries” whose “mission is to prepare future pastors to connect biblical…
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By Scott Rae
Work has intrinsic value because it was ordained by God prior to the entrance of sin into the world. If you look at the Genesis account of creation closely, you’ll see that God commanded Adam and Eve to work the garden before sin entered the picture (Gen. 2:15). God did not condemn human beings to work as a consequence Adam and Eve’s…
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By Joseph Sunde
Teaching our children about the value and virtues of hard work and sound stewardship is an important part of parenting, and in a privileged age where opportunity and prosperity sometimes come rather easily, such lessons can be hard to come by.
In an effort to instill such virtues in my own young children, I’ve taken to a variety…
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By Anthony Bradley
One of the great misconceptions about Christian higher education is that Christian colleges are places where Christian young adults go to withdraw from “the world.” A closer look at some historical roots of Christian colleges prove otherwise.
For example, in the work of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), the Dutch pastor, theologian…
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By Joseph Sunde
In For the Life of the World, we explore the shape of healthy Christian engagement across cultural spheres, asking what it looks like to be in but not of the world. Looking more closely at the “human factor” that underlies all of this, the Acton Institute’s PovertyCure series offers a fitting complement.
We are made in the image…
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