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Religious Freedom in China
Do economic, political, and religious freedom go together? Rodney Stark, writing in his recent book The Victory of Reason, says that “It seems doubtful than an effective modern economy can be created...
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Wind Power: Not So Novel After All
How different is this… In a recent WSJ story, “A Novel Way to Reduce Home Energy Bills,” Sara Schaefer Muñoz writes about the possibility of adding windmills to homes in order to cut down on the cost...
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Birth of Freedom Shorts Series: What happened to China’s Industrial Revolution?
Acton Media’s seventh Birth of Freedom short features Rodney Stark, author of The Victory of Reason. In the video, he discusses the question “Why didn’t China have an industrial revolution before the...
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Finding the Balance: Privacy and the Civil Society
This week’s commentary by Rev. Gregory Jensen. Sign up for Acton News & Commentary here. Finding the Balance: Privacy and the Civil Society by Rev. Gregory Jensen Privacy in our culture has come to...
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Review: AEI’s Common Sense Concept Series
Over the last several years I find myself more and more being drawn into conversation about religion—specifically, Orthodox Christianity—and economics. Originally, my interest in the economic side of...
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Integrating Evangelism and Social Action Across Culture
In the recent issue of Reject Apathy, an off-shoot publication of RELEVANT Magazine, Tim Hoiland explores what he believes to be a tension between “serving justice” and “saving souls”: This [young]...
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Christianity and the ‘Triumph of Modernity’
Samuel Gregg recently reviewed Rodney Stark’s new book, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity. Gregg begins by pointing out that discussion of Medieval Europe “is invariably...
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The Crusades, Because Sometimes You Just Need A Picture
No doubt the Crusades have a long and complex history. Today, debate over exactly what the Crusades were about and why they were fought still continues. Thankfully, you now have a simple picture to...
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