With over 24 books to her credit, renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Vaughn is out with her second volume on the life and work of Elisabeth Elliot, the noted Christian author, speaker, and philosopher who died in 2015 after a 10-year struggle with dementia. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Foreign interference inquiry, sanctions and peacemaking, and an important Ukraine update
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE – GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES PUBLIC INQUIRY On 7 September 2023 the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, Dominic LeBlanc, announced the establishment of a Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions. As the Minister himself noted: The announcement of this inquiry follows extensive consultations Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article
Baseball at the Abyss
On June 16, some 2,000 people gathered outside Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium to protest the team’s having chosen to honor, on the field before that night’s game, a group whose core mission and purpose is the open mockery and parody of Catholicism. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
What Does the Bible Really Teach?
Protestants classically believe in sola scriptura, but they also know that some Protestants have conjured exotic beliefs based on appeals to the Bible alone. At a Baptist church where I was once a leader, the pastor and I were working to explain why a person who denied the Trinity could not be a member. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Student Loans and the Sin of Usury
A new school year has just begun, and students and their parents are faced once again with the high cost of higher education. The Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s executive order on student loan forgiveness unconstitutional. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
When the Church Becomes the State
Until a few years ago, I was not even familiar with the term “integralism,” which refers to the Catholic political doctrine that calls for the subordination of the state to the church. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Ukraine diplomacy, the nuclear testing taboo, Canada and Saudi arms exports and more
UKRAINE UPDATE: INCHING TOWARD DIPLOMACY Belfer Centre’s 3 Things to Know The Belfer Centre , as part of its ongoing detailed analysis of the Ukraine conflict, outlines “3 Things to Know” in its Russia in Review, Aug. 18-25, 2023. The first relates to the death of Evgeny Prigozhin, his top military commander Dmitry Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article
Three Years After Chinese Communist Crackdown, Hong Kong Continues to Suffer
At the end of August, the Hong Kong government charged a Cantonese language group with “threatening national security.” The latter had posted online an essay, cast in the form of fiction, that emphasized the city’s loss of liberty. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Hope and Opportunity for Formerly Incarcerated Women
Each year, over 80,000 women are released from state prisons. Within five years, around half of these women are predicted to return. Most of them experienced childhoods sabotaged by violence, sexual abuse, trauma, and broken families. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
“Rich Men North of Richmond” Is Whatever You Want It to Be
A song addressing such salient political issues as currency debasement, the displacement of miners in our green economy, and the Fudge Rounds Question achieved a feat Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” and Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” could not. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Negotiating with a Domestic Extremist
Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War by Peachy Keenan—a pseudonym used by a seriously Catholic humorist deep in the bowels of blue California—is a heated polemic about how feminism has failed women and how they can take back their lives and femininity from a twisted culture. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute
Reality sets in on Ukraine, a deep dive into Israel and international law, Ottawa lantern ceremony and more!
UKRAINE UPDATE We begin with the latest Belfer Centre Report Card on the Russia-Ukraine War The Russia-Ukraine War Report Card, Aug. 22, 2023 Belfer Russia-Ukraine War Task Force August 22 update: Territorial stalemate…. Net territorial change in the past month: No significant change. Window for earlier peace talks missed Turning next to the Russia Analytical Report, Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article
