Sacred music is not only a devotional exercise composed and performed to honor our Creator but also a bulwark against human sinfulness and frailties. Composer Arvo Pärt has been creating

Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them’; and it was so.” –Genesis 1:11 Thus

I don’t take sides. I just gather facts and if people don’t like my work they just don’t like the facts. –Edith Penrose Economist Edith Penrose helped bridged the gap between economics and

A collection of short essays by Acton writers, click a link to jump to that article: Free trade and Brexit can help Africa flourish by Ibrahim B. Anoba French strike for the right to retire

We lead the Spring 2018 issue of Religion & Liberty with Rev. Ben Johnson’s eye-opening feature about the global scourge of child marriage. “Child marriage offends the Western moral

On an afternoon three years ago, Sheskalo Pandey bounded through her front door to receive a life-changing message from her parents: She was going to be married. They thought their daughter

An environmental policy expert explains difficulties with environmental concerns and gives examples of the triumphs and failures we, as a society, have made to protect the earth. "Science”

Property rights, conservation and “social value” You’ve spent the better part of a lifetime restoring, building and continually improving a prime piece of ranch land just outside Bozeman

I grew up in Brooklyn, an environment that was decidedly urban yet dotted here and there with parks and green spaces. So it should come as no surprise that it took me at least a couple of

The recent papal encyclical Laudato si’ would have been a more rounded document if it had considered the importance of private property for the protection of the environment. A stark example

"A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.”

“ Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.” Aldo Leopold, in “The River of the Mother of God.” In December, several dozen