Thriving Churches Conference Speakers
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Dr. Vincent BacoteAssociate Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College Dr. Vincent Bacote is an Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. He is the author of the The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (Baker Academic: 2005), and has contributed to books such as Keep Your Head Up (2012) and Prophetic Evangelicals (2012) and is a regular columnist for Comment. He has also had articles appear in magazines such as Books & Culture, Christianity Today and re:generation quarterly and journals such as Christian Scholar's Review, Urban Mission and the Journal for Christian Theological Research. |
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Dr. Anthony BradleyAssociate Professor of Theology and Ethics, The King’s College Dr. Anthony Bradley is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at The King’s College in New York City and serves as a Research Fellow at Acton. He is the author of Liberating Black Theology (2010), Black and Tired (2011), The Political Economy of Liberation (2012) and editor of Keep Your Head Up (2012). Dr. Bradley has been featured on C-SPAN, NPR, CNN, and Fox News, among others. |
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Mr. Rudy CarrascoManaging Director, Two Forty Group Rodolpho Carrasco served for two decades in an incarnational urban youth ministry in the Los Angeles metro. His work in applying private charity principles among the urban poor has been covered by Christianity Today (Where Faith and Culture Meet DVD series) and the Heritage Foundation (Seek Social Justice DVD series). Articles by and about Carrasco have appeared in Discipleship Journal, Pasadena Star-News, and Outreach Magazine. He's an advisory board member of the Christian Community Development Association and a board member of World Vision U.S. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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Dr. Victor ClaarProfessor of Economics, Henderson State University Dr. Victor V. Claar (Ph.D., West Virginia University) is a professor of economics at Henderson, the public liberal arts college of Arkansas, where he specializes in teaching principles of economics courses. He is also coauthor of Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices. Prior to arriving at Henderson, he was an associate professor, for nine years at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He spent the 2006-07 academic year as a Fulbright scholar, giving graduate lectures and conducting research at the American University of Armenia. His research interests include transnational entrepreneurial attitudes, ethics and economics, and applied microeconomics. He has written articles for Applied Economics, Public Finance Review and the Journal of Markets & Morality, among others. Dr. Claar recently wrote a book on fair trade for the Acton Institute, entitled Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution. |
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Rev. Robert A. SiricoPresident, The Acton Institute Fr. Robert Sirico has been active in public policy affairs for more than twenty years. His concern that religious communities knew little about the economic issues surrounding today's social problems prompted him to found the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in 1990. Father Sirico regularly lectures both in this country and around the world, and his writings have appeared in various journals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, National Review, The London Financial Times, and Crisis. In addition to his duties at the Acton Institute, he serves on the staff of Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Grand Rapids and is the founder of a new religious community, St. Philip Neri House, also in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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