Over the last five-and-a-half years, I’ve served as the executive editor of the Acton Institute. In a sense, this fulfilled a very young man’s dream. I remember the joy I felt when I read about the founding of the Acton Institute in 1990. My father, an accountant, explained elementary economic truths to me at a young age, so I grew up seeing the laws of economics prevail over bankrupt, if well-meaning, theories time and again. As a teen, I had a subscription to FEE’s journal, The Freeman. When I learned that a new institute intended to connect the truths of economics to my newly rekindled faith, I marked it as an organization to watch.
I connected with Acton when I was the managing editor of another publication and I commissioned an article from Fr. Robert Sirico on liberation theology. In 2010, I drove across Michigan to see Jordan Ballor give a dazzlingly insightful presentation at an “Acton on Tap” event at a Grand Rapids bar. Two years later, I was invited to attend Acton University. The rest, as they say, is history – and so, too, now is this chapter of my professional life. I’ve decided I must step away from my work with Acton.
Far beyond asking you for anything more, I want to thank you, our readers, for all you’ve given me. Thank you for the privilege of sharing my thoughts and inspirations with you for all these years … and for sharing yours with me. God bless you all, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
