Past Events

Please purchase tickets at the door, as online registration is closed. You are cordially invited to an evening of wonder and entertainment to celebrate Acton Institute’s premiere of:

Hidden No More: Exposing Human Trafficking in West Michigan will examine the pervasive problem of human trafficking, how widespread it is in our state (and beyond), and how the West Michigan community can respond to this crime which too often goes unreported. Human trafficking affects our economy, public safety and is an assault on human dignity, cutting across racial, political and religious divides.

How often does one get a glimpse into the life of a monastic nun from the 12th century? International mezzo soprano Linn Maxwell presents her new play, Hildegard of Bingen and the Living Light, about the 12th century German Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was moreover the first known woman composer.

We have received greater than anticipated interest for this premiere and have closed registration as the theatre is full. Click here if you would like information on the second premiere of FLOW in Grand Rapids. We'll send out information once the details are final. You are cordially invited to an evening of wonder and entertainment to celebrate Acton Institute’s premiere of:

The purpose of this conference is to explore the idea of “social justice” and compare and evaluate it against the understanding this concept now evokes in contemporary debates about justice and political order. The all-encompassing claims made on behalf of social justice in these debates often translate into calls for the reduction of personal liberty and a concomitant increase in state power to distribute material goods and the resources of private enterprise in common.

Founded in 1997 as a training facility for military and police, Blackwater grew under the guidance of former CEO and founder Erik Prince into one of the most respected and the most infamous military contractors, and whose work for the CIA, State Department, and Department of Defense, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, has received unparalleled public scrutiny.

James Madison called religious liberty the “lustre of our country” and a guaranteed right that is free from political authority. But some politicians are trying to redefine religious freedom in America, preferring instead to call it “freedom of worship.” The implication is that you are free to say and believe what you want as long as it is confined inside the walls of the houses of worship.

Written in 1563, the Heidelberg Catechism originated in one of the few pockets of Calvinistic faith in the Lutheran and Catholic territories of Germany. Conceived originally as a teaching instrument to promote religious unity in the Palatinate, the catechism soon became a guide for preaching as well.

Please join Acton, the Transatlantic Christian Council, the Colson Center and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for the Inaugural Conference for the Transatlantic Christian Council in Brussels, Belgium on December 4, 2013. Rev. Robert A. Sirico, on behalf of Acton Institute, will be moderating a panel at this event.

Amity Shlaes delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and left office with a federal budget small than the one he inherited.