A review of Charles Bracelin Flood's Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year (Da Capo Press, October 2012) ISBN: 978- 0306821516. Hardcover, 320 pages; $27.50.
But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego - who pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.
Three hundred years after Plato and Aristotle wrestled with the idea and constitution of the just regime, God incarnate arrived on Earth and added very close to nothing. Christ did tell us to "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's," and we can certainly glean principles from New Testament teaching.
Angola Prison will probably always carry a mystique because it's wrapped around a violent and brutal history. The front entrance to the massive prison grounds has a sign from Philippians 3:13, "Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead."
We have always been fortunate to attract talented and religiously diverse interns at the Acton Institute. The talent we are able to bring in spans the globe and consists of students from some of the best universities and seminaries in the world. It is a privilege to introduce these students and young scholars to Acton's understanding of Christian anthropology and the morality of free-market economics. Interns have been invaluable to assisting our staff and expanding our operations and reach across the world.
The decline in religious life has had pernicious effects on American culture more broadly. At the same time that most nuns were abandoning their habits and some priests their collars, we saw rising drug use and skyrocketing rates of divorce