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Faith

The Pope’s Half-Truth

| December 4, 2013 | Faith

Last Tuesday, Pope Francis turned heads by denouncing capitalism in his first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (starting on page 45): [S]ome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

The Importance of a Rightly Ordered Life: A Review of Jordan Ballor’s “Get Your Hands Dirty”

| November 22, 2013 | Faith

In his recent release, “Get Your Hands Dirty,” Jordan Ballor of the Acton Institute lays out a clear case for why Christians ought to have rightly ordered lives and what that might look like. While the book took shape around a collection of essays, this message was as...
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Jacqueline Isaacs
Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

Secular Humanism: A Hopeful Farce

| November 15, 2013 | Faith

A quickly growing demographic, atheists and others who deny religious faith are starting to organize. One website, LivingWithoutReligion.org, praises those who have joined the club, citing “an increase of 5% in just 5 years!” In fact, the organization has started to...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

The City’s Welfare: Our Vocation in Exile

| November 7, 2013 | Faith

Last weekend, I visited the John Jay Institute where I studied last fall. Somewhat providentially, during a session of Morning Prayer we discovered that the day’s scripture passage was Jeremiah 29: 4-14, which as many of you know reads: This is what the Lord Almighty,...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.