Acton Institute
The Mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles. Founded in April, 1990, the Acton Institute is named in honor of John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902), 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham and the historian of freedom. Known as “the magistrate of history,” Lord Acton was one of the great personalities of the nineteenth century. Widely considered one of the most learned Englishmen of his time, Lord Acton made the history of liberty his life’s work. Indeed, his most notable conclusion of this work is that political liberty is the essential condition and guardian of religious liberty. He thereby points to the union of faith and liberty, which has been the inspiration for the mission of the Acton Institute.www.acton.org
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Oct 1, 2026
Herman PoppleberryHOST
There's one more thread I want to pull, because it's the one I keep circling.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The Acton Institute made an argument that the Puritan drive for moral reform and self-improvement wasn't original to them at all.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It was inherited from Renaissance Christian humanism, Erasmus, Cicero.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Their line was, if people today dislike the Puritans so much,
JustinHOST
Uh, Trevor writes, speaks.
JustinHOST
He's a bird, he's a plane, and he's also the pastor of St. Luke Lutheran in Lansing, Michigan, an affiliate scholar with the Acton Institute, serves as an adjunct prof of theology at Concordia University in Irvine, California.
JustinHOST
Today, we're gonna be talk...
JustinHOST
Today, we're gonna be talking about time.
Robert SiricoGUEST
So I think more can be said about that as well.
Ed KlessHOST
I suspect you may have been listening to an Acton Institute podcast where they discussed this in Mackinac Island, where you could still get a job as a stable boy in Mackinac Island.
Ed KlessHOST
See,
Robert SiricoGUEST
okay, good, good.
Mike HernonHOST
What they might have that is not meant for themselves.
Mike HernonHOST
You know, there was this, um- Uh, Acton Institute did this great, and I won't go too deep into this, but did this great little, uh, story, uh, The Ungiving Tree, you know?
Alicia HernonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Mike HernonHOST
And it was the, the typical giving tree.