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Southern students have a unique opportunity to attend Acton University, a conference with a wide range of speakers and topics on theology, liberty, economics, government, and more, while earning credit. Some conference scholarships are available. 
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Faculty Address with Os Guinness

“Impossible People: Facing Up to the Challenges
​of the Advanced Modern World”​
In this lecture, Os Guinness discusses how the U.S. is facing its gravest crisis since the Civil War.
Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. 
More from Dr. Guinness:
Video Archive
Osguinness.com

Lecture Lunch with R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

"Work to the Glory of God"
Economics and work exist to glorify God, according to R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in a lecture for the school’s Commonweal Project.
Speaking from Genesis 1:28 and  Genesis 3, Mohler explained how labor and work point to and fulfill God’s creation mandate. Labor brings about plenitude from poverty, he said, and Christians work to supply life-giving resources. Humans are to work, knowing that only God, though, creates perfectly and gives abundantly and infinitely. So Christians are to labor knowing that “our wealth is for kingdom expansion,” Mohler said. ​(news.sbts.edu | RuthAnne Irvin)
More from Dr. Mohler:
The Meaning of Work (audio)
Economics as a Moral Enterprise: Interview with Arthur Brooks (audio)
Leisure and Labor - Two Gifts from God (essay)
Fair Trade, Free Trade, and Coffee Trade (essay)
Albertmohler.com

Helpful Resources


The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Oikonomia Network
Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics
​The Gospel Coalition: Faith & Work
Acton Institute
Poverty Cure​
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The Land Center
American Enterprise Institute
Heritage Foundation
Values & Capitalism
What's Best Next: Faith, Leadership, and Work
The Poverty of Nations
The Gospel at Work
The Kern Family Foundation
Center for Faith and Work
Faculty Portal

The Commonweal Project is part of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ken Magnuson, PhD, Director | David Kotter, PhD, Research Director | Zachariah Carter, Managing Assistant | Jerrica Baxter, Administrative Assistant​

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