Rachel Ferguson

Dec 2, 2024 | acton.org | Rachel Ferguson

Many of our best thinkers on poverty alleviation—Marvin Olasky, Bob Lupton, Brian Fikkert, John Perkins, Bob Woodson—have described a form of charity that makes a strong distinction between emergency situations and chronic ones. They’ve used many terms for how to handle chronic poverty, but let’s call it neighborhood stabilization.

Nov 19, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Rachel Ferguson

As an unofficial member of “Weird Christian Twitter,” I had kept up fairly well with the onslaught of pastoral sex scandals this past summer. It was only a peek into an otherwise quite active stream of controversy over how abuse cases had been handled (or just ignored) by prominent evangelical leaders, from the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and from John MacArthur to Doug Wilson.

Apr 1, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Rachel Ferguson

David L. Bahnsen’s new book, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, proposes a counterintuitive, if not contrarian, thesis. An extremely successful businessman (his firm, The Bahnsen Group, manages over $5 billion in assets) and a bona fide nerd who loves to write about faith, politics, and economics, Bahnsen argues that we’re not overworked—we’re underworked. We don’t need more advice on achieving work-life balance; we need to push for hard work and standards of excellence.

Feb 13, 2024 | rlo.acton.org | Rachel Ferguson

Political polarization is the watchword in this cultural moment. Family members and friends are estranged over everything from Trump to transgenderism. We seem strangely obsessed with the news and even rally our children as public mascots for our various causes. The second-wave feminists used to say that everything is political, and though I’ve never believed it, I suppose declaring it so has had a kind of self-fulfilling effect. There’s not much left now that feels like a private part of life.

Feb 11, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Rachel Ferguson |Dylan Pahman |Samuel Benson |Hannah Long

Extending the arm of the state is the wrong way to shape obedient hearts. By and Published February 11, 2024  • Updated February 12, 2024 Last month Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, a pastor and self-identified Christian nationalist, filed bills to legally prohibit sexting outside of marriage and forbid “no-fault” divorce.