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Kresta in the Afternoon – June 25, 2024 – Hour 1

We’re broadcasting from Acton University, talking with Ismael Hernandez about hope for the inner city and Michael Matheson Miller about the Christian view of the Human person in society.

 

The Christian Vision of the Person and Society

CS Lewis writes that “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” Michael Miller joins us to discuss the characteristics that make up the Human person and the human person’s role in a Christian society.

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Michael Matheson Miller is Chief of Strategic Initiatives and Senior Research Fellow at the Acton Institute. He is the Director and Producer of the award-winning documentary, Poverty, Inc. the PovertyCure DVD Series, and The Good Society Series, and was the founding director of PovertyCure, which promotes entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in the developing world. He writes and speaks extensively on the intersection between moral philosophy and theology and economics, poverty, entrepreneurship, and culture.

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When Liberty and Authority Collide

We talk with Jason Negri about the necessity of having serious conversations about democracy, freedom and human dignity in light of national and international governmental authority.

Jason Negri received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Franciscan University and his law degree as a member of the inaugural class of Ave Maria School of Law. He is a practicing attorney and the elected Treasurer of Hamburg Township in Michigan. He is a member of Holy Spirit Church in Brighton, where he sings in the choir and chairs the parish council. He is also the founder and executive director of the Daniel Coalition, an organization of laity formed to advocate for victims of clerical sexual abuse in the Diocese of Lansing. He and his wife Samantha have 5 children and 3 grandchildren (with two more on the way).

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The Inner city and the Inner Man

American inner cities have been plagued by a set of problems that seem intractable. As we study inner-city life, we are often confronted with the same questions: What is poverty? How can we attend to it? And are these even the right questions to ask regarding the condition of poverty? We examine these questions with Ismael Hernandez.

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Ismael Hernandez is a contributor to the new book Race and Justice in America: The Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter and the Way Forward. He is founder and president of The Freedom & Virtue Institute, which exists to challenge the paternalistic, condescending, and statist way of attending to the problems of poverty in America. His writings have appeared in various newspapers, including the Washington Times, as well as such magazines as Crisis and World. He is the author of the book Not Tragically Colored: Freedom, Personhood, and the Renewal of Black America.

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