How can say you serve the community if you pick and choose who gets your help? Groups must work together to solve a crisis that affects everybody, not just members of their own churches.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.22.2012
Jim Towey, the former director of George W. Bush’s Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, slapped that same office with a federal lawsuit an...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 12.12.2011
As he stumps and debates on the campaign trail from Iowa to South Carolina, Newt Gingrich has hinted at how his White House would approach faith. In a...
Charles Howard | Posted 01.01.2012
I visited a diverse group of individuals who were participating in The John Jay Institute's 2011-2012 Fellows Program -- a faith-based gap-year program which seeks to cultivate leaders for careers of principled service.
Roy Speckhardt | Posted 11.27.2011
No American should have to choose between invalidating their personal beliefs and going to jail. This choice is inhumane and discriminatory in addition to being unconstitutional.
Diana Mao | Posted 10.03.2011
Two men, Jonathan Walton and Max Lyons are working to break the misconception that the homeless are lazy, crazy, and harmful drug addicts.
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy | Posted 08.23.2011
Mr. President, it is time to restore religious freedom protections in federal contracts. I urge you, please, honor this historic anniversary by restoring the civil rights protections that began 70 years ago this week.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.12.2011
Divinity of Doubt will have no friends of the kind who want to be comfortable in a group, no ready-made groups looking to be further validated by the one-way bias that passes for communication these days.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.31.2011
It's near-impossible to imagine most Americans looking at the platform the Republican Party is pushing and thinking, "Yes! This is what I want my America to stand for. That's the party for me!"
Alex Blaze | Posted 05.25.2011
Federal money is being given to organizations that have "straight-only" and "pray like us only" hiring practices, but that's only a smaller skirmish in the larger war to take money out of the government's hands.
K. Hollyn Hollman | Posted 05.25.2011
It was not fast and it did not finish the job, but the Obama administration's executive order clarifying policies on government partnerships with faith-based organizations is important.
John Bridgeland | Posted 05.25.2011
A college education is the key to unlocking more economic progress and help is on the way from a powerful sector in America -- faith-based institutions.
Eboo Patel | Posted 05.25.2011
If the idea of faith as a bridge of cooperation is to win out, interfaith work has to expand from a small niche of enthusiasts to a social norm that involves everyone.
June Sarpong | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week I had the privilege of being asked to judge Tony Blair's Faith Foundation's Faith Shorts competition, which showcased films by young film makers on the theme of faith.
Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Theological Seminary program graduated hundreds of prisoners, many of whom are now social workers, pastors, prison reform advocates and educators. Few have ever returned to prison.
Rev. Barry Lynn | Posted 05.25.2011
The Council report and the process for faith-based reform are now back in the President Obama's hands. There should be no more studying, and no more delays.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
Jesus said that we should love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. I invited Beck to a civil and respectful conversation about the issues at stake here, but he has chosen a different path.
Eboo Patel | Posted 05.25.2011
The President sounded the call of history. "I suspect that someday in the future, we'll look back at this Faith Council as a model of how things should be done."
Peg Chemberlin | Posted 05.25.2011
As costs rise in nearly every aspect of life, low-income people are forced to bear an increasingly heavy yoke. And as long as our systems for determining who should receive aid are based on outdated models, these people have no hope for relief.
Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011
Since Clemmons was pardoned by Mike Huckabee, the presidential hopeful who has made fundamentalist religion the center of his politics, I couldn't help wondering if religion played a part.
Dr. Robert Aziz | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama is a man of faith, but not in a conventional sense of that notion. For Obama, spirituality has less to do with fixed belief than the good works that result from those beliefs.
Candace Gingrich-Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
When my brother Newt Gingrich attacks Harry Knox, he's attacking me. And I don't take too kindly to bullies.
CBN | Posted 05.25.2011
The Brody File has learned that conservative Evangelical groups will meet with the head of the White House Faith-Based Office on Tuesday. Concerned W...
Tony Campolo | Posted 05.25.2011
It may be that many leaders of faith-based social programs have sold their birthright for a bowl of pottage called federal dollars.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 11.17.2011
There is a church in Indiana which requires people taking advantage of the food kitchen and homeless shelter to also participate in the life of the church. In short hand - no religion, no food.
Carey Fuller | Posted 04.23.2012