After months of work, President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships has sent him a list of proposals on revamping the White House’s faith-based program. The proposals will also set priorities for the office and will renew debate — and media coverage — of this controversial initiative.
Religious differences are increasingly complicating child custody cases and are fueling a growing number of news stories. A generation ago, mothers almost always were granted custody and deemed responsible for most aspects of a child’s upbringing. Today these responsibilities are split more evenly between parents, and religion increasingly is a flash point.
Religion was at the forefront as the U.S. Supreme Court began its new term this week. Justices heard arguments and seemed divided Wednesday over whether a cross in a national preserve violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
As the presidential primaries head into overdrive, endorsements by religious leaders are adding interesting twists to an already fascinating election season – and in some cases drawing the attention of watchdog groups. Although 70 percent of registered voters say it’s inappropriate for clergy to speak publicly on behalf of or against a specific candidate, politicians [...]
Biographers, historians and constitutional lawyers have been kept busy for more than 200 years trying to determine exactly what America’s founders said, did and meant. That debate is especially alive on the subject of the founders’ faith: What did they mean by religion? What faiths did they believe and practice? Scholars have tried to understand [...]
Church-state issues are among the most contentious and emotional issues in American life. Dozens are currently testing the bounds of the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Exercise clauses: school vouchers; government funding of faith-based social services; the role of faith in the public lives of judges, elected officials, legislators, pharmacists, doctors and lawyers; and the [...]
When the preacher’s pulpit turns into a political pulpit, plenty of people are listening – and ready to report what they hear to the Internal Revenue Service. In recent years, a number of churches and religious organizations have been referred to the IRS for violating the provisions of their federal tax-exempt status by allegedly trying [...]
Since President Bush established the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001, similar offices have been opened in eight federal departments, two federal agencies, 30 state governments and dozens of cities. The government’s effort to provide more opportunities for religious organizations to receive federal funding for social services has generated thousands of pages in [...]
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