Putting kids first in regulating foster care and adoption agencies

Putting kids first in regulating foster care and adoption agencies

This week the Heritage Foundation released an important background paper, “Adoption, Foster Care, and Conscience Protection,” by Sarah Torre and Ryan Anderson. In the US…

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Global religious restrictions rising

Here’s how the new edition of the important global religious freedom study from the Pew Research Center was announced: “The share of countries with a…

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Faith-based preK and government funding

Faith-based preK and government funding

The huge–it’s called “omnibus”–appropriations bill that passed the House and Senate this week includes an increase in federal spending for preK education, although apparently not…

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Equal protection is only individualistic?

Equal protection is only individualistic?

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that the state’s definition of marriage as one man and one woman is a violation of…

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Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Comments on Religious Exemptions in SSM Laws

Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Comments on Religious Exemptions in SSM Laws

In a Christianity Today Online post, Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies commented on the importance of religious exemptions in same-sex marriage laws. You can find the article…

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Faith-based services and the War on Poverty

Faith-based services and the War on Poverty

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies wrote an editorial for the National Review Online. In this article, he…

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HHS mandate court action–on steroids!

It is harder and harder to keep up! Lawsuits keep being filed, or refiled, by religious nonprofit organizations and by companies of conviction. And court…

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White House

How charitable is charitable giving?

Before Christmas, Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and now a distinguished professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley,…

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Promoting religious freedom = promoting religious privilege?

The proliferating religious freedom fights these days are really just efforts by people and organizations of faith to impose their values on others. That was…

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Should it be illegal for Catholic hospitals to be Catholic?

Should it be illegal for Catholic hospitals to be Catholic?

It’s a tragic case, where a pregnant Michigan woman apparently did not get the best medical care from a Catholic hospital in her crisis. But…

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