Chelsea Langston President Obama delivered his final State of the Union on January 12, 2016. Several times he pointed to potential areas of cooperation between…
Stanley Carlson-Thies When Congress in 2014 reauthorized the federal program that subsidizes child care for low-income families (the Child Care and Development Block Grant), it…
Stanley Carlson-Thies In August 2016, it will be fully five years since the federal government announced that employer health plans must cover all contraceptives, including…
Why Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers is also a Women’s Rights Issue
Chelsea Langston On the last day of 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to enjoin a recently passed California state statute called the…
Stanley Carlson-Thies On January 19, 2016, IRFA and other religious organizations filed a comment on proposed regulations from the US Department of Housing and Urban…
by Stanley Carlson-Thies “No Child Left Behind,” the well-intentioned but increasingly criticized federal law for elementary and secondary education, was replaced on December 10, 2015,…
by Chelsea Langston Free to Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations (Brazos Press) made an immediate splash when it was published in October,…
by Chelsea Langston Recurring news stories about challenges to the employment practices of faith-based organizations are a reminder of the urgent need for ministries to…
Stanley Carlson-Thies Faith-based organizations, as their name suggests, may serve and operate somewhat differently than their secular counterparts. The legitimacy of such differences are often…