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View Post: Fix The 'Faith-Based' Initiative: Americans Oppose Hiring Bias In ...
18 Nov 2009 by Ilana Stern  
In July of 2008 while on the campaign trail, Obama pledged to revamp the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He explicitly stated that his office would disallow taxpayer-funded evangelism and discriminatory hiring policies ...
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View Post: Resolution on religious liberty and faith-based initiatives « We ...
17 Nov 2009 by John  
Whereas government funding of churuch-based social ministries through the Faith-Based Initiatives program has in some cases resulted in direct government support of distinctively religious activities in violation of the principle of ...
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View Post: Keeping 'Faith' in Faith-Based Initiatives
20 Nov 2009 by aeaissues  
In December 2008, faith-based initiatives were incorporated into the federal government as an “effort to increase federal support for smaller social-service groups, particularly religious ones” (Lew). From 1990 to 2007, welfare-to-work ...
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View Post: D.C. vs. the Catholic Church: A Faith-Based Train Wreck ...
19 Nov 2009 by Jeffrey Weiss  
Almost a decade ago, when President George W. Bush spun up his "faith-based initiative," the idea took heavy fire from unexpected quarters -- unexpected, anyway, if you weren't paying close attention. Several leaders of the Southern ...
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View Post: Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog: Prosperity Gospel unmasked: 11-25-09
24 Nov 2009 by Bill Tammeus  
And, Will, how would changing the name of the program "faith-based initiatives" to "neighborhood-based initiatives" equal the government taking your money without representing you? Don't you live in a neighborhood? ...
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View Post: Faith-based initiative
18 Nov 2009 by Buttermilk Sky  
When a psychiatrist (that's a shrink who's been to medical school) becomes so unhinged that he can see no alternative to mass murder, everyone wants to know why. The last I heard, Nadal Hasan was still in the ICU, but everyone already ...
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View Post: Prezbyter: 21st CENTURY FAITH BASED INITIATIVE
25 Oct 2009 by Prezbyter  
These are three of many examples of faith in action. Faith based initiative if you'll indulge me. They are cogent representations of humankind's unyielding capacity to accept that which appeals to us in direct contravention to reality, ...
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