Unlike social services like job training and placement, day care or medical assistance, such drug and prison programs are not merely faith-based, they are faith-infused. It is not accidental that so many prison programs are called “Ministries.”
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Social Responsibility, Accountability and U.S. Welfare Reform: The Context of America’s Faith Based
Accountability is problematic when there is not clarity of expectations or agreed-upon goals, and that lack of clarity has long been a characteristic of social welfare in the United States.
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Writing as Thinking
Until you can express a thought clearly and cogently, that thought does not yet exist.
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On Intellectual Freedom
Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a librarian involved professionally with issues of intellectual freedom. “Sometimes,” she said, “I get so tired of it. I wonder why I continue to fight.” I’ve thought about that conversation several times; if I could do an instant replay, I think I would tell her that I know why she keeps at it. It’s because it is so important.
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Choice for Me But Not for Thee
Passage of the “Charitable Choice” provisions of welfare reform in 1996, and the more recent publicity surrounding President Bush’s “Faith Based Initiative” have focused renewed public attention on the delicate relationship between church and state, and between politics and religion.
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