Religious/Faith-Based
When We Speak about Terrorizing Immigrant Children
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Religious language of morality meets recent decisions designed to terrorize immigrant women and children.
Religious/Faith-Based
How to Pull Off a Mission Hijacking: The Case of the American Bible Society
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This story of the hijacking of a nonprofit mission provides a guide to how it’s done.
Liberty University
Non-Trump Evangelicals Provide Alternative, but It’s a Hard Row to Hoe
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Red Letter Christians seek to call evangelical Christians back to their biblical roots. “There is another Gospel in our country right now, and it is the Gospel of Trump,” preaches a group leader. “It doesn’t look much like the Gospel of Jesus.”
freedom of religion
When it Comes to Religious Freedom, Whose Rights Matter Most?
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Whose religious freedom takes precedence, the provider of services or the recipient? In his recent order transforming the Executive Branch’s Office Faith-Based and Neighborhood Initiatives into a new Faith and Opportunity Initiative, President Trump came down heavily on the side of service providers’ rights over those they serve. This ended a period of effective collaboration on balancing some very difficult issues.
Mormons
A Nonprofit Divorce: Boy Scouts of America and Mormon Church Call it Quits
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The Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon Church have had a century-long relationship that has served both well, but that will all end in 18 months, as many observers have long predicted might happen.
Religious/Faith-Based
Will Trump’s New Faith-Based Initiative Increase Services or Discrimination?
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Some see the new presidential order as strengthening important freedoms and the nation’s religious roots. Others say it does exactly the opposite.
municipal police departments
“Don’t Call the Police,” Urge Oakland Church Leaders
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A group of church leaders in California seeks alternatives to calling the police.
Religious/Faith-Based
Nonprofit Takes a Principled Stand against Donations That Exclude
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A nonprofit responds to a school board’s political screening of donations by teaching a lesson and providing an example of what they strive to teach children and young people.
Religious/Faith-Based
Looking for a “New Billy Graham” in the Age of Trump
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Whether a humble man of faith or an evangelical entrepreneur, whether as a witness to the truth or a sycophant who spoke agreeably to presidents in lieu of hard truths, there is no doubt that no one is likely to ever replace Billy Graham or repeat his singular trajectory.
Religious/Faith-Based
Is the Growth of Health Care Ministries a Blessing? The Problem of Inappropriate Scaling
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We rarely talk about the dangers of nonprofit growth, but the allure of “getting to scale” can negate some nonprofit missions very quickly.