Based on a nation-wide survey, this text examines the implications of the financial relationship between church and state, whereby hundreds of millions of public dollars flow annually to religiously based non-profit organizations in America.
Based on a nation-wide survey, this text examines the implications of the financial relationship between church and state, whereby hundreds of million...
A front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, including faith-based social service organizations. In the wake of President Bush's faith-based initiative, many are still wondering about the effectiveness of these faith-based organizations in providing services to those in need, and whether they provide better outcomes than more traditional government, secular nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. In Faith, Hope, and Jobs, Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper study the effectiveness...
A front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, includ...
Do today's believers know how to be not simply good citizens but good Christian citizens? Are they ready to respond to contemporary public policy issues such as genocide, global AIDS, global warming, and human trafficking according to Scripture rather than any particular political agenda? A growing segment of them are, even if they aren't quite sure how to accomplish it. This book is for them.
With American evangelicals having more political influence today than ever before, this book is especially important. The opening chapters establish the foundational biblical...
Do today's believers know how to be not simply good citizens but good Christian citizens? Are they ready to respond to contemporary public...
Church-state relations are becoming more and more critical. Deepening controversies over church-state relations, the increasing religious pluralism of American society, and the changing makeup of the Supreme Court are forcing a rethinking of approaches to church and state in the public policy realm. Stephen Monsma offers a new approach rooted in structural pluralism as a normative way to understand church-state relations. He suggests that the government should use a principle of positive neutrality in handling church-state relations. He integrates historical, theoretical, social, and legal...
Church-state relations are becoming more and more critical. Deepening controversies over church-state relations, the increasing religious pluralism...
Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and icons in rooms where government-subsidized services are provided, and the enforcement of gay civil rights to which some faith-based organizations object all continue to be subjects of intense debate and numerous court cases. In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen Monsma...
Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, h...
