Government Partnerships With Faith-Based Organizations: Looking Back, Moving Forward
President Barack Obama's White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships plans to expand partnerships
between the government and faith-based and community organizations. What lessons can be learned from the
preceding eight years of the faith-based initiative under President George W. Bush? The Pew Forum invited Joshua DuBois, the executive director of the
White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships;
Stephen Goldsmith, an adviser on faith-based partnerships in the Bush
White House; and Richard Nathan,
co-director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, to discuss this question and more.
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Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr
Some of the nation's leading
journalists gathered in Key West,
Fla., in May 2009 for the Pew
Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference
on religion, politics and public life. Wilfred McClay, a historian specializing in
American intellectual history, offered an introduction to the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, the 20th-century Protestant theologian whose unique
form of progressive Christianity continues to influence American politics and international affairs. E.J.
Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, remarked on the recent revival of interest in Niebuhr's work.
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June 18 - The Economist
Church Attendance in Recessions: No Rush for Pews
The Economist interviews Pew Forum Senior Fellow John Green in an article exploring the economy's effect on church attendance.
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