A Call for Advocates: Changing the Public Discourse about Homelessness

In our May 16 blog post “Love in the Long-Term: Community Service and Systemic Change,” we reflected on a challenge that communities of faith and ethical commitment face when engaging in social action efforts—the challenge of approaching these efforts both with love and a critical eye toward what steps we must take to implement long-term solutions.

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Faith in the Public Sphere: Continuing the Conversation

Our May 13th post posed questions about the role of religious perspectives in the public sphere, identifying two models for interfaith social action efforts—either focusing only on common ground or inviting diverse religious perspectives to inform that common ground publically. This week, we’ll continue that conversation about the role of religion in the public sphere.

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Faith in Public Life

As part of the Social Action Ministries blog, we will periodically post resources about faith, politics and social action. This week, I invite you to take a look at the Faith in Public Life News Reel.

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Politics and the Pulpit: Carter Lindberg on Martin Luther

The relationship between religion and politics in the United States is at times a contentious issue. One only needs to examine the Internal Revenue Service regulations on tax-exempt organizations and political activity to see that for religious leaders, deciding how or whether to address social and political issues from the pulpit may not be a simple task.

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Religious Perspectives in the Public Sphere

In our reflection last week, we ended with two questions that centered on a basic theme: the relationship between prayerful trust in God and interfaith social action efforts.

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