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Amen. But as I know from my days in 2001 as the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, many well-meaning people harbor legitimate concerns about government's partnering with religious groups, even if solely to expand good works. That may be because the civic significance of what faith-based organizations do is little noticed or just taken for granted...
Without figuring out acceptable ways to leverage similar energies in New Orleans, there is no practical hope for resurrecting the city. The U.S. Congress has passed bits of bipartisan legislation, making it easier for faith-based groups to receive public funds and technical assistance. And the Louisiana Recovery Authority stresses the need to involve and support religious leaders and their organizations. But the city's faith-based organizations are now sagging. Unless Kramer's church gets $125,000 soon, its beg-and-borrow construction projects will grind to a halt. Scruggs too says that keeping the grass-roots rebuilding efforts...
...Leadership Program are headed to New Orleans in May. It will be their fourth trip since the floods. In addition to visiting, volunteering and donating money, I have an additional proposal. At one point during my time in the White House, we discussed moving the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from Washington and into a low-income urban community where it could practice what the President preached about the Federal Government's helping sacred places serve civic purposes in ways that respect constitutional principles and produce measurable results. The Bush Administration should consider relocating my former office...
...reign of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter with Anne Boleyn. It was an era of religious turmoil, fomented by coquettish Lady Anne Boleyn lobbying for her King to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine. As Henry teetered between Catherine's Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation. You can't overestimate how traumatic the changes in the church would have been." You might get close...
...that saw Hizballah Katyushas raining down on Israeli territory - of leading the nation as the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran rises to the east and of presiding over a government plagued by corruption, financial, ethical and criminal scandals. It is a time of "complete disillusionment, an implosion of faith in the country's leaders," says Michael Oren, author of Six Days of War and a senior fellow at Jerusalem's Shalem Center, an academic research organization...