Chloe Buckler discusses the importance of providing educational opportunities and lifting the ban on Pell grants for incarcerated individuals.

Although not as obvious as government agencies, media companies, or retail chains, faith-based organizations play large and essential roles in American life, both in the value of the services they offer and in the variety of those services. In this excerpt from his chapter in the new book, Set Free: Restoring Religious Freedom for All, edited by Art Lindsley & Anne R. Bradley (Abilene Christian University Press, 2019), Dr. Carlson-Thies notes that vital role and shows how institutional religious freedom protects it.

Join the Center for Public Justice on Friday, November 15 at 1 pm ET to learn about the five dimensions of a family-supportive workplace, with practical steps organizations can take to grow in each dimension. Registrants will receive access to a forthcoming resource book for employers and employees who are looking to develop family-supportive policies in their work environment.

To live fully as humans made in the image of God who serve in various roles across their lives, it is vital that humans have the freedom to flourish in all spheres of life. The freedoms established by the First Amendment allow this expression of humanity to be made possible at a personal level, but they also have implications for institutions that promote human flourishing at a larger level. Chelsea Langston Bombino suggests that “the different elements of the First Amendment reflect something fundamental about what it means to be human.”

Individual religious freedom and freedom of conscience are well understood in the United States, albeit not equally well protected in practice. Less understood is what religious freedom might entail for organizations and why it is important to them. Stanley Carlson-Thies reviews a few recent books that can help us develop a better grasp of institutional religious freedom.

Many FBOs believe they are called by a divine creative being—by God—to serve in a specific area. Therefore, to fully integrate and advance their missions in everything they do, faith-based nonprofits must be attuned not only to how each area of their organizational life furthers a particular service-area, but how each area reflects and lives out their distinctive, sacred identity. Chelsea Langston Bombino looks at three very different books released last year that touch on themes of furthering the mission and impact of an organization or a cause in the public square.

Kevin Singer and Katie Thompson kick off Love Thy Neighbor , a collaborative series between Neighborly Faith and Shared Justice. In this article Singer and Thompson explain the “why” behind the series, define key terms like religious pluralism and public justice, and cast a vision for how Christians can be good neighbors to other faith communities.