Dr. Foreman discusses her experience in advocacy, especially for the hungry, and how CPJ materials are useful in the classroom.

The case Loffman v. California Department of Education centers on a beautiful idea: Orthodox Jewish families with children with disabilities want to send their children to Orthodox Jewish schools that welcome and accommodate their holistic spiritual, developmental, and academic needs. Unfortunately, in California, policymakers have denied access to federal and state education funds for faith-based educational institutions and families. In California, the law bars religious families from accessing special education funds for their disabled children and prevents religious schools from accommodating these students. In the Los Angeles region, a community of Jewish families recently urged the 9th. U.S. Circuit Court […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed a sweeping overhaul of its “Uniform Guidance”—rules that apply across federal agencies that describe how grants and cooperative agreements should be administered and audited. The changes are meant to standardize, streamline, and clarify requirements; one goal is to make the federal funds more accessible to smaller organizations that are less experienced with federal grants. However, among the many detailed changes is new language that elevates LGBTQ protections while downgrading religious freedom protections. These proposed changes are not authorized by statute nor by court decisions and may complicate access to federal funds […]

Dr. Fellipe do Vale discusses the nature of love, gender, and desire in modern society from an Augustinian framework.

For the last 15 years of her life, my grandmother endured a vicious fight against lymphoma. Like many elderly and/or terminally ill individuals, she had a highly-involved caregiver. That caregiver was my mother. Balancing this role with life’s various demands proved extremely challenging, as my mother shared with me in a recent conversation.  “When you are caring for a loved one with a cancer diagnosis, the last thing you think about is caring for yourself. That seems selfish,” she said. “When my mom was diagnosed with stage IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, I tried to manage caregiving while being a new mom […]

On September 12, 2023, Administrator Samantha Powers of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) unveiled a new Biden administration policy on federal collaboration with faith-based organizations. USAID’s new “strategic religious engagement policy” is detailed in the document Building Bridges in Development. USAID is the agency that leads federal efforts to promote overseas development and to respond to overseas humanitarian disasters. The new policy is a commitment by USAID to expand its partnerships with US faith-based relief and development organizations and with overseas faith communities and religious leaders. Designed by an administration often seen as antagonistic to religion’s influence in […]