Stanley Carlson-Thies, Founder and Senior Director of CPJ’s Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance (IRFA), was recently honored to participate in the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Religious Freedom Prayer Breakfast by offering a prayer of thanksgiving and supplication for religious freedom. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, North America Division, is a valued ally of IRFA in the work to safeguard the religious freedom needed by faith-based organizations to make their best contributions to the common good. The Religious Freedom Prayer Breakfast, a multi-faith annual event, is organized by the Public Affairs & Religious Liberty section of the North America Division, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. […]

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.