Ep. 572: Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives Needs To Go

As you can read elsewhere on MinistryWatch, the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is now 25 years old. Despite the good intentions of those who founded it, the office – like many government entities – has outlived its usefulness and needs to end.

Resources mentioned in today’s program:

David Kuo’s 2006 book Tempting Faith.

2001 Cato commentary “The Federalist Case Against Faith-Based Initiatives” by Robert Levy.

2001 Cato briefing paper “Corrupting Charity: Why Government Should Not Fund Faith-Based Charities” by Michael Tanner.

Richard Land, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and now Executive Editor of The Christian Post expressed strong reservations, famously warning that government “shekels” would bring “government’s shackles.”

Marvin Olasky, a key intellectual figure behind “compassionate conservatism” and an advisor to George W. Bush during his Texas governorship, played a role in conceptualizing the original Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, as early as 2002 began to have concerns about the office.

The producer for today’s program is Jeff McIntosh. Until next time, may God bless you.

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