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Loving Thy Neighbor
Report from Sam Fulwood documents how many faith communities across the country are standing up for immigration reform.
The Faithful Divide Over Wedding Vows
A report by Jonathan Duffy and Sally Steenland explores the strategies for Proposal 2 in Michigan, a state constitutional amendment that prohibited same-sex marriage.
Debating the Divine
This collection of essays aims to turn down the heat and turn up the light on the question of whether religion should be a force shaping our public policies and our common civic life.
Pursuing the Global Common Good
When is war justified? Is the use of torture ever acceptable? These are some of the issues in a new book by policy experts and faith leaders, published by the Center for American Progress.
Other Religion & Values Features
March 11, 2010
More faith communities are accepting transgender individuals, writes Sy Mukherjee.
By Sy Mukherjee
March 10, 2010
Rami Nashashibi, a community organizer in Chicago, talks about what being an American Muslim means to him.
March 10, 2010
Sally Steenland interviews Rami Nashashibi about his community organizing work in Chicago.
By Sally Steenland
February 2, 2010
Sally Steenland interviews Edina Lekovic about bring a translator between Muslims and the mainstream media and being a Muslim American woman who wears the hijab.
By Sally Steenland
February 2, 2010
Young Muslim American Voices interviews Edina Lekovic about what it means to be a young Muslim in America.
January 25, 2010
Young Muslim-American leaders discuss their challenges and opportunities as part of CAP’s Young Muslim American Voices project.
January 13, 2010
Sally Steenland interviews Mohamad Chakaki about social and environmental issues and being a Muslim American.
By Sally Steenland
January 12, 2010
Mohamad Chakaki, a member of CAP's Young Muslim American Voices Roundtable, talks about his environmental activism and an experience with profiling.
December 14, 2009
President Obama broke with traditional Just War thinking in his Nobel prize acceptance speech, and so far almost no one seems to have noticed.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
December 9, 2009
Prior to the Copenhagen conference nearly 200 religious leaders gathered in England to make the largest ever faith commitment to environmental sustainability, writes Eleni Towns.
By Eleni Towns
December 4, 2009
As longstanding advocates for universal health care, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has played an ongoing, and increasingly controversial, role in health reform. Early in the process, they set out a number of criteria—eight to be exact—that they set as priorities to be included in health reform legislation.
By Jessica Arons, Ellen-Marie Whelan
December 1, 2009
Ellen-Marie Whelan and Marta Cook discuss how legislation under consideration in Congress measures up to Catholic social teachings.
By Ellen-Marie Whelan, Marta Cook
November 23, 2009
A Progressive Book Club event discusses Harvard professor Harvey Cox’s new book on Christianity.
November 19, 2009
Susan Thistlethwaite and Brian Katulis argue that moral considerations should shape the Obama administration’s decision on the Afghanistan war.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Brian Katulis
November 16, 2009
Last week CAP launched a project with young Muslim American leaders to promote understanding of America’s growing religious diversity.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Sally Steenland, Marta Cook , Eleni Towns
November 5, 2009
Marta Cook highlights what faith groups across the country are doing to support health care reform.
By Marta Cook
November 4, 2009
Remarks from John D. Podesta at a joint Center for American Progress and Georgetown University event.
By John Podesta
November 4, 2009
Address of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Orthodox Christianity.
November 4, 2009
Statement on remarks from His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Orthodox Christianity.
October 15, 2009
Marta Cook documents the growing grassroots support for LGBT rights among evangelicals.
By Marta Cook
October 1, 2009
Religious activists are embracing progressive issues such as health care reform and immigration reform, poverty, and climate change, write Valerie Shen and Sally Steenland.
By Valerie Shen, Sally Steenland
September 25, 2009
Faith leaders at a CAP event encourage people to think of the moral imperative underlying the immigration reform debate.
September 23, 2009
Faith leaders should play a role in creating a dialogue about the use of assisted reproductive technologies, writes Dr. Kate Ott.
September 22, 2009
Sam Fulwood visits goes to Greensboro, North Carolina to take a look at how communities of faith are mobilizing around immigration.
By Sam Fulwood III
September 22, 2009
Interactive map shows how faith groups across the country are promoting greater awareness on the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
September 17, 2009
Brian Katulis briefs faith communities on the recent election in Afghanistan and how the United States and faith groups can provide sustainable help to the country.
By Eleni Towns
July 21, 2009
Slideshow and Interview with Arzu Rugs CEO Connie Duckworth give an inside look at sustainable security in action in Afghanistan.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
July 10, 2009
The nomination of Dr. Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health brings progressive faith and science together in one superb appointee, writes Sally Steenland.
By Sally Steenland
June 23, 2009
Social conservatives stick to free market rhetoric despite their slipping influence in tough economic times, writes Lester Feder.
By Lester Feder
June 8, 2009
Last week CAP and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released two groundbreaking reports on marriage-equality ballot initiatives in California and Michigan.
May 19, 2009
The revelation that Donald Rumsfeld appended Bible verses to secret Iraq war memos is problematic on many levels, write Sally Steenland and Susan Thistlethwaite.
By Sally Steenland, Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
May 14, 2009
President Obama will speak at Notre Dame’s commencement, despite protests, yet it’s the school, not the protesters, that’s in line with mainstream American Catholics, writes Susan Thistlethwaite.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
April 29, 2009
A panel of experts joined CAP to discuss conscience or refusal clauses and how they currently do not protect patients’ consciences or rights to access care.
April 22, 2009
Faith groups across the country are taking action to reduce the effects of global warming and reduce their own emissions.
April 16, 2009
Brookings Institution economist Rebecca Blank discusses the recession, failures of the market, populist anger, and the role of faith communities during this time of economic turmoil with Sally Steenland.
By Sally Steenland
April 14, 2009
Christians who oppose same-sex marriage say it goes against the biblical conception of marriage and sexuality, but they're wrong.
April 2, 2009
Sally Steenland interviews Safiya Ghori-Ahmad, the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s government relations director, as part of a new series on Young Muslim-American Voices.
By Sally Steenland
March 13, 2009
Obama moves to reinstate the balance of conscience among doctors and patients rather than favor only one set of beliefs, observes Sally Steenland.
By Sally Steenland
March 3, 2009
Progressive religious leaders should be a strong voice in the fight for marriage equality, writes Sarah Dreier. Opportunities to do so abound this week.
By Sarah Dreier
February 27, 2009
Our experts analyzed Obama's budget, offered ideas for how to bring the electrical grid into the 21st century, and responded to Obama's call for a college education for all.
February 26, 2009
Right-wing commentators argue Americans need the discipline of a recession, yet during the bubble they insisted greed was good, observes Sally Steenland.
By Sally Steenland
February 26, 2009
Los comentaristas de la derecha sostienen que los estadounidenses necesitan la disciplina de una recesión e incluso durante la burbuja sostuvieron que la codicia era buena, como lo indica Sally Steenland.
By Sally Steenland
February 24, 2009
Work is an essential component of human dignity, a fact that should not be ignored when considering how to move forward on economic recovery, writes Susan Thistlethwaite.
By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
February 23, 2009
The 111th Congress is one of the most religiously diverse yet, embodying the founding fathers’ vision for religious freedom in the country, writes Sarah Dreier.
By Sarah Dreier
February 13, 2009
Experts at CAP event discuss the cultural history of Darwin's theory of evolution and its role in modern society.
February 12, 2009
Darwin's commitment to weighing the facts, even when the topic was an emotional one, would serve competing advocates of science and religion well as the world celebrates the great naturalist's 200th birthday today and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "On the Origin of Species."
By Rick Weiss
February 10, 2009
E.J. Dionne and Shaun Casey discuss the changing shape of religion in presidential races, from Kennedy to Obama.
January 12, 2009
Faith-based and environmental groups across Virginia have been joining forces to promote clean energy and stop new coal-fired power plants.
December 22, 2008
Jewish environmental organizations are bridging religious tradition with support for locally produced food, writes Lester Feder.
By Lester Feder
December 16, 2008
Gary Gunderson discusses how Memphis is providing better care through health partnerships with local faith communities.
By Gary R. Gunderson