The Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative of the Center for American Progress works to identify and articulate the moral-ethical and spiritual values underpinning policy issues, shape a progressive stance in which these values are clear, and increase public awareness and understanding of these values. Faith and Progressive Policy also works to safeguard the healthy separation of church and state that has allowed religion in our country to flourish.
Faith and Progressive Policy works in all of its efforts to promote a society and government that strengthen the common good and respect the basic dignity of all people, and informs CAP’s wide-ranging efforts to promote a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all.
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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.
Faith Groups Rally Around Immigration Reform
Interactive map shows how faith groups across the country are promoting greater awareness on the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
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.A Time to Be Born: Faith leaders should play a role in creating a dialogue about the use of assisted reproductive technologies, writes Dr. Kate Ott.
Video: A Church Town Hall on Immigration: Sam Fulwood visits goes to Greensboro, North Carolina to take a look at how communities of faith are mobilizing around immigration.
Is the Religious Right Losing Its Grip?: Social conservatives stick to free market rhetoric despite their slipping influence in tough economic times, writes Lester Feder.
A Profile of State Battles Over Marriage Equality: Last week CAP and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released two groundbreaking reports on marriage-equality ballot initiatives in California and Michigan.
21 Ways Faith Groups Are Combating Global Warming: Faith groups across the country are taking action to reduce the effects of global warming and reduce their own emissions.
A Role for Faith in Tough Economic Times: 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.
Four Things You Didn’t Know About God and Same-Sex Marriage: Christians who oppose same-sex marriage say it goes against the biblical conception of marriage and sexuality, but they're wrong.