The Center for Public Justice has joined more than 60 leaders and allies of faith-based organizations in signing a letter sent to President Obama opposing the narrow exemption for religious employers in the federal health insurance regulations. The current exemption fails to protect most faith-based organizations from having to provide insurance that covers abortion-inducing drugs. 

The letter was organized by Stanley Carlson-Thies, a Center for Public Justice fellow who is president of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance. 

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The Center will co-sponsor an "alternative political conversation" hosted online at www.respectfulconversation.net starting Feb. 1. The conversation will provide a contrast to the hyper-partisan political discourse leading up to the November elections. More info >>

The Annie E. Casey Foundation has selected the Center for Public Justice for a 2012 award to promote both faith-based civil-society efforts and effective partnerships between government and civil-society organizations to reduce poverty and promote opportunity. More info>>

The Center congratulates Gideon Strauss on his appointment as executive director of the Max DePree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary. Strauss will continue to serve as a senior fellow of the Center for Public Justice, a role involving speaking, teaching, and writing on the Center's behalf.

Pluralism and Freedom: Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society, by Center fellow Stephen Monsma, is just out. The book explores how much autonomy faith-based organizations should have in the public realm and recommends policies to enable these groups to continue making vital contributions to the common good.