2005 Kuyper Lecture

Paper from the 2005 Kuyper Lecture

Lecture: "Keeping Faith in the Faith-Based Initiative: From Formal Neutrality to Full Pluralism in Government Partnerships with Faith-Based Social Services" (PDF, 24 pages) by Stanley Carlson-Thies, Director of Social Policy Studies, Center for Public Justice

The lecturer

Stanley Carlson-Thies is Director of Social Policy Studies at the Center. His focus is consulting, research, and advocacy in the area of government policy concerning faith-based organizations. He served with the White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives from its inception in February 2001 until May 2002. 

Today he consults widely with government agencies, including the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the Corporation for National and Community Services, state service commissions, and state offices of faith-based and community initiatives. Carlson-Thies was named as one of twelve advocates who are “reinterpreting God and country” by the National Journal in May, 2004. He received the William Bentley Ball Life and Religious Liberty Defense Award from the Center for Law and Religious Freedom and the Christian Legal Society in October 2004. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Toronto.