Institute on Religion & Democracy
Around the time that the Cold War abroad and culture wars at home reached their peak after the election of Ronald Reagan, some worshippers in mainline denominations became distressed by Read more…
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Michael Novak Synthesizes Catholicism and Capitalism
Michael Novak wrote a Vietnam protest book, worked for Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, and Sargent Shriver, nearly became a priest, and launched a new program for the Rockefeller Read more…
Habitat for Humanity
“What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but co-workers.” So declared Millard and Linda Fuller in the letter that launched their new group Habitat for Humanity Read more…
Christian Study Centers on Campuses
When Daryl Richman arrived at the University of Virginia in 1968 he encountered students who had little experience of church but hungered to understand the intellectual traditions of Christianity. Some Read more…
Prison Fellowship
In 1976, ministering to prisoners was “an unfashionable, underrated, underfunded, Christian activity with no national or international leadership,” observes a Chuck Colson biographer. Notorious as President Nixon’s “hatchet man,” Colson Read more…
North American Islamic Trust
The growth of America’s Muslim population (which rose from less than a million a generation ago to 3.5 million in 2015) has created demand for many more mosques and Islamic Read more…
Templeton Prize
“How little we know, how eager to learn.” That was the motto that guided John Templeton through much of his success as an investor, and that animated much of his Read more…
Samaritan’s Purse
Bob Pierce was an evangelist in China when he met some Christian women who were living as missionaries among lepers. In 1970, their devotion inspired him to create a new Read more…
Covenant House
In 1968, two Catholic priests, Bruce Ritter and James Fitzgibbon, resigned from comfortable professional college work and moved into a tenement building in New York City’s East Village to establish Read more…
Pregnancy Resource Centers
Religious charities like the Salvation Army, Jewish Maternity Homes, Catholic Charities, and others have long offered assistance to women facing unexpected pregnancies. As sexual experimentation and abortion rates soared during Read more…
Saving Addicts, and Other Faith-based Social Work
Growing up as a poor Mexican-American, Freddie Garcia despised Anglo society, joined a gang, and ended up a heroin addict with a live-in girlfriend and two children. After numerous federal- Read more…
Green Collection
David Green founded Hobby Lobby and built it into a nationwide arts-and-crafts chain. From its Sunday closures to its debt-free policy, Hobby Lobby runs on consciously Biblical principles. This fascination Read more…
Museum of the Bible
In 2015, a $400 million construction project was launched by the Green family to create a highly visible, philanthropically created Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Located three blocks Read more…
Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation
B. J. Cassin has taken the venture-capital model that made him wealthy and applied it to his Catholic-schooling philanthropy. He was a key funder in building Chicago’s acclaimed Cristo Rey Read more…
Last Languages for Bible Translation
About 6,900 languages are currently in use across the globe. Only a few hundred of these have a complete translation of the Christian Scripture; another 2,300 have a partial translation. Read more…
Encouraging Muslim Giving
Approximately a quarter of the world’s population is Muslim, and their faith’s zakat requirements enjoin them to share a portion of their annual income with the less fortunate. Much of Read more…
New Leaders for Catholic Schools
Minnesota businessman Jack Remick and his wife, Mary Ann, are long-time supporters of the Alliance for Catholic Education, an extraordinarily successful program created at the University of Notre Dame to Read more…
Giving It All
Alan Barnhart is an evangelical Christian, and when he and his brother Eric decided to go into business together in 1986 (they were in their mid-20s), Alan studied the Bible Read more…
Creating More, and Better, Foster Families
Religious donors have worked productively with churches over the past decade to get needy children adopted into permanent families, as the 2005 entry below catalogues. In addition, where children are Read more…
Moving Unprotected Children into Forever Families
Among evangelical Christians, the adoption of unprotected youngsters, both domestic and foreign, has become a charitable passion in recent years. When Colorado pastor Robert Gelinas discovered in late 2004 that Read more…