IRFA News
| 22 April 2011
IRFA President Stanley Carlson-Thies speaks on “The Changing Landscape—Christian Nonprofits and Government” for the April 27th CEO Forum in Dallas, Texas, held in connection with the national conference of the Christian Leadership Alliance.
The Christian Leadership Alliance assists some 10,000 persons from more than 4,500 Christian faith-based organizations to improve how they carry out their faith-based service. Click here for information on the conference and the CEO Forum.
An interview with Carlson-Thies is featured in the Winter issue of Outcomes, the CLA’s quarterly magazine. Read the interview here.
Tom Messner’s recent Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, “From Culture Wars to Conscience Wars: Emerging Threats to Conscience” (April 13, 2011), includes a section on the growing pressures facing faith-based organizations, and includes this note: “For more information on institutional religious freedom issues, the website of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance is an excellent resource.” Here you are on the IRFA website: explore! See the Backgrounder here.
PBS Airs Religious Hiring Story Featuring IRFA President and Baltimore Rescue Mission
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, the PBS television show focusing on religion topics, on May 28, 2010, aired the story, "Religious Hiring: Should a Federally Funded Faith-Based Group Hire on the Basis of Religion?" Unusually, it is a fair treatment of this heated issue.
Reporter Kim Lawton interviewed IRFA President Stanley Carlson-Thies for the story. The story also features the Helping Up Mission, a Baltimore ministry to homeless men, an organization that regards religious hiring to be crucial to its mission and effectiveness. Watch the story here.