Faith-based inefficiency : the follies of Bush's initiatives / Bob Wineburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wineburg, Robert J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (U.S.).

Faith-based human services--United States.

Faith-based human services.

Human services--Government policy--United States.

Human services.

Church and state--United States.

Church and state.

Human services--Government policy.

United States.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

xxix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

Summary:

On January 29th 2001, President Bush established the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Its stated mission was to fight society's ills by "rallying the armies of compassion" inside America's churches. Yet beneath the compassionate camouflage lies a five-star war plan to demolish government programs, mobilize and increase the size of the evangelical Christian voting block, shift government money to churches and other Faith-Based organizations in the conservative-led culture war, and develop a smoke screen of convincing media images and baffling words to confuse detractors. The largely understated relationship between the plans' politics and its service delivery has been overlooked, until now.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Launching 1

Chapter 2 Changing the System 11

Chapter 3 The Research Shows... 31

Chapter 4 The Director 49

Chapter 5 Shaping the Discourse: The Marathoners 59

Chapter 6 Blacks and Jews 69

Chapter 7 Wingspread 81

Chapter 8 The Reverend and the Professor 91

Chapter 9 From Church to Community Nonprofit 99

Chapter 10 The Rest of the Story 111

Appendix A Welfare Reform Liaison Project Quarterly Progress Report, June 2000 Class 123

Appendix B An Envelope from Texas 129

Appendix C White House E-mail to Jewish Leaders 131

Appendix D Religious Community Already Is Doing Its Share to Provide Social Services 135

Appendix E United Way Grant Approval to the Welfare Reform Liaison Project 139

Appendix F Agenda for the 2005 Guilford County Community Faith Summit 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-156) and index.

ISBN:

0275993124

9780275993122

OCLC:

76871393