GOVERNMENT POLICY
Faith-based social services: the human factor

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Nancy Ammerman is professor of the sociology of religion at Boston University's School of Theology and author of Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners (University of California Press, 2005). Contact 617-353-3066, nta@bu.edu.
• Peter Hall is a lecturer in public policy at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He does research on social welfare policy and civic engagement and has held a teaching appointment in the Divinity School. Contact 617-495-5117, pd_hall@harvard.edu.
• Kimberly A. Mealy is visiting assistant professor of political science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She has researched African-Americans' attitudes toward government funding of faith-based initiatives. Contact 781-283-2459, kmealy@Wellesley.edu.
• Read "New Hampshire's Social Service Contracts with Faith-Based Organizations," an April 2004 report from the NH Center for Public Policy Studies.

IN THE EAST
• Amy Sherman is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., where she directs the Faith in Communities Initiative. She is a frequent speaker on religion and public policy and author. Contact 202-974-2400, HudsonFIC@ntelos.net.
• Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist of religion, is director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University in New Jersey and author of Saving America?: Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society (Princeton University Press, 2004). Contact 609-258-5545, wuthnow@princeton.edu.
• Jo Renee Formicola is professor of political science at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., and co-editor of Faith Based Initiatives and the Bush Administration: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Contact 973-76l-9383, formicjo@shu.edu.
• Mary S. Segers is professor of political science and department chairwoman at Rutgers University-Newark. She specializes in religion and politics and is co-editor of Faith Based Initiatives and the Bush Administration: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Contact 973-353-5105, segers@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
• The Rev. Frederick Davie Jr. is vice president of faith-based programs at Public/Private Ventures, a Philadelphia-based think tank that specializes in research and demonstration projects dealing with high-risk and at-risk youth. He will become president in June 2006. He has worked for 20 years in collaborations between government and faith-based groups, including emergency food programs in New York City funded by city government and with a network of churches in Brooklyn, doing housing development with city funds. Contact 212-822-2400 ext. 1403.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Amy Sherman is on staff of Faith in Communities, which does research to help shape public policies that empower faith-based community practitioners. The affiliate of the Hudson Institute is based in Charlottesville, Va. Contact 434-293-5656.
• Charles Marsh is a professor of religion at the University of Virginia and director of the university's Project on Lived Theology. Read a Roundtable interview with him. Contact 434-924-6839, CMarsh@virginia.edu.
• Isam E. Ballenger, professor of Christian mission and world Christianity at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond in Virginia, sees faith-based initiatives as a threat to both church and state. He quotes the New Testament, saying that Jesus' admonition to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's recognizes the separateness of each domain. Contact 804-204-1219.

IN THE SOUTH
• John M. Perkins is founder and president of the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development. in Jackson, Miss., and a founder of the Christian Community Development Association. Contact 601-354-1563, jmpfoffice@jam.rr.com.
• Kathleen Flake is assistant professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University's Divinity School. An attorney, she teaches courses in religion and the law. Contact 615-322-2776, kathleen.flake@vanderbilt.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Amy Black is associate professor of politics and international relations at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., and co-author of Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives (Georgetown University Press, 2004).
• Doug Koopman is professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and co-author of Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives (Georgetown University Press, 2004). Contact 616-526-6706, dkoopman@calvin.edu.
• David Ryden is professor of political science and department chairman at Hope College in Holland, Mich., and co-author of Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives (Georgetown University Press, 2004). Contact 616-395-7546, den@hope.edu.
• Tracey Meares is Max Pam Professor of Law and director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. She has given several presentations on the relationship between black churches and communities and organized a conference on "Faith-Based Initiatives and Urban Public Policy." Contact 773-702-9582, tlmeares@midway.uchicago.edu.
• Corwin Smidt holds the Paul B. Henry Chair in Christianity and Politics and serves as executive director of the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is editor of Religion As Social Capital: Producing the Common Good (Baylor University Press, 2003). Contact 616-526-6233.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Helen Rose Ebaugh is a professor of sociology at the University of Houston who specializes in the sociology of religion. Read about comments she made about the government's faith-based initiative at a FACS seminar. Contact 713-743-3952, ebaugh@uh.edu.
• Jimmy Dorrell is founder and executive director of Mission Waco, a ministry to empower the poor, mobilize middle-class Americans and address systematic social injustices. He is pastor of Church Under the Bridge and also teaches classes at Baylor University and Truett Seminary in Waco. Contact 254-753-4900, jdorrell@missionwaco.org.
Robert V. Kemper, an anthropology professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, posts a 2004 article he co-authored, The World As It Should Be: Faith-Based Community Development in America, on his web site. Contact 214-768-2928, rkemper@mail.smu.edu.
• Kathy Miller is president of the Texas Freedom Network in Austin says it "advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the religious right." It posts a page of resources on faith-based initiatives. Contact 512-322-0545.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Ray Bakke is founder of Urban Ministry Associates and distinguished professor of global urban ministry at Bakke Graduate University of Ministry in Seattle. He is author of The Expanded Mission of City Center Churches (International Urban Associates, 1998). Contact 206-264-9100, bgu@bgu.edu.
• Star Parker, founder of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education in Los Angeles, has expressed concerns about the government's faith-based initiative. Read a 2005 Agape Press interview posted by Crosswalk.com. Contact through Keisha Coleman, 310-410-9981.
• Greg W. Hamilton, president of the Vancouver, Wash.-based Northwest Religious Liberty Association, supports the idea of faith-based initiatives with an important qualification: He does not support government-funded faith-based groups discriminating in their hiring practices or offering sectarian programming. Hamilton is an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a scholar of church-state issues, as well as an official at North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which serves Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Contact 360-816-1400 ext. 218, gregh@npuc.org.
• Salam Al-Marayati is the Los Angeles-based executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. He expresses concerns that the faith-based initiative may leave minority religions like American Muslims out, but he says that religious groups do provide a benefit to society so the tax incentive provision is OK as long as it brings about "degrees of change" and not a massive overhaul of the current system. Contact 213-383-3443, salam@mpac.org.