Faith-Based Organizations

Examples of Faith-Based Organizations in the following topics:

• Progressivism and Religion

  • Although its theology was based on ideals expressed during the Second Great Awakening, its focus on poverty was of the Third.
  • "GROUP OF COLORED WOMEN IN FAITH HOME, NEW ORLEANS, IN 1898" Shows group of women on porch and seated on steps of "Faith Home", a Baptist run charity house giving home to destitute and feeble female former slaves.

• The George W. Bush Administration

  • By the time Bush became president, the concept of supply-side economics had become an article of faith within the Republican Party.
  • By the end of his two terms in 2008, however, Americans’ faith in the dynamics of the free market had been badly shaken.
  • He pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program, largely benefiting the wealthiest Americans, and passed the No Child Left Behind Act, an educational reform act that supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education.
  • Bush pushed for socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based welfare initiatives.

• Transcendentalism

  • They had faith that man is at his best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
  • According to them, these are principles not based on, or falsifiable by, physical experience, but deriving from the inner spiritual or mental essence of the human.

• The Immigration Act of 1965

  • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 changed national immigration regulations to a model based on skills and family relationships.
  • The National Origins Formula was replaced with a preference system based on immigrants' skills and family relationships with U.S. citizens or residents.
  • It has been un-American in the highest sense, because it has been untrue to the faith that brought thousands to these shores even before we were a country."

• The Scopes Trial

  • Based on research in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, the theory contends that man developed over millions of years from other biological organisms, including apes (hence the nickname "Scopes Monkey Trial.")
  • The trial, therefore, was both theological and scientific, testing the faith-based belief that the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge, or whether religion was consistent with evolution as argued by scientists and other intellectuals.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949.
  • This treaty, and the Soviet Berlin Blockade, led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defense Organization in September 1948.

• Ida B. Wells

  • It concluded, "We think it is evident that the purpose of the defendant in error was to harass with a view to this suit, and that her persistence was not in good faith to obtain a comfortable seat for the short ride. "
  • Having examined many accounts of lynching based on alleged "rape of white women," she concluded that Southerners concocted rape as an excuse to hide their real reason for lynchings: black economic progress, which threatened not only white Southerners' pocketbooks, but also their ideas about black inferiority.

• The Wilson Administration

  • He based his campaign around the slogan, "He kept us out of war," but U.S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare against shipping, including American vessels despite repeated strong warnings, and tried to enlist Mexico as an ally.
  • Wilson’s brand of internationalism infused with morality, guided by his deep Presbyterian faith, came to be known as "Wilsonianism."

• The Nixon Shock

  • Many holders of the U.S. dollar lost faith in the U.S. government's ability to improve the economy and maintain the value of the dollar.
  • On August 5, 1971, Congress released a report recommending devaluation of the dollar in an effort to protect the dollar against "foreign price-gougers. " Meanwhile, European countries began leaving the Bretton Woods international financial system, which had based the value of foreign currencies on the value of the gold-backed dollar.

• New France and Louisiana

  • The colony forbade non-Roman Catholics from living there, and Protestants were required to renounce their faith to establish themselves in New France.
  • The economic development of New France was marked by the emergence of successive economies based on staple commodities, each of which dictated the political and cultural settings of the time.