As Christian citizens, we should be asking not only how we can support families, but how we can we support policies that support families,

This interview with Robert Francis draws on his research into the lives of working-class men in rural America, many of whom are fathers, and his exploration of the declining labor force participation among this group.

American women and men often find it difficult to balance responsibilities of paid employment and household labor, a challenge made more acute because of the way gender identity and economic developments have been intertwined over the course of the nation’s history. 

To properly honor family means neither reducing it to its economic input nor cordoning off family in a private space.

The language of, “returning citizen” provides hope and honors both the humanity and the capacity of people returning from prison to contribute to a flourishing society.

When institutions rise to their responsibilities, there is hope that parents stricken by the opioid crisis can return to fulfill their roles.
 

Instead of tuning out when we hear about the proposed federal budget, what if the narrative of kinship care came to mind?

Institutional pluralism allows for religious and philosophical traditions to help people form their judgments about the real value of new possibilities.

Health care reform can only succeed when the gap between mental health and “regular” health is bridged.

The journey to become a healer, a physician, in our country is a long, arduous, and expensive process. It shapes and forms and sets physicians on particular and specialized paths that are very difficult to later change.

Mandatory minimum sentencing, originally intended to equitably produce justice, in practice creates consistent injustice.

Our individualism obscures the communal foundations of health care and hinders creative ways to transform a broken and deeply unjust health care system.

The rural opioid crisis is a unique and almost intractable problem.  Almost.  There are hopeful avenues for turning the epidemic around.  But it will take an almost unprecedented level of collaboration between government and civil society...

Our national debate about health care policy has devolved into an argument over the question of whether the government or the marketplace delivers better care to more individuals for less money. Instead, our debate should focus on whether our regulatory system is structured for the well-being of the whole of society...

Faith leaders in Baltimore need to come together to support the police in cultivating positive relationships with the residents of Baltimore neighborhoods.

A shift from a purely punitive approach to juvenile justice to a restorative one requires the involvement of the family, local church, government, and community.

Why was it so easy to believe that there really was an epidemic of black and brown missing girls in D.C.?