Campaign for Youth Justice
The Campaign for Youth Justice seeks to prevent youths from being tried as adults. April Turner is the communications and media director.
The Campaign for Youth Justice seeks to prevent youths from being tried as adults. April Turner is the communications and media director.
Sept. 29, 2011, Religion News Service article posted the Public Religion Research Institute about a poll which finds that white evangelicals and members of the Tea Party are less likely to believe in evolution and climate change and its political implications for the 2012 election.
Breakaway Outreach is a faith-based nonprofit that works with young offenders in a juvenile detention center ministry. It was co-founded by Jimmy Larche, who says his life was changed by faith when he was a teenager in a juvenile detention center.
The African-American Juvenile Justice Project assists African-American children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. It aims to hold “both the system and the African-American community accountable for the lives of our children.” Attorney Sherri Jefferson founded the project. Contact via her website.
April 17, 2009, Reuters article citing a Pew Forum poll which shows that white American evangelicals are the most skeptical of human-induced climate change. The article includes a link to the full poll.
A joint paper of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty which claims that the support of the Evangelical Climate Initiative by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which also underwrites family planning initiatives, as evidence that support for intervention in climate change could lead […]
Declaration released in 2008 by the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative underscoring their belief in human-induced climate change and the responsibility of Baptists to care for the environment. The declaration shares large portions of language with the Evangelical Climate Initiative’s “Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.”
Statement released by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation (formerly the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance) in 2006 and updated in 2009. The statement is a response to the Evangelical Climate Initiative’s “Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.” The Alliance uses the statement to outline their disagreement with the ECI’s conclusion that climate change […]
Lawrence Hinman is philosophy professor emeritus and former co-director of the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology at the University of San Diego. His research focuses on emerging ethical issues in science and technology, including the issues raised by stem cell research.