The PACE team is currently working to develop additional resources for funders based on the insights gained from our Faith In/And Democracy experiment and pooled fund, including key recommendations for how to work with faith communities, customized consulting services, and a funders guide. We will post those resources here as they are developed. For now, we invite you to explore these resource links:
Resource Links
Reflections from our Faith In/And Democracy Learning Community
- Faith + Democracy Requires Empathy + Translation, Amar D. Peterman, December 2021
- Faith In Democracy, Dora Muhammad, November 2021
- The Rebuilding Democracy Project: A Case Study in Polarization, Faith, and the Common Good, Rabbi Michael G. Holzman and Zeenat Rahman, Members of the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, and Inclusive America Project, May 2021
- Opportunities for Religious Pluralism in the Biden Administration, Chris Crawford, January 2021
- If you want to strengthen America, consider funding religious pluralism, Zeenat Rahman, December 2020
- Civic Engagement — A Cornerstone in Building the Beloved Community, Dora Muhammad, November 2020
- We Need Sanctuaries For Politics, not From Politics, Rabbi Michael Holzman, November 2020
Additional Resources
Our team has assembled a short list of readings that have added perspective to the development of this project. We offer them here for your reference, and welcome suggestions to add to this growing list.
- What Social-Justice Efforts Can Learn From the Love-Based Activism of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 2021.
- Is There a Way to Dial Down the Political Hatred? New York Times, June 2021
- Consider This with Emma Green: A conversation on faith and democracy, Oregon Humanities, January 2021
- How Religion Can Help Put Our Democracy Back Together, Washington Post Magazine, October 2020.
- “To Build A Pluralistic, Democratic America, Faith Must Be On The Agenda”: A Conversation with Zeenat Rahman, Forbes, October 2020.
- Powering Pluralism: Analyzing the Current Philanthropic Landscape, Inclusive America Project, August 2020.
- Faith and Healthy Democracy Report Explores How American Evangelical Christians Might Contribute to Healing Divides, October 2019.
- Evening Conversation With Arthur Brooks and Justin Giboney in Washington, D.C., Trinity Forum, April 2019.
- Building Belonging in a Time of Othering, with john a. powell, Oakland, CA, Haas Institute Othering and Belonging Conference, April 2019.
- American Democracy in Crisis: the Fate of Pluralism, Carrie Davis, Joyce Foundation, March 2019.
- Religious Trump Voters: How Faith Moderates Attitudes about Immigration, Race, and Identity, Emily Ekins, Cato Institute, February 2019.
- Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise, Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core, September 2018.
- John Inazu: Why I’m Still Confident About ‘Confident Pluralism’, John Inazu, Christianity Today, August 2018.
- Having Your View Challenged is a Good Thing, John Inazu, Freethink Media, February 2018.
- A Call for ‘Confident Pluralism’ on Campus, Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, January 2017.
In addition, PACE has developed a series of primers and essays to help funders and practitioners think and talk about key themes related to civic engagement, civic learning, democracy, and bridge-building. The primers break down broad themes into their component parts, help to illustrate how the pieces fit together, and serve as a starting place to ground conversation. An essay series about civic divides gives us a framework to consider civility in bridging difference and philanthropy’s role in cultivating it in a deeper, complex, and nuanced way. All resources are linked individually below: