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Frances Perkins Homestead Tours
Visit the Newcastle home of Frances Perkins, first woman Cabinet member and FDR’s Secretary of Labor. Enjoy guided tours of the 1837 Brick House and historic district with its 57 acres of fields, gardens, and
Introducing Tommy Douglas, Father of the Canadian Health Care System
By Charles Hoffacker You’re never going to step out of the front door into the kingdom of God. What you’re going to do is slowly and painfully change society until it has more of the
Frances Perkins at the Dutch Treat Club
By Charles Hoffacker Founded in 1905, the Dutch Treat Club in New York City is a luncheon club of writers, artists, illustrators, publishers, media gurus and performers in music, television, and film. Over the years,
Frances Perkins in Church History or “Anglican Theology Will Not Nourish Couch Potatoes”
by Charles Hoffacker In several ways, Frances Perkins is a figure of influence. She has a place in several kinds of history: American history, women’s history, labor history, economic and political history, and other kinds
Developing deep solidarity
Book Review Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, Unified We Are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities. Chalice Press, 2016. Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger are exceptionally well-qualified to address their topic
Exposing libertarian economics
The “Poisoned Spring” of Economic Liberalism: Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard: A Critique from Catholic Social Teaching of the ‘Austrian School’ of Economics by Angus Sibley. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. The “Poisoned Spring” in this
The First Book to Explore the Faith of Frances Perkins is now available!
The First Book to Explore the Faith of Frances Perkins is now available! Tread the City’s Streets Again by Donn Mitchell has just been published! Donn is a Frances Perkins Center board member and longtime
April 2018 Newsletter
~~April 2018 Newsletter ~~ Highlights from What Would Frances Perkins Do? Watch the April 10th discussion on our website here. What Would Frances Perkins Do? Adapting New Deal Worker Protections to the 21st Century Economy By
How religion can help.
How religion can help: resources that faith communities offer for the restoration of the common good. by Charles Hoffacker Robert B. Reich teaches Public Policy at the University of California, served in three presidential administrations,
Frances and Faith offers its first book review, a look at the faith of the president behind the New Deal.
The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Religion’s Role in the FDR Presidency by Christine Wicker. Smithsonian Books, 2017. FDR’s faith is not a major theme in studies of his life and presidency even though
Frances and Faith–The Catholic Church in America–once an ally of workers and their unions
The Catholic Church in America–once an ally of workers and their unions–grew deferential to big money in recent decades. Now prompted by the Pope, a new generation of labor priests and bishops is trying to change