President Obama’s Faith-Based Council Drops Out of Sight - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.

President Obama’s Faith-Based Council Drops Out of Sight - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.: For two days last week, a small portion of the press reported that President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships had faded into the sunset. Actually, it seems that it disappeared a year ago or more, but it seems few noticed until recently. The council issued a long report in March of 2010, outlining President Obama’s approach to governmental partnerships with faith-based entities, after which the “first advisory council” disbanded, as it was obliged to do on the production of the first report, and half of a “second” advisory council was appointed. But the other half of the appointees were never announced and the panel basically faded into the woodwork. Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, called it “the mysterious, disappearing faith-based council.”