The Boston Globe, July 26th, 1997
Core cities are no place for the religiously timid. Public officials, investors, retailers, and anyone concerned with the comeback of urban America will need to get comfortable with the power of faith in the inner city. At a conference in Roxbury this week, Reverend Fred Lucas, president of the New York-based Faith Center for Community Development, told Vice President Gore that church-based nonprofit groups are often ignored by loan officers and funders due to a misplaced fear of crossing church-state lines. "The major asset of the religious institution, the faith factor, is the major liabilit...
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