Ben O'Dell

From COVID-19 to the economic crisis, we’re facing enormous challenges — and faith-based and community organizations are essential to addressing them. That’s why today, I reestablished the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Let’s get to work.

Biden bids to be a peacemaker in our religious wars. By bringing back the White House Office on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, he’ll try to move us from culture wars to the work of charity, justice and building a beloved community. My column washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

@JonathanLeeman @madetoflourish might be a good resource

A pastor friend in East Asia has asked me: what's a good resource for helping Christians think about theological issues at stake in economics? Looking for something at a Sunday School class level. Thanks!

From my days working on fatherhood with @MichaelRWear at the White House to now seeing him live it out as an amazing dad and husband, we are privileged that he is sharing with deep vulnerability all it means to him and challenging us to ask the same questions in our own lives.

#MyMentalHealthIs essential to my overall health. 1 in 5 people in the U.S. has a mental health condition— this affects us all. Learn the 5 signs ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=vitUPD…

You can’t love God and neighbor in the abstract, only in the concrete. Those are almost always small, ordinary moments - but they create big, extraordinary lives.

The best questions are driven by love.

“Let’s build a society where it’s easier for people to be good to each other.” - Dorothy Day

How a question and a relationship between government and the church can help change a community for good. twitter.com/ctmagazine/sta…

@MTColemanJr Saved you a leg cooked in chipotle peppers (they were better than the wings)

Grace means it is ok that we are not ok.

"Our posture should not be to rebuild fortresses in fear. We should be the people who are rebuilding cathedrals of hope. Let’s be the generation who plants gardens in the cracks of the secular." - @james_ka_smith #UpToUs

When you offer critique to another soul, do it gently. When you offer encouragement, do it fiercely. #BefriendBook

@MichaelRWear “We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.” ― Eugene H. Peterson

Prep your church for an active shooter situation with this free @fema webinar, next Tuesday 6/13. Register: ow.ly/U22730cn5SN

For every $1 in a religious congregation's annual budget, a city gets approx. $4.77 worth of common good services. haloproject.ca/calculator

Introducing the DadTime mobile app -- from the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) #fatherhood project w/ @OPRE_ACF mdrc.org/oRr

What factors may influence adult self-regulation abilities? Childhood experiences, Toxic Stress, exposure to poverty acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/…

Keeping memories and paperwork together for kids in #fostercare just got easier! Check out this new app. ow.ly/yw6B309wdim

When we give up something, replace it with something beautiful. Removing weeds w/o planting something only produces more weeds later. #lent