The Seattle Times: Opinion: Faith-based whistle-blowing

The Seattle Times: Opinion: Faith-based whistle-blowing: "Faith-based whistle-blowing
Neal Peirce / Syndicated columnist
The Rev. Jim Dickerson is founder and pastor of the New Community Church, a highly active, interracial congregation in Washington's inner city. He should be a perfect candidate for George Bush's faith-based initiative, a soldier in the president's 'army of compassion.'
The Manna Community Development Corporation Dickerson founded in the 1980s has renovated or built an amazing total of 850 units of homeownership housing along once drug- and crime-infested streets. The effort has not only helped revive the long-depressed, historically African-American Shaw and Columbia Heights neighborhoods but created $50 million in equity for low-income families. "