Staff: Matthew Weiner
Article Date: 7/17/2008
Article Name: Change Believers Can Believe In? Obama’s Leap of Faith
Author: Matthew Weiner and Travis Rejman
Summary: Senator Obama’s announcement to expand President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative returns attention to a heated public debate about the role of religion in government. Negative reactions from the left and the right demonstrate that a liberal candidate engaging religion will not ease the polarized positions between secular liberals and the religious right. With this ever heightened animosity, can Senator Obama’s Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships be what he calls the “moral center” of his administration? Download full text.
