Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report has taken a look at President Barack Obama's just-released 2008 tax returns. He found that the president and Michelle Obama gave $172,050 to charity -- about 6.5 percent of their adjusted gross...
Tony Dungy wasn't named to President Barack Obama's advisory council on faith-based groups, despite reports last week that he'd been invited. Here's the story from Politico. The respected former pro football coach, a devout Christian, said he wasn't able to...
Former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy will join the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, according to Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report. The advisory panel, still being put together by the Obama administration, will...
In conjunction with his renewal of the White House faith-based initiative, President Barack Obama yesterday appointed an interfaith group of clergy members, religion scholars, leaders of service organizations and others to a new President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood...
As a candidate, Barack Obama said he would reverse a policy of the Bush administration, which said it was OK for religious groups receiving federal money to hire only people who shared their beliefs. Essentially, the Bush rules said, it...
Dan Gilgoff, formerly politics editor at Beliefnet and now a religion writer at U.S. News & World Report, interviewed the Rev. Jim Wallis, the left's favorite evangelical, on how Barack Obama is going to approach the task of providing government...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "I would really like to know why the Bible literalists are not protesting outside of Red Lobster. The Bible (should they care to read ALL of it) states in no uncertain terms that...
During his campaign, Barack Obama pledged to continue President Bush's faith-based initiative, but with at least one important change: The Bush administration exempted religious groups from civil rights laws that ban discrimination on the basis of religion, race or gender....
Not that it will make a huge amount of difference come January, but the Bush administration, in a newly disclosed legal memorandum, takes the position that it can bypass laws against giving taxpayer money to religious groups that hire only...
Mary Jacobs reports in our Religion pages that the weak economy is putting the squeeze on agencies that help the poor and the hungry -- including faith-based charities. Hard times mean that more people need help. High fuel and food...
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