Read a Feb. 6, 2009, article at U.S. News & World Report about whether or not religious-based groups should be able to hire based on religion using government money.

Read a Feb. 6, 2009, Religion News Service story (posted at Crosswalk), about the complications in the adoption of Obama’s faith-based program.

Read a Feb. 6, 2009, news story at Christianity Today about the Obama plan. The piece quotes Doug Koopman, co-author of a book on Bush’s faith-based office, among others.

Read a Feb. 5, 2009, analysis of the Obama’s faith-based initiative program by Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report. Gilgoff includes reactions from left and right on the religious spectrum.

Paul de Vries is a speaker, author and president of New York Divinity School in New York City and an at-large member of the governing board of the National Association of Evangelicals.

The Rev. Clive Calver is senior pastor at Walnut Hill Community Church in Bethel, Conn., and former president of World Relief.

Read a Feb. 5, 2009, analysis of the Obama faith-based initiative program by Beliefnet founder and author Steven Waldman.

A July 2001 Gallup Poll analysis discussed several polls on the topic and showed the variance in public approval, which appeared to shift depending on whether respondents associated the initiative with Bush, and what charities they believed would benefit.

A November 2009 survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows Americans broadly support faith-based programs, and Democrats more so than Republicans, for the first time. Yet a strong majority also has concerns about possible church-state violations.