Read a March 1, 2009, commentary by Mark Silk of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College. The essay, posted at the Spiritual Politics blog, disputes Susan Jacoby’s assertions about Obama’s faith-based initiative.

Read a Feb. 28, 2009, op-ed in The New York Times about Obama’s faith-based initiative by Susan Jacoby. Jacoby is a well-known secularist and champion of the separation of church and state.

Timothy D. Terrell is an associate professor of economics at Wofford College in South Carolina. He is a senior fellow with the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

Read a March 2, 2009, article about conservative criticism of Obama’s faith-based initiative posted at U.S. News & World Report.

Read an essay about Obama’s faith-based initiative in the February edition of First Things, written by John J. DiIulio Jr., a University of Pennsylvania professor who was the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Read a Feb. 25, 2009, post at the blog of Catholic News Service about Joshua DuBois’ address that day to the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, D.C.

David Legates is a professor in the geography department at the University of Delaware. His expertise includes hydroclimatology, computational methods and precipitation and climate change. He is a former director of the university’s Center for Climatic Research and a former Delaware state climatologist. Legates is a noted denier of human contribution to climate change.  

Read a Feb. 20, 2009, Washington Post story which reports that faith-based charities “are facing unprecedented cutbacks from one of their biggest funders: the government.”

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.