President Barack Obama has selected Joshua DuBois to head the White House Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The 26-year-old Pentecostal minister led religious outreach for Obama’s presidential campaign. DuBois spoke with Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton … More →

January 30, 2009

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is asking a range of religious leaders what they most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration.  Watch Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, and Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Roman … More →

January 30, 2009

by Judith Valente Sex, lies—and food—dominated the proceedings at this year’s annual meeting of Christian and Jewish ethicists. The January 8-11 gathering in Chicago marked the 50th anniversary of the Society of Christian Ethics, and while most of the discussions … More →

January 29, 2009

President Obama discusses his plans and hopes for the American religious community. More →

January 23, 2009

Alzheimer’s disease gets progressively worse and there is no known cure. After a certain point, should an Alzheimer’s patient be kept alive with a feeding tube? Many family members say, of course: they should do everything possible to prolong a loved one’s life. But some doctors say inserting a feeding tube is inhumane, because it can just prolong a vegetative state for years. More →

January 23, 2009

Father Damien de Veuster, a missionary priest from Belgium, arrived at the Hawaiian leper colony Kalaupapa in 1873 to cared for the outcasts, and eventually died of leprosy himself. More →

January 23, 2009

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says while religious conservatives are pleased by President Barack Obama’s faith-based rhetoric and outreach, they have concerns about how his administration will deal with some of their core issues, such as abortion and defining … More →

January 22, 2009

Martin Luther King Jr. associate Vincent Harding, a professor emeritus at the Iliff School of Theology who chairs the Veterans of Hope Project, draws connections between President Barack Obama’s election and the civil rights movement and talks about what the … More →

January 22, 2009

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, says many US Muslims are optimistic that President Barack Obama’s administration will lead to a new climate of religious openness.

January 22, 2009

As Justice William O. Douglas intoned over 50 years ago, “We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.” That truth was on full display at the inauguration of our 44th president, Barack Obama. The ceremonies were … More →

January 21, 2009