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 Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World; Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, director of … More →

February 12, 2009

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: As the economy continued to collapse this past week, there was sharp debate in Washington over the size and content of a stimulus package. Meanwhile, two of President Obama’s nominees for top jobs bowed out because of … More →

February 6, 2009

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discusses the appointees to President Barack Obama’s new advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and describes what they will be doing.

February 6, 2009

Watch Peggy Bulger, director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, describe the response so far to the Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project and the importance of sermons and religious speech in the life of the … More →

February 5, 2009

On January 31, former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele was elected the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee. Steele is a Roman Catholic who has advocated for traditional family values. Watch him talk about his faith and values … More →

February 2, 2009

News broke this week that President Barack Obama has selected his former campaign aide Joshua DuBois to head the newly renamed White House Council of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discusses DuBois, reaction … More →

January 30, 2009

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

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