August 16, 2009
Column: Taking the President on Faith
by Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- Oh, for those halcyon days when our biggest worry was whether the federal "faith-based" office might encourage a homeless person to find Jesus.
Remember that?
Hardly anyone talks much about the faith-based initiative begun by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Barack Obama. Nor was there hardly a murmur about Obama's appointee to head the program, Joshua DuBois, a 27-year-old Pentecostal preacher.
A comparison of how the media have treated the two presidents and their faith-based programs during the first six months of their administrations (2001 and 2009) is the subject of a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
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