Matthew Weiner is the Program Director at the Interfaith Center of New York. He recently defended his dissertation at Union Theological Seminary, where he studied public religion. He is currently writing a book about interfaith and civil society.

Travis Rejman is the founding Executive Director of the Goldin Institute, a global forum dedicated to supporting grassroots partnerships for global change in the areas of poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, and reconciliation. Prior to creating the Goldin Institute, Travis served as Director for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, leading the development of the program for the 2004 (Barcelona) and 1999 (Cape Town) Parliaments of the World's Religions. Prior to working in the interreligious field, Travis worked in the environmental movement, focusing on coalition building, grassroots education and civic engagement. Travis has conducted consultative site visits and worked on location in over 20 Partner Cities in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle-East and, South and North America. Travis currently lives in Chicago with his wife, Gia, and son, Maxwell.

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Change Believers can Believe In? Obama's Leap of Faith

Posted July 17, 2008 | 05:14 PM (EST)


Senator Obama's announcement to expand President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative returns attention to a heated public debate about the role of religion in government. Negative reactions from the left and the right demonstrate that a liberal candidate engaging religion will not ease the polarized positions between secular liberals and the religious...

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