Barack Obama Faith

Obama Faces Hurdle On The Trail

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 06.04.2012

WASHINGTON — In 2008, Barack Obama took aim at the "pew gap," the overwhelming Republican edge among voters who regularly attend church. The De...

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Obama Cites Faith In Support Of Gay Marriage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 05.10.2012

In a stark reversal of what he's previously said about how his faith informs his views on same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama prominently cited ...

Obama Discusses Faith At National Prayer Breakfast

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday that his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House, and he urged lawmakers to...

Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works

Briallen Hopper | Posted 05.25.2011

Briallen Hopper

We need conversion stories, but we need many other religious narratives as well, because conversion is never the whole story. We may convert, but we remain ourselves.

Obama, In Shadow Of Polls, Embraces 'Christian' Label

Posted 05.25.2011

Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service When President Obama lit the National Christmas Tree behind the White House last year, he spoke of a "child ...

Barack Obama: Closeted Non-Believer?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 05.25.2011

Ali A. Rizvi

Obama may be a functional Christian, but as a man born into and raised by a family of non-religious rationalists with a healthy skepticism about religious faith, he is unlikely to govern as one.

Obama Brings In Faith Groups To Help Craft Policy

US News & World Report | Posted 05.25.2011

In the eight weeks since Barack Obama was elected president, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Director David Saperstein or members of his Was...

Poll: Obama More "Friendly To Religion" Than McCain

CBN | Posted 05.25.2011

Imagine if I told you four years ago that voters felt John Kerry was friendlier to religion than George Bush? You would say that is crazy and you'd be...

Obama Rolls Out Faith-Based Merchandise

BeliefNet | Posted 05.25.2011

God-o-Meter has learned that the Obama campaign is about to email religious supporters an annoucnement about a new line of Obama faith merchandise--bu...

Poll: Obama Leads Among Christians

Posted 05.25.2011

The Barna Group, a Christian research firm, shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by a substantial margin among Christian voters: A new nationwide s...

Obama On Newsweek Cover: Finding His Faith

Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011

In 1981 Barack Obama was 20 years old, a Columbia University student in search of the meaning of life. He was torn a million different ways: between y...