The presidential inauguration ceremony on Tuesday will begin and end with prayers from two men whom Barack Obama considers role models, advisers and dear friends. One, Joseph Lowery, is an 87-year-old black liberal Methodist from the Deep South who spent his career fighting for civil rights. The......

Presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, recently appointed Shaun A. Casey, graduate of Abilene Christian University as his faith advisor. Casey will be given the task of convincing evangelical voters that Obama would be the best choice for President. Casey previously served John Kerry in a sim...

ACU graduate Shaun Casey (who visits and comments here occasionally) has landed a full-time job with the Obama campaign. Shaun Casey, who teaches religion and politics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., has been hired by the Obama campaign to focus on outreach to evangelical voters....

Michelle Boorstein, writing in the Washington Post's The Trail, sounded more like she was presenting a glowing Barack Obama campaign press release than a political story when she announced the hiring of Obama's new religious affairs adviser: Shaun Casey, who teaches religion and politics at Wesley...

At the end of a Good Morning America segment today about Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., an Obama campaign representative complained that John McCain's pastor had not been similarly "vetted." If that's true, then ABC or some other media outlet surely should and...