John Templeton, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has died. Templeton was a pioneer of international investing and mutual funds in the years after World War II. He was also known for the prize that sought to reconcile science and religion.

The Church of England's governing body has agreed to allow women to become bishops. However, members want to work out some way to accommodate those who object to the practice.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is launching an initiative to recruit young evangelical and Catholic voters, two voting blocks that generally support Republican candidates. The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, a long-time political ally of President George W. Bush, is among those throwing their support behind Obama's initiative. Caldwell discusses the battle for the faith vote.

Jim Wallis, the editor and founder of Sojourners magazine, talks to host Andrea Seabrook about the evolving evangelical movement, Barack Obama's plans to continue and retool President Bush's office of faith-based initiatives, and what he hopes to see from the John McCain campaign.

The Abrahamson family of New York City has a unique binary reality. They are both African-American and Hasidic Jews. In this week's Faith Matters conversation, the Abramsons discuss belonging to two communities that often misunderstand one another.

Sen. Barack Obama announced that as president he would expand faith-based initiatives started under President Bush. David Kuo, former deputy director of the Bush program, says that no matter how comprehensive, implementing a faith-based initiative can be problematic.

In May, authorities seized hundreds of children from a polygamist compound in Texas. Footage of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — and its distinctively clothed women — was all over TV. Now the women have a Web site to sell their modest apparel.

Anglican conservatives headed into a conference in Jerusalem last week with angry rhetoric and veiled threats of a split. But as their conference ends, they went only so far as to call for a church within a church, something that is unlikely to fly.

The April raid on a polygamist ranch in Texas created image problems for the Mormon Church. A new poll has found that almost a third of those surveyed thought the polygamists were in fact Mormons. Now, Mormon leaders are responding to what they see as widespread confusion about their faith.

Evangelical leader James Dobson recently criticized Sen. Barack Obama's interpretations of Biblical scripture. In this week's Faith Matters, political science professor Laura Olson, author of the book Religion and Politics, discusses why some in the faith community are taking issue with Obama.