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Religion and Politics: The Faith of President Bush

By Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Published October 4, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

Since President Bush experienced a spiritual awakening in 1985, he has used his personal convictions as a tool for enacting policy. In the second part of the Morning Edition series on religion and politics, NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty looks President Bush's faith.

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the religion correspondent for NPR, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science and culture. Her New York Times best-selling book, "Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality," was published by Riverhead/Penguin Group in May 2009. Among others, Barb has received the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award and the Religion Newswriters Association Award for radio reporting.