ABSTRACT
During his eight-year tenure as President of the United States (2001−2009), George W. Bush embarked upon an aggressive plan to enlist the aid of the American religious community to improve delivery of social services to American citizens in need. Although it is customary for many countries to lean on churches and other religious groups to alleviate hunger, poverty, and sickness, the Bush plan was unique in that it involved substantial government monetary sums being placed in the hands of religious organizations and was thus a bold challenge to well-entrenched American ideals of church-state separation.
