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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: For the millions of American stockholders, among them many faith groups, there is conventional investing—trying to get the highest return on your money—and there is so-called socially responsible investing—trying to do well and also do good. Once, … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Around the U.S., there are more than a million warrants out for the arrest of people who’ve been accused of an offense, often minor, but who have not paid their fines or shown up in court. We … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: For the millions of American stockholders, among them many faith groups, there is conventional investing—trying to get the highest return on your money—and there is so-called socially responsible investing—trying to do well and also do good. Once, … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now the Episcopal Church divisions over homosexuality and the interpretation of Scripture. This week the U.S. Episcopal bishops went as far as they said they could to comply with the demand from the worldwide Anglican Communion that … More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s September 27, 2007 interview with Bishop Robert Duncan of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh: Q: What did you think of the final document the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans produced? A: The final … More
In Myanmar in Southeast Asia, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks have been marching against the military government and where the regime has harshly cracked down. More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview in New Orleans with Bishop Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire: Q: How would you describe the statement of the bishops who met in New Orleans? A: I think it’s a … More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview in New Orleans with Bishop Peter Lee of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia: Q: How would you characterize your conversations with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other bishops? A: I think the conversations … More
Read analysis and commentary on the Buddhist protests in Burma: The sangha, the community of Buddhist monks, played an important role, second only to that of students, in the democracy movement of 1988. In Mandalay, for example, it is widely … More
Commentator Donald W. Mitchell, a religious studies professor at Purdue University, writes about the protests in Myanmar and “socially engaged Buddhism.” More