“There’s really no widespread religious objection to the [measles] vaccine…It’s that I have a belief that these vaccines are harmful, or that they don’t work, or I don’t believe that somebody else should be telling me how to raise my kids,” says Religion News Service editor-in-chief Kevin Eckstrom. More →

February 6, 2015

Host Bob Abernethy leads a conversation with managing editor Kim Lawton, Religion News Service editor-in-chief Kevin Eckstrom, and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in our annual review of the top religion and ethics stories of 2014. More →

December 26, 2014

“The court will have to sort of decide where one person’s freedom ends and another person’s begins on something like this. But it does point to this larger question that we have,” observes Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of Religion News Service, “should religious groups or religious people or institutions be treated differently under the law than everybody else, and what the court is saying here is, Yes.” More →

July 3, 2014

We take our annual look back at the top religion and ethics news of the year—Pope Francis and his priorities, such as helping the poor, and also churches divided over homosexuality and same-sex marriage. More →

December 27, 2013

From faith-based expectations for the second Obama term to major court cases on gay marriage to turmoil in the Middle East, we look ahead to the top religion and ethics stories we expect to be covering in the year 2013. More →

December 28, 2012

Watch a panel of reporters discuss the most significant religion and ethics news of 2012. More →

December 20, 2012

“I do not believe that the preferential option for the poor means a preferential option for big government,” says Republican vice presidential candidate and Roman Catholic Paul Ryan. More →

August 17, 2012

“Rick Santorum is a very particular kind of Catholic…A lot of Catholics don’t see themselves in him, and a lot of people actually don’t even know that he’s Catholic. Most people assume he’s an evangelical,” says Religion News Service editor in chief Kevin Eckstrom.
know that he’s Catholic. Most people assume he’s an evangelical.” More →

March 9, 2012

We discuss the major religion and ethics stories anticipated in 2012, including religion in the upcoming elections, faith-based activity in the budget debates and immigration policy, key religion cases before the Supreme Court and mainline denominations and issues of homosexuality. More →

December 30, 2011

We discuss the major religion and ethics stories of the past year in the U.S. and abroad with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Religion News Service editor Kevin Eckstrom and Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton. More →

December 23, 2011