Book Excerpt by Gustav Niebuhr Gandhi is the gold standard when it comes to talking about interreligious respect. On the night that India became independent from Britain, the goal for which he had worked so hard, Gandhi avoided the ceremonies … More →

January 16, 2009

BOOK REVIEW Poet as Prophet: The Religious Whitman and His Disciples by David E. Anderson The link between religion and poetry has largely been lost to the popular mind in the Western world, especially in the United States. Even the … More →

January 6, 2009

Camp Ray of Hope is like no other. People grieving the death of a spouse, a child, or a friend, attend in order to learn how to accept that death and go on. It is filled with laughter, beauty, and pain. More →

October 17, 2008

Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, explains the Jewish High Holiday concepts of sin, repentance, and forgiveness. More →

September 26, 2008

Editor’s note: Dr. McCullough died in Maine on June 3, 2016. he was 72. Excerpted and adapted from remarks by Dennis McCullough, M.D. at an interfaith service, Kendal at Hanover, April 15, 2007 Then the King will say to those … More →

August 15, 2008

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, a profile of a devout man of apparently boundless energy who teaches children how to play soccer — and a lot more. He is Spencer Rockman, director of the Rovers International Soccer Camp in New Jersey. … More →

August 8, 2008

  BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Sometimes the stories we tell on this program have a dramatic effect, as one did last summer about a struggling, itinerant black pastor in Louisiana — a modern-day circuit rider driving his old car from one … More →

June 20, 2008

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This Memorial Day weekend, as happens each year, half a million motorcycle riders are expected in Washington, D.C. from all over the country. They call the event Rolling Thunder. The bikers will parade in honor of Americans … More →

May 23, 2008

We have a story today about two young men who grew up together best friends — one white, one black — and then took different religious paths. One became an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, the other a Muslim. Today they argue, of course, but as Betty Rollin reports, they’ve found their theological differences don’t matter nearly as much as friendship and laughter. More →

April 18, 2008

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, a report on an army boot camp for chaplains where they learn to carry out their ministry within the military culture. They’ve already been ordained in their own faith traditions, but the Army recognizes more than … More →

April 4, 2008