Topic: US Domestic Issues

  • Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard spoke August 17th with Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly about his recent CD, A TALE OF GOD’S WILL: A REQUIEM FOR KATRINA, when he was playing in Washington at Blues Alley: TERENCE BLANCHARD: In the aftermath of … More

    August 31, 2007

  • Most tourists come to Tanzania to take a photo safari through a wonderland of wildlife. There are few places on earth that can match it. On the other hand, there are an increasing number of tourists who come to Tanzania to comfort a dying old lady or hold a little orphan girl. It’s called “voluntourism.” More

    April 6, 2007

  • Read more of Kim Lawton’s March 20, 2007 interview in New Orleans with the Rev. Lance Eden of First Street United Methodist Church. More

    April 6, 2007

  • Read more of Kim Lawton’s March 19, 2007 interview in New Orleans with the Rev. Jerry Kramer of the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation. More

    April 6, 2007

  • BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: A story now about business executives and would-be executives who want to be not only rich and powerful, but happy too. That desire, as Lucky Severson reports, has created a demand for teachers of Hindu and Buddhist … More

    February 9, 2007

  • Scott Neeson is a former movie executive who now runs a school for kids living in the slums around Phnom Penh, Cambodia. More

    December 1, 2006

  • Science and religion are sometimes at odds over the environment, but this prominent biologist is pleading for both to work together in order to protect the earth’s biodiversity. More

    November 17, 2006

  • Read more of Bob Abernethy’s October 16, 2006 interview in Cambridge, Massachusetts with E.O. Wilson: Q: As briefly and as strongly as you can put it, what do you want all of us to do? A: I want us to … More

    November 17, 2006

  • Read an excerpt from THE CREATION: AN APPEAL TO SAVE LIFE ON EARTH by E.O. Wilson (Norton, 2006), written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist pastor: I’ve tried not to water down in any way the … More

    November 17, 2006

  • Hispanics are now the largest minority in America. Most Latinos are Democrats, but in recent elections, more and more have voted Republican. But the debates over immigration reform could change that, as many Hispanics favor more liberal immigration policies than most Republicans have supported. More

    October 6, 2006

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