Physical healing and spiritual care go hand in hand at a no-frills health care clinic in Tutwiler, Mississippi.

If you are a patient who is poor, says this doctor-nun, "sometimes in this society your are taught not to care about yourself…You are denigrated and told you are not an important person."

She is a quadriplegic who has spent more than 40 years in a wheel chair, and she says living with suffering teaches you who you are.

Singing, drawing, and painting are unique forms of expression for this evangelical speaker and writer and also a means of encouraging others.

One of the biggest challenges of Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the United Kingdom is how to make the case for the Christian faith in a nation known for its growing secularism.

How Palestinians and Israeli settlers share water resources is "critical to the peace process."

University of Notre Dame history professor Scott Appleby assesses the present moment and analyzes the anxiety, fear, and conflict currently in evidence on the American religious scene.

Photography, according to Abbot Barnabas Senecal of St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison, Kansas, is an exercise in monastic mindfulness, and he says his pictures reflect "being aware of the presence of God with you and in the world."

Abbot Barnabas Senecal, a Benedictine monk, reflects on the Psalms, prayer, photography, and the Benedictine desire "to seek God daily."

"We want to prove to America that we are not terrorist suspects," says Imam Mahdi Bray. US Islamic groups have launched several projects to fight extremism within their own communities, particularly among young people.

At a press conference this week in Washington, DC, religious leaders gathered to denounce anti-Muslim bigotry and "to promote a culture of mutual respect and the assurance of religious freedom for all."

Was it worth it? Was it just? Did the good exceed the harm? William Galston and Michael Cromartie discuss the costs and consequences of the Iraq war as the US ends its combat mssion.

"This isn’t about bigotry. This isn’t about religious persecution. This really is about sensitivity and a profound sense of loss," says Fordham University Law School professor Thane Rosenbaum.

The blast of the shofar during the High Holy Days, says Rabbi Irwin Tanenbaum, "sends a shiver. We can be better than we are."

Washington, DC religious leaders spoke against rising anti-Muslim rhetoric at an August 30 press conference, and some of them also shared their thoughts about the recent rally on the National Mall organized by conservative commentator Glenn Beck.

A Christian leader in Indonesia says a Florida church’s plans to burn Qurans on 9/11 could endanger Christian minorities in predominantly Muslim countries.

"There's something happening inside of the hearts and minds of people that has brought us all together," says Rev. John Dee Jeffries of the First Baptist Church in Chalmette, Louisiana.

"The fear people have is that if my child is raised in the other parent’s religion, then the child will grow closer to the other parent," says one interfaith family mediator.

As major combat operations come to an end and the US completes a troop drawdown in Iraq, revisit interviews with ethicists, philosophers, scholars, and religious leaders about just war and the moral issues raised by Iraq.

Listen to more of our 2007 interview about Hurricane Katrina with jazz great Terence Blanchard, who says "there has to be something for us to learn from this."