Abraham Foxman on the Boundaries of Civility
May 3, 2010
Abraham Foxman on the Boundaries of Civility
Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman discusses Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN this week, the lack of civility in American public discourse, and ongoing Jewish concerns about the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany.
May 3, 2010
Arizona Immigration Law
April 30, 2010
Arizona Immigration Law
Gerald Kicanas, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, says Arizona's new immigration law is not a solution to our broken immigration system, and the dignity of migrants needs to be respected.
April 30, 2010
Texas Textbook Controversy
April 30, 2010
Texas Textbook Controversy
Texas Board of Education member Don McLeroy says he want to make sure "the founders' dependence upon God that they wrote into the documents" is presented in public school textbooks.
April 30, 2010
Laity and the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal
April 23, 2010
Laity and the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal
"The whole Vatican needs to come to grips with this," says Catholic journalist and editor Margaret Steinfels, and "they should stop blaming the messengers."
April 23, 2010
Muslim Home Schooling
April 23, 2010
Muslim Home Schooling
Rizwan Jaka says his family chose home schooling in order to provide "strong values, strong academics, strong respect and understanding of our faith, as well as respect for other faiths."
April 23, 2010
Haiti: A Personal Journey
April 23, 2010
Haiti: A Personal Journey
Managing editor Kim Lawton returns to the church, clinic, and school her missionary grandparents helped to establish in Haiti more than 30 years ago.
April 23, 2010
Return to Haiti Backstory
April 23, 2010
Return to Haiti Backstory
Go behind the scenes with the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly crew on their recent reporting trip to Haiti.
April 23, 2010
Arguing CLS v. Martinez
April 20, 2010
Arguing CLS v. Martinez
Watch the scene outside the Supreme Court on April 19 following oral arguments in the case of Christian Legal Society v Martinez.
April 20, 2010
My Jesus Year
April 20, 2010
My Jesus Year
Benyamin Cohen has written a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity, and he uses what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.
April 20, 2010
Evangelicals and Nuclear Security
April 16, 2010
Evangelicals and Nuclear Security
A new generation of young evangelicals who grew up after the Cold War, says Richard Cizik, advocate reducing nuclear arms and locking down nuclear materials.
April 16, 2010
Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
April 16, 2010
Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
"The Constitution protects the rights of groups to come together to articulate their messages and choose their messengers," says Greg Baylor, attorney for the Christian Legal Society.
April 16, 2010
Eradicating a Global Scourge
April 16, 2010
Eradicating a Global Scourge
A former president's effort to rid the world of a painful parasitic disease has been praised as an effective model for how to tackle entrenched poverty and other global problems.
April 16, 2010
Anthony Shadid on Iraq
April 15, 2010
Anthony Shadid on Iraq
Revisit our 2005 conversation about the iraq war with Anthony Shadid, who this week won his second Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.
April 15, 2010
Ginghamsburg Church and Darfur
April 9, 2010
Ginghamsburg Church and Darfur
As national elections approach in the fragile African country of Sudan, one church's commitment to its education, agriculture, water, and micro-enterprise projects there remains steadfast.
April 9, 2010
Rev. Mike Slaughter Interview Excerpts
April 9, 2010
Rev. Mike Slaughter Interview Excerpts
Watch more of correspondent Kim Lawton's interviews with the pastor of Ginghamsburg Church, who says faith communities must remind the world "that there is a moral mandate we have as human beings toward the treatment of other human beings."
April 9, 2010
Mezuzah
April 9, 2010
Mezuzah
"It's affixed and not movable, because that's like God is—our rock, always there, always affixed to our hearts," says Rabbi Tamara Miller.
April 9, 2010
Easter Hope in Haiti
April 2, 2010
Easter Hope in Haiti
"We start the day with prayer, and we end the day with prayer and pray all day long for the safety and healing of this nation," says Andrew Haglund of the Adventist Hospital of Haiti.
April 2, 2010
Easter East and West
April 2, 2010
Easter East and West
Because of differing church calendars, Western and Eastern Christians usually celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on different dates. Over the centuries, distinct Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Holy Week practices have developed. However, both Orthodox and Western Christians say celebration of ...
April 2, 2010
Embryonic Stem Cell Controversy
April 2, 2010
Embryonic Stem Cell Controversy
"We have to take account, for moral purposes, of the duty of beneficence, the duty to come to the aid of those who suffer if we can do so without unreasonable burden," says Louis Guenin, a lecturer on ethics in science at Harvard Medical School.
April 2, 2010
Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandals
March 26, 2010
Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandals
We talk about the spreading sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church with Father Thomas Reese, SJ, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center.
March 26, 2010

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