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May 17, 2013: Boy S...
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“If you’re training gay scouts to be, presumably, gay leaders, but then you don’t want gay leaders in the scouts, that’s an odd message to send,” says United Metho...

May 17, 2013: Boy Scouts and Gay Ban

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“If you’re training gay scouts to be, presumably, gay leaders, but then you don’t want gay leaders in the scouts, that’s an odd message to send,” says United Methodist pastor Charles Parker, a former scout. But opponents of the proposal to accept gay scouts say it flies in the face of a basic scouting tenet: the oath boys take to be “morally straight.”

May 17, 2013: Seque...
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"Every time we talk about a cut you’re talking about many people who don’t have an expensive lobby in Washington, DC. It’s an economic justice issue, a social just...

May 17, 2013: Sequestration and the Poor

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May 17, 2013: Sequestration and the Poor

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"Every time we talk about a cut you’re talking about many people who don’t have an expensive lobby in Washington, DC. It’s an economic justice issue, a social justice issue," says Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rollins Blake. City governments and programs that help the poor will bear the brunt of the federal budget cuts imposed by sequestration.

May 17, 2013: Mike ...
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This former White House press secretary wants to change our bitter political climate and restore “real relationships of trust.” After graduating from Wesley Theolo...

May 17, 2013: Mike McCurry on Fixing Politics

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May 17, 2013: Mike McCurry on Fixing Politics

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This former White House press secretary wants to change our bitter political climate and restore “real relationships of trust.” After graduating from Wesley Theological Seminary, McCurry, a United Methodist, says he "felt some sense of call, that God was putting on me a challenge to see if I could do something about this broken world of politics that I've worked in for so long."

May 17, 2013: Mike ...
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"I think the single biggest missing ingredient in our political system right now are real relationships of trust, human relationships where people really think abo...

May 17, 2013: Mike McCurry Extended Interview

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"I think the single biggest missing ingredient in our political system right now are real relationships of trust, human relationships where people really think about and care about each other. And that's right where the church has to be."

May 17, 2013: Sikh ...
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“How glorious they look, how beautiful they become when they tie the turban on their head," says Surinder Singh, youth and education coordinator of the Sikh Founda...

May 17, 2013: Sikh Turban Showdown

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“How glorious they look, how beautiful they become when they tie the turban on their head," says Surinder Singh, youth and education coordinator of the Sikh Foundation of Virginia.

May 10, 2013: Leavi...
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A support group called Footsteps is providing counsel to those who have chosen to leave the confines of the ultra-Orthodox world in which they were raised.

May 10, 2013: Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism

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May 10, 2013: Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism

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A support group called Footsteps is providing counsel to those who have chosen to leave the confines of the ultra-Orthodox world in which they were raised.

May 10, 2013: Samue...
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Watch more of our interview with sociology professor Samuel Heilman about the difficulties of leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

May 10, 2013: Samuel Heilman Extended Interview

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May 10, 2013: Samuel Heilman Extended Interview

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Watch more of our interview with sociology professor Samuel Heilman about the difficulties of leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

May 10, 2013: Priso...
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"These are safe men. Not only will they not create conflict and violence in your community, they can help resolve it," says Jacques Verduin. His program in San Que...

May 10, 2013: Prison Nonviolence Project

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May 10, 2013: Prison Nonviolence Project

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"These are safe men. Not only will they not create conflict and violence in your community, they can help resolve it," says Jacques Verduin. His program in San Quentin prison is helping inmates deal with the emotional pain at the root of their criminal behavior.

May 3, 2013: Muslim...
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"What we can do, number one, is to ensure that there’s a counter narrative, that there’s a narrative of life, of positivity," says Haris Tarin, director the Washin...

May 3, 2013: Muslim Antiterrorism

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May 3, 2013: Muslim Antiterrorism

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"What we can do, number one, is to ensure that there’s a counter narrative, that there’s a narrative of life, of positivity," says Haris Tarin, director the Washington office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

May 3, 2013: Iraqi ...
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"Just like we help the veterans who come home from the wars, and they have a lot of challenges, so also we have a responsibility and a need to help these folks as ...

May 3, 2013: Iraqi Refugees in California

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May 3, 2013: Iraqi Refugees in California

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"Just like we help the veterans who come home from the wars, and they have a lot of challenges, so also we have a responsibility and a need to help these folks as well," says Mike McKay, director of refugee services for Catholic Charities in San Diego.

May 3, 2013: Room t...
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When former Microsoft executive John Wood discovered the world’s need for books, he was trekking in Nepal and recalling what he had read in the Dalai Lama’s book “...

May 3, 2013: Room to Read

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May 3, 2013: Room to Read

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When former Microsoft executive John Wood discovered the world’s need for books, he was trekking in Nepal and recalling what he had read in the Dalai Lama’s book “The Art of Happiness” about the importance of giving something to someone in need.

April 26, 2013: Bir...
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April 26, 2013: Birmingham and the Children’s March

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April 26, 2013: Birmingham and the Children’s March

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April 26, 2013: Fre...
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Watch an extended interview with Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who in 1963 was one of many children who was placed in j...

April 26, 2013: Freeman Hrabowski Extended Interview

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April 26, 2013: Freeman Hrabowski Extended Interview

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Watch an extended interview with Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who in 1963 was one of many children who was placed in jail for marching in Birmingham.

April 26, 2013: Bas...
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Baseball, like religion, has its own relics, prophets, rituals, and in the game's most magnificent moments, a sense of "the ineffable," according to John Sexton, p...

April 26, 2013: Baseball and Religion

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April 26, 2013: Baseball and Religion

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Baseball, like religion, has its own relics, prophets, rituals, and in the game's most magnificent moments, a sense of "the ineffable," according to John Sexton, president of New York University and author of "Baseball as a Road to God."

April 19, 2013: Rel...
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Faith communities in Boston and beyond should pray “for a sense of our connectedness to each other,” says Rev. Samuel Lloyd, priest-in-charge at Trinity Church in ...

April 19, 2013: Religious Responses to Boston Bombing

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April 19, 2013: Religious Responses to Boston Bombing

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Faith communities in Boston and beyond should pray “for a sense of our connectedness to each other,” says Rev. Samuel Lloyd, priest-in-charge at Trinity Church in Boston’s Back Bay. In the midst of a terrible trauma, they should be “grateful for a God of love working through all of this.”

April 19, 2013: Rel...
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Interfaith Power & Light brings together people of different faiths to be better stewards of creation by responding to global warming and by supporting changes in ...

April 19, 2013: Religion and the Environment

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Interfaith Power & Light brings together people of different faiths to be better stewards of creation by responding to global warming and by supporting changes in environmental public policy.

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October 28, 2011: Survey on American Catholics

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October 28, 2011: Survey on American Catholics
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A new survey finds that Catholics in the US are making up their own minds about social and moral concerns. As one of the authors of the survey, William D’Antonio, said, American Catholics like being Catholic but they like to do it on their own terms.