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Newest Episode: Fri February 10, 2012. 10:56 PM
A national PBS series that covers religion and ethics at home and abroad with a depth and insight rarely seen on American television. This unique weekly newsmagazine reports on people, events, trends, beliefs, practices and the many stories behind the headlines about religion, ethics, and all expressions of faith. It brings to the public the most important voices, issues, and perspectives on such themes as world religions, bioethics, war and peace, church and state, God and politics, and much more.
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Fri February 10, 2012. 10:56 PM
Trying to balance issues of public health and religious liberty, the Obama administration announced a plan to calm anger over a new rule that would require health insurance plans, including those offered by Roman Catholic hospitals, universities, and charities, to provide free birth control to female employees. Instead, insurance companies rather than religious institutions will be required to offer contraceptive coverage at no cost.
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Fri February 10, 2012. 07:07 PM
“We don’t want a religious state,” says Muslim Brotherhood member of parliament Ossama Yassin. “We want a modern, civil, democratic state belonging to the people.”
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Fri February 10, 2012. 06:06 PM
“Our Christian faith,” says David Montague, director of the Memphis Teacher Residency program, “informs our belief that every child can learn.”
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Fri February 03, 2012. 05:18 PM
“If we can bring in some light, the darkness will not overcome the light, and that’s where faith is. We believe that.”
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Fri February 03, 2012. 05:09 PM
“When we say grace we are grateful for the food on our plates. But where did that food travel? Who picked it? How did it get to us? As people of faith we are called to think about that.”
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Fri January 27, 2012. 09:09 PM
Egypt’s recent parliamentary elections have raised concerns about the imposition of an Islamist agenda by Islamist groups and parties, but Middle East expert Kate Seelye says “the hope is that once in office they will move more to the center and that won’t be the case.”
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Fri January 27, 2012. 04:55 PM
“Will evangelicals turn out in large numbers and be energized as volunteers and financial supporters of Mitt Romney? It doesn't take a majority of evangelicals to stay home. It just takes a few million evangelicals to choose to not get as actively involved in this race to cost Mitt Romney the presidency,” according to evangelical journalist Warren Cole Smith.
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Fri January 27, 2012. 04:32 PM
“Mitt Romney has studiously avoided the subject of religion whenever possible. He’s a technocrat. He’s very careful. He’s highly managed in his public presentation. He knows that bringing up Mormonism conjures a host of associations he’d like to avoid.”
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Fri January 27, 2012. 04:27 PM
“I would say that Mormon culture, Mormon doctrine, Mormon belief have been well outside the mainstream of both American culture and Christian culture for many years.”
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Fri January 27, 2012. 04:18 PM
“Our church operates like orchestra. Every day we make perfect harmony and fantastic symphony,” says Yoido Full Gospel Church’s senior pastor, Rev. Young Hoon Lee.
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Fri January 20, 2012. 10:03 PM
After ten years of war, says Georgetown University ethics professor Nancy Sherman, US troops are coming home from Iraq, “and now they see that whole project of stability and democratization unraveling. They come home carrying heavy invisible wounds, of a sense of betrayal and PTSD. Was it worth it?”
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Fri January 20, 2012. 07:05 PM
“The questions in the eyes of many other Muslims,” says Georgetown University Islamic studies professor John Esposito, is “are these people really Muslims or not?”
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Fri January 20, 2012. 06:49 PM
Using ancient principles, says Raymond Lo, a Feng Shui grand master in Hong Kong, “we can establish where is the good energy and where is the bad energy.”
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Thu January 19, 2012. 06:24 PM
As the South Carolina Republican primary approaches on January 21 and candidate Rick Santorum claims a belated victory in the Iowa caucuses, watch excerpts from a 2010 speech that Santorum, a Catholic, delivered on the role of religious faith in public life.
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Fri January 13, 2012. 11:10 PM
"South Carolina is really shaping up as a make or break last stand for social conservatives," says David Gibson of Religion News Service.
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Fri January 13, 2012. 11:05 PM
"Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind in the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon," says Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow."
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Fri January 13, 2012. 11:02 PM
Watch more of our conversation with author Michelle Alexander about crime, the war on drugs, and the disproportionately high number of African-Americans in prison.
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Fri January 13, 2012. 11:01 PM
"When somebody dies in Christ, or dies a Christian, it’s a good thing because he’s going to God. He has died on a good path," says Nii Adei Klu.
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Fri January 06, 2012. 11:10 PM
"What’s wrong with this picture: 50 miles north of here is possibly the worst human rights situation, including Christian persecution in the entire world, and here we are in South Korea living a lifestyle that’s probably on par with the United States and Europe," says pastor Tim Peters, a missionary in South Korea.
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Fri January 06, 2012. 06:42 PM
"There seems to be a theme in the album, not intentional, and it’s funny because for somebody who is not a religious person, God comes up a lot in my songs," says legendary singer/songwriter Paul Simon.
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