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2000
DECEMBER
December 28, 2000
New Bible
Elizabeth Farnsworth reports on San Francisco-based Arion Press, which publishes a new Bible the old-fashioned way: by hand.

AUGUST
August 31, 2000
Summit at the U.N.
Elizabeth Farnsworth discusses the Millennium World Peace Summit, which ended in New York City.


August 31, 2000
Religion and Conflict
Rwanda experienced some of the worst ethnic violence ever witnessed during the 90s. Fred De Sam Lazero examines how religion is helping to ease the remaining ethnic tension in the area.


August 9, 2000
Religion and Politics
A discussion of what it means to be both an Orthodox Jew and a politician. We're joined by Senator Joseph Lieberman's rabbi, Barry Freundel; Samuel Freedman, author of "Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry;" and Kenneth Wald, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.

JULY
July 12, 2000
America's Most Honored
A conversation with Father Theodore Hesburg, who will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Father Hesburg has been president of the University of Notre Dame for the past 35 years.

MAY
May 8, 2000
The Church Divide
Correspondent Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on the contentious issue of homosexuality and the church.


May 4, 2000
Remembering Cardinal John O'Connor
Scott Appleby, director of the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame and Monseignieur Philip Murnion, director of the National Pastoral Life Center and a priest of the archdiocese of New York, remember the cardinal, who died Wednesday.

APRIL
April 21, 2000
Teaching Religion
Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on teaching religion in public schools.


April 1, 2000
Forum: Teaching Religion
How should schools teach religion to students? The Freedom Forum's Charles Haynes and comparative religion teacher Jim Maechling respond to your questions.

MARCH
March 23, 2000
Papal Pilgrimage
Yvonne Haddad, professor of history at the Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University; Susannah Heschel, chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth University; Scott Appleby, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame; and Rashid Khalidi, Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago; analyze the significance of the Pope's trip to the Holy Land.


March 13, 2000
Papal Apology
Senior correspondent Ray Suarez discusses the Pope's controversial apology with guests representing various perspectives.

FEBRUARY
February 29, 2000
A Holy War?
Correspondent Spencer Michels examines the current fight over religion in the Republican presidential race. Experts give four perspectives on the part religion has played in the Republican presidential race.


February 11, 2000
Colorado, the Constitution and Ten Commandments
Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reveals a student's fight to get the ten commandments posted in the classrooms as a source of strength for students.

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