2004
DECEMBER
December 20, 2004
Conversation: Left Behind
Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown talks with Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, authors of the "Left Behind" series of Biblical thrillers.

NOVEMBER
November 4, 2004
Test of Tolerance
In the wake of a controversial film director's murder, Saul Gonzalez reports on the volatile issue of Muslim immigration in the Netherlands.

OCTOBER
October 25, 2004
Religion and Politics
Gwen Ifill discusses religion's place in politics with Joe Loconte, a research fellow in religion at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research institution; Amy Sullivan, an editor at the Washington Monthly Magazine, who served as an unofficial advisor to the Kerry campaign; and Steven Waldman, cofounder and editor in chief of Beliefnet, a multi-faith Web site on religious issues.

JUNE
June 14, 2004
Bishops and Ballots
America's Catholic bishops began a week-long conference in Colorado to discuss the practice of withholding Communion based on parishioners' political beliefs. Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at how the debate developed in the Diocese of Colorado Springs. Correspondent Jeffrey Brown follows up in a dialogue with two prominent American Catholics, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and American Enterprise Institute fellow Michael Novak.

MAY
May 6, 2004
Dialogue: Faith and War
President Bush often explains the war on terror in religious terms of good and evil. Jeffrey Brown speaks with University of Chicago theological scholars Jean Bethke Elshtain and Martin Marty about the role of religion in public discourse.

FEBRUARY
February 27, 2004
Newsmaker: Robert Bennett
In a new report, a Catholic review board called bishops' inability to stop decades of sexual abuse against minors "shameful." Margaret Warner discusses the findings with the review board's research committee chairman, Robert Bennett.

February 27, 2004
Church in Crisis
In a new report, a Catholic review board called bishops' inability to stop decades of sexual abuse against minors "shameful."

February 25, 2004
The Passion
Mel Gibson's new film about the final day in the life of Jesus Christ is prompting passionate responses from both Christian and Jewish leaders. Jeffrey Brown discusses The Passion of the Christ with Robert Johnston of Fuller Theological Seminary and Philip Cunningham of the Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.

February 12, 2004
Inside the Vatican
Jeffrey Brown visits the Vatican and speaks with John Allen, Rome correspondent for National Catholic Reporter, about the 25th anniversary of the John Paul II papacy, the frail heath of the pope and the issues his successor may face.