"If a war is unjust then the duty to establish postwar justice is all the more imperative, even though that won’t retroactively make it a just war."

"President Obama needed to provide a more affirmative vision of successes in Iraq, a vision that casts it as a victory over totalitarianism, which has always been a central aspect of America's civilizing mission."

Washington, DC religious leaders spoke against rising anti-Muslim rhetoric at an August 30 press conference, and some of them also shared their thoughts about the recent rally on the National Mall organized by conservative commentator Glenn Beck.

A Christian leader in Indonesia says a Florida church’s plans to burn Qurans on 9/11 could endanger Christian minorities in predominantly Muslim countries.

"There's something happening inside of the hearts and minds of people that has brought us all together," says Rev. John Dee Jeffries of the First Baptist Church in Chalmette, Louisiana.

"The fear people have is that if my child is raised in the other parent’s religion, then the child will grow closer to the other parent," says one interfaith family mediator.

Listen to this week's show.

As major combat operations come to an end and the US completes a troop drawdown in Iraq, revisit interviews with ethicists, philosophers, scholars, and religious leaders about just war and the moral issues raised by Iraq.

Listen to excerpts from our 2007 interview about Hurricane Katrina with jazz great Terence Blanchard, who says "there has to be something for us to learn from this."

Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard spoke with us on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina about his CD, "A Tale of God's Will: A Requiem for Katrina," and writing hopeful music about hopelessness.