"We must determine whether the irrevocable past will endure like a nightmare in our efforts at world leadership."

"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 also shared their thoughts about the recent rally on the National Mall.

"Isn’t Obama’s Christianity a private matter? Isn't it peripheral to the real issues at hand? Not right now. The culture is desperate for adult guidance when it comes to religion."

The controversy over building an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, says this professor of religious studies, "is about what kind of a society we wish to be and to become."

The director of the Presbyterian Church USA's Public Witness, Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry speaks about neighbor, family, faith, and immigration reform.

Senate Democrats invited religion reporters to Capitol Hill on July 28 to talk about outreach to communities of faith, the role of values in governing, and religious involvement in domestic and foreign policy issues.

Watch scenes from a March 21 service at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Washington, DC. It was followed by an interfaith service and march for immigration reform on the National Mall.

Watch some of the religious leaders who were at the March 21 interfaith prayer service for immigration reform on the National Mall.