Imam Feisal Rauf of New York City was in Washington this week and spoke with us about religion's positive potential in a post-Mubarak Egypt.

A progressive evangelical says how you cut the federal deficit is a moral question.

As Mideast turmoil spreads, a professor of international affairs says we are witnessing changing interpretations of religion and "a struggle over which interpretations have authority over whom."

"If there is a new state, presumably there will be more religious tolerance," says Middle East author and analyst Geneive Abdo. "We can only hope so."

"The issue is are there things which are justifiably secret and ought to be kept secret, and there are," says former Ambassador Edward Rowell.

"Many people are hoping there will be a more pluralistic government that will embrace the Christian Copts," says Qamar-ul Huda, a senior program officer at the US Institute of Peace.

"There's a lot of compatibility between the notion of Islamic finance and microfinance," says Roshaneh Zafar, who established a nonprofit organization that has made small business loans to hundreds of thousands of women.

As protests and rebellion break out across the Arab world, R & E looks back at insights from interviews with scholars and experts on the compatibility of democratic values and Islam.

In his State of the Union address to the 112th Congress, President Obama spoke of America's "common creed" and "moral example."

What did people of faith think about President Obama’s State of the Union address? Watch our panel of religion analysts assess the speech.