December 4, 2009: Morality and the Afghanistan War
Watch John Carlson, associate director of Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, talk about President Obama's Afghanistan speech and the ethical implications of a new Afghanistan strategy.
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December 4, 2009: John Carlson Extended Interview
In judging the conduct of the war in Afghanistan "one has to constantly analyze the probability of success," says scholar John Carlson, whose field is religion, ethics, and public life.
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November 20, 2009: The Right War Gone Wrong
In Afghanistan, observes Georgetown University professor John Langan, “we are forced to fight in cautious and disagreeable ways” and “we never get very far from the possibility of tragedy.”
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November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall
"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."
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November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview
Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."
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October 30, 2009: Muslims in Germany
Germany has twice as many mosques as the United States, but it still has a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for Muslim immigrants and their children.
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October 16, 2009: Tyler Wigg-Stevenson on Theology and Nuclear Weapons
Watch Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, founding director of the Two Futures Project, discuss nuclear disarmament from a Christian perspective.
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September 11, 2009: Islam in Indonesia
In the world's largest Muslim nation, says Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar, "there seems to be a greater willingness both to be openly religious and to be modern and educated at the same."
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August 28, 2009: CIA Interrogation Tactics
"In a democracy that espouses certain moral values, we need to have accountability," says ethicist Shaun Casey. "It prepares us morally to face the future when we're facing a crisis and pressure to abandon legal and moral precedents that we've observed."
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August 7, 2009: Islam and Modernity
"You can’t say that religious opinions made over 1, 000 years ago are valid for all times," says Gamal al-Banna, a reformist Muslim cleric in Egypt. "We must have a revolution in the understanding of Islam, a revolution almost like Martin Luther’s."
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