Watch more of Kim Lawton’s interview with siblings who describe how their family survived World War II in a Jewish ghetto in Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

“We don’t treat soldiers that are atheists as atheists. We treat them as soldiers,” says Colonel Stephen Sicinski, base commander at Fort Bragg. But Captain Jason Torpy says army chaplains are "either ignorant of or hostile to nontheistic beliefs."

People of faith, black and white, need to be involved in resolving conflict through means that are other than violent, says Harold Dean Trulear, who teaches applied theology at Howard University School of Divinity.

Watch more of our discussion in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case about racial disparities in American society, religious ideas on human dignity, and revenge versus justice in contemporary culture.

Two United Church of Christ pastors have written a book about their experiences in the ministry and their work as pastoral leaders.

"What's amazing to me," says Rev. Lillian Daniel, "is the way people are still willing to sit and be quiet and thoughtful and sing together in a space that is transcendent and old and has meaning...and just listen to the human voice."

"A lot of people in caregiving situations ask, 'Why is God doing this to me? Where is God in the midst of all this?' and they really struggle with spiritual matters," says Rev. Kate Bryant. Her church started a special ministry to support parental caregivers.

"We've come a long way as a nation where there's a racial issue, but we still have a long, long, long way to go," says Rev. Fred Luter Jr., who is expected to become the first African-American president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school.

"As a parish nurse one of the greatest things we do is be present and just listen," says Diane Tieman of Queen of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church in suburban Chicago.