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October 16, 2009: Season of Service
A partnership between the city of Portland, Oregon and evangelical churches has led to thousands of volunteers completing hundreds of community service projects focused on schools, hunger, homelessness, health, poverty, and the environment.
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September 25, 2009: Harvey Cox
In his new book on the difference between faith and belief, this Harvard professor and scholar of religion says what it means to be religious is shifting significantly as the 21st century unfolds.
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September 25, 2009: Harvey Cox Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy’s interview in Cambridge, Massachusetts with theologian and Harvard professor Harvey Cox.
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson
"The holy is at the origins of everything that exists," says the author of the prize-winning novels "Gilead" and "Home."
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.
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September 18, 2009: HOME by Marilynne Robinson
Read an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's latest novel "Home."
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson: The Novelist as Theologian
Marilynne Robinson's Calvinist Protestantism imbues her with a fierce political liberalism grounded in Scripture and informs the respect with which she describes small movements of character and conversation.
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August 21, 2009: Lutherans Debate Gay Clergy
Watch interviews with delegates to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's recent national assembly, which voted to allow local congregations to hire noncelibate gay and lesbian pastors.
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August 21, 2009: Lutheran Meeting
At its national assembly in Minneapolis, the country's largest Lutheran denomination permitted the ordination and hiring of homosexual clergy who are in “lifelong, monogamous” relationships.
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August 21, 2009: Passing the Mantle
"We must return to the values that made the black church a true success," says Rev. Mark Whitlock, director of community initiatives at USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, where a mentoring program trains African-American clergy in community organizing, economic development, and church leadership strategies.
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