“When you are reciting the Quran you feel like you are talking to Allah,” says Quran reciter Sheikh Mohammad Alraee. During Ramadan he has been chanting the Quran from memory at the Islamic Center of Northern Virginia.

You receive ashes on your forehead “to remember that life is short…you come from dust and will return to dust,” says Julie Bringman, director of Sunday night ministries at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC.

A decade after 9/11, we talk again with a minister and a rabbi who revisit the conversation they had in September 2001 and who offer some theological thoughts about violence, justice, revenge, forgiveness, evil, and hope.

A recent event at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC honored Native American spirituality and apologized to native peoples of the US for past wrongs.

Rami Elhanan and Mazen Faraj are members of the Parents Circle-Families Forum, a grassroots group that unites bereaved Israelis and Palestinians who have lost immediate family members to the Middle East conflict. Together they promote a message of dialogue, reconciliation, and peace.

A Mennonite pastor in Fresno, California believes that "even the worst of the worst of the worst are human beings, and they can change."

On November 9, a divided Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases about just punishment for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses. Are life sentences imposed on juvenile offenders cruel and unusual?

Our Belief and Practice segment today centers on the High Holiday concepts of sin, repentance, and forgiveness, as explained by Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia.

Evangelical churches, both black and white, have long been accused of not doing enough to promote HIV/AIDS testing and awareness in their congregations. But Kathi Winter is one evangelical trying to change that. It's a very personal crusade for her - she's HIV positive.

In public life, separation of church and state is widely approved, but what about separation of religious beliefs from official acts? Should a public official be guided by his or her faith? We have a story today about granting clemency to those convicted of a crime. It's a form of mercy or forgiveness, and governors can see it in very different ways, as Bob Faw of NBC News reports.