"To have a situation in which we recognize the full equality of women changes everything,” says Union Theological Seminary president Serene Jones.

“There is a whole historical world of women who have risen as leaders in religious communities because they were called to do it, not because someone said they could,” according to the first woman president of Union Theological Seminary.

The disabled, says religion writer Mark Pinsky, “are not just people who need help, but they are people who can help."

“Deeply listening to what it is they’re saying." That, says young hospice chaplain Kerry Egan, is the most important gift she offers to the dying patients she ministers to in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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."

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.

“Our church operates like orchestra. Every day we make perfect harmony and fantastic symphony,” says Yoido Full Gospel Church’s senior pastor, Rev. Young Hoon Lee.

"Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind in the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon," says Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow."

"Is there a point at which a change of heart no longer means anything to God?" Watch more of our interview with pastor and author Rob Bell.