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July 20, 2007: Green House Nursing Homes
There's a hopeful new development on the nursing home scene. Investors, among them faith-based groups, are building and staffing small cottages in which those needing long-term care can get personal attention and find a degree of independence that's not possible in most larger institutions. Bob Faw of NBC News has our report.
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June 22, 2007: U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
For more than 200 years there has been a chaplain in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.The current Senate chaplain is the Reverend Barry Black, the first African American and the first Seventh-day Adventist in the position. Kim Lawton reports.
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June 22, 2007: Chaplain Barry Black Extended Interview
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview with U.S. Senate chaplain Barry Black.
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June 15, 2007: Street Children of Brazil
A powerful special report on children who live and work on the streets. The UN estimates there are 100 million such kids, seven million of them in Brazil. On her recent trip to Brazil, Kim Lawton met and followed a British Christian who is spending her life trying to rescue some of those children.
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June 15, 2007: Behind the Scenes in Brazil
"People often ask me how our stories come together. The "Street Children of Brazil" story in particular had many logistical complications, and we had to work hard to pull it off."
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There's a woman in San Francisco, Sara Miles, who used to be a journalist and an atheist. But she had a conversion experience and is now a leader in her church, where she feeds the homeless full-time.
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April 6, 2007: Easter Hope in New Orleans
In this special Easter report, Kim Lawton checks in with two New Orleans pastors who were both in their first years at their churches when Hurricane Katrina hit. She asks them how they are reflecting on the themes of the Easter season this year.
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April 6, 2007: Interview: Lance Eden
Read more of Kim Lawton’s March 20, 2007 interview in New Orleans with the Rev. Lance Eden of First Street United Methodist Church.
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April 6, 2007: Interview: Jerry Kramer
Read more of Kim Lawton’s March 19, 2007 interview in New Orleans with the Rev. Jerry Kramer of the Church of the Annunciation (Episcopal).
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There is a group of Benedictine nuns in Missouri who bake and sell millions of Communion wafers, small and large. But some would-be communicants complained that they are allergic to the gluten in the wheat in the nun's wafers. So they could not receive Communion. For the sisters that was a challenge.
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