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November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall

November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall

"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 237   
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November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview

November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview

Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 7   Views: 218   
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November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good

November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good

Hastings Center bioethicist and philosopher Daniel Callahan says the common good as a moral value should be the foundation for American health care reform, but it has been largely absent from the current public debate.

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 195   
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November 6, 2009: City Creek Center

November 6, 2009: City Creek Center

City planner Stephen Goldsmith says this private development project of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints creates a "we-they" divide. Jason Mathis of Salt Lake City's Downtown Alliance says the church is creating "a community that is going to last for the next hundred years."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 25   Views: 302   
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October 30, 2009: New Federal Hate Crimes Law

October 30, 2009: New Federal Hate Crimes Law

A recent expansion of the federal hate crimes law "does not suspend the First Amendment," says New York Times staff writer David Kirkpatrick, "and there's nobody, I think, on either side of the US Senate or House of Representatives that intends to see preachers locked in jail."

Posted: Oct 30th, 2009  Comments: 11   Views: 298   
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Senate Democrats: Discussing Moral Issues
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Senate Democrats: Discussing Moral Issues

Senate Democrats invited religion reporters to the Capitol to talk about "the moral imperatives of health care and climate change" and to ask faith communities to "speak out against obstructions."

Posted: Oct 21st, 2009  Comments: 4   Views: 264   
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October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform

October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform

"Abortion is a health service, " says Rev. Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute. "Abortion is a morally objectionable activity," says Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life.

Posted: Oct 16th, 2009  Comments: 8   Views: 626   
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October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform Extended Interviews

October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform Extended Interviews

Watch more of Kim Lawton’s interviews with Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, and Rev. Debra Haffner, executive director of the Religious Institute.

Posted: Oct 16th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 170   
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October 9, 2009: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2009: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

In his response to receiving the peace prize, the president said "we must pursue a new beginning among people of different faiths and races and religions, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect."

Posted: Oct 9th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 417   
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October 2, 2009: Afghanistan War

October 2, 2009: Afghanistan War

As the war in Afghanistan approaches the beginning of its ninth year, Bob Abernethy speaks with William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, about the future of US involvement.

Posted: Oct 2nd, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 404   
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