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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.
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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."
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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.
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"That’s federal public lands," says plaintiff Frank Buono. "It belongs to everyone, and so it matters to me that the lands held in common by the United States do not become the venues for sectarian religious expressions, even of my own religious expressions."
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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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Mike Huckabee: Still Social Conservatives’ Choice
Watch excerpts of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's speech at the 2009 Values Voter Summit.
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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: Religious Activists and Politics
Religious progressives are having an impact on the Obama White House, says religion and politics expert John Green, " but there's no lack of activity among religious conservatives."
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John Green: Religious Activists and Politics
Watch Kim Lawton’s extended interview with John Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, about religious activists on the left and the right.
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September 11, 2009: Islam in Indonesia
In the world's largest Muslim nation, says Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar, "there seems to be a greater willingness both to be openly religious and to be modern and educated at the same."
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