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.

“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.

"Hoping against hope even when things are really rough—that’s what carried us during the days of our struggle, knowing that this is a moral universe.”

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.

Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.

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.

Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.

"On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur thousands of people gather together and go through many, many prayers in which we ask ourselves, how have I done?"

For 100 days in 1994, Rwandans killed each other at a rate of 10,000 a day. Today the country tries to heal its wounds and deal with the consequences of the slaughter. "We have a nation to build," says Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana. "We cannot wait until we forget the genocide."

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.