Director Terrence Malick’s new movie is a meditation on traditional Christian questions about evil, suffering, grace, and beauty, says Calvin College professor of English Roy Anker.

"Computers will match us in emotional intelligence, which includes our whole moral system," says inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil.

Biological and technological evolution "is a spiritual process," says this famous futurist. "Entities become more godlike, never reaching that ideal but moving in that direction exponentially."

An interfaith coalition is launching a prayer and fasting campaign to protect federal funding for programs that help the poor.

On Purim, says Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the more you can poke fun at the gravitas of life, the better.

Purim is a bittersweet holiday with a powerful spiritual message, says Rabbi Gil Steinlauf of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC. A story about Esther that seems to be all about chance is really about "God's presence working itself out in ways we can't quite understand."

Shaker communities required you "to give your all to God to and to strive to work out your salvation each and every day," says one of the last living Shakers.

Writer Mary Karr says what struck her about Catholicism "wasn't the grandeur of the Mass, it was the simple faith of the people" and "the carnality of the church. There was a body on the cross."

Watch much more of correspondent Judy Valente's conversation with Mary Karr about God, prayer, poetry, and the Catholic faith.

Three expert movie-watchers discuss the moral, ethical, religious, and spiritual themes they saw in some of this year's Academy Award nominees.