Correspondent Kim Lawton talks again with minister, educator, author, and Morehouse College president Robert Franklin, who turns to theologian Howard Thurman to make sense of the events of 9/11.

The president of Morehouse College speaks about Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious maturation and about the need for Americans to have "the moral will to act" in the face of economic disparities between blacks and whites.

"I think King would make a case for the principles and practices of nonviolence even in settling disputes between nations," says Cheryl Sanders, professor of Christian ethics at Howard University School of Divinity and senior pastor at Third Street Church of God in Washington, DC.

"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."

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."

The nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi freed ciivl rights movement veteran and Georgia congressman John Lewis not to hate, says Lewis, who was part of a recent pilgrimage to India to retrace Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1959 trip there.

As one of the surviving leaders of the civil rights movement, Lewis wants to make sure the role of faith in changing the nation is never forgotten.

Read more of Kim Lawton's interview with Rep. John Lewis about religion and the civil rights movement.