Watch excerpts of interviews with people of faith who are supporting the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Watch more of our conversation with Cherie Harder about religion and politics in 2012.

"The spiritual value of seeing God in the other cannot be stressed enough in politics today."

"The most broadly based access to the developing world is through religious people," says the former president of the World Bank, "and so it is a tragedy if they are not embraced in the overall development process."

Religion and politics, interfaith relations, humanitarian disasters, war and peace. Watch the members of our annual reporters roundtable assess the most important religion and ethics news of the past year.

That those on the margins, for whom Hebrew and Christian scriptures declare God’s special affinity, could only peek through the cracks of the State of the Union address says more about us than the president.

"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.

The financial crisis is a moral crisis, says religious leader Jim Wallis, and repairing the economy will require a moral reawakening.

Join our discussion of the most anticipated religion and ethics news stories in the year to come.

Some churches are struggling in these difficult economic times as they face layoffs, foreclosure, distress sales, and other signs of serious financial trouble. (Originally aired June 19, 2009)