Religious communities are part of a growing movement across America that is concerned with the ethics of how food is grown and how it gets to our tables.

Comic strip artist Patrick McDonnell has collaborated with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle on a book about the oneness of all life.

"As the mind becomes a little more quiet, the sacredness of everything, within and without, becomes clear," says Norman Fischer, a practicing Jew and a Zen Buddhist priest who has been teaching meditation for over 30 years.

"There's no such thing as a hermetically sealed religion or culture. We human beings have been talking to each other since the beginning, and every time we talk to each other we change each other."

St. John's University history professor John Rao, a traditionalist Roman Catholic, has made the three-day pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres Cathedral more than half a dozen times and says the experience is filled with ritual, ceremony, and spiritual fervor.

A Maryland foundation has created more than 100 public spaces of hope and healing that “offer a temporary place of sanctuary, encourage reflection, provide solace, and engender peace.”

"It is much easier for God to get through our defenses when we're in a wilderness," says John Lionberger. He leads kayak and canoe trips that he says "get to the transcendent through the physical."

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.

Jean Sweeney is a spiritual director who says everyone has a story to tell about their spiritual life.

Benyamin Cohen wrote a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity, and he used what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.