Watch our conversation with Michael Kessler of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs about perspectives of religious and ethical traditions on the government’s massive collection of electronic data and its vast surveillance effort.
Author Archives: Fred Yi
Irish Reconciliation
After an IRA explosion in 1987 terrorized the community of Enniskillen, killed 11 Protestants, and injured scores of others, Gordon Wilson, father of one victim, said he forgave the bombers and prayed for the grace to continue to do so. Will the members of the G8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland be able to draw on a similar spirit of peace and reconciliation?
Russell Moore
“We don’t belong to anyone’s political party. We don’t belong to anyone’s organization, and so we ought to have the freedom, then, to speak prophetically to both parties and to all parties“ says the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
Russell Moore Extended Interview
“The Bible doesn’t give us a road map for every issue. The Bible gies us a goal, a sense of what human flourishing ought to look like, and sometimes there are going to be issues where the Bible speaks very clearly to us, and we have to speak just as clearly. There are other issues where we realize we may have the same goal, but we have different ways of getting to that goal.” Watch more of our interview with Russell Moore, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
Joni Eareckson Tada Breast Cancer; Mass Incarceration; Sufi Whirling Dervishes
We revisit our 2012 interview with popular Christian evangelical author and speaker Joni Eareckson Tada about the role of faith in her battle with breast cancer; look back at our report on mass incarcerations in the U.S. and the challenges facing prison ministries; and reprise a recent story on the origin and meaning of whirling dervishes in Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam.
Joni Eareckson Tada: Breast Cancer Update
When we interviewed Joni Eareckson Tada in 2010, the popular evangelical author and speaker had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, two years later, we speak with Tada, a quadriplegic, about her battle with the disease and how it has affected her marriage and her faith.
Joni Eareckson Tada Extended Interview
“I think I’m doing everything I can. I’m being as a good a steward of my body as I possibly can to ensure that I’ll come out the other end cancer free. That would be a blessing.” Watch more of our interview with Joni Eareckson Tada about her two-year-long battle with breast cancer.
Mass Incarceration
More than forty years after the civil rights movement that ended legal segregation, African-American men are six times more likely than whites to be imprisoned, especially for drug offenses, in what has been called a “human rights nightmare.” “Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind in the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon,” says Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow.”
Michelle Alexander Extended Interview
“We could have responded to poverty and joblessness and drug addiction with care, compassion, and concern. But instead we declared a literal war.” Watch more of our conversation with law professor and author Michelle Alexander about crime, the war on drugs, and the disproportionately high number of African-Americans in prison.
Father Andrew Greeley; Cambodia Garment Worker Justice
We revisit our 2011 story on Catholic priest and scholar Andrew Greeley, who died earlier this week. Also from our archives, we rebroadcast a report on ethical working conditions and labor standards in Cambodia’s garment industry, and we talk to members of The Mission Continues, a nonprofit organization that provides military veterans opportunities to serve their communities.
