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Read the complete transcript of our August 17, 2007 interview with jazz musician Terence Blanchard. More
Kim Lawton looks at how the US works out the sometimes complicated relationship between freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. More
“Isn’t Obama’s Christianity a private matter? Isn’t it peripheral to the real issues at hand? Not right now. The culture is desperate for adult guidance when it comes to religion.” More
The controversy over building an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, says this professor of religious studies, “is about what kind of a society we wish to be and to become.” More
Watch scenes from an emotional meeting of transplant donors and recipients after the largest kidney donor exchange ever. More
“We can open up the question of financial incentives” for organ donations “without worrying about undue coercive pressures.” More
Watch religious leaders speaking this week about Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and American ideals and values and the New York City Islamic center controversy. More
The director of the Presbyterian Church USA’s Public Witness, Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry speaks about the biblical meaning of neighbor and family and how that shapes the perspective of some faith communities on comprehensive immigration reform. More
In a new book, this historian and professor of international relations writes that America’s long military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq “demonstrated the folly of imagining that war could be mastered” and demolished “Washington’s pretensions to moral superiority.” More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview with Father Leo and watch him talk about his television cook-off with celebrity chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay. More
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