Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
10
:05
pm
President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.
Featured Stories:
July 21st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
A roundup of all streaming video online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list of all full episodes and full segments.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Want to ask Kim about recent stories? Eager to know how she feels about the media’s coverage of religion? Curious about what it’s like to ask public figures about a topic as personal as their faith? Should religion be off-limits in politics? Go to PBS’ ‘5 Good Questions’ feature before July 18.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
For Catholics, it’s the most popular pilgrimage site in the world, after the Holy Land. Sick people go to Lourdes hoping for miraculous cures. But the attraction goes beyond physical healing. All those we talked with — the sick and the well — said they had a profound spiritual experience. Watch story…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
The Dalai Lama, who turned 73 last Sunday, leads one of the four schools, or denominations within Tibetan Buddhism. The 23-year-old Karmapa Lama, leads another, and he’s considered the 2nd highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. He may one day succeed the older man as Buddhism’s leading international voice. Recently the Karmapa visited the U.S. for the first time, and Kim Lawton talked with him. Watch video.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:09 am
R&E gives the story of teens who can no longer fit into the Foster Care system, and a new church initiative to help them. In the language of social services, as Mary Alice Williams reports, they have “aged out.” Watch report…
June 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the founding of Israel created Palestinian refugees, there have been refugee camps Lebanon housing them–for 60 years, many generations. There are now 12 refugee …
June 26th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Browne, a struggling, itinerant black pastor in Louisiana — drives his old car from one poor, little church to another every Sunday. R&E told his story in 2007, which …
June 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Last year in Kenya, deadly post-election ethnic clashes killed more than 1,000 and displaced 600,000. Kenya used to be one of the stablest nations in Africa. Religion & Ethics talks …
June 4th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Barack Obama finally resigned his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ, his congregation of more than 20 years. R&E managing editor Kim Lawton discusses Obama’s departure from the church and whether candidates and public officials should have a zone of religious privacy.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
He led the groundbreaking Human Genome Project through it’s completion at the National Human Genome Research Institute, and announced last week he is leaving Aug. 1, according to USA Today. See a 2006 segment on Dr. Collins, and read an extensive interview from 2000 with this important geneticist….
Page 1 of 17
Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
07
:02
pm
Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder would be open to...
Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
06
:42
pm
Jeff Seelbach
Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the...
Page 1 of 17
