Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly RSS feed for WNET programming.http://watch.thirteen.orgen-ushttp://watch.thirteen.orgWed, 16 May 2012 16:55:44 -0400Wed, 16 May 2012 16:55:44 -0400http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2233279442/The disabled, says religion writer Mark Pinsky, "are not just people who need help, but they are people who can help."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2233279442/05/11/2012More and more congregations have learned how to value people with disabilities.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2233311217/He's a joke-telling, one-man reformer in rural Thailand who is getting results. Mechai Viravaidya preaches family planning, good schools, start-up businesses, and intensive farming -- and his bottom-up reforms are working.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2233311217/05/11/2012His bottom-up reforms in rural Thailand are getting results.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2235104579/A look at how churches welcome and accommodate people with disabilities; Mechai Viravaidya, an award-winning economist and social entrepreneur whose efforts to reduce poverty are making a difference in rural Thailand; An exhibition of 19th-century Japanese scroll paintings featuring disciples of the Buddha and the ideals that should guide a good Buddhist life.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2235104579/05/15/2012Churches and the Disabled; Social Entrepreneur Mechai Viravaidya; Masters of MercyCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230755137/"The administration says that the drone is the smallest amount of force that we could use. They say it's accurate and therefore it discriminates perfectly. And to the extent that we have really good intelligence and we don't kill civilians, they're probably right," says Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230755137/05/04/2012Watch an extended conversation about the use of drones with Professor Stephen Carter.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2231290023/A conversation with Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter in the wake of White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan's speech on drone ethics; A look at the history of the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir; African-American Spiritualshttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2231290023/05/07/2012Drone Ethics; Kashmir Dispute; African-American SpiritualsCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230755116/In this territorial dispute between India and Pakistan in what may be the world's most militarized region, there are direct links between water availability, rising terrorism, and religious extremism among Hindus and Muslims.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230755116/05/04/2012It is a conflict long cast in religious terms.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230962708/In the wake of White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan's speech this week on drone ethics and targeted killing, we talk to Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter, author of "The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230962708/05/04/2012Can we really assess the ethics underlying secret US drone attacks?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230437775/Generations of African slaves found a powerful way of singing through suffering in spirituals that were rooted in biblical stories and images.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2230437775/05/04/2012Their messages of hope and deliverance still resonate.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2228350241/Faith groups and challenges to Arizona's immigration law; A hospice chaplain who ministers to the dying; Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, one of the most respected rabbis in the world who has made it his life's work to translate the Talmudhttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2228350241/04/30/2012Faith Groups and Immigration; Conversations Before Dying; Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2227457224/"Deeply listening to what it is they're saying." That, says young hospice chaplain Kerry Egan, is the most important gift she offers to the dying patients she ministers to in New Bedford, Massachusetts.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2227457224/04/27/2012A hospice chaplain says the most compassionate thing to do for the dying is not turn away.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2226907916/"The idea of the Talmud is that you are allowed to ask questions about everything," says Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. He calls the Talmud "the central pillar Jewish culture" and "a vast book encouraging you to ask questions."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2226907916/04/25/2012Translating the Talmud into modern Hebrew and English has been his life's work.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2227741122/Watch excerpts from an April 26, 2012 lecture at Georgetown University by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) and an interview with Father Thomas Reese, SJ, senior fellow at Georgetown's Woodstock Theological Center.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2227741122/04/27/2012They have different views about what Catholic teaching says about the role of government.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2227837082/The Supreme Court is weighing the legal challenge to Arizona's strict immigration law, and religious groups opposed to the law are appealing to language throughout the scriptures "to take care of the stranger," says Catholic News Service staff writer Patricia Zapor.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2227837082/04/27/2012Why do many religious groups oppose Arizona's strict immigration law?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2225003340/"We don't treat soldiers that are atheists as atheists. We treat them as soldiers," says Colonel Stephen Sicinski, base commander at Fort Bragg.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2225003340/04/20/2012Some atheists in the Army want chaplains who are also atheists.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2225130641/Between 1854 and 1863, Japanese artist Kano Kazunobu (1816-1863) created a series of 100 paintings of the Buddha's 500 disciples. Watch our interview about Buddhism and Kazunobu's paintings with James Ulak, senior curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2225130641/04/20/2012Curator James Ulak talks about Buddhism and Japanese artist Kazunobu's paintings.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2228715654/The Vatican's crackdown on US Catholic nuns; A brother and sister who survived World War II in Shanghai's Jewish ghetto; Atheists in the army who want atheist chaplainshttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2228715654/04/30/2012Vatican Report on US Catholic Nuns; Shanghai Jewish Ghetto; Godless ChaplainsCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2225133344/"I think you could compare it to a hostile takeover," says reporter, author, and Vatican observer David Gibson. Might the Leadership Conference of Women Religious simply disband and reorganize on its own?http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2225133344/04/20/2012It criticizes women religious for "serious doctrinal problems."Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2224183518/For Holocaust Remembrance Day we talk with Ilie Wacs and Deborah Strobin, a brother and sister who have written a memoir about their family's life as Jewish refugees in the Far East during World War II and their connection to the larger Jewish story of survival and endurance.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2224183518/04/19/2012Thousands of Jews who fled the Nazis found refuge here, along with poverty and sickness.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2224049143/Watch more of Kim Lawton's interview with Deborah Strobin and Ilie Wacs, co-authors of "An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America, a Brother and Sister Escape to Freedom During World War II." They describe their memories of living in Shanghai, an incident when American planes accidentally dropped a bomb in the Jewish ghetto, and the impact of those times on their lives.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2224049143/04/19/2012Watch more of our interview with the authors of "An Uncommon Journey."Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222489478/Watch more of our discussion with Harold Dean Trulear, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case, about racial disparities in American society, religious ideas on human dignity, and revenge versus justice in contemporary culture.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222489478/04/13/2012Watch more of our discussion about race, religion, and justice with Harold Dean Trulear.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222147027/"A lot of people in caregiving situations ask, 'Why is God doing this to me? Where is God in the midst of all this?' and they really struggle with spiritual matters," says Rev. Kate Bryant. Her church started a special ministry to support parental caregivers.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222147027/04/13/2012How should people navigate the demands of caregiving?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2224049123/In the wake of the Trayvon Martin case, a conversation about racism, violence, and justice; Two pastors share what it's really like to be a pastor in a new book; The challenges of caring for an aging parenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2224049123/04/18/2012Trayvon Martin Case; Two Pastors; Caring for an Aging ParentCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222233150/Two United Church of Christ pastors have written a book about their experiences in the ministry and their work as pastoral leaders.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222233150/04/13/2012They describe ministry as "very much about real life in the best sense."Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222736124/People of faith, black and white, need to be involved in resolving conflict through means that are other than violent, says Harold Dean Trulear, who teaches applied theology at Howard University School of Divinity.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222736124/04/13/2012Why do attitudes about the case vary so dramatically?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222190675/"What's amazing to me," says Rev. Lillian Daniel, "is the way people are still willing to sit and be quiet and thoughtful and sing together in a space that is transcendent and old and has meaning...and just listen to the human voice." Watch more of our interview with Rev. Daniel and Rev. Martin Copenhaver about their experiences in the ministry.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2222190675/04/13/2012Watch more of our interview about their experiences in the ministry.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2221571817/Managing editor Kim Lawton asks Rev. Fred Luter Jr., who is expected to become the first African-American president of the Southern Baptist Convention this June, how he assesses race relations in America.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2221571817/04/11/2012Watch an excerpt from our interview with Rev. Fred Luter on race relations in America.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2220013945/"As a parish nurse one of the greatest things we do is be present and just listen," says Diane Tieman of Queen of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church in suburban Chicago.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2220013945/04/06/2012They provide healing of both body and soul.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2219799183/The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2219799183/04/06/2012This well-honed choir of forty boys offers a special sound.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2220661529/We visit the the only Catholic all-boy choir school in the country, the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School; Also, a look at the role of parish nurses who provide physical and spiritual healing to their religious community.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2220661529/04/09/2012Boston Boy Choir; Parish NursesCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217405313/The Garden Tomb and Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem "tell the same story" about the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, says Garden Tomb deputy director Steve Bridge, "but on a different site."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217405313/03/30/2012Holy Week pilgrims still search for the tomb where Jesus was buried.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217308035/Passover Haggadahhttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217308035/03/30/2012Illustrator Mark Podwal talks about the Haggadah and his artwork.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217342195/Mark Podwal Extended Interviewhttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217342195/03/30/2012Watch more of our interview with illustrator Mark Podwal and see more of his artwork.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217585833/Watch our interviews at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC with writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander about the new Haggadah edited by Foer, translated by Englander, designed by Oden Ezer, and published by Little, Brown.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2217585833/03/30/2012Jonathan Foer and Nathan Englander talk about their new translation of the Haggadah.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2216835065/They say Israel's Law of Return permits them to become Israelis. But some Israelis wonder whether they are really Jews.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2216835065/03/30/2012They want to return to the Promised Land.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2215151974/Catholic New Service staff writer Patricia Zapor on Pope Benedict's visit to Cuba and hopes for greater religious freedom in that country; Jews and Christians paying new attention to the Jewishness of Jesus; and the long lives of Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, California.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2215151974/03/26/2012Pope Visits Cuba; Jewish Jesus; Seventh-day Adventists and HealthCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213742207/Brad Young is an associate professor of Judaic-Christian studies at Oral Roberts University. Watch more of our interview with him about interfaith dialogue and the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213742207/03/23/2012Watch more of our interview with Prof. Young about the Jewish roots of Christianity.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213809035/Jesus, says New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine, "teaches like a Jew. He talks in parables...and Jesus is just a fabulous Jewish storyteller."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213809035/03/23/2012Both Christians and Jews need to read the New Testament from a Jewish perspective.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2214438954/Catholic Cubans have strong lay networks, says Catholic News Service staff writer Patricia Zapor, but they still need and want "a little bit more of everything---more freedom, more services, more priests."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2214438954/03/23/2012Will a papal trip encourage more openness for the Catholic Church?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213705892/Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of "Kosher Jesus," says "Jesus was not coming to innovate and start a new religion. He was coming to reinforce the Torah." Watch more of our interview with him about the Jewishness of Jesus.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213705892/03/23/2012Watch more of our interview with Rabbi Boteach about the Jewishness of Jesus.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213969092/"How they relate to God and their fellow man, their diet, their exercise, their avoidance of tobacco and alcohol---all of that collectively contributes to longevity," says Loma Linda University public health professor Larry Beeson.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213969092/03/23/2012They live longer and die at a much later age than the general population.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213646845/We all choose how to read religious texts, says Vanderbilt Divinity School New Testament and Jewish studies professor Amy-Jill Levine, co-editor of "The Jewish Annotated New Testament." Watch more of our interview with her about the Jewish story of the New Testament.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2213646845/03/23/2012Watch more of our interview with her about the Jewish story of the New Testament.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2212127533/Moral Questions After Afghan Massacre; Advance Directives (Originally broadcast October 21, 2011); St. Mary's Abbey (Originally broadcast July 22, 2011)http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2212127533/03/19/2012Moral Questions After Afghan Massacre; Advance Directives; St. Mary's AbbeyCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2210747245/"People across the political spectrum, right to left, are beginning to wonder if we are committed to a mission whose success is dubious now at best because of the way we've defined it," says William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2210747245/03/16/2012Are the consequences of US strategy in Afghanistan "morally troubling"?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2210737441/Does the US have a duty to act? Is it possible to somehow intervene in Syria and still do more good than harm? "Nothing is certain in human affairs," says William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a political and moral philosopher. Watch managing editor and guest host Kim Lawton's conversation with him.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2210737441/03/16/2012Is it possible to somehow intervene in Syria and still do more good than harm?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2210001517/"She had to have been the least naive nun that I can think of," says Kathryn Wat, curator of an exhibition of prints by graphic artist Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2210001517/03/14/2012Her artwork celebrates peace, hope, life, and love.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2208192691/"Rick Santorum is a very particular kind of Catholic...A lot of Catholics don't see themselves in him, and a lot of people actually don't even know that he's Catholic. Most people assume he's an evangelical," says Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of Religion News Service.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2208192691/03/09/2012Why do Catholic voters prefer Romney and evangelicals choose Santorum?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2212149859/Post-Super Tuesday Analysis; Religion and Social Media (Originally broadcast April 1, 2011); God's Love Homeless Shelter (Originally broadcast July 1, 2011)http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2212149859/03/19/2012Post-Super Tuesday Analysis; Religion and Social Media; God's Love Homeless ShelterCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2207354897/"I feel the voice of God echoing from the mountains all over this place," says a Syrian Christian pilgrim visiting Deir Mar Musa, an ancient desert monastery in Syria reestablished by Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Oglio.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2207354897/03/08/2012Last year we visited an ancient desert monastery in Syria before the violence and unrest.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2205704514/The Ethics of Drones (Originally broadcast 8/26/2011); Holy Family Ministries (Originally broadcast 4/15/2011); Orthodox Lenten Meals (Originally broadcast 4/8/2011)http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2205704514/03/05/2012The Ethics of Drones; Holy Family Ministries; Orthodox Lenten MealsCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2201446473/"America has an agenda for homosexuals in Uganda," says Pastor Joseph Serwadda, and accepting gay rights as human rights and human rights as gay rights "is going to be very tough on Africa."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2201446473/02/24/2012There is renewed debate over an anti-homosexuality bill in this mostly Christian country.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2201446478/Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels calls the Book of Revelation the "strangest" and "least understood" book in the Bible. "It's as though you take all of your nightmares about plague or destruction or war or torture or natural catastrophe, and you just wrap it into a huge single nightmare, and you get the Book of Revelation."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2201446478/02/24/2012A scholar says the New Testament's final book should be understood as war literature.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2202477814/The renewed debate over gay rights in Uganda; Biblical scholar and author Elaine Pagels on the Book of Revelation; Observing Ash Wednesday on the streets of Washington, DChttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2202477814/02/27/2012Gay Rights in Uganda; Elaine Pagels on the Book of Revelation; Ashes to GoCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2200461803/You receive ashes on your forehead "to remember that life is short...you come from dust and you will return to dust," says Julie Bringman, director of Sunday night ministries at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2200461803/02/22/2012"You come from dust, and you will return to dust."Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2198222406/Does allowing churches to worship in public schools create a constitutional problem, or is it an expression of religious freedom?http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2198222406/02/17/2012Should congregations be able to meet in school buildings?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2197767115/USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah has been a strong advocate for expanding partnerships with faith-based groups. "We're a nation based on moral values, and when we express those values to communities around the world, we're showing them an America...with whom they want to partner and not fight," he says.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2197767115/02/17/2012Relief efforts abroad, he believes, are a way to express your faith.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2197962217/If the right to vote is sacred, and depriving someone of that right is morally wrong, then what to make of the tough new voter identification requirements being proposed across the country?http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2197962217/02/17/2012What is the real purpose of strict new voter identification laws?Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2197800887/Working with communities of faith means "helping millions of Americans connect to the opportunity to serve vulnerable populations abroad."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2197800887/02/17/2012Watch additional excerpts from our interview with USAID administrator Rajiv Shah.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsCliphttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2199710617/Tough new voter ID requirements in South Carolina; USAID administrator Rajiv Shah on partnering with faith-based groups; The debate over New York City's ban on church worship services in public school buildingshttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2199710617/02/21/2012Voter ID; USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah; Church Worship Services in Public SchoolsCulture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsEpisodehttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2194187203/In Tennessee, young Christian teachers in Memphis public schools are trying to get children in poor neighborhoods on track to college. "Our Christian faith," says David Montague, director of the Memphis Teacher Residency program, "informs our belief that every child can learn."http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2194187203/02/10/2012Recent college graduates in Memphis say urban education is "God's work."Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegmenthttp://watch.thirteen.org/video/2195301010/The Obama administration made a significant change in its policy on insurance coverage of contraception by religiously affiliated organizations. Watch a conversation with managing editor Kim Lawton about the revised policy.http://watch.thirteen.org/video/2195301010/02/10/2012The Obama administration has revised its controversial policy.Culture & SocietyCulture & SocietyReligion & BeliefsReligion & BeliefsSegment