Baseball has its own relics, prophets and rituals—as does religion—according to John Sexton, president of New York University and author of “Baseball as a Road to God.”  But beyond surface similarities, Sexton says, the game’s most magnificent moments, its timelessness and its intensity, can bring us to a sense of “the ineffable”—the transcendent.

Watch an extended interview with Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who was one of the many children who marched in Birmingham in 1963 to protest segregation.

Climate change “is probably the most moral issue of our time," says the president and founder of Interfaith Power & Light, a coalition of thousands of religious people putting their faith into action through energy stewardship.

"We saw in our texts, in the Qur’an and Hadith, that there's so much about protecting the earth and seeing nature as a sign for us to reflect upon, but we weren't seeing that in our communities." Watch more of our interview with Sarah Jawaid, director of Green Muslims.

If the environment is just one more important issue, “it won’t gain the traction that it needs. We need to redefine creation care as the underlying mitzvah or commandment or good deed.” Watch more of our interview with Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb of Congregation Adat Shalom in Maryland about what Jewish tradition says about the environment.

Faith communities in Boston and beyond should pray “for a sense of our connectedness to each other,” says Rev. Samuel Lloyd, priest-in-charge at Trinity Church in Boston’s Back Bay. In the midst of a terrible trauma, they should be “grateful for a God of love working through all of this.”

Interfaith Power & Light brings together people of different faiths to be better stewards of creation by responding to global warming and by supporting changes in environmental public policy.

In New York, orthopedic surgeon Joseph Dutkowski specializes in treating severely disabled patients. He is motivated, he says, by his Catholic faith.

"Priests generally do not talk about it. And most dioceses in the United States have no services, or very limited services, for victims of domestic violence," says Father Charles Dahm, who is leading a campaign in Chicago to change that.

Once the social networking site discovered the popularity of religious leaders on Twitter, the company actively began working with religious communities and training religious leaders to use Twitter more effectively.

In a new book called "On God's Side," this social activist, evangelical, preacher, and editor of Sojourners magazine advocates solving the country’s problems by serving the common good.

How does a family in these technology-filled times practice the Sabbath? MaryAnn KcKibben Dana, pastor of Idylwood Presbyterian Church in Falls Church, Virginia, and her family are spending one day a week without computers, work, or other distractions to see if a modern family can spend "holy time" together.

The preference for male children in India dates back centuries, driven by religious custom, and the widespread abortion of female fetuses has led to an increasing gender gap. Will a rising and urbanizing middle class change this?

Watch more of our interview about observing the Sabbath with MaryAnn KcKibben Dana, author of "Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family's Experiment with Holy Time."

“His disability,” says Pastor Greg Laurie, “has become an ability. To hear him talk about hope and purpose and joy kind of silences you.”

“Pilgrimage becomes a metaphor for life,” says Rev. Kenneth Semon. “We’re following our Lord, who goes before us.”

As thousands demonstrated, legal and moral arguments were being debated inside the Supreme Court.

Watch highlights of five religious leaders speaking about same sex marriage from a range of religious and ethical viewpoints at demonstrations in Washington, DC during Supreme Court arguments about marriage.

Watch additional excerpts from our interview with Rev. Rocky Schuster about the celebration of Holy Week.

A visit to the Franciscan Monastery in northeast Washington, DC, gives us a window into the life of St. Francis, who wanted to walk in the very footsteps of Christ in everything he did. “St. Francis considers himself to be a brother to everyone,” say Father Larry Dunham of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America. “He had his own special vision.”