"We don't treat soldiers that are atheists as atheists. We treat them as soldiers," says Colonel Stephen Sicinski, base commander at Fort Bragg.

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.

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.

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.

Two United Church of Christ pastors have written a book about their experiences in the ministry and their work as pastoral leaders.

"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.

"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.

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.

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.

"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.

The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school.

Mark Podwal Extended Interview

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.

Passover Haggadah

They say Israel's Law of Return permits them to become Israelis. But some Israelis wonder whether they are really Jews.

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."

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.

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.

Jesus, says New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine, "teaches like a Jew. He talks in parables...and Jesus is just a fabulous Jewish storyteller."

"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.