Some have said the nomination of Elena Kagan marks the passing of American Protestantism. Others celebrate it as a measure of how far the country has come.

They were scavengers in Cambodian garbage dumps until a former Hollywood executive built a school for 40 of them. Now Scott Neeson has 500 children in schools. His foundation, Cambodian Children's Fund, is giving these children a chance for a better future through education and community outreach.

Religion scholar and bestselling author Stephen Prothero has written a new book called "God is Not One," in which he takes issue with those who argue that religions are all just different paths up the same mountain. Religion & Ethics Newsweekly managing editor Kim Lawton spoke with Prothero about how religions are different and why distinctions among religions matter.

Renowned essayist, farmer, poet, and conservationist Wendell Berry says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill demonstrates that "we're putting too much at stake" in the way we go after oil and mineral resources.

Watch our conversation with Gerald Kicanas, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Tucson, who says Arizona's new immigration law is not a solution to our broken system, and the dignity of migrants needs to be respected.

Watch much more of correspondent Judy Valente's conversation with Mary Karr about God, prayer, poetry, and the Catholic faith.

Author and poet Mary Karr struggled with a troubled childhood, alcoholism, divorce, depression, and near suicide. She lived to tell about it in her best-selling 1990s memoir "The Liars' Club" and is now a devout Catholic.

A Christian student group is taking their university all the way to the Supreme Court over their right to associate with those who share their beliefs - but the university argues that doing so at the exclusion of those who have different beliefs is discrimination.

Watch more of correspondent Deborah Potter's interview with the pastor and clinical psychologist who founded Stephen Ministries in 1975.

Kenneth Haugk started Stephen Ministries in 1975, when as pastor of a church in St. Louis he found he just couldn't do it all. So drawing on his background as a clinical psychologist, he enlisted and trained a handful of lay people to offer confidential care to their fellow parishioners. And then it spread, becoming a nonprofit juggernaut.

Sudan’s Darfur province has been in a state of humanitarian emergency for more than seven years, due to an ongoing conflict between the Sudanese military, government-backed militias, and various rebel groups. R & E reports on aid efforts in Darfur from an unlikely source: Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio.

Watch more of correspondent Kim Lawton's interviews with Rev. Mike Slaughter, pastor of Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, about his congregation's aid to Darfur half a world away.

20 miles outside Port-au-Prince, the town of Leogane was near the epicenter of January’s catastrophic quake. Roughly 80 percent of the city was destroyed and now, three months later, the evidence of destruction and death is still everywhere. This Easter season many Christians who live here, and those who are working here, say they are clinging to glimpses of hope that resurrection will come,

Passover's ancient themes of freedom, liberation, and transformation are sacred to Jews and shared by everyone, says Rabbi Amy Eilberg.

Watch legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes playing in January 2004 at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts at a service to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He was introduced by his brother, the Rev. Michael Haynes, who is now the church’s pastor emeritus.

Watch more of our conversation with World Vision president Richard Stearns on dual catastrophes in Chile and Haiti, the military’s role in humanitarian relief, and the Obama White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Three movie watchers ponder the religious, spiritual, and moral themes in Avatar, Up, The Road, The Hurt Locker and more, just in time for the Academy Awards.

Three movie watchers ponder the religious, spiritual, and moral themes in Avatar, Up, The Hurt Locker, and more.

With major earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, relief organizations have their work cut out for them as they help the people of these devastated countries. Watch our interview with Richard Stearns, president of World Vision.