For more than 20 years, evangelicals have been a key factor in American politics. But one big question this election season is whether younger evangelicals will be the strong conservative Republicans that older evangelicals have been.

Jonathan Merritt, national spokesperson for the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative, says younger evangelicals are interested in a broader range of issues than their parents.

Students at Calvin College, an evangelical liberal arts school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, talk about their social and political views.

In an interview, Anna Greenberg, senior vice-president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, describes the results of her new survey for Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly and the United Nations Foundation which took a special look at the views of evangelicals ages 18-29. She analyzes how the findings could affect the American political scene.

In Juárez, Mexico, where government-sponsored mental healthcare is scarce, José Antonio Galván runs a shelter for the homeless and mentally handicapped. Many of the patients are addicts whose minds have been destroyed by cheap drugs. Galván is a former addict himself, who became a born-again preacher and felt a calling to help others in that same situation.

In an interview, Anna Greenberg, senior vice-president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, describes the results of her new survey for Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly and the United Nations Foundation about religion and America’s role in the world and analyzes the potential political implications of the findings.

Anna Greenberg, senior vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, presented the results of a Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly/UN Foundation national survey on how religion shapes American perceptions about US foreign policy priorities and commitments.

Timothy Wirth, president of the UN Foundation, describes the foundation’s participation in the survey on religion and America's role in the world and its interest in the views of faith communities.

John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, remarks on the importance of the religious impulse in foreign policy and government’s “intellectual blinders” when it comes to understanding religion’s role.

Timothy Shah, adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, comments on the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly survey findings about evangelicals and non-evangelicals and on America’s historical sense of covenant, calling, and self-criticism about its conduct in the world.

Managing editor and correspondent Kim Lawton highlights the findings about young evangelicals in the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly/UN Foundation survey on religion and America’s role in the world.

At the private level and the national level, there’s a strong connection between religion and views about America’s role in the world. According to R&E’s survey with the UN Foundation, the more often people attend religious services, the more likely they are to believe that the US has a moral obligation to be actively engaged in world affairs.

In an interview, Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, describes the role he sees religious groups playing on the world stage, especially on humanitarian issues and climate change.

In the Pennsylvania primary in Scranton, Hilary Clinton trounced Barack Obama three to one. A lot of those were Catholic working class voters who identified closely with Hillary. The Obama campaign has been trying to swing those voters over to his column, but it hasn’t come easy.

Camp Ray of Hope is like no other. People grieving the death of a spouse, a child, or a friend, attend in order to learn how to accept that death and go on. It is filed with laughter, beauty, and pain.

Does it matter what a candidate believes? According to an August survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, nearly half of all Americans say they get uncomfortable when politicians talk about how religious they are. But at the same time, more than 70 percent of Americans say they do want a president with strong religious beliefs.

R & E discusses privacy and media coverage of political candidates with Washington Post correspondent and editor Michael Getler, author and Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism director Tom Rosenstiel, and Poynter Institute ethicist Kelly McBride.

Rev. Adam Hamilton, author of the book "Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White," discusses the moral dimensions of the global economic crisis and what political candidates and religious leaders should be saying about it. Hamilton says the crisis is an opportunity for Americans to re-examine their priorities and consider simplifying their lives.

Meat is kosher if it has been prepared according to Jewish law and certified so by a rabbi. But what if the plant managers were accused of unfair labor practices?