This week marked the 6 month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, which killed more than 230,000 people. Humanitarian groups say while there has been some recovery, an overwhelming amount of work still needs to be done. An estimated 1.5 million Haitians continue to be homeless, many enduring the rainy season in flimsy tarps and tents.

Comic strip artist Patrick McDonnell has collaborated with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle on a book about the oneness of all life.

A Cleveland-based welding-equipment manufacturer combines its no-layoffs policy with rigorous productivity standards, generous bonuses, and a labor-management culture that respects the dignity of employees.

Paul Wolpe, director of Emory University's Center for Ethics, says ethics should precede our economic and political judgments and our response to events like the Gulf oil spill.

"The issue here is not BP's behavior, it's not the Obama administration's behavior. It's our behavior. That is where the deepest change has to happen," says Emory University ethicist Paul Root Wolpe.

"The psalms continue to be wholly relevant to our spiritual quests today," says poet, writer, and former rabbinical student Pamela Greenberg.

According to the majority, the Christian Legal Society is not entitled to a "preferential exemption." But according to the dissent, the Court's decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez is "a serious setback for freedom of expression."

Watch more of producer Susan Goldstein's interview with writer Pamela Greenberg, whose new translation of the Book of Psalms is being praised for its literary beauty.

Sixteen years after a mostly peaceful transition and elections that brought Nelson Mandela to power, the verdict on South Africa is decidedly mixed.

Todd Marcus runs Newborn Holistic Ministries, a faith-based organization that works to revitalize Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester and Upton neighborhoods. He and a group of volunteers restored the empty lots around, a center for women recovering from drug addiction.

A Maryland foundation has created more than 100 public spaces of hope and healing that "offer a temporary place of sanctuary, encourage reflection, provide solace, and engender peace."

Gloria Carpeneto is director of the Northeast Interfaith Peace Garden, located on the grounds of St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore. The labyrinth featured in this meditation garden and community sanctuary serves as a path for silent walking and contemplative exercises.

"Soldiers carry all the moral weight of war, and we carry very little, and we need to share that moral burden by realizing that they are our surrogates," according to philosopher, ethicist,and psychoanalyst Nancy Sherman, author of "The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers."

"To do the war on the cheap and not hold us all accountable for the decisions that are made is a travesty," says this New York National Guard state chaplain.

Watch more of our interview with Barry Lynn about religious hiring discrimination.

"It's like you don't really know your spirit until it's been damaged. We don't really have a consciousness of our own spirit until it's wounded, and then it needs help," says Michael Abbatello, who served in Afghanistan as a rifleman in a Marine Corps infantry line unit.

Stanley Carlson-Thies, president of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, discusses why he believes religious organizations should be allowed to choose whom they hire based on religious criteria.

"Whether we're actually preserving veterans' capacity to have a flourishing life afer war, a good life for a human being after war, I don't know. I just don't know," says clinical psychiatrist Jonathan Shay.

With the increase in crime and suicide among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, the psychological and spiritual costs of combat are receiving much more attention from military and veterans organizations.

The Faith & Politics Institute and the National Congress of American Indians, along with representatives of six Native American nations, held a two-day event at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC May 18-19 to honor ancestors buried there and to apologize on behalf of the federal government for past wrongdoing.