For 25 years this Southern Baptist ethicist has spoken out on social and cultural issues. “We have a gigantic rift running through our culture, and it’s a rift that doesn’t run between denominations and institutions. It runs through them," he says.

He buries the poor, feeds the hungry, rescues the injured, houses the homeless, and says the goal of his orphanage for Haitian children is “to raise the children together so they have memories of their own restored childhood and that later in life they become aunts and uncles to each other's children and their family regenerates after a generation.”

Watch additional excerpts from our interview with Susan Braunstein, curator of the Jewish Museum of New York, about the tradition of Hanukkah lamps.

Listen to more of our conversation with the conductor of the St. Olaf Choir, who suggests that music “will somehow seep into the bodies of those performing and certainly those who are hearing, and if it makes them reflect and they think differently about themselves and the people with whom they live day in and day out and how they lead their lives, then I think we've done our job."

Eating the week before Thanksgiving on a food stamp budget is an effort “to deepen our understanding about America,” says Rabbi Lenny Gordon.

After 500 years, the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, which Michelangelo spent four years painting, remains as important a piece of art as has ever been created.

Is this a film aimed at helping audiences find God? “It wouldn’t be that easy,” says director Ang Lee. “You have to go through suffering and pain. You have to be in awe. You have to go through tests to believe in God—or not believe in God, in some cases.”

Watch more of our interview with Rabbi Lenny Gordon, senior rabbi at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, about food insecurity in the United States.

Watch our interview at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC with biographer Dana Greene, author of "Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life." Levertov (1923-1997) was a poet of doubt and faith, Christianity and Judaism, war and peace. Her life and poetic development, both religious in their origins, are gracefully captured in Greene’s acclaimed new biography.

The Interfaith Award was presented to former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey at the annual Common Ground Awards. We spoke with Carey, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, about global interfaith relations, divisions within the worldwide Anglican Communion, his hopes for the second Obama term,  and his thoughts about the newly selected Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

The Mission Continues provides opportunities for military veterans to continue to serve, an effort that aids both them and their communities. Founder Eric Greitens says the lessons of Judaism have shaped his life and taught him about humanity’s duty to repair the world.

Faith-based groups across the spectrum are helping in a massive clean-up operation. The Chabad Center of the Five Towns in Cedarhurst, New Jersey has been providing up to 2,000 meals every day.

There was more than one message on Election Day when it came to the role of evangelicals, Catholics, and Mormons in politics and the place of economic, social, and cultural issues as the fiscal cliff approaches.

At the National Press Club the day after the election, Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, criticized the Romney campaign and the Republican Party for “underperforming.” "We did our job," said Reed. "But we can't do the Republican Party's job for them, and we can't do the candidate’s job for him or her."

Stephen Schneck, National Co-chair of Catholics for Obama, reviews the role of Catholics, evangelicals, and millennials in re-electing Barack Obama and anticipates how the Catholic bishops might interact with the second Obama administration.

The destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy “is just as much a physical crisis as it is a spiritual and emotional crisis for people,” says Mike Ebert of the Southern Baptist Convention’s relief arm.

The God gap was alive and well this year in American politics, according to one professor of political science. White evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons, and a growing number of religiously unaffiliated voters all played a part in Election 2012.

Watch more of our interview with Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton, senior pastor of the Open Church in Baltimore, about his views on same-sex marriage, the Bible, and the "ambiguous, complex history" of sexuality and family relationships in African-American culture.

Is the same-sex-marriage debate in black churches really about religion, the Bible, or equal rights? The issue has divided many pastors and their congregations.

We conclude our three-part series on the fast-growing number of American adults who say they have no religious affiliation with a story about the religious implications. What effect will this group have on traditional organized religion?