Dr. Abraham Verghese
Originally broadcast July 16, 2010 FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Abraham Verghese has all the credentials and degrees befitting a professor at Stanford Medical School. But he is best known and acclaimed for...
View ArticleSeamen’s Church Institute
SAUL GONZALEZ, correspondent: If you want to get up close and personal with the global economy, there are few better places to go than the Port of New York and New Jersey. Here, merchant ships...
View ArticleMartin Luther King and Robert Graetz
KIM LAWTON, correspondent: Although the social revolution led by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. grew out of the black church, from even the earliest days of the movement there were white foot...
View ArticleBuilders of Hope
BOB FAW, correspondent: Question: What do this longtime alcoholic, this up and coming project manager, this receptionist who was homeless, and Noah Haynes, who just turned one, have in common?...
View ArticleReligion and Social Media
KIM LAWTON, correspondent: On any given weekend, some 15,000 people worship with the evangelical Northland Church, but about a third of them never set foot in the building here in Longwood, Florida....
View ArticleLillian Daniel and Martin Copenhaver Extended Interview
“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...
View ArticleTwo Pastors
BOB ABERNETHY, correspondent: If you have ever wondered what it is like to be the pastor of a church, there’s a book out about that. It’s This Odd and Wondrous Calling, by two seasoned United Church...
View ArticleChurches and the Mentally Ill
DEBORAH POTTER, correspondent: On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the vans from Holy Comforter Episcopal Church make the rounds in southeast Atlanta. DRIVER: Today we’ll pick up between 60 and 70 people....
View ArticleBivocational Pastors
Some ministers are answering the call to care for their families and tend to their flocks by working two full-time jobs. It’s a growing trend in Tennessee, with nearly half of the state’s Baptist...
View ArticleThe Boxer
“In life there is so much temptation,” says boxing coach Mike Mosley. “There’s so much bad out there that it’s hard to know that you’re doing the right thing. I know 100 percent of the time when I’m in...
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