Past Questions for January 2007


January 1, 2007

Kofi A. Annan, Former United Nations Secretary General

Robert Bruno, Joint Staff Chaplain, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Jimmy Carter, Former U.S. President and author of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

Keith Ellison, U.S. Congressman

James A. Forbes Jr., Senior Minister of The Riverside Church, New York City

Maher Hathout, Chairman, Islamic Center of Southern California

Dalai Lama, Tibetan spirtual leader

Norman Lear, Television producer

Anne Graham Lotz, Founder of AnGeL Ministries

Deborah Tannen, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University

Craig D. Townsend, Associate Rector, St. James' Church, New York

Barbara Walters, Television journalist

George Weigel, Senior fellow, Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center

Harold S. White, Jewish Chaplain, Georgetown University


January 3, 2007

What was your own most formative religious experience, if you had one?


January 10, 2007

President Bush is preparing this week to send more troops to Baghdad. Do you believe there is such a thing as a "just war"? Is the Iraq war "just"?


January 17, 2007

Have women fared well or badly in the world's religions down through the ages? Why?


January 24, 2007

As the presidential campaign begins to take shape, do you think it is appropriate and or important for the candidates to express their personal religious views and to use religious rhetoric? Why?


January 31, 2007

Against the backdrop of the annual National Prayer Breakfast being held this week, we consider: ‘What is prayer? Do you pray? If so to whom and for what?’

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