for many modern christians, christians are dispensers of fire insurance in the mood brighteners. they are not nurturers of a way of life. they are not the source of the best way to act and think in all spheres of experience. the message of the gospel is assumed to be personal and private, not communal and public. many well-meaning christians believe the church can be most relevant and leavening by imitating the cultural patterns that are fashionable and popular. it is assumed we need to communicate a message, and insight about some values in a way that will not interfere with conventional lifestyle choices of our neighbors. many believe that traditional commitments, traditional principles can be sustained without tradition scared i think that ignores the reality that our heads of follow our hearts. we believe what we loved leaving. our hearts are often shaped by how we live as embodied creatures. a culture by sustaining practices that shape our loves and guides are thinking. richard weaver, i have a copy of his book back in my hotel room, and he makes of very similar in augustini

to its christian ideals. christians traditionally have believed that sexuality is reserved for the relationship of marriage between one man and one woman. it's not discriminatory. christian legal society allows all people to come in to participate in its meetings, to be there, to witness what happens. what we're talking about here is the ability of a group to preserve its message. and it doesn't make sense for a public university to say to a private student group, "you have to give up your christian faith in order to get the same privileges that other groups have." >> reporter: the teachings of the christian faith dominate the meetings. at this meeting at a law school in virginia, students brainstormed over whether their faith required them to adhere to a higher ethical standard than the profession itself requires. >> in addition to being lawyers, we're christians. and we have standards as christians we want to live up to. >> reporter: the signature activities of c.l.s. chapters are weekly bible studies, whic

jennifer knapp is a grammy-nominated christian music artist. recently came out publicly as a lesbian revealing that she has been in a same-sex relationship for the past eight years. her new album "letting go" will be released in may. it's available for presale on itunes. we welcome jennifer knapp to "larry king live." why did you come out? >> well, go right for the jugular. as a history in the christian music industry, very well-known for my faith, i felt like it was one of the most important things that i could do to allow people who i knew might not agree with listening to an artist who has been known as a christian and yet deal with the fact that they were homosexual at the same time. there were a lot of rumors circulated around for about seven years. and while i wasn't actually here to kind of answer them, and it's starting to feel a little bit like a lie. >> larry: do you think you were living a lie? >> absolutely not. i've been quite open in my relationships that i've had in my private life. it's just on a public level they kind of needed

more than 150 christian denominations have adopted the program. >> christianity is not a spectator sport. it was never intended to be a spectator sport. god gave to the church apostles, evangelists, and pastors and teachers whose job is to equip the saints for ministry. >> how did it feel to have your confession treated in that way? >> reporter: stephen ministers go through 50 hours of instruction and practice, learning to help care receivers express their feelings, to listen without judging, and how to bring faith and the bible into the conversation. >> can we pray? dear god, please give rene the absolute confidence of his forgiveness. >> reporter: they also study specific situations, like dealing with grief and divorce. but stephen ministers are not counselors, so they also learn when to call in professional help from a pastor or therapist. their work is supervised at the parish level, and if a care- giving relationship doesn't work out, which does happen sometimes, either party can be reassigned. good shepherd's senior pastor, david sloop, introduced the program here in 1987. >> it to

should america be defined as a christian nation?n harris on the response. >> reporter: this latest palin-provoked controversy is the result of these comments on youtube. >> god truly has shed grace on thee, on this country. >> reporter: in which the former alaska governor said it is mind boggling to suggest that america is not a christian nation. >> lest anyone try to convince you that god should be accept rated from the states, our founding fathers, they were believers. >> reporter: the idea that america was founded as an explicitly christian country is an article of faith in some circles. the fox news host glenn beck has dedicated entire shows to it. >> when they looked at all the writings the fathers used, the most quoted source was the bible. >> reporter: so, is this argument correct? main stream historians say no, that if you look at the early document documents, including personal letters, it is very clear that the founders did not want to make christianity the official religion. >> most of the founders were members of christi

where is the information where we're deemed to be a christian nation.founded on the premise of freedom of religion. if you would like to leave your two cents, log onto face book fan page and find the story and leave your comments and read what others are saying. facebook is where you leave the comments. fun having you here. >> nice being here. >> tilapia, a lot going on. >> you know how to have fun. >> this is great. >> thank you for joining us. have a wonderful day. now pay just $99.99 a month for verizon fios tv, internet and phone -- guaranteed for two years! it's an amazing offer that could save you hundreds of dollars. call now to lock in this guaranteed low price for two years. with 100% true fiber optics to your home, fios delivers the future and gives you more of what cable doesn't. the best channel lineup and more hd. america's top-rated internet. even facebook and twitter on your tv. enjoy a bigger, better entertainment experience. and the peace of mind that comes from knowing you'll pay the same low price year after year. call now and you'll

america isn't a christian nation and poking an ally like israel in the eye. boggling to see some of our nation's actions recently but politics truly is a topic for another day. les anyone try to convince should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. and george washington, he saw faith in god as basic to life. >> laura: with us now reverend barry lind americans united for the separation of church and state. barry, great to see you as always. >> nice to be back. >> laura: tell us why that drives you insane. >> we have established let's be blunt that sarah palin doesn't read the newspapers. we found that out during the campaign. now we are finding out that she doesn't read history either or she would know that some the great framers of our country james madison, thomas jefferson even andrew jackson who was probably an nra member as well as a supporter of the first amendment didn't want to have the government involved with prayer it drives me crazy to see conservatives who are hypocritical who want the government out of everybody'

because i wanted the children that we expected to have someday to be raised as christians. i wanted my wife to be buried in a churchyard when the time came. and above all, i wanted to belong to the protestant religion because of my deep-seated convictions. which according to my assessment and experiences, were the right ones. my daughter read a protestant, and her child was baptized in a protestant church. in spite of my growing christian ties, markers per in with a slogan don't buy from jews were glued to the windows of my business on the day of the boycott. when i protested, they explained to us that we were half jews. inspite of our certificates and the fact that we had been members of the protestant church, dear pastor, those of us who converted and became doubly hard hit because we now belong to no one, not the jews nor recognized by the state as christians. so, dear pastor, what are we? am i a jew regression by a member of this folk or an outcast? is my certificate a document or not? >> these appeals fell onto their figures. many people have commented on the fact that

. >>> another hot topic is america a christian nation? that question prompted by the raging controversy over, of all things, the national day of prayer. just yesterday, the army disinvited evangelist franklin graham from the pentagon's event. graham has made some pretty controversial comments about islam, some of this show actually where he called it a very violent religion. so is america really one nation under god? >>> and on a very different note tonight, the supermodel who is taking potshots at celebrity plastic surgeries. paulina porizkova is here with very surprising and candid thoughts on true beauty. lots to get to. but we begin with "the mash-up." our number one international story, the deadliest day of the year in iraq. at least 61 people died. more than 100 were wounded in a wave of bombings in baghdad and nearby anbar province. >> just days after the killings of the two top al qaeda leaders in iraq, a wave of bombings have left dozens dead in baghdad and neighboring anbar province. >> mangled cars, buses clogging the streets o

the idea is that jews urged other people to enter-mary, they try to weaken christianity. the whole reason for this is that so white society will be weakened in order that the jews will not be attacked. your friend kevin mcdonald has suggested such things as placing special taxes on jews in order to bring them down to the level of the rest of us. that is part of the reason that we have been critical of kevin mcdonald. it's called let's move on to a chesterfield, mich. on our line for republicans. barbara, you are on. caller: good morning. i get nervous. give me a moment to get my comments about paid -- to get my comments out. when the report came out, it painted everyone that was a christian, who is ex-military, so you have comments from people like dick morris who said that of the conspiracy theories have been right. you have all of these things going on that have the american people frightened. we're not extremist groups. we are not racist. you are tried to paint a salt. they will bring up timothy mcveigh and put that he party in a category like him. what you are doing i

there are some very conservative christian theologians who are visiting this taking this to churches and starting new conversations to say that this interpretation had dominion over all the creatures not true to the language and going back to the language to find the themes of stewardship as opposed to dominion that runs all the way through. and here is the interesting intersection i remember interviewing richard and he was one of the people who opened the discussion and was compelled to do that after he was invited to a scientific conference and he converted to the climate change not that he had not seen them before but had not looked for them before but they were there. i had not thought about that for a while but that is a very interesting model house science and religion can work together in completely unpredictable ways to bring them forward to before you get yourself and place but there are those two will decry where they believe the mysteries and deeply held believes which go to the core of there being to be disregarded as so many neurons firing off. with the use of jerry falw

but a lot of comics between christians and muslims in indonesia were actually result

and recognizing what he calls the trials and sufferings of christians in iraq and pakistan, pope benedict xvi leading easter mass, at st. peter's basilica in rome. good morning and happy easter, i'm eric sean. >> jamie: good morning, i'm jamie colby, happy easter. welcome to america's news headquarters. there are millions around the world, that are celebrating one of the holiest days of the year, for christians. and well, have live reports on the celebrations. we'll begin with one of the biggest services, held in rome, and greg burke is standing by, greg, happy easter to you. it seems like the rain in rome, certainly didn't keep the people away. so many pilgrims showing up. >> reporter: jamie, that's right. happy easter to you, as well. and it looked like well over 100,000 umbrellas out there, actually, when the pope was giving his easter greetings, and

when you look at christianity, of until the 14th century, there were far more christians in the middle east than the war in europe. christianity comes late in europe. in the 14th century, the the way means are still pagans. the germans are still having trouble absorbing others in the heart of europe. the pagan influence hangs on for a long time. but first of all, jews are exiled around the world. christians wind up in that once poor sub continent, europe that transforms itself and then there exiled again. exile this time to north america. over to israel. and this self-selection, in later stages, this movement toward a frontier is, this bravery, willingness to take risks, to rebuild, to restart life. sometimes from ambition. i think it's kept us fresh and healthy. and you look at the middle east, and it is just walled in dysfunctional traditions. there was never a change. so i think the tragedy of islam is the tragedy of the greater middle east. that said, i look at islam on a long time, and you go to synagogue, or indonesia, it's doing just fine. indonesia, 222 million people, give or

it is a time to really look at what christianity is all about. afterall, the resurrection is basically the centerpiece of christianity. without the resurrection, there is no hope for our lives. >> no doubt. there will be services going on all over baltimore. all over maryland. if you want to come here to the christian life church in lochearn, they have a service beginning at 8:30. another one at 11:30. at 7:00 p.m. tonight, they'll be doing a special musical. back to you guys. >> definitely couldn't have asked for a better day for it. >> i'm sure the egg hunts will be pretty popular today. >> after church, of course. >> yes. >> thank you, sharon. >> some of the children get a little restless during church. >> keeps them busy. >> coming up on eyewitness news sunday morning, a mysterious fungus surfaces in maryland. why scientists are worried they'll find it in other areas around the state. that's next when eyewitness ,,,, [ female announcer ] ahh, the book of truth. food myth number 22. nothing's better after a long day than a giant plate of lettu

christian culture from these other ancient cultures they're not more brilliant but only in christian europe you have the infrastructure to commercialize the invention so what you needed to do is several things and environment to encourage risk the christian churches never discouraged free enterprise you also need an environment where people behave themselves to where they can pay their bills and pay their debts and expect a level of enforcement. to treat people under the law and finally you need an investor and theology you can invest in a project with long as you take the risk and not get it back. but he borrowed money from his brother-in-law. and that is how with started to commercialize the product to take the invention and create an empire. there is a lot of notion of what happened after that to the strain was such that the whole notion of the protestant ethic that they were so burdened by guilt and unable to confess that they became economically driven to prove they were among the elect and probably not that complicated going back there is probably simpler explanation only in th

easter is a reminder that christianity is not an escapist religion.ou're actually confronted with. it's god at work. >> president obama on his way to church services today. he talked about a shared spirit of humanity among all of us and something that was interesting that struck me, he kind of blamed what he called the 24/7 news cycle where we liewdz sight of the eternal. what dow think he means by that, and are we so call the # caught up in our every day lives and the issues bombarding us all the time that we sometimes do lose sight of the spiritual and what's important? >> that's very easy for us to do. we get caught up in certain time rhythms, and a lot of our real problems and our real growth occur over longer stretches in ways that current news doesn't really grapple with. >> father john langen. >> we live very much on the surface. >> eric: that's true. perhaps this is a day for all of us to reflect, no matter what your faith, on the tenets of hope and inspiration and faith. georgetowgeorg hacklgeorgetown . >> jamie: eric was quite a superstar at

their christianity and agreeing with certain socially conservative views. hastings says it is practicing non-discrimination. the student group says it is being denied freedom of association. in china, mourning continued after this month's deadly earthquake. more than 2,000 people were killed and 12,000 injured in the tragedy. tibetan buddhist monks have been helping with rescue efforts, organizing services for the dead and offering prayers for the victims. in this country, many evangelical christians home- school their children, in part to insulate them from a public school culture they say conflicts with their religious values. now, some muslim americans are doing the same thing. we have a story today from bob faw about two muslim home-school families in northern virginia. >> reporter: in the heart of mainstream america, a cub scout derby where each of the home- designed cars is carefully weighed and measured before roaring off at breakneck speed. here, enterprise, ingenuity and patience are justly rewarded. >> my favorite part was when i got in first. >>

anything else it's sort of the family reunion of christian music. >> skrr christian music's bying nightsemble its secular counterpart, the grammys, as mainstream artists start creating more mainstream music. >> i think it is crossing over more. these days there is a lot of hurting people out there in the world, in the marketplace. >> reporter: including a variety of styles from pop to rock, hip hop to soul, the contemporary christian genre is earning impressive numbers. billboard's top 200 releases in 2008, nine christian music singles debuted in the top 25. in 2009 the number went up to 13 and sales generated a half billion dollars in 2009. >> there is such a diversity of what we do that alex ovechkin it speaks to the population -- that it speaks to the population as a whole. >> reporter: he says he found salvation in faith. >> i walked away from a $23 million advance that we were going to get and i said i want to be dangerous and do something i know is right for my daughter, for god, and for me. this is wild. >> it's like the marketplace is so hungry for hope. they're hungry for the t

will not let non-christians join. the argument is to get them to overturn the decision from the hastings college of law in san francisco. law schools is that keeping non- christians out of the christian legal society amounts to discrimination. honoring the fallen, family members and veterans gathered at the memorial for vietnam this morning to honor 97 who died as a result of the vietnam war. the honorees do not meet the military dulles for inclusion on the wall. -- do not meet the military guidelines for inclusion. >>> coming up, the hottest new thing for your home, but not everyone should put them on. we will tell you about a new warning over 3d tv. later today, accused of molesting his oscar-winning sister, monique's [ woman ] with my diabetes... i make my efforts count... so i switched to the freestyle promise® program... a unique program that gives me... the support i need, free. free access to a certified diabetes educator... so i can ask about diet and the insulin i use. i got a free meter. and test strip disco

host: christian weller?uest: when it comes to our long-term spending problems, i think we need to be very clear that health care is different than social security. yes, we will see some rising cost when it comes to social security because of the baby boomers' retirement. health care is a different issue. there is medical inflation that really drive the cost and we have to get that under control. that goes back to the first caller's question of what do conservatives -- what did conservatives do when they were in charge? they cut taxes after the administration had generated significant surplus to ultimately begin addressing the crisis or the challenges

jews try to weaken christianity, jews try to weaken the interest of white people in general. and the whole listen for this according to the good professor is that white society will be weakened in order that the jews will not be attacked and so on. your friend, kevin mcdonald has suggested such things as places taxes, special taxes on jews in order to bring them down to the level, i guess, of the rest of us. so, you know, that is part of the reason that we have been critical of kevin mcdonald. >> host: let's move on to chesterfield, mississippi. barb bra, you're on the washington journal. >> caller: good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: i get nervous. give me a moment to get my comments out please. do you want to -- my report comes out and when it came out, it was painting everybody who is a christian, who's returning military, to you have your comments about these groups asking with extremist. then you have people who come right out and say that like dick morris that all of this conspiracy theory what they have been saying all along is right. then you have 400 unit

did you share christian's affection for the state? >> yeah.e from the same high school ande went to timberlane and i'm friends with his cousin and he contacted me through her. so -- that's how we knew each other. >> can you blame -- >> we basically got together for this one video. >> can you blame new yorkers for watching this and saying, new hampshire, boring! >> new hampshire's definitely not boring. there's lots to do here. >> when we were working in the video, also, we wanted to make it broad enough that if you aren't from here you'll still get some of the jokes, you know? >> i love that one of the big yogurtmakers in new hampshire has offered to get you free yogurt. i don't want to get you in trouble and you didn't call out sick on friday, but you called in famous. >> that's what happened. i have to call out famous. there's too much going on. it's a whirlwind this weekend. >> have you heard from either jay z or alicia keys? >> not yet. >> right now the yogurt's cool. i've got kids to feed, so. works for me. >> it's a great effort getting

, to the history of christianity. i like edward koren's essay, one of the great professors of princeton. is a great sense in there. he said religious liberties are the residual of ecclesiastical animosity. these things were fought out in churches. >> host: that's why they became such good travelers. they were fighting out of the church is the whole notion. >> guest: this is a great topic for debate. it's a great topic for discussion in a classroom. as was before the supreme court. but i would say, and, you know, i am partial to america here and the idea of american exceptionalism, is it would have been much come with our struggle but we pretty much work this out about as low as any country has. >> host: the way we worked it out it seems is the founders gave to america one of the greatest gifts that was very unusual, especially for a well-traveled puritan founders, which was the good nature of religious tolerance. that even if you are of constantinople you would get to preach in philadelphia. and in some ways these deb

when you look at christianity, up until the 14th century, there were far more christians in the middleeast than they were in europe. christianity comes late to your. in the 14th century, lithuanians are still pagans. we -- the germans are still having trouble. in the heart of europe. the pagan influence hangs on for a long time. but first of all, jews are exiled around the world. christians wind up in that once force of continents, europe, the transforms itself and the we exile them again. self exile this time to north america. or to israel. and this self-selection, the later stages, this movement toward a frontier, this bravery, this willingness to take risks to rebuild, to restart life, sometimes for necessity, sometimes from ambition. i think it's really kept us fresh and healthy. and you look at the middle east, and it is just walled in dysfunctional traditions that there was never a change. so i think the tragedy is a tragic of the greater middle east. now that said i look at islam for longtime. islam is healthy on its front years. if you go to synagogue or indonesia, it's doing j

was biblical and christian. great pains to avoid tilting the government toward religion. >> reporter: the founders left out any mention of god or jesus in the constitution. except when they noted the date in the year of our lord 1787. then in the first amendment they specifically outlawed the establishment of any state religion. and by the way, thomas jefferson, the man who wrote in the declaration of independence that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, he was a deist, not a christian, meaning he believed that god created the universe but no longer intervenes in human affairs. interestingly, however, many people believe that by not making christianity the official religion, the founders created a dynamic and competitive atmosphere in which faith has thrived. making america one of the most religious developed countries on earth. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> some critics of sarah palin are saying it's interesting in the sense that she of all people sort of champions the idea of no

i think christianity and judaism are healthy. they are both exile. the middle east, thest efforts of arabia have a genius but they can't sustain or nuture them. if you are darwinian, look at judaism and how it survived, you folks must be the most talented. : the pagan influence old-time for a long time. but first of all, are exurb in the west for us to concerts and examined again self-exile this time to north america or to israel. in the self-selection in the later stages, this moving towards a frontier, this bravery, this willingness to take risks, to rebuild, to restart life sometimes for necessity, sometimes for ambition. i think it's really kept us fresh and healthy. and you look at the middle east and it is just wallowed in dysfunctional traditions. there was never change. so i think the tragedy of islam is a tragedy of greater relief. with that said, the atkins plan for a a long time. if you go to a synagogue or indonesia is doing just fine. indonesia, 222 million people take a couple million of well over 90% are muslims and they produced a cou

in the same way that every country that is christian is christian in its own way. you have so many definitions. and yet all of those components of islam from shia to sunni to the mystical -- one of the most peaceful philosophies and ideologies that came against orthodox islam. and had its origins in iran, and mysticism -- all of these were lumped together. and, you know, and all of them were reduced to state, an official version of religion. because you noticed that, you know, this country is a christian majority. and yet we have so many different denominations where we talk about america being christian, are we talking about sarah palin's christianity? are we talking about obama's christianity? are we talking about reverend wright's christianity? are we talking about reverend falwell's christianity? there are so many ways of interpreting religion. but once religion becomes the state -- let's say from tomorrow, we say we're a christian nation and ms. palin's christianity is what we will all do, then religion itself is confiscated. and yet when you said that, people

or non christians. being forced to admit somebody who does not support their believes is a threat to their beliefs. other justices said this could open the door to legally banning minorities. >> its tale of two tea partys. ies. they found that while the group was anti-big government and hostile toward barack obama, they are not happy with republicans, either. >> the tea party is emphasizing independence from the political establishment as a whole including both parties. they have more in common with the republicans but it is not going to be easy. >> when asked about the issues, most tea party people were most angry about the growing national debt, the rate of growth of government and the health care bill. when asked whist politician best exemplifies tea party goals, the top vote getters were sarah palin and ron paul. to see the entire poll, go to politico.com. >>> coming up, oklahoma city 15 years later. >> today is a great day to remember. >> remembering those vietnam war veterans who are not included

christian, china holds a lot of the u.s. debt. they are adjusting of their currency stharks going to have an effect on our debt? implet over time, it will have an affect. we have to be real is tick. this eventually will come to an end. eventually in the long run, we'll see the interest rates. we have to contend with the unwillingness of the over seas lenders whether japan, china, switzerland and germany. foreigners no longer want to hold dollars i think the chinese announcements will make more explicit than when we know anyway. it's another piece of the puzzle that puts pressure on the administration and the congress to address the deficit in the long run. host: assuming this comes up between president obama and the chinese president, what would you suggest the president say? guest: we are in a tough position with china they said in the past, american presidents have talked forcefully to the chinese about human rights. today, president obama is talking to america's leading lender. when you are very dependent on people for your cap

. >> thanks for your time, christian. .. in 2003, the center inoculated this jewish store study initiative. if that remains to fundamentally change the way in which the holocaust is studied, taught that ultimately understood. i focusing attention on the survival and study of jewish source material that document to which responses and activities are indeed transfix era and during the jewish world after the war, this initiative attempts to balance the study of the perpetrators of death with the study of jewish life during and immediately following the period of the assault. this afternoon, we will see some of the fruits of those labors, the first volume in the "jewish responses to persecution: volume i, 1933-1938". the first volume edited by director of applied researcher at the museum and dr. mark roseman examines the initial years of persecution, 1933 through 1938 and the fate of german, austrian, to the voices of the victims through letters, diaries, jewish community reports, communicate and other documents. these documents

host: christian weller? guest: when it comes to our long-term spending problems, i think we need to be very clear that health care is different than social security. yes, we will see some rising cost when it comes to social security because of the baby boomers' retirement. health care is a different issue. there is medical inflation that really drive the cost and we have to get that under control. that goes back to the first caller's question of what do conservatives -- what did conservatives do when they were in charge? they cut taxes after the administration had generated significant surplus to ultimately begin addressing the crisis or the challenges of the aging society. when the bush administration came in, they ignored those challenges, cut taxes in a rather ineffective manner. this quarter the opportunity to put the fiscal house in order. -- they squandered the opportunity to put the fiscal house in order. we have lost 10 years to address these issues. . . caller: how could you sell insurance when you

has also written a book, "all god's children" and "blue suede shoes" which discussantdiscusses christians and popular culture. he has worked at national public radio, editor of this world. he also served on the radio and tv panel for the national endowment for the arts.

there are a lot of christians who are voguishly post-modern in a very uncritical and careless way. they have, partly out of the desire to be fashionable, embraced some aspects of the critique of modernity which they should have embraced, but they have misunderstood the nature of the critique and they do not know what course they have hitched their wagons to -- horse they have hitched their wagons to. we ought to be properly postmodern in a sense that we understand what it has dispensed with. it is safe to say it dispensed with the assumptions that revelation and tradition would cohere with the exercise of reason. that is not something pose maternity -- post-modernity has fixed. i do not want to return to some high-modernist reality. >> my top was much in the direction of a sort of -- talk was much in the direction of a sort of individual getting government off his back. i completely affiliate myself with what he said about the poverty of the individual. this will take longer to explicate. the individualism of modern life that is so pernicious is intimately related to the breakdown

we can bargain about it, but let's face this down and do not be afraid of facing the christians. be not afraid. step in. we talked about the story at lunch told by a friend in the cabinet. some people had come to introduce youngsters to the homosexual life. he's an people deceit frank carlucci -- he sent people to see frank carlucci to put an end to it. people have first amendment rights is what he said. he does not give a damn about those first amendment rights. he wants this to end. reagan later said, you know, if people do not want to take the heat, why are they in this business? he did not care what the newspapers said about him. if you do not want to take the heat, find some other line of work. you are in it, it is in the territory. >> i would add another scripture -- without hope, we are most miserable. ronald reagan gave us hope. we still see and feel that hope together today. we are inspired by the hope that he gave us. all right, a question over here. >> ronald reagan is known for a lot of successes. what role did he set that he did not accomplish? -- what goals did he s

joyce meyer is as close as it comes to a christian rock star. >> we love you! >> reporter: though, she herself says she's an unlikely success story. ♪ we will overcome >> i was told i didn't have a personality. i was told i didn't have the voice. i was told i was a woman. it was like -- god, i'm a woman, he said, "i know." i stand amazed all the time. the bible says god uses the weak and the foolish in the world to confound the wise. >> reporter: she says she was one of the weak and foolish. abused as a child, divorced as a young woman. a thief at one point early in her young life. but now has millions of worldwide foul lores. >> i tell people, i can sit in my garage for a week and that would never make me a car. and you can go sit in church until your bottom's flat and that's not going to make you a servant of christ. >> reporter: humor is a big part of her appeal. as is her down home advice. and honesty about her own struggles. >> i was in a terrible mess in my childhood. >> reporter: and over the past 30 years, she's turned her troubles and her belief in god

and the letter comes after the arrest of nine members of a so-called christian militia. authorities believe were plotting violence. >> reporter: the fringe elements are not prone to grow big or get substantive and we have law enforcement to deal with it and a good civil society and people recognize we may differ politically. >> reporter: and the homeland security chief said again last month there is this ever present danger of a lone wolf or homegrown terrorists. >> we have seen changes in the terrorism environment, over the last month and one significant change is that we are now seeing americans, u.s. citizens, who themselves have become radicalized to the extent of wanting to commit violence. >> reporter: the fbi describes the sender of the letters as quote a sovereign citizen's extremist group, referring to those who believe they are free from all the duties of the u.s. citizens and they say they -- all 50 governors could eventually get the letters. chris. >> chris: these are things to worry about. >> reporter: always something. >> chris: thank you. >> reporter: you

this is at the heart of the aspirations of the judea's and, of christianity, of all the world's greatreligions. the rights of passover have been marked by people in every corner of the planet for thousands of years. they have been marked in times of peace and times of war. one such service was held in the sands of iwo jima during the fierce fighting of world war ii. there, the chaplain consecrated the memory of the american dead, catholics, protestants, jews prepared they huddled -- jews. they huddled in a bloody foxholes' united by patriotism, and a love of country. they heralded the vision of a new world, made possible by the common bond that unites all of us. we can only hope that this unity will endure. on this weekend as easter begins and passover comes to a close, let us remain ever mindful of the unity of purpose, the common bond, the love within you and me, for which they sacrificed all that they had. latticework to fulfill our highest aspirations as individuals -- let us work to fulfill our highest aspirations as individuals and as a nation. >> hello. i am kevin mccarthy. in

three car bombs that appeared to target christians and several embassies.t least 42 people were killed, more than 200 wounded. here's abc's miguel marquez. >> reporter: the moment of one of the explosions caught on camera. the scene on the streets of baghdad, utter chaos. "it was a mini van," he says. "he blew himself up." bystanders instantly turned into victims. no one was spared. she's crying out "a car bomb." this man sprinted, carrying a young girl, injured by the blast. it is a scene all too common here, and iraqis are sick of it. "how can they get through the checkpoi checkpoints," he says. he's right. the three bombs were targeting the iraqi and german embassies. none of them directly hit, but all the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. a highly coordinated attack in a politically super charged country. iraq has still yet to settle on a winner from last month's national claex. >> we are in a fragile period. the second election in a young democracy is always crucial. it tests if the country is capable, having a peaceful transition of power.

, a christian. so you have this enormous range of opinion on a great many different activities. so looking on that i think you look at the very rich combination of testimony. that is how i read it. i don't think i need to assign a certain weight to certain testimony because there is no way of knowing. it is not a scientific sample of how many people believe this versus how many people believe something else. >> would you like to comment? >> i absolutely agree with what you just seven. i would add it depends what question you are asking. for example, if you are asking which are the views that most shaped the way in which jews, and they responded then we might well want to look at this people behind the corridors your written the reports and his views filtered into the jewish newspaper articles. if we want to know what is the publicly being said in the jewish community then obviously we wouldn't get the newspapers. if we want to say what was the average view of the jew on the street we were likely to

am i a jew or a christian? am i a member of the fault line out past? is my certificate and inviolable document or not? >> these appeals fell largely on ears. many people have commented on the fact that in 1933 the first year of nazi rule, well over 30,000 german jews immigrated, but in the following years, the numbers dropped to around just 20,000 a year. they only taught the 1933 viable in 1938, the year of chris,. with melancholy hindsight, this reduced flow of immigrants at a time when the still a lot immigration seemed evident to german jews misguided refusal to see that the era of german jewry had come to an end. but the following contemporary letter from where fault to the jewish refugee in amsterdam and thousands other like it was a different on events. in 1933, unlike following years, a great many of those german jews who left, did so by illegally crossing the borders of foreign countries, mainly france and the netherlands. there they were in a foreign country with no right to no opportunity to work. the jewish press, including the zionist pres

we say we are a christian nation and christianity is what we will all do.then religion itself is confiscated. and yet when you said that co, those apologists would call you western. to say that religion should be defers was an insult to islam. -- diverse was an insult to islam. iran and women and men -- iranian women and men, from the late 19th century, have been fighting against an absolutist monarch the an absolutist religion. there were the first in the religion -- in the region to have a constitutional revolution. the same forces that you see in the streets of tehran today other great grandchildren and grandchildren of those forces who came out into the streets of tehran and other places in iran 100 years ago. and created a constitutional revolution which was the first revolution to create a modern and open institution. revolution, which was the first revolution to create modern and open institutions. and the iranian women who are called western because they say that they need to have a choice -- they have been fighting for their rights for over 100 yea

are we talking about episcopalian christianity, obama christianity, reverend falwell's christianity? there are so many ways of interpreting religion. once religion becomes the state, let's say tomorrow we say we are a christian nation and christianity is what we will all do, then religion itself is confiscated. when you said that, people in power in iran and apologists would call you western. to say that religion should be the verse was an insult to islam -- to say that religion should be diverse was an insult to islam. iran and women, iran and then, iranian clerics -- iranian women, men, and clerics from the beginning of the last century have been fighting against an absolutist monarchy and religion. iran was the first in the region to have a constitutional revolution. the same forces that you see in the streets of tehran today are the great, great, grandchildren of those forces who came out into the streets of tehran and other places in iran 100 years ago. they created a constitutional revolution. it was the first revolution to create modern and open institutions. the iranian women

. >> matt: 2 balls and no strikes to christian glisson. the inside pitch back and 2-1. >> glisson leads the team with a .448 on base percentage. folks hide be surprise today see his offensive production. david perno said they were not surprised at all he had been able to swing the bat like he had. the injury problem that has limited his ability to throw out base runners. that has been problematic for the bulldogs all season long. i would like to see him hit with a little more pop. he hit his first home run on saturday out of baton rouge. a nice combination of georgia players mere and metro atlanta players. and christian, 3-9, with 3 rbi in that series against the tigers. 3-1 pitch fouled out of play. the 2 run shot in the top to have 4q made a -- 4th inning , having won on sad. the rubber game. and 3 run in the bottom half of the 4th. went over to bullpen. gave up 9 run it is rest of the way. >> jeff: the bottom of the 4th, nearly a great catch t the bulldogs play hit-and-run here. the 1st baseman , lamb, was not holding ruiz on. but no do