. >>> also, the provocative and controversial message of franciscan priest richard rohr and his call for spiritual transformation. >>> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to founders and christian religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. the estate of william j. carter and the jane henson foundation and corporation for public broadca broadcasting. >> welcome, it's good to have you with us. voters in mississippi this week rejected the so-called "personhood amendment" -- a ballot measure that would have defined life as beginning at conception. 58% voted against it. religious groups in the state were divided on the issue. some opponents argued the measure was too broad and would ban certain types of birth control and in-vitro fertilization. but supporters say they will continue to push personhood amendments in other s

richard rohr is one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world. his ideas appeal to people across faith traditions, and to spiritual seekers as well. rohr argues that most organized religions dispense doctrine when they should be encouraging personal transformation. >> without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself lutheran or methodist or catholic. i think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people. >> reporter: rohr's popularity may be surprising since his ideas are highly nuanced and draw deeply from mythology, philosophy and psychology. he's lectured across the globe. and his books have been translated into numerous languages. his latest book is called "falling upward," and addresses the importance of the spiritual journey. >> it feels like falling, but it isn't falling. it's learning. it's transcending. >> reporter: in what he calls the first half of life, rohr says we're mostly concerned with everyday inter

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. >> reporter: city manager mark rohr took us on a tour.ack up and running. nearly half of the homes damaged are being rebuilt. >> if those people would take time out of their lives and their routine to come to our city and help us, it's very moving, very touching. >> there are so many more good people out there. i mean, we're not alone. >> reporter: volunteers helped reconstruct diane huddle's home. not only was it destroyed -- was was emily in this car sfp. >> she was right behind the driver, which was my husband, kenny. >> reporter: but when her family was thrown from this sa bush ban, her daughter's leg was cut to the bone. >> something flue in. >> and her dad started carrying her and kenny fell. he fell to the ground and was with her in his arms and he started crying. and emily just looked at him and said, it's okay, dad. let me walk. just hold me. >> we had went into a dentist's office that we landed by in the basement. >> reporter: in this damaged building, emily says she felt a calming presence. >> i remember on this shoulder a hand

rohr rizzo is saying he should be paid with interest because he hasn't been convicted of a crime or resigned his post. he is accused of planning to ski in the city out of a is of dollars. he has pled not guilty. he and other officials are facing charges of fraud and misappropriation of public funds. >>darya: we're back with more in a couple minutes. a live look at the standard tale bridge carried a lot of sunshine and not too much traffic. we will be right back. sphere fiske ask saw asked hawkeye hard-half and when >>darya: and here is a look at the 7 day around the day forecast. another gorgeous day today. just like yesterday, nice and warm. 78 for the high. temperatures drop on thursday and into the weekend. check that out. as we head into friday, the showers began. the entire weekend looks like it is pretty cool sunday, daylight savings. in our skin, we fall back. >>darya: attorneys for jared laughner wants to stop this forced medication and they want him removed from the prison facility he has been staying in. he was found mentally unfit to stand trial. he has pleaded not guilty for 49 c

investment that they made because everybody -- every working person in denver, colorado springs, you a rohr a, in cleveland, columbus, dayton paid into social security in medicare every day of their work lives. they've invested, they've earned it. they were promised it. but presently, as i, colas are based on the consumer price din deindex for workers instead of r the elderly. those 65 and older tend to spend twice as much on health care as the general population, twice as much out of a smaller income and half of much out of a bigger income than a 40-year-old would get. so, mr. president, the -- that's where we need to go with the social security cost-of-living adjustment. but in the so-called supercommittee, which wasn't able to come to an agreement, they -- they included -- they were -- there were many in the supercommittee, particularly republicans, particularly sort of ultra conservative politicians that don't much like social security to begin with, they wanted what's called the chained c.p.i. the chained c.p.i. was -- they called it a technical fix. but it is really a regressive tax i