for religion and ethics news weekly, i'm saul gonzalez. >> on our cal entdar this week, hindus and the sikhs are preparing for celebrating the fest valve lights marking the victory of good over evil. the holiday lasts for five days. finally when an earthquake shook washington, d.c. in august, the washington national cathedral was one of the structures damaged. this week engineers inspected the highest pinnacles, the city of washington applied to the federal government for disaster assistance to help with cathedral repairs. the damage has been estimated around $15 million and the cathedral had no earthquake insurance. nobody imagined that what is almost the highest point in the nation's capital, an earthquake would ever be a problem. that's our program for now. i'm bob aber nethy. follow us on twitter and facebook and find us on you tube. watch us any time, anywhere on smart phones and iphone. there is much more on our website where you find special links and resources on advanced directives and more of our interviews about end of life care. you can comment on all oursters and share the

special correspondent saul gonzalez has the story. a version of his report aired recently on the pbs program "religion and ethics newsweekly." >> reporter: with korean american drummers leading a line of professors, a new experiment in religious education began this fall. this was the opening of southern california's claremont/lincoln university which describes itself as america's first interreligious school of theology, one that pastors, rabbi, and eventually muslim imams have on one campus. the school's philosophy was captured in the opening remarks of muslim american religious scholar jiba sayyid miller, a professor at claremont. >> the diversity of humankind is not a curse from god. it is a sign of god's creation and the beauty of humanity is in our very differences. >> reporter: what do you hope to accomplish here at claremont/lincoln? what's the grand vision? >> you have to get beyond the point of people defining their religions by the traditional walls. >> reporter: phillip leighton is claire monday lincoln's provost. he sees t