and of course pastor is appearing weekly and a couple times sunday at jones united methodist church. at jones united memorial methodist church. i'd like to take a moment to thank the members of the committee for their support and participation. as i always say, something like this cannot happen without a committee of people involved. with us today, trevor hunnicut, who started the program off, who say member of the board of drorves the society. lamont bishop is a stalwart member -- where are you? in the back. he's a represent of senator mark leno's office. b.j. jones from public utilities commission is here. stewart. from the public library. and pete fitzsimmons and tannish col -- hollins and camille dawkins. camille is over here. without camille and tannish rkt , none of this happens. so let's give them a round of applause for their wonderful effort. the society's primary mission is to enlighten, to inform, to inspire and to empower. we achieve that mission in a variety of ways. almost always in partnership with others. through our current partnership that trevor spoke to with the f

the baltimore county code and polluting at area on rolling road and dogwood in front of the united methodist churchcounty executive is due to talk about the sign pollution at this spot at one this afternoon. >>> a military judge is poised to rule on the motion to dismiss charges against army private accused in the biggest leak of u.s. government documents in history. a judge told private first class bradley manning she would make decision today. prosecutors have been so slow in sharing required information, the defense says all charges should be thrown out. military prosecutors says manning gave wikileaks sensitive reports and diplomatic cables. the defense says he was troubled as a soldier and shouldn't have had the information. >>> the supreme court will take down on the arizona crackdown on illegal immigration. at issue, four provisions to the 2010 state law that were blocked by lower courts. lower courts determined the provisions were likely in conflict with federal immigration laws. one of the provisions requires authorities to check the immigration status of anyone arrested stopped or detaine

. >>> members of the united methodist church gathered in florida this week for the denomination's general conference, held every four years. delegates are once again debating several issues dealing with homosexuality, including the church's ban on non-celibate gay clergy and gay marriage. >>> in recent years there has been a steady growth in hospice care for the terminally ill. the idea is to ease the suffering of people in their last months of life. comforting the dying is a natural calling for chaplas. and, correspondent bob faw visited a hospice chaplain in new bedford, massachusetts. she told him about the importance of listening carefully as dying patients search for the meaning of their lives. >> if you want to know what a hospice chaplain does, watch kerry egan in new bedford, massachusetts, as she visits 71-year-old jim burgo, who didn't want his face shown and who is dying from liver disease. >> i don't want to suffer. i know i am going to die, but i don't want to suffer. >> at life's end, when burgo is anguished and needs to talk about dying, the hospice chaplain listens and com

about everything from what he had seen in my earlier in the day to the united methodist conference at the united methodist church in indiana. it was a wide-ranging discussion. and that night, john and i ended up in the london sky bar. and this wasn't quite something out of "star wars." but i think the motorcade in all the sirens that brought us into town peak the interest of the intelligence community that was centered in odessa. ukraine is only one of seven or eight nation that borders the black sea. and as we sat in the bar, every time i looked up at the smoky figure in the other side of the bar he seemed to be looking at me. and then there was a group of people at a table and he started asking these questions. where you guys from? who are you with and where you going? he said were going to go to london. the guy said there's no flights from here to london. remember john sandwell, we're going to go to albania first. and then it became apparent that maybe these folks were looking for information and maybe we shouldn't be dispensing so much. but that was one of the finer moments that i shared with john shaw as he

methodist church. it's also on the national register of historic places. a special thank you to dwayne who is with the unitedhodist church commission on archives for the photographs. >>> we want to learn about your home church as well. salutes can be september to the address on the screen. mail back is next. time now for our weekly look . >>> time for a weekly look inside the farm report mailbag. the controversy was the subject of a very thoughtful e-mail, well worth reading on the website from cindy in minneapolis. consumers not going to hack set riaances this product is safe when the people putting in the food don't disclose its presence and fight to continue to not disclose it. as we discussed in our earlier news story i think she highlights one key element. the days less than full closure are over. we are perhaps even more sensitive on the subject of food. separated meat is safe and adds efficient to the slaughtering process but the lack of being transparent triggers a backlash once it's brought to the attention. just as the bonded apple corporation found with the china worker fact. how it's maid seems t

in kansas city, emanuel kreclea, united methodist church pastor. from the christian broadcasting network. thank you for joining us on a religious holiday for any number of religions will this weekend, which is why we wanted to have this conversation. this is a pew research center poll and the question was to americans do you think there has been too much, too little or just about the right amount of faith and prayer expressed openly by politicians. and as of 2012, 38%, flpluralit said too much faith and prayer expressed by politicians. too little, 30%, right amount, 25%. that is up by nine points from just two years ago. whats h has happened to turn pee off to the amount of public discussion we're having about religion? congressman, let's start with you. >> well, it's becoming a political issue every two years and then for sure every four years we try to put god on the ballot. and i think the american public is tiring of it. look, the sectiixth amendment declares there shall be no religious test. so god did not burden the united states with diversi

the easter sermon at the oakland korean united methodist church focused on the shooting and the shootingn members say they feel. the suspect, one goh, is of korean decent. >> now, oikos university students are on their scheduled spring break. it's not clear when or if the school will reopen. >>> authorities in marin county investigating homemade bombs found at a middle school. three bombs were pressurized water bottles that had not exploded. a fourth bottle partially ruptured. investigators say looking at the size and the location of those devices indicate they were designed to make a lot of noise rather than destroy anything. students are out on spring break. >>> the city of san jose is set to consider a tough, new, outdoor smoking ban tomorrow. the ordinance would ban smoking in outdoor dining areas in lines where people wait for service and in the common areas of apartment and condos. the goal is to cut down on second-hand smoke. >>> activists will hold a press conference at uc berkeley to demand that the alameda county district attorney drop charges against occupy cal protesters. stu

take a look at the pictures of his new home courtesy of the united methodist church and relief organizationoves in this week. he is certainly grateful. we talked to him. take a listen what he had to say. >> a wonderful group of people from all over, from florida, from california. all these people came. to help a little guy from tuscaloosa. it brings tears to my eyes. i wish there were more i could do for them. i just want to say, thank you. >> reporter: benjamin is grateful and also doing work with the home for autistic children and working on other homes and habitat for humanity homes. the mayor says its ten-year path but the city will be in better shape before the tornado. >> julie: thank you so much. >> eric: on saturday afternoon, new concerns over the iranian nuclear program. could they get what they want? a possible plan is reported to allow them to continue to enrich uranium. even though the united nations says no. what does it mean for the international efforts to try to stop iran from getting a potential nuclear weapon? you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. grea

think, tendencies to his religion but he was actually never a main line protestant church, united methodist church. host: the group that our guest, c.e.o. and founder of the public religious institute group, we talked about a study they did. you can find more on their web site publicreligion.org. tell us how religion is playing a role in this campaign compared to past election cycles? guest: i think we've seen an evolution of what americans are expecting from their presidential candidates especially if you go back to 1960, the main question before john f. kennedy was how independent will you be from the hierarchy of your tradition? you know, will the pope be -- there were actually political cartoons and other things about the pope packing up his suitcase and moving to the white house. i mean, that's how front and center this was in the debate and kennedy really -- his challenge was to say here's what religion will not do in my campaign where i believe in the absolute separation of church and state. when he gave the speech to the houston ministers association, my own faith is very sincere but it's

past he served as an alderman, chairman of the lawrence county chamber, a lay leader at the united methodist church and president of the lion's club. in 1980 he served on the arkansas transportation commission and national motor safety regulatory review panel. during this time he was instrumental in obtaining funding for arkansas state university to start a transportation related program with the college of business. thanks to john's efforts, a.s.u. now has logistics and supply chain management program. additionally john served as director of the arkansas assessment coordination department and arkansas state director for usda world development. john has achieved much as a public servant, but he'll be the firts to say his family is center of his life. mr. crawford: they have been married for 49 years. together they have three children, andy, andrea, and matt. he's also the proud grandfather of anna and ella. mr. speaker, today i honor him for his lifetime of service, arkansas and our nation is a better place to live because of his efforts. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what

united methodist church.fully understand the relationship between the government and religion, my family took a trip to colorado springs where we visited the united states air force academy chapel one of the first chapel commissioned by the u.s. government the chapel not only accommodates many religions and different forms and levels but also has a specific history to deal with the first amendment to rigs to nixon's 1973 all of them and 1972 the supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional to require some it's been a voluntary to respect this freedom is not only important to me because of my regular attendance and church, but because i am a part of the experience, a traveling music ministry. ♪ >> although many do not share the same religion, the fact is that we all have this freedom. >> look, we are all capable of making a sound and rational decisions. if i hear someone talking about something that is outside of my religion i certainly know even if it can't get up and leave at that point while i may become str

tradition to come so i welcome the opportunity to become a united methodist and i love the capacity for doing ministry beyond the local church and even beyond the country. of the ideas and the diversity of the religious tradition and of course the tremendous efforts that john wesley. >>> caro you ought to do counseling. >>> guests are working grief counseling because grief can be very heavy and hard issue that can hang on you especially after the experience of death but grief could also occur through loss of jobs and relationship and a loss of physical ability. like with my eyesight so it is imperative that and some way that that payment be talked out and processed and worked out so it doesn't hang on the heart but you can experience the love of god and be renewed. >>> looking at your resume u2 counseling to. >>> comes linda also spiritual court coaching. it's relatively new and what it does this try to relate to people in terms of their spirituality and the nondenominational religious focus you could be specific but meeting people of the core of their being and questions of a they are in their relationship with the entire p

nairn countries where the lutheran church is the official state church but here in the united states, episcopalians, jews, catholics, methodists, all of us happen to believe that we do not want an official state church, i would be opposed to it, if 99 percent of the population were catholic i would still be opposed to it, i do not want civil power combined with religious power and that is my view, some other person holds another view or another catholic in another country holds another view that is fine, i am committed as a part of personal deep conviction, separation. >> schieffer: kennedy went on to win that election, of course but the conversation about the separation of church and state continues, and we will be talking about it some more on this easter sunday, with a panel of people who think about it a lot. richard land, the president of the southern baptist convention ethics and religious ethnic commission, luis cortez, of esperanza, rabbi david wolpe of sinai temple in los angeles and recently voted america's leading pulpit rabbi, sally quinn, founder and head of the washington post on faith web site, and newsweek maga

methodist church. to understand the relationship between government and religion, my family took a trip to colorado springs where we visited the unitedr force academy cadet chapel, one of the first chapel's commissioned by the u.s. government. the chapel not only accommodates many religions with different rooms and levels but also has some specific history having to do with the first amendment them until 1973, all the cadets were required to come to church. >> the supreme court ruled that was unconstitutional to require the cadets to come to church. since then it has been voluntary. >> this is important because i'm part of the experience, a traveling music ministry. ♪ although many do not share the same religion, we all have this freedom. >> we are all capable of making sound and rational decisions. if i hear someone talking about something that is outside of my religion, i certainly know that if i cannot get up and leave that i can tune it out. while i may be constrained in have to listen, i don't have to incorporate that into my personal beliefs. ♪ >> you want free speech? let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood

methodist church tomorrow night. we're digging deeper into the history, what led to this killing spree. our investigative unitking the story along with our team of reporters on the street. we'll bring you the latest at 11:00. >> over to brent cannon and what he's continuing to cover. >> we have coverage of that shooting and a new earthquake in mexico today, another 6.4, which was fairly significant. we'll tell you about a new website that helps parents find good summer camps for their kids. that coming up on comcast 186. >> thank you, brent. we'll see you back here at 11:00. >>> i'm suzanne shaw. viewers reacted strongly to our editorial supporting a revised high-speed rail plan with regional rail partnership. larry writes, we can't even get basic mass transportation to work in california. dave complains nobody wants a train going 200 miles an hour through their backyard. and dennis warns, we have no business spending this kind of money while making cuts to schools and the elderly. but kevin counters, do you remember how counties reacted to the cost of b.a.r.t. in its infancy in they all backed out except ala