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Religion & Ethics Newsweekly - "2008 Campaign: America's Role in the Worlds"
2008 Campaign: America's Role in the Worlds
Cover Story, Original Broadcast Date: October 24, 2008 (Show #1208):
Does the United States have a moral obligation to be engaged overseas? How does America balance security with humanitarian concerns? Does the U.S. sometimes do more harm than good? And do Americans think this country is uniquely blessed by God? These questions and more are explored in a new survey conducted in September by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY and the UN Foundation.
In the first of a special two-part series, Kim Lawton reports on several of these key survey findings and talks with people of faith about how they view America's role in the world. According to Janie Sweeney Beecher who attends St. George's Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine, along with her husband and three children, "Whether it's debt forgiveness or helping with the infrastructure, getting water access, simple, simple things that we take for granted here in the United States that other countries don't have that we can help with. And we should do it."
Featured (in alphabetical order):
Janie Sweeney Beecher, Member, St. George's Episcopal Church, York Harbor, ME
Tom Beecher, Member, St. George's Episcopal Church, York Harbor, ME
Reverend Paige Blair, Rector, St. George's Episcopal Church, York Harbor, ME
Professor Allen Hertzke, Professor of Political Science and Director of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma and Visiting Scholar, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Bishop Thomas Wenski, Diocese of Orlando and Chair, U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace
Does the United States have a moral obligation to be engaged overseas? How does America balance security with humanitarian concerns? Does the U.S. sometimes do more harm than good? And do Americans think this country is uniquely blessed by God? These questions and more are explored in a new survey conducted in September by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY and the UN Foundation.
In the first of a special two-part series, Kim Lawton reports on several of these key survey findings and talks with people of faith about how they view America's role in the world. According to Janie Sweeney Beecher who attends St. George's Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine, along with her husband and three children, "Whether it's debt forgiveness or helping with the infrastructure, getting water access, simple, simple things that we take for granted here in the United States that other countries don't have that we can help with. And we should do it."
Featured (in alphabetical order):
Janie Sweeney Beecher, Member, St. George's Episcopal Church, York Harbor, ME
Tom Beecher, Member, St. George's Episcopal Church, York Harbor, ME
Reverend Paige Blair, Rector, St. George's Episcopal Church, York Harbor, ME
Professor Allen Hertzke, Professor of Political Science and Director of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma and Visiting Scholar, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Bishop Thomas Wenski, Diocese of Orlando and Chair, U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace