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James Lee Burke, Solitary Confinement, Children's Hajj

We look into some of the ethical challenges raised by solitary confinement in prisons; visit best-selling Catholic crime-novel writer James Lee Burke at his home in Montana; and replay our 2012 story about a mock hajj for Muslim American children in Virginia as this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca approaches.
Season 17 Episode 6 Length 25:45 Premiere: 10/11/13

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Season 17 Episodes

Probation for Profit; The Rebbe's Legacy; Comfort Dogs
S17 E52 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 08/28/14

Religious Response to Ferguson; China Orphan Care
S17 E51 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 08/21/14

Atrocities in Myanmar; James Lee Burke; Janmashtami
S17 E50 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 08/14/14

Drugs of Last Resort; The Amanda Lindhout Story
S17 E48 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 07/31/14

Migrant Crisis; Latino Converts to Islam; Carrie Newcomer
S17 E47 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 07/24/14

Undocumented Child Migrants; India Mental Health Care
S17 E46 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 07/17/14

Wounded Priest; Saving Infants in Vietnam; Shinnyo Lanterns
S17 E45 Length 25:39 Premiere Date 07/17/14

Vietnam Trafficking Activist; Endangered Churches
S17 E43 Length 25:39 Premiere Date 06/19/14

Religious Outreach to Veterans; Dhammakaya; Upanayanam
S17 E41 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 06/12/14

Bloodless Surgery; Poet Christian Wiman; Shavuot
S17 E40 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 06/05/14

Pope Trip Report; Pakistan Polio Campaign; Mormon Missions
S17 E39 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 05/29/14

Pope Francis Middle East Trip; Religious Freedom
S17 E38 Length 25:45 Premiere Date 05/22/14

Rwanda Genocide; Young Gay Men and HIV; Meaning of Yoga
S17 E37 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 05/15/14

Death Penalty; Women, Religion, Violence; Jordan River
S17 E36 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 05/08/14

Prospects for Pastors; The December Project
S17 E35 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 05/01/14

Papal Canonizations; India's Domestics; Jerusalem Movie
S17 E34 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 04/24/14

Atrocities in Myanmar; Jesus and Resurrection
S17 E33 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 04/17/14

Micro Preemie Ethics; The Sarajevo Haggadah
S17 E32 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 04/17/14

Biblical Epics; The New Calvinism
S17 E31 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 04/03/14

Pope; Bivocational Pastors; Blind Boys Alabama; Franciscans
S17 E30 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 03/27/14

Contraception Mandate; Story of the Jews; Women's Purim
S17 E29 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 03/20/14

Gun Violence; Dorothy Day; Sikh Children Turbans
S17 E28 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 03/13/14

Philomena; Solitary Confinement; Ash Wednesday

S17 E26 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 02/28/14

Detroit Bankruptcy and Worker Pensions; Secular Ethics
S17 E25 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 02/21/14

The Ethics of Whistle-Blowing; Jordan, The Other Holy Land
S17 E24 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 02/14/14

UN Report on Vatican Abuse, Coping with Loss, India's Cows
S17 E23 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 02/07/14

Nuns Versus Pipeline, Living Wage Factory
S17 E22 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 01/31/14

Jordan's Syrian Refugees, Inoculation Ethics
S17 E21 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 01/24/14

Camden Priest, Social Entrepreneurship in the Philippines
S17 E20 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 01/17/14

Typhoon Faith, Tu B'Shevat, Jews and Humor
S17 E19 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 01/10/14

Look Ahead 2014
S17 E18 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 01/03/14

Look Back 2013
S17 E17 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 12/27/13

Christmas Peace, Fifty Years after Gideon
S17 E16 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 12/20/13

Mormon Missionary Expansion, El Salvador Abortion Ban
S17 E15 Length 26:47 Premiere Date 12/13/13

Nelson Mandela, Pundits and the Pope, Christmas Gift Giving
S17 E14 Length 26:47 Premiere Date 12/06/13

Methodist Gay Marriage, Civil Rights 50th Anniversary
S17 E13 Length 25:49 Premiere Date 11/29/13

Thanksgivukkah, Relocating the Homeless, Comfort Dogs
S17 E12 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 11/22/13

Catholic Bishops, Catholic President; Gun Violence
S17 E11 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 11/15/13

Legislative Prayer, American Dream, Kristallnacht

S17 E10 Length 25:49 Premiere Date 11/08/13

Pope Francis, Predicting Violence, Reza Aslan's Zealot
S17 E9 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 11/01/13

Catholic College Identity, Poet Christian Wiman
S17 E8 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 10/25/13

12 Years a Slave, Lawyers for Justice, Conservative Judaism
S17 E7 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 10/17/13

James Lee Burke, Solitary Confinement, Children's Hajj
S17 E6 Length 25:45 Premiere Date 10/11/13

The Francis Factor, Supreme Court and Prayer, Pakistan Polio
S17 E5 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 10/04/13

Pakistan's Christians, Implementing Obamacare
S17 E4 Length 25:48 Premiere Date 09/26/13

Methodist Gay Marriage, Chagall's Jewish Jesus
S17 E3 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 09/20/13

Syria Conflict, Birmingham Bombing Anniversary, Kever Avot
S17 E2 Length 25:47 Premiere Date 09/13/13

Debating Intervention in Syria, Guantanamo Ethics
S17 E1 Length 25:46 Premiere Date 09/06/13

J. Peter Pham on Religion and the New Africa
Clip Length 08:29 Premiere Date 08/07/14

Hillary Chapman Extended Interview
Clip Length 10:36 Premiere Date 07/03/14

Martyrdom of the Bab
Clip Length 03:00 Premiere Date 07/03/14

Hobby Lobby Ruling
Clip Length 07:43 Premiere Date 07/03/14

Donor's Gift of Life
Clip Length 08:07 Premiere Date 07/03/14

Endangered Churches
Clip Length 09:37 Premiere Date 06/19/14

Vietnam Trafficking
Clip Length 08:38 Premiere Date 06/19/14

James Lee Burke
Clip Length 07:40 Premiere Date 10/10/13

Solitary Confinement
Clip Length 08:36 Premiere Date 10/10/13

Bishop Frank Griswold and the Episcopal Church Crisis
Clip Length 06:48 Premiere Date 11/26/04

Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clip Length 02:49 Premiere Date 01/23/04

John Lewis
Clip Length 07:43 Premiere Date 01/16/04

Sunni/Shiite Relations in Post-War Iraq
Clip Length 02:44 Premiere Date 04/04/03

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