Donald Messer is the executive director of the Center for the Church and Global AIDS. He discusses both the difficulties and the successes of this work. Also on the program, Katy Scrogin reviews Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept, by Brent Nongbri.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Azerbaijan's official remembrance of troubled times, and the developments that brought the nation some stability.