Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version) show

Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version)

Summary: Interfaith Voices is the nation’s leading religion news magazine on public radio. We offer weekly analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of African-American Mormons and atheists in the military, evangelical environmentalists and Muslim feminists. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore. That’s why Interfaith Voices matters.

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Podcasts:

 Interfaith Activists Push for Citizenship for All | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:45

As co-chair of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, Peniel Ibe is working with advocates and activists to create a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented American residents.

 The Power and Paradox of Delusions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:30

Shankar Vedantam examines how self-deception helps us succeed at things like parenting, and serves as a survival tool. Then Robert Griffin explores beliefs about the 2020 presidential election.

 Voting Rights or Voting Wrongs?: Clergy Combat New Restrictive Laws | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:53

Voting Rights or Voting Wrongs?: Clergy Combat New Restrictive Laws

 Redemption and Hope | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:29

This week, a story from the Sacred Steps podcast. We hear from a former Israeli soldier who wrestles with identity and his faith. Then, reflections on "The Black National Anthem", Lift Every Voice.

 Regret of an Israeli officer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:25

A former Israeli soldier starts to question violence towards Palestinians and finds himself under fire by his own government.

 Lift Every Voice: Behind the ‘Black National Anthem' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:04

A 120-year-old anthem is enjoying a new life in Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country. Producer Kimberly Winston looks at the history of the song.

 Trans in the Eyes of God: Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:24

Trans in the Eyes of God: Part 1

 Toni Newman-'I'm accountable only to God' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:00

Toni Newman grew up in a strict, southern Christian household. But when Toni came out as a gay man in college, family and church relationships were strained. And then, Toni came to realize she was really a transgender wo

 America's rapidly shifting views on gender, identity, and LGBT rights. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:13

In the past decade, public opinion on LGBT issues, like same-sex marriage, has changed drastically. But the growing acceptance of the L, the G, and the B has not necessarily extended to the T.

 Religious groups wrestle with myriad, competing views on transgender identity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 8:03

We asked some scholars from a variety of different faith traditions: Is it okay to be trans in the eyes of God? But as we'll learn, the answer is far from simple.

 Ravished by Sweetness-The Spiritual Sustenance of Nature | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:40

We head out of doors in search of the sacred and the spiritual in nature—from cicadas to forest bathing.

 Ravished by Sweetness | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:20

Depending on your point of view, cicadas are miraculous or migraine-inducing; a wonder or a whopping pain

 An Invitation to Wander in the Woods: Forest Bathing and it's Shinto Origins. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:12

Washington-DC-based author and certified Forest Bathing therapist Melanie Choukas-Bradley takes host Amber Khan on a guided tour at the Woodend Sanctuary at the Audubon Naturalist Society headquarters.

 The Path Forward: Prioritizing Human Rights and Learning from the History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:24

According to the Rev Dr. Mae Elise Cannon the bureaucratic efforts that allow the Israeli government to seize Palestinian homes and forcefully remove residents have been ongoing and represent a violation of human rights.

 The Dispossessed and Displaced in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:38

A growing chorus of voices and coalitions of people of faith are calling on the Biden Administration to take a different approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians — to forge a just peace.

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