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:

 Discovering Meaning in Art: A Religion Scholar Makes a Startling Discovery | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:25

Easter images and messages center on the resurrection story of Jesus. John Dominic Crossan asks, is it the right one?

 Streaming Hope: Spiritual Leaders Offer Wisdom and Connection | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:46

From poetry to spiritual practices, people of faith and goodwill are turning to new ways of connecting with their spiritual communities.

 Faith Leaders Respond to Coronavirus Outbreak | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:34

This week we learn how faith leaders and government officials learned to work together during an Ebola outbreak. Then we see what houses of worship are doing to protect their congregations.

 Lessons from Fighting Ebola: Engaging Faith Leaders Creates Safer Communities | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:18

David Robinson offers lessons and some cautionary tales for those on frontlines working to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

 A Big Tent and No Walls: What “Caring for the Least of These” Means to Rev. Sloan McDow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:51

Los Angeles’ First United Methodist is a church without walls. Rev. Mandy Sloan McDow describes how they protect the most vulnerable in their community.

 Not an Afterthought: How One County Works with Interfaith Leaders | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:25

Montgomery County, Maryland has made representatives from two dozen local faith groups an integral part of its crisis response program.

 Life and Legacy: New Documentary on Guru Nanak on Public Television | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:30

Most Americans know little about Sikhism and virtually nothing about its founder – Guru Nanak Dev Ji. A new documentary film seeks to change that.

 Life and Legacy: New Documentary on Guru Nanak Airs on Public Television | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:30

Most Americans know little about Sikhism and virtually nothing about its founder – Guru Nanak Dev Ji. A new documentary film seeks to change that.

 Zero to 550: A Community Leader Sees an Opportunity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:18

Most Americans know little about Sikhism, and virtually nothing about its founder – Guru Nanak Dev Ji. A new documentary film seeks to change that.

 Telling Guru Nanak’s Story: Filmmakers Trek the Globe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:00

When Gerry and Adam Krell agreed to make a documentary about the Sikh faith, both were quick to acknowledge how little they knew. It was that lack of knowledge they credit with helping them tell the story.

 Religion and Conflict in India: Divine Enemies or Political Reality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:12

Are the underlying assumptions that religious tension is to blame for recent violence in India the whole story? Not according to scholar Ayesha Jalal. She traces the roots of division to British colonial rule.

 A Sister’s Battle: Rushan Abbas Raises Her Voice Around the World | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:45

When Rushan Abaas spoke out about the disappearance of her husband’s family in September of 2018, she never expected that the Chinese police would detain her sister.

 Resisting Fear: Uihgur Americans Raise Voices for the Missing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:10

We talk to Uihgur Americans working to free three million Uihgur and other ethnic minorities being held in secret prisons by the government of the Peoples Republic of China.

 Nury Turkel’s Campaign to End the Persecution of the Uihgurs and Religious Persecution in The Context of Pan-Chinese Identity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:25

We explore Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s political doctrine that serves both cultural and economic ambitions. Then, we meet an American Uighur activist making the case for Uighur human rights.

 The Faith of the Presidents | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:15

From George Washington to Donald Trump, we explore the often surprising religious history of the presidency, and the Constitution's promise of religious freedom.

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