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:
We talk to two people who are proudly both Jewish and Black. They reflect on the shared history of the two groups, and how they are sometimes "othered" by the larger Jewish community
As we commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we learn about the role American religion has played in both reinforcing and combating racism.
Sarah Hurwitz, a White House speechwriter during all eight years of the Obama administration, explains her rediscovery of Judaism.
As a teenager, Bryan Mealer disavowed the Christianity of his childhood and confirmed his disbelief as a war correspondent. Now he is a Christian seminarian.
In this week's rebroadcast of a show we did last November...Some people don't want much or anything to do with the religion of their childhood ... and then go all in.
Americans don't know much about religion. That can lead to fear, scapegoating and political manipulation...which can lead to violence.
Ben Marcus says he promotes religious literacy as a counter to bigotry and the violence that it can fuel.
Political science professor Erik Bleich explains how media coverage of Muslims, Jews and others influences opinions about these groups.
Author and attorney Asma Uddin explains why the charge that Islam is not actually a religion threatens all Americans’ religious rights.
In this week's rebroadcast of part two of our 'Chaplains' series, we tag along with a Zen Buddhist monk in New York City. Then, how mindfulness can nourish patients and doctors.
This week we feature selections from the December 8, 2019 Sounds of Faith concert at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Myanmar's dominant Buddhist identity, intimately connected to the country's post-colonial independence, is contributing to violence against religious minorities.
The extreme violence at the hands of Buddhist nationalists in Myanmar contradicts popular western stereotypes of the faith tradition. Buddhism, like all religions, is not immune to extremism.
Pastor Bob Roberts, of Northwood Church in Texas, offers a few suggestions of how to help the Rohingya refugees in the Cox's Bazar district in Bangladesh.
Myanmar's ethnic cleansing and the use of rape as a weapon of war has generated global condemnation. At the center of this conflict is the question of national identity.
