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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In recent years, several mosques around Myanmar have been attacked and Buddhist nationalists have pressured authorities to close down Muslim religious schools.
This week we meet people who have dedicated their lives to preserving the sacred...from the art of scribing to digital archiving of handwritten manuscripts to recitation of scripture.
Father Columba Stewart has been described by some as a modern-day Indiana Jones on a mission to rescue sacred texts – preserving them with digital technology.
Rabbi Moshe Druin trained his love of doodling cartoons into a passion for preserving the ancient tradition of handwriting Hebrew scrolls and set out to become a Jewish scribe.
Host Amber Khan introduces listeners to students and teachers at two Islamic schools where students attend Hifz programs to learn how to recite the 114 Chapters of the Qur’an.
Though many Christians root their opposition to the death penalty in their Christian faith, many supporters do the same. We hear from Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.
Sister Helen Prejean, who galvanized the anti-death penalty movement, has published a new book on her call to religious life and the passion that fuels her activism.
In this week’s episode we take a closer look at how a new generation of elected leaders bringing their various identities into public service at a time when the country is deeply divided.
We meet Virginia House Delegate Elect Suhas Subramanyan who made history when he became the first Hindu and Indian American elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
We talk with Abrar Omeish. She become the youngest woman to hold an elected position in Virginia’s history as At-Large Member of the Fairfax County Schoolboard.
We explore the divides that candidates for office and elected leaders face when trying to engage likely voters across party lines, with PRRI's founder and CEO Robert P. Jones Ph.D.
We talk to filmaker Callum Macrae, and religious historian John Wolffe about The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
We talk to filmmaker Callum Macrae about The Troubles, the low-level war that rocked Northern Ireland for much of the latter half of the 20th century.
We talk to John Wolffe, a professor of religious history at The Open University in London, about the religious aspects of The Troubles.
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