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 hear about rollbacks on religious exemptions for vaccines, recent Supreme Court cases, and more. Plus, TV shows exploring the relationship between faith and sexuality.
Our panelists start with the Supreme Court, and its determination that a 40-foot-high cross on federal land is constitutional, religious exemptions for vaccines, the Hong Kong protests, and more.
Kimberly Winston considers two recent television shows (Fleabag and Gentleman Jack) with fascinating examinations of religion, especially the role sexuality plays in religion.
To mark World Refugee Week, we talk to people motivated by their faith and values to welcome the stranger. And we hear from those who were strangers themselves.
We talk to volunteers setting up an apartment for a family of Afghan refugees and to Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, who heads Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
Mireille Twayigira is a doctor who fled civil war in Rwanda, excelled in refugee camp schools and then won a scholarship to medical school.
We continue our conversation with Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, who talks about her own faith tradition and what it means for her, as a non-Lutheran, to head LIRS.
Roxanne Stone helps us define evangelicals: Who are they? What do they believe? Why do they tend to vote the way they do?
Are evangelicals in America prejudiced ... powerful ...persecuted? Hear fresh perspectives on this religious movement.
The senior pastor of a Texas megachurch explains how he helps evangelicals -- the religious group most likely to hold prejudiced views of Muslims -- to embrace them as fellow human beings and Americans.
We explore topics including new regulations on abortion in Alabama, celebrating Ramadan at the Capitol, and The Satanic Temple gaining tax status as a religious institution.
The television juggernaut “Game of Thrones” came to an end this month after eight thrilling seasons. Our guest argues that the show has strong religious themes running through it.
Millennials and Gen Z are struggling to find connections as they also trend away from religious affiliation. But even non-believers still need community and support.
Countless migrants pass through Tucson every day. What happens when people start thinking beyond the walls of physical sanctuary, and aid migrants in new ways?
What are American Muslims thinking about their country? What are other Americans thinking about them? And remembering Rachel Held Evans.
