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 chaplain and researcher Tom O'Connor and to filmmaker Martin Doblmeier about how chaplaincy can reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars.
Every fall, thousands of Jewish inmates show up in force for Yom Kippur, a day that's central themes are confession, repentance and redemption.
People of faith are not just speaking up in the #MeToo era, but actually combating abuse and seeking accountability within their spiritual communities.
People of faith are not just speaking up in the #MeToo era, but actually combating abuse and seeking accountability within their spiritual communities.
Experts say holding an abuser accountable, both to validate the experience of the victim and to prevent further abuse, is an essential part of the healing process for survivors.
Religious institutions aren't alone in applying the lessons from #MeToo into their ministry; so, too, are academic researchers in the study of religion.
Allegations of abuse and #MeToo experiences have impacted communities in many faiths, including the Pagan, Buddhist and Christian traditions. How are these communities working to improve accountability?
Myanmar's dominant Buddhist identity, intimately connected to the country's post-colonial independence, is contributing to violence against religious minorities.
Myanmar's dominant Buddhist identity, intimately connected to the country's post-colonial independence, is contributing to violence against religious minorities.
Like all religions, Buddhism is not immune to extremism.
Many far-right extremist groups have long claimed a Christian Identity ideology. But as alt-right and white nationalist movements grow, their religious beliefs are changing.
Some white nationalist and white supremacist groups are gravitating towards neo-Pagan religions, like Odinism, while others are following a national trend of rising secularism and leaving behind theism altogether.
Many far-right extremist groups have long claimed a Christian Identity ideology. But as alt-right and white nationalist movements grow, their religious beliefs are changing.
For many white nationalist groups that subscribe to a Christian Identity philosophy, faith beliefs are more about cultivating an identity, than religion.
Journalist Vegas Tenold spent six years following several white supremacist and alt-right groups throughout the U.S. He learned that while far-right extremist groups are growing, they are anything but uniform.
