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 learn how the multigenerational Ewing-Boyd family uses a religious fast as an opportunity to slow down, gain discipline and reconnect with each other.
Many people undergo internal, personal transformations as they participate in religious or spiritual fasts. But what else is happening inside us when we abstain from food and water?
An increasing number of people have discovered fasting outside the walls of religion - in yoga.
When someone fasts, they usually take something out of their lives. But some are using that space they've created in themselves to add in social concern.
How do we respond when we feel like the world around us is out of control? For millennia, people have found rituals - like fasting - can help them achieve clarity or a sense of control.
Many Catholics decide to give up foods like candy or soda for a personal fast during Lent. But one group of mostly Catholic activists are instead giving up their time to demonstrate in support of undocumented immigrants.
We hear from two Jewish women who are finding new inspiration in the ancient story of Esther to stand with oppressed women in the #MeToo era
When someone fasts, they usually take something out of their lives. But some are using that space they've created in themselves to add in social concern.
How do we respond when we feel like the world around us is out of control? For millennia, people have found rituals - like fasting - can help them achieve clarity or a sense of control.
Many Catholics decide to give up foods like candy or soda for a personal fast during Lent. But one group of mostly Catholic activists are instead giving up their time to demonstrate in support of undocumented immigrants.
We hear from two Jewish women who are finding new inspiration in the ancient story of Esther to stand with oppressed women in the #MeToo era
When someone fasts, they usually take something out of their lives. But some are using that space they've created in themselves to add in social concern.
Five African Americans share the challenges they face – and the purpose they find – in smaller, predominantly white spiritual communities.
Five African Americans share the challenges they face – and the purpose they find – in smaller, predominantly white spiritual communities.
LaShawn Williams, Eunicia “Niecie” Jones and James Jones were raised Mormon and often were the only black members of their church. But despite their church's painful history of discrimination, they find a reason to stay.
