Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version) show

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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 Muslim Wellness Foundation Founder: "Our story does not start with oppression." | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:25

Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera joins us to explain why she sees interrogating the Western narrative of the enslaved as interconnected to Black Muslim mental health today.

 Unpacking Christian Nationalism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:05

Dr. Robert P. Jones, President and Founder of PRRI, discusses the latest research documenting the rising influence of Christian Nationalism in some segments of American politics.

 The Pilgrimage for Peace | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:10

As the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, a group of multifaith peace activists began a journey from Philadelphia heading for the White House.

 Muslim Voters Take to Polls to Protest Biden Administration Policy in Gaza | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:00

Emgage Action Michigan interim executive director Hira Khan joins to explain why her organization and volunteer network worked with partners to encourage voters to use the ballot to send a message instead of disengaging.

 Making space for women In mosques | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:50

Women don’t always feel welcome in American mosques. They’re sometimes turned away, sent to basements to pray, or discouraged from serving on the boards of directors. Aisha al-Adawiya is devoted to changing that.

 “We Don’t Want to Tilt at Windmills” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:40

Kim Bobo, executive director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, joins us to discuss the 2024 legislative agenda and how the 42-year-old organization continues to grow and expand its base across the Comm

 “Climbing Out of Poverty Takes a Network” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:25

Among the hundreds of volunteers preparing to lobby lawmakers was Anne Murphy, a Catholic retiree and resident of Northern Virginia. In this conversation, she describes why she has attended these annual lobbying events

 Untraditional Christians: The Beliefs of the Founding Fathers (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:05

Though the Founding Fathers were Christian, many of them held beliefs out of step with most American Christians of their time – and ours.

 Presidential Religion in the Civil War and The Age of Imperialism. (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:20

Both Union and Confederate leaders invoked God to advance their causes during the Civil War. But Abraham Lincoln refused to claim the divine on his side.

 Jefferson’s Quran. (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:05

As a law student, Thomas Jefferson bought a Quran from an English publisher. But why? Did he read it as a sacred text? As a window into Muslim law?

 For an old monastery, a second life. (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:05

Sick, tired, and hopeful, Central American migrants are bused daily from a detention center to a former Benedictine monastery in Tucson, Ariz., where a small army of volunteers offers showers, fresh clothes, and medical

 The Echos of Anti-Catholicism Today. (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 11:25

We talk to Daisy Vargas, whose current work traces the history of anti-Mexican and anti-Catholic bias in the U.S.

 How Far to the Promised Land with Rev. Esau McCaulley (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:00

Rev. Esau McCaulley confronts the controversy that the Civil War was not fought because of slavery but Southern heritage.

 How to Fight Racism: A Conversation with Dr. Jemar Tisby (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:20

We explore the inspiration behind Dr. Jemar Tisby's new book, How to "Fight Racism: A Young Reader's Edition".

 The Rise of NonDenominational Christianity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:05

Dr. Ryan Burge discusses the trends and data that may explain Mr. Trump’s ongoing appeal, evidenced in the 2024 Iowa Caucus results.

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