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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 God and Government: Guatemala Edition, What We Learned from Rwanda, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:34

Maureen travels to Guatemala, a country still debating the legacy of its most controversial leader, Rios Montt; and reflecting on the moral lessons of the Rwandan genocide, 20 years later

 The First Muslim in Congress, Marketing Shamanism, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

A conversation with Rep. Keith Ellison, and why 'shaman' is the hottest word in religion

 How Jesus Became God, the Spiritual Richness of the Dark, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

Master explainer Bart Ehrman on the divinity of Jesus; Barbara Brown Taylor on learning to love the dark; and the founder of the the Jewish Renewal movement on his 'December years'

 Religion Minus Doctrine, The Messiah and Your Rental Contract, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

No creed, no God, no problem: inside Unitarian Universalism; and the 'messiah clause' in Jerusalem rental contracts leaves no stones unturned

 Debating Religious Freedom, The 'Noosphere' and Other Online Experiments, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

Two sides debate Arizona's vetoed 'religious liberty' bill; war in Africa: faith or economics? And experiments with religion in the internet's early days

 Worker Rights in the 1930s, When Catholic Morals Controlled Hollywood, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:50

Seventy-five years after the minimum wage was created, the moral debate hasn't changed. And while you watch the Oscars, let's remember the Catholic Legion of Decency, which once slapped movies with C's for 'condemned'

 The Moral Lives of Primates, Writing Letters as a Spiritual Practice, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

A primatologist argues we can trace values like empathy, justice and cooperation all the way back to our animal ancestors. And Amy and Jessica: spiritual pen pals

 Divide Over Doctrine in the Catholic Church, Passing Faith Through Families, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:16

A poll reinforces the gap between what the Vatican teaches and Catholics practice on social issues; how faith is passed down through families; and 'Hands on Faith' lets students touch the divine

 On Being Russian Orthodox, Sex Abuse in Zen Buddhism, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

Why Russian Orthodoxy = Russian patriotism; Eido Shimano: the 'Zen predator' of New York, and Roshi Bernie Glassman on socially-engaged Buddhism

 New Files Reveal Decades of Priest Abuse, A Former Altar Boy's Story, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:30

A history of child abuse charges, told through memos and faxes; the Archdiocese of Chicago responds; and ten books of the Bible that didn't make the cut

 Does Religion Fuel Violence? The Mystique of Amish Romance Novels, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

Why most "holy wars" are really about the same earthly matters we've always fought over: money and power. Later, the allure of Amish romance novels.

 Sister Joan Chittister on Aging Gracefully, Einstein's God, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:30

Finding new meaning in the last third of life; William Lobdell: how reporting on religion made me lose my faith, and Einstein's vision of God

 Positive Thinking, The Sacrament of Smoking Weed, and More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:30

A new book investigates the law of attraction - the idea that thoughts create reality; the prayer life of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the roots (and buds) of Rastafarian spirituality

 Reza Aslan on Jesus the 'Zealot,' Advice from the Spirit World, And More | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:29

In the weeks since Aslan's infamous interview for Fox news, it's a special rebroadcast of his more civil interview with us on the historical Jesus. And leaders, prophets and kings who took advice from spirit voices.

 2013: The Year of Pope Francis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:30

The top religion news stories of 2013, and how Pope Francis is re-branding the Catholic Church

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