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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 Baptized in the Sea (encore) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:20

In a soundscape of surf, sand, and spirituality, Father Christian Mondor recounts how he began riding waves at age 70. In water, he finds a metaphor for the holy trinity. And in the surf, he finds a kind of baptism.

 A Prayer for Salmon – “It’s Legal” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:00

An elder remembers indigenous life back before Shasta Dam was built. The legality of the proposal to raise Shasta Dam is considered. Meanwhile, Chief Caleen Sisk considers a new strategy to fight back: turning an adversa

 “Scared to Life” – Faith and Gun Reform in Tennessee | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:30

Liam Adams, the religion reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville, introduces us to the complex religious landscape of the city, and talks about the response of the faith community to the Covenant School shooting. Many f

 The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:10

In his latest book, The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War, Journalist Jeff Sharlet outlines a new era of martyrs and civil war.

 The Church of "Least Dogma" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:55

Bob Otis is the founding pastor of Sacred Garden Community Church. He outlines its core beliefs, its practices, and the somewhat long path to membership. Then Don Lattin, author of “God on Psychedelics,” describes how wo

 "What IS This?" On the Mystery of Being. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Pastor Bob Otis describes his own personal faith journey that brought him from a Christian home in Tennessee to a psychedelic church in Berkeley.

 Turtle Medicine: Slowing Down the Rush to Psychedelics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Chief Phillip Scott is a teacher in indigenous medicine with Lakota ancestry. He has consulted with Sacred Garden Community Church on their use of what he calls “sacred plants."

 Chapter Three: “The Shasta Dam and Reservoir Enlargement Project” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:35

The story continues as Judy Silber explores how the Winnemem Wintu view water and land as sacred entities that must be in balance and believe they were put on Earth to protect and steward their homeland.

 “I am carrying that story” How A Prayer for Salmon came to be. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:55

Judy Silber, producer of A Prayer for Salmon, talks about building trust with the Winnemem Wintu tribe as a journalist,

 Introducing “A Prayer for Salmon” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:45

We present A Prayer for Salmon: A documentary series from The Spiritual Edge telling the story of the Winnemem Wintu people and their clash with the raising of Shasta Dam.

 “Part of interreligious engagement is sitting in discomfort." | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:15

To say that planning a Model Seder and Iftar was a learning experience would be an understatement. In this conversation, Orthodox Jew Deena Grant shares how surprised she was to discover many similarities between her tra

 “We as a society need to understand what is in the soil of this country” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:15

Pardeep Kaleka shares what he has learned about himself, how his faith has evolved, and how escalation in mass shootings demands a reckoning with the deeply held values of the nation.

 “People also have spiritual needs.” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:00

Anwar Khan is the President of Islam Relief USA and is a board member of global and national humanitarian organizations working to alleviate hunger and human suffering. He describes their counterparts in Turkey and how

 "There's a massive silencing effect." | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:00

Dr. Tricia Bruce, a sociologist from Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion in Society recently published a paper studying discordant benevolence as it relates to attitudes about abortion in America.

 A feminist pioneer in Islamic theology | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:30

In 2005 Dr. Amina Wadud made waves when she led Muslim prayers in New York City.

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