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:
Nearly a quarter of Americans say they can experience God as a living person. But it's hard. It takes practice, imagination, and above all, faith. And Christian Zionism: it's probably not what you think it is.
Religious outsiders--people who, for one reason or another, feel rejected, excluded, or ignored in their houses of prayer. On our list: introverts, the disabled, and men.
Maureen is back from her journey to Lebanon, where religious clout and political power collide. And the Vatican Bank may be blessed by God, but has been manipulated by the hands of men since its creation in the 1940s.
We look into the spiritual inclinations of our Presidential hopefuls, and uncover a few surprises, from Hillary Clinton's piety to Bobby Jindal’s brush with an exorcism. And Sister Joan Chittister on embracing paradox.
Bribes in exchange for drivers licenses. Sex in exchange for fair trials. Why corruption--the misuse of public office for personal gain--rouses religious extremism. Plus, nirvana gone awry: the death of Ian Thorson.
At the end of our lives, if suffering is profound, should we be able to choose how and when we go? Two priests weigh in: one calls it suicide, the other, dying with dignity. And an in-studio performance of Sikh hymns.
Is it the anti-gay bill? The religious liberty law? Two sides debate the true intentions of Indiana's controversial religious freedom act. And Jeanne Bishop explains her decision to forgive her sister's killer.
China's atheist government once destroyed temples and jailed monks and priests. Now religion is booming--and some of it's being funded by the state. And a review of Alex Gibney’s jaw-dropping documentary on Scientology.
We host a debate on whether the so-called Islamic State is truly 'Islamic,' and ask if exploring their theology is the right thing to focus on. And are the TED talks today's evangelical tent revivals?
Feminist theology: It's so much more than calling God 'she' or 'wind.' Two feisty theologians argue it's really a question of who gets to say. And Rev. Welton Gaddy reflects on 16 years as an interfaith rabble-rouser.
It's only logical to re-visit our 2012 interview with Leonard Nimoy. The son of Jewish immigrants, he says his half-alien Spock was a true 'diaspora character.' Plus, the dangers and divinity of artificial intelligence.
Introducing the tiny, ancient religions of the Middle East, now teetering on the brink of extinction: the Yazids of Iraq, the Druze of Iran, and others. And a new book challenges America's Christian Nation narrative.
He's been called arrogant, militant, and brilliant. Uber-atheist Sam Harris goes head-to-head with Maureen. Plus, we go back to an era when one of the most powerful forces in the movie business was the Catholic Church.
When a priest’s own conscience conflicts with his vow of obedience, what should he do? In 2012, Father Tony Flannery faced this question for himself. Plus, the easiest way to opt out of vaccines: the religious exemption.
Seventy years after the liberation of the most infamous death camp of the Holocaust, two survivors share their story. Plus, has Israel's mandate to 'never forget' made its leaders fearful and paranoid? Two views.
