Speaking of Faith
American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Speaking of Faith does not always have religion itself as a subject. Week after week, it grapples with themes of civic life -- asking how ...
American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Speaking of Faith does not always have religion itself as a subject. Week after week, it grapples with themes of civic life -- asking how perspectives of faith might distinctively inform and illuminate our public reflection. The Speaking of Faith podcast contains each week's program in its entirety and is updated every Thursday.
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John Danforth — Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion [remix]
Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true ...
Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Republican party. This veteran politician speaks about the values that have helped him navigate the line bet
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr — Hearing Muslim Voices Since 9/11
Dramatic headlines convey a predominantly violent picture of global Islam. ...
Dramatic headlines convey a predominantly violent picture of global Islam. But, during the past five years, Muslim guests on SOF have conveyed a thoughtful, questing, diverse, and compelling faith. Step back with us and hear these voices from the traditio
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David Hilfiker — Seeing Poverty After Katrina [remix]
Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of ...
Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. In this program, David Hilfiker tells the story of how poverty and racial isolation came to be in cities across America. He lives creatively and realistically with questions
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Richard Mouw and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott — Gay Marriage: Broken or Blessed? Two Evangelical Views [remix]
Our culture's acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage ...
Our culture's acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage has been framed in religious — largely conservative Christian — terms. We go behind the rhetoric to explore the human confusion, hopes, and fears this subject arouses. We'll name hard questi
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Elie Wiesel — The Tragedy of the Believer [remix]
A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most ...
A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some of his thoughts on modern-day Israel and Germany, his understanding of God, and his practice of prayer after
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Luke Timothy Johnson and Bernadette Brooten — Deciphering the Da Vinci Code [remix]
The wildly popular novel turned movie reimagines the New Testament, ...
The wildly popular novel turned movie reimagines the New Testament, in part, as a cover-up. What really happened in the fluid early years of Christianity? What is the truth about Mary Magdalene? We separate fact from fiction in the story's plot with two N
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Dan and Sue Hanson — Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia [remix]
Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His ...
Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, normalcy, and religion differently. Is there room in our culture to consider a schizophrenic personality as
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer + Sami Adwan — Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 2)
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms ...
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its inhabitants, on both sides of the conflict, consider holy. Our guests in this two-part series, Israeli an
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Yossi Klein Halevi — Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 1)
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms ...
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its inhabitants, on both sides of the conflict, consider holy. Our guests in this two-part series, Israeli an
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Prabhu Guptara — The Gods of Business [remix]
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we ...
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hindu international business analyst who offers learned, fascinating observations about how the world's myr
