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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Vincent Cornell — The Face of the Prophet: Cartoons and Chasm
Our guest, an American Muslim and religious scholar, helps untangle ...
Our guest, an American Muslim and religious scholar, helps untangle the knot of violent and bewildered reactions to cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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Martin Doblmeier — Ethics and the Will of God: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer [remix]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany, offers us a model of personal morality and conscience in the most troubled and immoral of times. His resistance of Nazi ideology, while much of the German church succumbed, is
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Joan Halifax — A Midwife to the Dying [remix]
The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and ...
The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and medical issues that remain with us today. But missing in that debate was a real attention to the quality and the meaning of death. Joan Halifax tells us what she's learned and how she lives diffe
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Don Saliers and Edward Foley — The Meaning of Communion: At the Table [remix]
What are the origins of communion, and what is its ...
What are the origins of communion, and what is its deepest social relevance? Two leading theologians of communion describe a ritual that is not just personally meaningful for the believer, but also collectively and ethically challenging for Christians.
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Joan Brown Campbell and Thomas Hoyt, Jr. — Living Reconciliation: Two Ecumenical Pioneers
Two people with unique perspectives both discovered ecumenism — the ...
Two people with unique perspectives both discovered ecumenism — the movement to reconcile Christian churches — during the Civil Rights era. They'll describe what they've learned about grappling with vexing clashes of difference, and why reconciliation amo
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James Smith and Nancey Murphy — Evangelicals, Out of the Box
Stereotypes tell us this: Evangelical Christians are politically conservative, closed-minded, ...
Stereotypes tell us this: Evangelical Christians are politically conservative, closed-minded, morally judgmental, and anti-science. We speak with two creative members of a new generation of Evangelical thinkers and teachers, who defy stereotypes and revea
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Miroslav Volf — Religion and Violence [remix]
Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around ...
Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around the world. Our guest knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his personal history. We'll speak about what goes wrong when religion turns violent, and why, he believes, the c
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Kecia Ali, Omid Safi, Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, and Michael Wolfe — Progressive Islam in America [remix]
In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, ...
In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, scrutiny of the religion of Islam has become part and parcel of our public life. In forums of all kinds, often guided by non-Muslim pundits, we ask, what does terrorism have to do with the
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Joseph L. Price — In Praise of Play [remix]
If sport is an American religion, is that bad for ...
If sport is an American religion, is that bad for us? What is the metaphysic of baseball? In this show, we'll speak with a theologian and sports fan who has spent much of his career studying the religious character of rituals in sporting events and the sp
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Khaled Abou El Fadl and Harold M. Schulweis — Religion and Our World in Crisis [remix]
In this personal exchange between a Jewish rabbi and Islamic ...
In this personal exchange between a Jewish rabbi and Islamic scholar, host Krista Tippett explores the integrity of religious faith and openness to the faiths of others. In a world in which religious experience is implicated in violence, two thinkers disc
