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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Ahmed H. al-Rahim — A Perspective on Islam in Iraq [remix]
The religious landscape of Iraq is complex and somewhat enigmatic ...
The religious landscape of Iraq is complex and somewhat enigmatic to the western world. Nearly 97% of Iraq's 25 million people are Muslim, and a majority of Iraqis are Shiite rather than Sunni. What does that mean? And how powerful is the prominent cleric
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Coleen Rowley and Tim McGuire — Work and Conscience [remix]
Host Krista Tippett explores the practical implications of spirituality at ...
Host Krista Tippett explores the practical implications of spirituality at work with Federal Bureau of Investigations special agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley and syndicated columnist Tim McGuire.In May 2002, Rowley wrote a now-famous 13-page let
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Michael Cromartie and E. J. Dionne — Religion on the Campaign Trail
Religious pronouncements seem to have become mandatory for the Democratic ...
Religious pronouncements seem to have become mandatory for the Democratic candidates in this election. Yet it's been easy to deride the resulting sound bites that are widely repeated—such as Howard Dean's proclamation of his favorite book of the New Testa
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Charles Haynes, Philip Hamburger, and Cheryl Crazy Bull — Religious Liberty in America: The Legacy of Church and State [remix]
At the center of our history of church and state ...
At the center of our history of church and state is a troublesome irony. What began as an attempt to guarantee religious tolerance in the new world has at various times been commandeered by the most chauvinistic movements America has known. In spite of th
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Roberta Bondi, Gregory Plotnikoff, Michele Balamani, Anoushka Shankar, and Stephen Mitchell — Patterns of Prayer [remix]
In recent years, the practices of prayer have been evolving ...
In recent years, the practices of prayer have been evolving for many religious traditions. Even western medicine is looking at prayer as it expands its concept of healing. In this program, we consult several people from a variety of practices about the ro
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John Lipscomb and Catherine Roskam — Homosexuality and the Divided Church
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has sharpened our ...
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has sharpened our culture's intensifying focus on homosexuality. In a year of political and religious milestones for gays and lesbians, Gene Robinson became the first openly gay man to be elected an Episcopal
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Rebecca Chopp, Kecia Ali, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen — Women, Marriage, and Religion
Over the last four decades, women's roles have changed dramatically ...
Over the last four decades, women's roles have changed dramatically — at home, in the work force and in religious institutions as well. In America, resistance to this is often couched in religious terms. Where there is a backlash against feminism and its
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Thomas Moore, Debra Haffner, and Anthony Ugolnik — Spirituality and Sexuality [remix]
Christian scripture and tradition have overwhelmingly shaped American attitudes toward ...
Christian scripture and tradition have overwhelmingly shaped American attitudes toward sexuality. And in the past year, our national attention has been riveted on sexual scandal within the Catholic Church. In this program, we crack open the difficult subj
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Peter J. Gomes, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Chris Hedges — Religion in a Time of War [remix]
More than any crisis in modern memory, the War on ...
More than any crisis in modern memory, the War on Terror—including the current U.S. military presence in Iraq—is being debated in religious, usually Christian, terms. We explore the nuances of that debate with a former war correspondent, a political theor
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Mario Cuomo and Mark Souder — Faith and Politics in America
At the The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life ...
At the The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, DC, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana speak about how they reconcile personal religious conviction with serving a pluralistic American constituency.
