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Every year, at the Church of the Redeemer in Mechanicsville, Virginia, people exhibit exhibit hundred of Nativities from all over the world. And ea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 27:00
Jay Ipson
is a survivor of the first magnitude. He learned his survival skills under the most harrowing conditions known to man. As a young boy, he...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 26:37
Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City can reasonably expect to bump into a missionary or two. Mishy Harman and Nava Winkler introduce us to a couple of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 05:18
The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 17:18
Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...
Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 4
In nineteenth century Jerusalem, Moses Wilhelm Shapira created forgeries of ancient relics that shook the world. But even today, 130 years later, n...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 21:27
- Purchases: 2
Ethiopia is said to be the birthplace of coffee, and this aromatic elixir continues to be an important part its culture. KFAI’s Allison Herrera met...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 05:29
Berlin, Germany - 1972. An American teenager tries to come to terms with what she sees and what she feels on both sides of the Wall while secretly ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 2
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...
- Added: Dec 31, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 15:09
- Purchases: 1
Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 06:41
Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 03:09
Islam and Mormonism — not exactly a perfect pair? Actually, these two religions have a striking similarity: both are marginalized in American socie...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 13:10
A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 2
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 05:49
Emerging Tibetan Buddhist teacher, the 17th Karmapa makes first historic visit to the US
- Added: Jun 29, 2008
- Length: 17:01
On the dock of California's Marina Del Rey we meet a group of Buddhists, one million sardines, and Larry the bait guy for a not-your-average day at...
- Added: Aug 09, 2007
- Length: 09:10
Reflections from an ecclectic Himalayan community where no two experiences are the same....
Bought by PRX to iTunes and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Aug 08, 2007
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 2
Jon Miller visits a nationalistic rock band comprised of Orthodox monks in Greece.
- Added: Jul 07, 2006
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 2
Jon Miller reports on a resurgence of interest among Greeks in their pre-Christian roots.
Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
- Added: Jul 07, 2006
- Length: 06:26
- Purchases: 1
Anouk is Dutch, Said is a Dutch Moroccan. They are young and in love. And they’re on the frontline of an invisible battle currently raging in the...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 31, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Jerusalem Archaeology Feature
- Added: May 19, 2005
- Length: 05:35
