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Most Burners don’t know much about the history of the land or its original inhabitants: the Pyramid Lake Paiute. Reporter Lucy Kang enlightens them.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 28:09
There may be no other actor on the world’s stage whose life has been as heavily documented as Muhammad Ali's. Yet for all the ways the legendary at...
Bought by KOSU, WSKG, WKMS, WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 39
After innocent civilians were murdered in Tiananmen square, Chinese revolutionaries learned that political activism couldn't be the only solution. ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 14:51
For the past several months I have been covering the largest religious conversion the world has ever seen, Christianity in China. It is a story tha...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 02:19
With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 47:05
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:40
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:05
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 26:22
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 2
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 17:42
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, w...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 58:00
Mandy attends an evangelical Christian church. Every Sunday, she arrives at least an hour early for services, because that’s one of the things you...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 12:20
Ricky’s father is an atheist activist. These days, Ricky is beginning his own search for God, and something to believe in. This story is part of th...
Bought by KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 11:25
- Purchases: 3
Instructed in a "vision" to save men from a drunkard's fate by smashing the bottles waiting behind the bars of Kansas taverns, Nation went forth in...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:47
A profile of Anne Hutchinson - a maverick spiritual leader in Massachusetts during the early 1600's.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:08
We depend on all kinds of secular and spiritual rituals to mark the ends and beginnings of things. Sometimes this means following a long-standing t...
Bought by XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WYSO, WRVO Public Media and more
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture
Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 07, 2008
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 5
