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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 3
Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic church.
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 06:16
A personal story from a growing demographic
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 15:09
- Purchases: 1
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:43
- 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
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 10:04
One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
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
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
Latin America has been overwhelmingly Catholic for centuries, but that's changing, and Guatemala is leading the way, as Latin America's Evangelical...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 30:31
- Purchases: 4
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
Monsters? Attempted suicide? The "second hand smoke" of insanity? Bob will be the 1st to admit that clinical psychology requires a bit of a split-...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
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
A history of St. Philips Moravian Church, the only historic African-American Moravian congregation in the U.S.
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 18:59