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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs. It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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We trace the religious roots of the Olympic games, from Zeus to the Nazi Olympics, and on to the present day. And we profile 3 believers who find t...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
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Tonight in lieu of Interchange we’re going to share another special episode of the local podcast The Hijabi Diaries. This one is called Redneck Mus...

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lyle Beckman, Night Minister with The San Francisco Night Ministry, Credit: Ian Lewis
Many people living in need rely on churches for meals, support or simply a place to get off the street and rest. But like other types of service ce...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:30
Caption: Gary Shields Sr., training son Gary Shields Jr. at God's Gym, Credit: RENATA GRAY
At the corner of Broadway and 25th Street in Oakland, there’s black building with a name painted on it that might makes you do a double-take – God’...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:34
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People living in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota have dealt with spills for years. But for one woman living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reser...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 13:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Be careful when stigmatizing certain groups for terrorism: Rights may be trampled. The objective take on this ugly side of man and why we should no...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 26, 2015
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Kyle Meredith celebrates Langhorne Slim's 35th birthday with a discussion about age, sobriety, and the complexity of influences on his new album "T...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mohamad Akhlaq
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death. But what was the mob being fed?

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Rhonda Miska, Credit: Wendy L Wareham Photography
What could be a watershed event in the Catholic church is happening in October. Just after Pope Francis leaves the U.S., where he’ll be hosting the...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 21:21
Caption: City of David, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints will explore Biblical history at the City of David, Namibia's political, economic and natural landscape and small town treasures t...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:58
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This week on Minnesota Native News: A traditional Ojibwe perspective on catching walleye in Lake Mille Lacs.

Bought by KMSU, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KQAL, WTIP, WDSE and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 19
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Three hours north of San Francisco, just east of the ocean, rise the steep, green hills of Cazadero. It’s an idyllic setting: open space with farms...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 07:57
Caption: Derrick Holloway serves as an inmate preacher in San Quentin State Prison., Credit: Nigel Poor
Derrick Holloway grew up in a Christian family, but chose to sell drugs and participate in a lifestyle that resulted in him committing a murder. Af...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:43
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Maria Eitz is a priest for the San Francisco Sophia in Trinity community, Credit: Tom Levy
n the dining room of her San Francisco home, Maria Eitz shows off her priestly attire -- a beautiful red, embroidered stole...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Romance, dating, sex and - Muslim women? Nura Maznavi’s book “Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women”

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 22:46
Caption: Musicians lead the congregation in Praise Singing at ICCNC, Credit: Hana Baba
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
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For centuries, religion has sparked the design of some of the world’s most beautiful buildings. But what is that process? What built elements make ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:53
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In this part of Oakland, deep potholes and trash mark the street. But then, there’s this perfectly manicured shrine. It’s an elaborate structure, d...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 10:11
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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
Caption: Musician and composer, Silvia Nakkach
Nakkach’s musical philosophies are influenced by both Western and Eastern traditions. She was born in Argentina and attended Mills College before m...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:31
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God is not an option for the American Heritage Girls.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 06:10