PRX - Pieces for Tone: Personal
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As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
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Melissa Dueñas’ dad went in-and-out of jail and prison her whole life. Whenever he was locked up, they would keep in touch by writing letters. She ...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 16:19
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Elena from El Salvador was excited to come to the United States but found her predicament for her and her son difficult. Not knowing any English, s...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 06:39
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An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 03:32
Why do we become our worst enemies when it comes to pursuing the things we actually want? I’ve been there. This is the origin story of making Mille...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 20:31
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Following your dreams is not always glamorous, especially when you could get stuck in "transition."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 19:28
- Purchases: 1
Decisions. How do you know which ones will lead you to become the person you want to be in the future? And which ones may screw everything up?
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- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 20:13
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This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 05:31
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:48
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
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
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
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
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
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
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
