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Caption: Amina Al-Sadi, Credit: Personal photo
Amina Al-Sadi is a 25-year-old American Muslim currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is for spiritual renewal, but it is also abou...

Bought by WHFR, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KREV-LP, KISU and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Local Shaped Note Singers hold Copies of Shenandoah Harmony, Credit: Nathan Berry
Singing shaped notes is a long American tradition of singing, mostly based on Christian scriptures. As a folk tradition, it evolves with reference ...

Bought by KSRQ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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"Sometimes its good when things get messy," says noted historian of religions, University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Martin E. Marty. He's been ...

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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In this week's episode we revisit our 2012 interview with Furman philosophy professor, J. Aaron Simmons. Over the course of the hour he helps us un...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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For the past year, KBIA has been working on an investigative story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It’s a story with threads ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
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In this episode we rebroadcast of our 2012 conversation with Professor Todd Green of Luther College. We discuss the concept of "Islamophobia" - the...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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We're revisiting our 2012 interview with cartoonist, filmmaker, and copyright activist Nina Paley, creator of the feature-length animated film, Sit...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we revisit our 2012 interview with John J. Thatamanil, in which we discuss the growing field of "religious pluralism" - where the boundar...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we revisit a 2012 interview with Georgetown professor, Jacques Berlinerblau. We discuss his most recent book, How to Be Secular: A Call t...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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We're re-visiting our 2014 interview with Phyllis Tickle. In our conversation we explore the idea that our culture has been shaped by roughly 500-y...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has written a prac...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. E.L. Kornegay, founder of the Baldwin-Delaney Institute for Academic Enrichment and Faith Flourishing, about sear...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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On today's show, we have an in-depth conversation about the experience of women in religious communities and in the academic study of religion with...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
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In this wide-ranging interview, our host David Dault talks with Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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After many years as a successful journalist and poet, Judith Valente arrived to lead a workshop at a monastery. The experience changed her life. In...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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This hour we speak to actor, writer, and director Curt Cloninger, who has spent 30 years traveling the country performing thoughtful and thought-pr...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Like many forms of medicine, the Bible can be a tool for healing or harm, depending upon how it is used. Our guest, Jennifer Grace Bird, has writte...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories for Passover about family, slavery, food, and... well, lice.

Bought by KZYX, Troy Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WFDD, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 41
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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
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Today’s episode explores the significance of a sacred Hindu text—the Bhagavad Gita.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shlomi Elkabetz, San Francisco, CA 10/6/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Shlomi Elkabetz talks freedom, family, and scripting light.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 26:29
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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
Caption: The Singing and Praying Bands
Rev Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions. He's the leader of The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Dela...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Abe Solovy, 9 year old 'British' gentleman
Hosts Devon Dennison and Kellie Blauvelt discuss what it's like to do things differently from everyone else. They listen to a story of a nine–year–...

Bought by WDBM, KGOU, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 3