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2022 Summer Reading Recs (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is officially here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by WHFR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
2022 Summer Reading Recs (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is officially here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
2022 Summer Reading Recs (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is officially here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTJU, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KXCV and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
2022 Summer Reading Recs (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Summer is officially here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by KUOW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Dujie Tahat
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Dujie Tahat discusses precarity, parenthood, and praying for the water in their daughter's lungs. They read two poems from their chapbooks, "H...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 3
“Why do we need a new translation of the Hebrew Bible?”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Robert Alter
Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Robert Alter, the world’s foremost Hebrew Scriptures scholar. He just released a new translation of the books of...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
Ariel Burger, WITNESS & Ani Tuzman, THE TREMBLE OF LOVE
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
The Forgotten Creed: A Conversation with Stephen Patterson
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Stephen J. Patterson
Historian of Religion, Stephen Patterson, reconstructs one of the earliest Christian Creeds that Emphasized Radical Egalitarianism.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
Gavin VanHorn: wildness where you live
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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Gavin VanHorn is the author of The Way of the Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Biblical Mythology and Wholeheartedness
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Carol Delaney and Brene Brown
Carol Delaney deconstructs the myth of Abraham and Isaac and Brene Brown challenges us to Dare Greatly.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Triumph of Christianity: A Conversation with Bart Ehrman
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
IT Came from Beyond Zen: A Conversation With Brad Warner
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Brad Warner
Soto Zen Priest, Brad Warner, talks about Zen, zazen, and Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Zen Master.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #45-Krista Tippett
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pul...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:36
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #7 - Spiritual author, Marianne Williamson
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: 10-Minute Writer's Workshop
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Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Holly...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:56
#1208- Rama, Sita, and Me: Nina Paley
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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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
Gabbard & the Gita
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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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
#1417- A Zeal for History: Looking for Jesus with Reza Aslan, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Reza Aslan on Zealot and academia; Maxwell Grant on Lev Grossman's Magicians series.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 44:08
#1302- Religious Environmentalism, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Fletcher Harper on GreenFaith; Katy Scrogin on The Man Within My Head.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 33:35
  • Purchases: 1
#1304- No Faith Required, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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Chris Stedman on faith and atheism; Katy Scrogin on Roland Barthes' Mourning Diary.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 39:14
#1307- "If This Can Work in Omaha, It Will Work Anywhere," Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Beth Katz on Project Interfaith; Katy Scrogin on Sherman Alexie's Blasphemy.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 36:25
#1406: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on misconceptions about Islam; Katy Scrogin on The Man Who Quit Money.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 38:24
#1409: Lillian Daniel, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 32:00
#1408: Lillian Daniel, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 31:18
#1412 - Religious Objects: S. Brent Plate, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 39:21
#1416 - A Zeal for History: Looking for Jesus with Reza Aslan, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 46:35