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Spare the Kids, Dr. Stacey Patton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Dr. Stacey Patton
We speak with author Dr. Stacey Patton about her book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Won't Save Black America. The book examines the unique cultural...

Bought by WVAS and WFHB


  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
2019-01-20 We're Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KZYX, WLPR , KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
StoryCorps One Small Step: Amina Amdeen and Joseph Weidknecht
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Two people on opposite ends of the political spectrum reflect on the moment that brought them together nearly two years ago: a protest just days af...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
Inclusive Catholicism: Father Frank Quintana
From: Generation Justice Admin
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When pursuing social justice “prayer without action is useless…” Listen as Generation Justice host Kenia Alonzo speaks with Father Frank Quintana a...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 12:41
Immortality and the Afterlife
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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No rational person wants to be infinitely tall or infinitely heavy – so why would anyone want to be infinitely old?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KRJF-lp, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Overcoming the Terror of Death
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What exactly is it that frightens us about death?

Bought by KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Fear
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is fear the engine of civilization?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Honoring the Dead, the Bardo and Facebook Voyeurs
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Honoring those who have died, as we witness in the display of remembrance of Senator McCain and Aretha Franklin and, near me, a young Buddhist, inc...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2018
  • Length: 06:10
28: We Are Waiting for Our Hearts to be Whole
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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After we finished recording this episode over coffee at Safaa and Sedra’s apartment, Houda said that it was the most important episode we have reco...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
2018-07-29 We’re Doomed – Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Dr. Matthew Fox
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our plane...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WGCU, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
As the Army grows more diverse, it faces a shortage of chaplains
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz leads Friday prayer for the Muslim community of Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Shabazz is the Army's first division-level Muslim chaplain., Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch / American Homefront
The military has made progress diversifying its chaplain corps. But it faces a shortage of chaplains of all faiths.

Bought by KRZA, WUSF, and KPBS


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Meet a Muslim
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Adam Smidi, a volunteer and one of the organizers of Unified Eid - an initiative to b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 1
"Building a Wall": Church and State in America (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFAE, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
"Building a Wall": Church and State in America (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Digital culture is changing the politics of faith with online masses and hologram preachers.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
In Safe Hands
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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When we began Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship 20 episodes ago, Houda was focused on studying journalism and political science. But over the p...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:23
Bridge of Hope
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Our mindsets are not just similar, but almost like we’re reading from the same book… and actually we are.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: May The Odds Be In Your Favor
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're talking about The Compassion Games! The Games highlight and record compassionate action in the North West Ohio region in friendly c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
John C. Welch - Unprotected Lives: Fear, Anxiety and the Racial Undercurrents Undermining Police & Community Relations
From: Chautauqua Institution
Series: Department of Religion Interfaith Lecture Series
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Rev. Dr. John C. Welch, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a BS degree in Chemica...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:14:11
Jesus Was A Communist
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Roman Montero
Biblical Scholar shows that the early Christians were communists.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Matthew Fox: A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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In November I released an interview with activist, Matthew Fox. This is a rebroadcast of that episode.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Atheism and Christianity: Can We Talk?!
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Drew Bekius
Former evangelical preacher-turned-atheist tells his story and his hope for understanding between evangelicals and atheists.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Opposite of Love is not Hate, it's Indifference: Cupcakes and the Lineage of Hatred
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we don't recognize the unkindness of entitled hatred, we may be quietly consuming more of it than we realize. That may be a way in which a lin...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:52
Prison Justice and Transit Justice
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Laura Everett
The problem of outsourcing of education and mental health services in prisons to evangelical Christian ministries and the challenge transit violenc...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom explores the conceptual framework of liberation theology. We will examine why Liberation Theology, with its...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Facing Fear and Waking Up
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Michael Kinnamon, The Witness of Religion In An Age of Fear
Michael Kinnamon summons us to address our culture of fear and Steve Taylor invites everyone to a spiritual awakening.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2

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