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Caption: Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
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Everyone knows that yoga comes from India and is an integral part of the Hindu tradition. But now, it seems everyone wants a piece of it. A new exh...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pastor Aaron Werner on his lobster boat. Union Wharf, Portland, Maine., Credit: Emma Morgenstern
Aaron and Kathy Werner moved to Maine to “plant” an evangelical church. The process isn’t easy in one of the nation’s least religious states. Produ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 07:06
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Radio Curios visits with former Pentecostal pastor turned athiest, Jerry DeWitt. He's the author of the memoir “Hope After Faith:  An Ex-Pastor’s ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Atheists United of SLO, Credit: Atheists United of SLO
The Pismo Beach City Council, San Luis Obispo, California, opens its weekly meetings with a prayer. Now they’re being asked to stop.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's underappreciate date is the creation of the first large scale Yoga retreat and birth of yoga in America by 'The Great Oom.'

Bought by KPIP-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2013
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
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This week's underappreciated date is the Azusa Street Revival started by William J. Seymour in 1906 and brought about the revival of Pentecostalism...

Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WCPN


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Roger Ross Williams, San Francisco, CA 11/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roger Ross Williams talks culture wars, beacons of hope, and why it is a small world after all.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 17:26
Caption: In 1912, Abdul-Baha, leader of the Baha'i faith, visited Greenacre, a religious community in Maine founded by Sarah Farmer., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Spiritual but not religious? Professor Leigh Schmidt uses the story of Sarah Farmer, a 19th-century visionary, to illustrate the ever-present strug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul Kivel
Christianity has provided many positive events: assisting the underprivileged, supported education and promoted social justice, however, its also f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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There are many places in the world known for their rice production — China, India and Japan to name a few. The New England state of Vermont is not ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:27
Caption: Phyllis Chesler
Great interview with Dr. Phyllis Chesler. Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 57:43
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Reporter Nate DiMeo tells the story of the Kate and Margaret Fox, the small-town girls who triggered the 19th century movement known as Spiritualism.

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The DeBoer-Rowse family is challenging Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage., Credit: Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
Examines legal discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Michigan.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:29
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How social media is changing the concept of friendship.

Bought by WJCT and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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How social media is changing the concept of friendship.

Bought by WCNY and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Computer Talk Radio, Credit: Computer Talk Radio
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting September 28th, 2013. Benjamin Rockwell, our nerd and friend, begins the show with ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Computer Talk Radio, Credit: Computer Talk Radio
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting September 28th, 2013. Benjamin Rockwell, our nerd and friend, begins the show with ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2013
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Maeshowe Orkney
Humans learn to control sound for rituals with impressive monuments. David Hendy hears bizarre effects while beating a drum in Orkney, Scotland.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: National Back to Church
National Back to Church Sunday is an annual event that encourages people to either return to church or attend services for the first time.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
Caption: Bytow (Poland) Mayor Ryszard Sylka, at left, along with Father Paul Breza and Bytow City Council Chairman Leszek Waszkiewicz, visited the Winona Polish Heritage Museum last week. The Bytow leaders traveled to Winona to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fa, Credit: Photo by Sarah Squires of the Winona Post
The Winona Works Project provides insight into Winona’s workforce through the voices of those working in the community today. Through a series of i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 24:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic Church.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Van Wallach (right)
Bobby speaks, from the steps of the NYC Public Library, with Van Wallach, author of "A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist's Quest for ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 50:02
Caption: Pictured: Hijras in India celebrating Koovagam, a Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Aravan., Credit: Wikipedia
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 20:44