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Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
he year 1099 marked the Crusade’s final act … the conquest of Jerusalem. This deed has long been taken as proof of the crusaders’ anti-Islamic hatr...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 22, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She claimed to speak to the dead, and even produce p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 29:48
- Purchases: 1
The Political Jesus, Atheist Preachers, and 9/11.
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 57:01
This is a special edition of TriPod New Orleans @300. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson handed the mic over to the New Orleans Scholars, a group of st...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 11:10
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a portrait of Mother Catherine Seals, one of the city’s most prominent 20th century spiritual church leaders.
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 12:24
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of The Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order of nuns for free women of color founded by He...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 11:25
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of the city’s above ground cemeteries, and those working behind the scenes.
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 10:47
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 58:10
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...
Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 3
Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.
- Added: Sep 23, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Both Polka music and the Christian faith have a widespread presence in Minnesota. In 1973, the two became one in the town of Eveleth. Producer Dani...
Bought by WTIP, KQAL, KFAI Minneapolis, and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Jul 15, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 4
From the Radio Curious archives, in honor of Yom Hashoah this year, we revisit our 2005 interview with Bernard Offen. He survived five Nazi concent...
Bought by KWIT
- Added: Apr 26, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
SEGMENT 1: We consider the fascinating history and profound philosophy of Quakerism, which has been present from the founding of America and remain...
Bought by WLIW, WUMB, WGCU, KKWE Niijii Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
In part one of our "China's road to Jerusalem" series, we set the the stage for the inevitable collapse of the west as we know it.
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 12:22
Today, politicians and intellectuals warn that we face a crisis of civility and a veritable war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal de...
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 58:03
Craig Wright was working at a St. Paul church when he got ones of those calls every writer dreams of. Eventually, says Britt Aamodt, that call led ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 21
The turn of the 20th century saw a surge in immigration from Eastern Europe. To the town of Bramble, says Britt Aamodt, that immigration wave broug...
Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 13
With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 47:05
The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 3
