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Gurus and evangelists, swamis and proselytizers, new agers and mystics—they immediately arouse my suspicions and raise my hackles as I prepare for ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 27:49
Faith - Shanna Marie Wallace is a Spiritual Interfaith Minister, who inspires in her classes, workshops, and guest speaking appearances. Her passio...
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 03:06
In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 47:26
This week on the show: What's at stake in the Alabama abortion battle -
In Alabama in the Untited States, the legal battle about abortion rights c...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 30:00
St. Hildegard of Bingen was a twelfth-century German nun – a writer, composer of chants, mystic and visionary. You might be asking yourself, what o...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 12:55
- 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
In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 23:33
- Purchases: 1
Kaity Kasper does not wear her heart on her sleeve. But her right arm tells a tale. From wrist to shoulder, this appendage bears a polychromatic na...
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 27:28
Kaity Kasper vdoes not wear her heart on her sleeve. But her right arm tells a tale. From wrist to shoulder, this appendage bears a polychromatic n...
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 27:11
Autobiographical memories are the stories we tell ourselves, but they’re also a window into other people’s experiences. They’re one of the best way...
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 29:10
Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 05:38
This audio documentary was produced by Safaa Magdy for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The course ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 06:33
Beliefs shape our lives in ways we aren’t always aware of. They’re the bigger, unknowable framework through which we understand the world. How are ...
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC
- Added: Oct 20, 2015
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 3
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 09:27
- Purchases: 2
Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
For teenage girls in Lewiston's Somali community, dress is a form of self-expression--but how do you dress both modest and modern? Sahro Hassan, a ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 5
Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Ever been to an Encuentro? You’ve just moved to rural Mexico with your husband and new baby. What would you do to fit in?
- Added: Sep 07, 2013
- Length: 04:07
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
Theresa Novak Chabot challenges a centuries-old tradition in the Catholic church.
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 06:16
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 03:09
