Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version)

Interfaith Voices
  • 4.8 (137)
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Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version)

Interfaith Voices provides engaging and informative discussion on the key public issues of our day through the lenses of many different faith perspectives. We foster religious tolerance and educate our listeners on the broad diversity of religious traditions and viewpoints in the United States. This podcast feed is for the hour-long version of the program.

  1. 06/13/2024

    “If our religions hold wisdom for us about how to treat each other with love and kindness and compassion. We need to reclaim that, especially in this moment.”

    Jeanne Lewis reflects on how faith-rooted work differs from the organizing of previous eras and rejects the notion that the progressive movement has lost religion.

    25 min

  2. 06/13/2024

    “John Wayne is held up as an ideal of Christian manhood…he is the good guy with the gun.”

    Kristin Kobes Du Mez talks about the role of Christian pop culture in reshaping evangelical attitudes about gun rights, gender, and demographic changes sweeping across the country.

    26 min

  3. 06/06/2024

    “Buddhist Teachings Taught Me How to Sit with Suffering”

    For many years, Dr. Duane Bidwell served as a hospital chaplain, working to offer spiritual support to people who were often in their most vulnerable moments.

    26 min

  4. 06/06/2024

    “I had to unlearn a lot of biases and stereotypes about Palestinians.”

    Two Catholic women share how they are working to educate and engage American Catholics to examine their beliefs and perceptions about Palestinians.

    25 min

  5. 05/16/2024

    Making space for women In mosques (encore)

    Women don’t always feel welcome in American mosques. They’re sometimes turned away, sent to basements to pray, or discouraged from serving on the boards of directors. Aisha al-Adawiya has devoted her life to changing that.

    27 min

  6. 05/16/2024

    Muslim Voters Take to Polls to Protest Biden Administration Policy in Gaza (encore)

    The issue advocacy campaign to urge voters in Michigan to cast an uncommitted ballot as a protest vote exceeded organizers' expectations and has sparked a movement spreading to other primary states.

    24 min

  7. 05/09/2024

    Sacred Pregnancy: Building a Spiritual Community

    Author Ann W. Duncan describes the “sacred pregnancy movement” and examines three major organizations involved. Their services range from sacred belly painting in luxurious retreat settings to helping process pregnancy loss.

    35 min

  8. 05/09/2024

    Words Count: From "Woman" to "Mother," "Embryo" to "Child"

    Samira Mehta discusses how words like “sacred,” “ensoulment,” “mother,” and “baby” have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy.

    17 min
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Interfaith Voices provides engaging and informative discussion on the key public issues of our day through the lenses of many different faith perspectives. We foster religious tolerance and educate our listeners on the broad diversity of religious traditions and viewpoints in the United States. This podcast feed is for the hour-long version of the program.

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