MPR News Women of Faith

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MPR News Women of Faith

As women's voices in faith communities become louder, MPR News with Kerri Miller is speaking with women who are energized by some of our most urgent policy, spiritual and philosophical questions.

Episodes

  1. 07/09/2019

    Women of Faith: Searching for God

    Anjali Kumar met with witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, and a faith healer in Brazil, in a quest to find her spiritual home. What she found wasn't what she sought.

    40 min

  2. 07/02/2019

    Women of Faith: Suhag Shukla on reclaiming one's religion

    One Hindu-American is striving to correct her faith's misrepresentation.

    21 min

  3. 06/24/2019

    Women of Faith: Millennial Christians say loving God means protecting creation

    Evangelicals have long focused more on saving souls than on saving God's creation. But some younger believers want to flip the script. Kerri Miller spoke with two environmental activists who are motivated by their faith to do something about climate change.

    47 min

  4. 06/19/2019

    Women of Faith: Putting relationships over politics

    The women behind the podcast Pantsuit Politics say their faith compels them to stay in relationships, even with people with whom they disagree politically. It's the latest discussion in our Women of Faith series.

    43 min

  5. 06/12/2019

    Women of Faith: The #ChurchToo movement shines a light on sex abuse in evangelicalism

    The largest Protestant denomination in the United States grapples with its own clergy sexual abuse scandal.

    40 min

  6. 06/04/2019

    Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on real repentance

    In our culture, stubborn denials, glib apologies and quick comebacks often overwhelm any practice of repentance. The Judaic practice of teshuvah shows us a better way.

    48 min

  7. 05/28/2019

    Women of Faith: Emmy Kegler on being a queer Christian

    How LGBTQ Christians can find a home, even in a church that often wounds.

    48 min

  8. 05/21/2019

    Women of Faith: Misha Euceph on the many facets of being Muslim in America

    The creator of the new podcast "Tell Them, I Am" talks about making space for Muslims to define themselves.

    49 min

  9. 04/22/2019

    Women of Faith: Jenan Mohajir on how Islam motivates her interfaith work

    What does it mean to be an empowered Muslim woman today?

    48 min

  10. 04/10/2019

    Women of Faith: Female atheists embrace skepticism

    Only 3 percent of the population identifies as atheist -- and even that small slice is mostly white and male. What does it mean to be a woman and an atheist?

    39 min

  11. 04/02/2019

    Women of faith: Sister Simone Campbell on #NunsToo and the Catholic Church

    As women's voices in faith communities become more integral and more influential, we are opening a new series of conversations titled "Women of Faith." Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun and founder of the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, joined MPR News host Kerri Miller.

    48 min

  12. 03/27/2019

    Women of faith: Nadia Bolz-Weber on the church, shame and sex

    Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber describes why she thinks the Christian faith is overdue for a sexual reformation.

    48 min
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As women's voices in faith communities become louder, MPR News with Kerri Miller is speaking with women who are energized by some of our most urgent policy, spiritual and philosophical questions.

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