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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“John Wayne is held up as an ideal of Christian manhood…he is the good guy with the gun.”
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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.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“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.”
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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.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“Buddhist Teachings Taught Me How to Sit with Suffering”
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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.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“I had to unlearn a lot of biases and stereotypes about Palestinians.”
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Two Catholic women share how they are working to educate and engage American Catholics to examine their beliefs and perceptions about Palestinians.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Making space for women In mosques (encore)
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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 is devoted to changing that.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Muslim Voters Take to Polls to Protest Biden Administration Policy in Gaza (encore)
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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.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Words Count: From "Woman" to "Mother," "Embryo" to "Child"
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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.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Sacred Pregnancy: Building a Spiritual Community
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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 lBởi Interfaith Voices
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Combatting Vaccine Hesitancy with Faith (encore)
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A group of public health workers in North Carolina worked to foster trusting relationships to tackle vaccine hesitancy among Native Americans.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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The Long and Storied History of Solidarity of Irish and Black Activists
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This special segment was produced by NPR’s Code Switch, co-hosts B. A. Parker and Gene Denby explore the curious twists and turns in the relationship between freedom-seeking activists across oceans and borders.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“...We must be the ones most dedicated to Palestinian freedom.”
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A college student shares what it is like to be a religious Jew who rejects ZionismBởi Interfaith Voices
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“...I get right back on my mat again.”
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Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon's latest book, Lifting As They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation explores how a growing number of Black women have integrated Buddhist practices into their spiritual lives.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“...Project Lavender and Where Is Daddy”
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The Israeli military is using artificial intelligence and the targeting of low-level members of Hamas in their homes at a time when civilian casualties would be high.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“…Quakers in Gaza Have a Long History”
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Mike Merryman-Lotze joins us to share the struggles facing humanitarian workers in Gaza.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“...Covering Religion in North Texas”
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Joy Ashford is the new religion reporter at the Dallas Morning News, supported by Report for America. They join us to share some of the stories Joy has been covering in North Texas.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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"What IS This"? On the Mystery of Being. (encore)
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Pastor Bob Otis describes his faith journey from a Christian home in Tennessee to a psychedelic church in Berkeley. Then, Chief Phillip Scott discusses the fine line between respectful use and cultural appropriation.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Bob Otis, founding pastor of Sacred Garden Community Church, outlines its beliefs and practices. Then, the author of God on Psychedelics describes how psychedelic worship communities are proliferating.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“...we were all dressed up with nowhere to go.”
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A trailblazer in Christian feminist theology, Dr. Mary Hunt, joins to reflect on how the world for women in religion has changed and how groups like hers are adapting.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“…Can you be a Hindu and an atheist…the answer is yes.”
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Richa Karmarkar, RNS's first national religion reporter covering the Hindu beat hopes the growth of the Hindu community sparks interest and curiosity about a religious tradition not well understood.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Carolina Nieto, director of Ashoka's Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean office, established a "council of elders," hoping to tap into its members' wisdom, patience, and spirituality.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Dr. Connie Zweig discusses why spirituality—however it may be defined—is crucial to a fulfilling old age.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“Grandmothers Are the Glue.” (encore)
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Cultural anthropologist Lynsey Farrell, co-founder of The Grandmother Collective, is building community by connecting older women with adolescent girls.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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…We are pushing back on the misuse of the Bible in the public square
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The leader of Word and Way, a Christian media company, is focused on building conversation spaces for Christians to deal with the MAGA version of Christianity and confront the political manipulation of scripture.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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…Americans Believe Religion is a Force for Good in Society
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A new poll released by the Pew Research Center reinforces one key finding: Americans believe religion is a force for good in society.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Muslim Wellness Foundation Founder: "Our story does not start with oppression."
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Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera joins us to explain why she sees interrogating the Western narrative of the enslaved as interconnected to Black Muslim mental health today.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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As the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, a group of multifaith peace activists began a journey from Philadelphia heading for the White House.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Dr. Robert P. Jones, President and Founder of PRRI, discusses the latest research documenting the rising influence of Christian Nationalism in some segments of American politics.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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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 is devoted to changing that.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Muslim Voters Take to Polls to Protest Biden Administration Policy in Gaza
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Emgage Action Michigan interim executive director Hira Khan joins to explain why her organization and volunteer network worked with partners to encourage voters to use the ballot to send a message instead of disengaging.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“Climbing Out of Poverty Takes a Network”
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Among the hundreds of volunteers preparing to lobby lawmakers was Anne Murphy, a Catholic retiree and resident of Northern Virginia. In this conversation, she describes why she has attended these annual lobbying eventsBởi Interfaith Voices
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Kim Bobo, executive director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, joins us to discuss the 2024 legislative agenda and how the 42-year-old organization continues to grow and expand its base across the CommBởi Interfaith Voices
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As a law student, Thomas Jefferson bought a Quran from an English publisher. But why? Did he read it as a sacred text? As a window into Muslim law?Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Presidential Religion in the Civil War and The Age of Imperialism. (encore)
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Both Union and Confederate leaders invoked God to advance their causes during the Civil War. But Abraham Lincoln refused to claim the divine on his side.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Untraditional Christians: The Beliefs of the Founding Fathers (encore)
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Though the Founding Fathers were Christian, many of them held beliefs out of step with most American Christians of their time – and ours.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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The Echos of Anti-Catholicism Today. (encore)
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We talk to Daisy Vargas, whose current work traces the history of anti-Mexican and anti-Catholic bias in the U.S.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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For an old monastery, a second life. (encore)
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Sick, tired, and hopeful, Central American migrants are bused daily from a detention center to a former Benedictine monastery in Tucson, Ariz., where a small army of volunteers offers showers, fresh clothes, and medicalBởi Interfaith Voices
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How Far to the Promised Land with Rev. Esau McCaulley (encore)
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Rev. Esau McCaulley confronts the controversy that the Civil War was not fought because of slavery but Southern heritage.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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How to Fight Racism: A Conversation with Dr. Jemar Tisby (encore)
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We explore the inspiration behind Dr. Jemar Tisby's new book, How to "Fight Racism: A Young Reader's Edition".Bởi Interfaith Voices
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The Rise of NonDenominational Christianity
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Dr. Ryan Burge discusses the trends and data that may explain Mr. Trump’s ongoing appeal, evidenced in the 2024 Iowa Caucus results.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Journalist Jeff Sharlet talks about the "slow civil war" taking place in the United States and his book The Undertow.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“The Arc of Truth is Long”: Reading Martin Luther King Jr. in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age (encore)
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Dr. Lewis V Baldwin discusses his new book, “The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” He looks at what we could lose if we forget the teachings of Dr. King.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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The Gospel According to James Baldwin
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Episcopal priest and writer Greg Garrett confronts the religious legacy of James Baldwin and the challenge his theology poses to anti-black racism in the United States.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Three Chaplains: Spiritual Care for Muslims in the U.S. Military
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Filmmakers David Washburn and Razi Jafri introduce the three military Muslim chaplains profiled in their new documentary and describe how they came to spend seven years following them around the country.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America
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Ronit Y. Stahl is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied how military chaplaincy evolved.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Religion Now: 21st Century Controversies
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Tia Kolbaba of Rutgers University co-teaches a popular course connecting religion to the hot-button headlines. Kolbaba teaches her students that religion is not separate from everything else but is almost always in the rBởi Interfaith Voices
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“Religion Nerds” Speak: Behind the Top Ten Faith Stories of 2023
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The RNA’s Ken Chitwood breaks down the top three religion stories of the year.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“Religion is Always in the Room”: Spokane FāVS
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In Spokane, Washington, a religion-news website called FāVS is bucking the national trend away from local news.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Sounds of Faith: A Special Holiday Concert Exploring Traditions (encore)
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This week, we feature selections from the December 8, 2019, Sounds of Faith concert at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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“The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory,” by Tim Alberta
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Tim Alberta’s new book, "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory," examines the divisions threatening to destroy the American evangelical movement.Bởi Interfaith Voices
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Backs Against the Wall…The Howard Thurman Story
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Journey Films founder and director Martin Doblmeir talks about the documentary feature that tells the story of Black liberation theologian Howard Thurman and his legacy. The feature film now airing on public televisionBởi Interfaith Voices
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