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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“...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 ZionismDoor 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door Interfaith Voices
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The Church of "Least Dogma" (encore)
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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.Door 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.Door 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.Door Interfaith Voices
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A Council of Elders (encore)
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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.Door Interfaith Voices
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“From Role to Soul” (encore)
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Dr. Connie Zweig discusses why spirituality—however it may be defined—is crucial to a fulfilling old age.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door Interfaith Voices
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The Pilgrimage for Peace
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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.Door Interfaith Voices
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Unpacking Christian Nationalism
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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.Door Interfaith Voices
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Making space for women In mosques
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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.Door 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.Door 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 eventsDoor Interfaith Voices
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“We Don’t Want to Tilt at Windmills”
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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 CommDoor Interfaith Voices
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Jefferson’s Quran. (encore)
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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?Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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 medicalDoor 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.Door 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".Door 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.Door Interfaith Voices
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Scenes from the "Undertow" (encore)
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Journalist Jeff Sharlet talks about the "slow civil war" taking place in the United States and his book The Undertow.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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 rDoor 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door 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.Door Interfaith Voices
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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 televisionDoor Interfaith Voices
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This is not a feel-good story…
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This week, Kelley Nikondeha joins to talk about why she wrote about that first season and how the book, released in October 2022, is now being discovered as more Christians want to learn about Palestine.Door Interfaith Voices
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The Power of Holocaust Memory and Nazi Imagery
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Raza Segal, an Israeli-born scholar of the Holocaust. at Stockton University, describes how the decontextualized use of Holocaust memory and Nazi imagery can be used to justify war crimes.Door Interfaith Voices
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Adventures in Faith & Food (encore)
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No matter your race, class, gender, or faith, we all have to eat. We explore what food says about who we are and what we believe.Door Interfaith Voices
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Confronting History: Religious Institutions and Slavery
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We look at one of the thorniest issues confronting contemporary America – how to reconcile our history of slavery with our present.Door Interfaith Voices
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Honor: A Conversation with Thrity Umrigar (encore)
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Honor is a riveting novel that transports readers to an India where interfaith marriage between Muslims and Hindus animates deep religious polarization.Door Interfaith Voices
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The Healing Power of Dia de Los Muertos (Encore)
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Dr. Mathew Sandoval’s scholarship and research into the history and evolution of the festival known as Dia de Los Muertos was fueled by two pivotal events: as a young man traveling to Guatemala and observing the festivalDoor Interfaith Voices
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Horror and The Spiritual (Encore)
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Reporter Kimberly Winston explores the links and intersections between religion and horror with Dr. Jonathan Greenaway from the University of Chester in Manchester, England.Door Interfaith Voices
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Israel Responds to Hamas Terror with 6,000 bombs in Six Days
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As the drumbeat of support for Israel’s retribution for a deadly terror attack grows, some faith leaders are raising concerns.Door Interfaith Voices
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Interfaith Solidarity Tested by Reach of Hindu Nationalism
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Human rights leaders talk about the threat of Hindu nationalism for religious minorities and the struggle to hold India accountable for transnational repression.Door Interfaith Voices
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Bravery and Truth: Conversations with Mariann Edgar Budde and Annette Gordon-Reed (encore)
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On June 2, 2020, Donald Trump used military and law enforcement to forcibly clear peaceful protesters, so he could pose for a photo with a bible. With Juneteenth approaching we interrogate the symbology of this event.Door Interfaith Voices
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