Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJohn Danforth — Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion
Episode 53
Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Re…
19 years, 8 months ago
Seyyed Hossein Nasr — Hearing Muslim Voices Since 9/11
Episode 52
An Iranian man sits on the ground after weekly Friday prayers at Tehran University in the Iranian capital, 02 June 2006. An Iranian cleric today dism…
19 years, 8 months ago
David Hilfiker — Seeing Poverty After Katrina
Episode 51
Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. In this program, David Hilfiker tells the story of how poverty and r…
19 years, 8 months ago
Basil Brave Heart and Susan Cheever — Spirituality and Recovery
Episode 49
Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, “utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery.” Our …
19 years, 9 months ago
Elie Wiesel — The Tragedy of the Believer
Episode 48
A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel was a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some o…
19 years, 10 months ago
Dan and Sue Hanson — Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia
Episode 46
Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, n…
20 years ago
Mohammed Abu-Nimer + Sami Adwan — Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 2)
Episode 45
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its…
20 years, 1 month ago
Yossi Klein Halevi — Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present, Part 1
Episode 44
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its…
20 years, 2 months ago
Prabhu Guptara — The Gods of Business
Episode 43
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a H…
20 years, 2 months ago
Vincent Cornell — The Face of the Prophet: Cartoons and Chasm
Episode 42
Our guest, an American Muslim and religious scholar, helps untangle the knot of violent and bewildered reactions to cartoons depicting the Prophet Mu…
20 years, 2 months ago