Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMario Cuomo and Mark Souder — Faith and Politics in America
Episode 4
Even among deeply religious Americans, there’s no consensus on the proper role of religion in politics. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in …
23 years, 2 months ago
Thomas Moore, Debra Haffner, and Anthony Ugolnik — Spirituality and Sexuality
Episode 6
Christian scripture and tradition have overwhelmingly shaped American attitudes toward sexuality. And in the past year, our national attention has be…
23 years, 4 months ago
Parker Palmer, Phyllis Tickle, and Ingrid Mattson — The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11
Episode 3
In this program, we delve into uncomfortable religious and moral questions that the September 2001 terrorist attacks raised—questions of meaning that…
23 years, 8 months ago
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Richard J. Mouw, and Yossi Klein Halevi — The Power of Fundamentalism (Aug 19, 2004)
Episode 18
Religious fundamentalism has reshaped our view of world events. In this show, host Krista Tippett explores the appeal of fundamentalism in Islam, Chr…
24 years ago
Robert Pollack, Rami Nashashibi, Lisa Lampman, Leon Weinstein, and M. Scott Peck — The Problem of Evil
Episode 2
Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as “evil.” President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described “an axis of evil…
24 years, 2 months ago
Robert Coles, Diane Komp, and Carol Dittberner — Children and God (Dec 16, 2004)
Episode 23
Maria Montessori, the great 20th-century educational pioneer, observed that children have an intuition for religious life at an early age that is mat…
24 years, 5 months ago
Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Paul Lederach, and Michael Orange — Justice and a Just War
Episode 1
Just-war theory was set in motion in the 5th century as St. Augustine agonized over how to reconcile Christianity’s high ethical ideals with the deva…
24 years, 6 months ago
Where Was God?
Great religious minds reflect on tragedies surrounding September 11, 2001. As America moves beyond raw emotion and religious sentiment, this program …
24 years, 7 months ago