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The New Face of Faith – Jim Wallis, Ep. 5414
Janet Cooper Nelson, Chaplain of Brown University, tells how, from the building of America’s first synagogue in 1763 to the proposal for a Muslim communit…
The New Face of Faith – Jim Wallis, Ep. 5414
Jim Wallis, President of Sojourners in Washington, DC, talks about a new generation of Christians, Jews and Muslims who see the revival of their tradition…
Better Together – Eboo Patel, Ep. 5413
Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, shares stories of young people working across the lines of faith to create university campuses and c…
This Foreigner – Anna Carter Florence, Ep. 5411
Anna Carter Florence, the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, takes a new look at the…
Thinking Again About Food – Nigel Savage, Ep. 5410
Nigel Savage, Executive Director of Hazon, an organization that works to create healthy and sustainable communities in the Jewish world and beyond, …
A Religious Response to Global Warming – Ep. 5409
Sally Bingham, President of The Regeneration Project in San Francisco, California, speaks about global warming as a preeminent moral issue, and the i…
An Offer Too Good to Refuse – Benjamin Reaves, Ep. 5408
Seventh-day Adventist minister, Benjamin Reaves, Vice President for Mission and Ministries at Adventist Health Systems, talks about three promi…
The Spirituality of Compassion – John Killinger, Ep. 5407
Author, teacher and pastor, John Killinger, reflects on compassion. In all our religions, he says, true spirituality is something that sensit…
Failing to See – Edward Beck, Ep. 5406
Fr. Edward Beck, author of God Underneath and Unlikely Ways Home, talks about the ways in which we fail to see what is, and the ways in which we see what is not…
Dangerous Dreams – Joan Brown Campbell, Ep. 5405
Joan Brown Campbell, Director of the Department of Religion at The Chautauqua Institution, speaks about the power of compassion, at the heart of all t…