Multifaith Matters
Conversations to educate and provide an example of discussions through deep differences on religion and religion in culture.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 2: Evangelicals and Zen Buddhists reflect on 20 years of dialogue
Evangelicals and Humility in Multifaith Engagement
American Evangelicals are not known for embracing intellectual humility, but there are notable and promising examples. This podcast series explores …
Episode 1: Wes Markofski and the “other evangelicals”
Evangelicals and Humility in Multifaith Engagement
American Evangelicals are not known for embracing intellectual humility, but there are notable and promising examples. This podcast series explores …
Religion and Hiroshima: Beyond the Mushroom Cloud
How should the horror of the atom bomb be remembered? In what ways might we remember so that the terrible experience of its use might be transformed into hope for a universal community of peace? In a…
Summum
A conversation with three leaders of Summum (a Latin term meaning “the sum total of creation”), a religious group in Salt Lake City, including Su Menu, president of Summum, Bernie Aua, vice president…
Massimo Introvigne on The Church of Almighty God
In this conversation, Massimo Introvigne shares the story of The Church of Almighty God, a group in China that has seen rapid growth, dramatic persecution, and the struggle of believers to see asylum…
George Chryssides Introduces Jehovah’s Witnesses
The Jehovah's Witnesses have been the focus of much evangelical apologetic and secular media critique. In this podcast, new religions scholar George Chryssides presents an overview of the Watch Tower…
Divine and Demonic COVID-19 Vaccine Explanations
A discussion of research around demonic and divine attributions surrounding COVID-19 vaccines. Julie Exline discusses a research paper of she and her colleagues which showed that demonic vaccine attr…
Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) as Lived Religion
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose members were formerly known as Mormons have been the focus of evangelical critique for many years by way of a doctrinal contrast and a heresy apo…
Threat rejection, COVID-19 and dehumanization
The COVID-19 pandemic brought lots of surprises, including the political and religious conflicts connected to it. In this podcast we explore one facet of this as Emily Kubin and Frank J. Kachanoff di…
Andrew DeCort on Christian Nationalism in Ethiopia
Andrew DeCort is a lecturer on religious and political ethics and Ethiopian studies. He's the author of Bonhoeffer's New Beginning: Ethics After Devastation, he founded the Institute for Faith and Fl…
From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World
The great book From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World by Marion H. Larson and Sara L. H. Shady (IVP Academic, 2017) is the focus of a conversation between Charles Randall …
Kurt Gray on Harm-Based Morality
Why are we so polarized about gay marriage, immigration, gun rights, abortion, not to mention religious beliefs? Kurt Gray helps shed light on this through his use of interdisciplinary methods to stu…
Phil Wyman Discusses His New Book ”Love Big or Go Home”
Phil Wyman is a longtime friend, colleague, and great example for the Christian walk alongside all kinds of people often ignored or marginalized by the church. In this conversation we discuss the bac…
Ethan Stark discusses Heathenism, interfaith work, and combating extremism
Ethan Stark is a Heathen involved in interfaith work and combating extremism, and is involved with The Troth and Heathens Against Hate. In this podcast we discuss how he came to embrace Heathenism, s…
Daniel Wise on Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal
Daniel S. Wise is an independent scholar whose research focuses on paranormal belief and other aspects of the evolving contemporary American religious landscape. He has a PhD in Religious Studies fro…
Orthodoxy and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a great tragedy with many facets. One of the more significant elements is the role of Orthodoxy, Eastern Christianity often unknown by those in Western Christianity…
Ryan Burge on 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America
The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality argues Ryan Burge in his new book, 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America. He explores the d…
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler on Reading the Bible With and Without Jesus Part 2
In this episode, we take another look at topics in the book The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently, as well as how the Bible has at times been wea…
Kalpana Jain discusses Jainism
In an article at Religion Dispatches, Kalpana Jain argued that Jainism is a religion that even Indians know very little about. In this episode she provides an introduction to this religious tradition…
Massimo Introvigne and the Western Esoteric Tradition
Evangelicals and other Christians often express concern and fear over "the occult," and the analysis can be very superficial. In this podcast noted scholar of new religions, Massimo Introvigne, provi…