Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long Version)

Phylicia Jimenez, a Black woman and an LDS convert discusses the progress – or lack thereof – towards racial equity in the LDS Church.

We take an audio tour of the Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Latter-day Saints,

After four years of renovation, the Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is open to the public. We look back to the founding of the church.

The Washington D.C. Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is normally reserved only for church members. But after a four-year renovation, the doors are open to the public.

Professors Amy DeRogatis and Isaac Weiner were collecting recordings of traditional religious practices when COVID struck. They had to quickly pivot their work to life under lockdown.

We talk to Solomon Hoffman, a rabbinical student and composer, and Keely Garfield, a Buddhist and director of a dance company. They collaborated on a piece of music, dance, and song called “Harofei,” Hebrew for “the one who heals.”

The pandemic has prompted composers to create new sacred music of all kinds — hymns, liturgical music, prayers, praise music, and more.  

We look at the sacred sounds people of faith are making during the COVID-19 pandemic and what those sounds—music, prayer, chants, songs—tell us about our future.

Dr. Adam R. Shapiro discusses how the interplay between science and religion has changed in the last decade,

As a consultant to the Smithsonian’s “Discovery and Revelation” exhibit, Dr. Myrna Sheldon - wanted visitors to understand the direct impact science and religion have on individual lives.

Dr. Peter Manseau, the curator of American religious history at the National Museum of American History, discusses the purpose of the Smithsonian’s new exhibit, “Discovery and Revelation: Science, Religion and Making Sense of Things.”

Science and religion are often portrayed as the bitterest of enemies, or, as Stephen Jay Gould termed them, “non-overlapping magisteria.” But the reality is often much more complex.

Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper discusses her book On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia and What it Means to Disappear, a call for communities of faith to rethink the value of people coping with memory loss.

Sofie Lovern is a Latina convert and comedienne who learned the difficulty of trying to merge two very different cultures in a marriage, even when their religions were the same. 

Raul Gonzalez lives in the Chicago area and converted to Islam twenty years ago. He has been trying to answer the question of how to reconcile his identity as a Latino — and Muslim — ever since.

This week we are featuring a radio documentary from KALW’s The Spiritual Edge. Host and Reporter Hana Baba explores the motivations and challenges of converts as they carve out a uniquely American path for being Muslim in the United States.

The Spiritual Edge podcast brings us stories that explore the motivations and challenges facing converts to  Islam in the United States.

Honor is a riveting novel that transports readers to an India where interfaith marriage between Muslims and Hindus animates deep religious polarization.

This week we look at the morals, emotions, and ideas about order and justice that have shaped just war thinking and public rhetoric with Dr. Valerie Morkevičius.

We get a Religion 101 for Ukraine with Associated Press reporter Peter Smith.