Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long Version)

Kalpana Jain offers context, history, and analysis of the biggest global stories likely to appear in the headlines in 2023.

Lauren Markoe is the news editor at the Forward. This American Jewish weekly publication monitors the rise in anti-Semitism and the various responses from civic and government leaders. 

Christian Chronicle editor Bobby Ross Jr. and producer Kimberly Winston discuss the biggest stories in the US based on feedback from religion reporters around the world.

This week we feature selections from the December 8, 2019 Sounds of Faith concert at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Alyssa, a young Mormon woman, tells us her personal story of sexual assault. When her church leaders pressured her to forgive her abuser, it made her feel as if her pain did not matter and that she wasn’t worthy of being believed.

After building a megachurch in Manhattan, Presbyterian Timothy Keller has no trouble engaging secular and skeptical audiences.  Keller insists that our culture is failing to value a key skill and essential building block of relationships: the ability to forgive. 

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg talks about what it means to make amends and if a person wronged has an obligation to forgive the person who hurt them.

Joshua Safran was born in 1975 into a coven of radical feminist witches. Then one day he discovered he was Jewish, and after years of wandering he finally felt he had found a home.

Lauren Drain, was a member of The Westboro Baptist Church for seven years. Today, She is a cardiac nurse and a popular fitness model.

>When Luzer Twersky was in his early twenties and already a married father of two, he decided to leave the only world he had ever known, a close knit Jewish enclave in Brooklyn. He told his story to documentary producer Josh Gleason in 2010, when he was just beginning his new life in the secular world.

First-person accounts of people who grew up inside insular religious groups, and then choose a different path. These stories are collected from our Escaping Religion series.

Jean-Luc Pierite, the chair of the board of the Native American Culture Center in Boston — dives into the history and role of the National Day of Mourning.

Robert P. Jones, Founder, and President of the Public Religion Research Institute joins us to talk about the findings from the 2022 American Values Survey. 

Religion News Service national religion reporter Jack Jenkins talks about the races where faith and religion emerged in surprising and not-so-surprising ways.

Steve Sarowitz is not a filmmaker. But when the former tech entrepreneur declared himself a Baha’i, he felt compelled to let others know about his new faith.

The Yoruba religion is a tapestry of myths, magic, spirits, and secrets. Prothero calls it "a tradition about hanging onto tradition," a way for people scattered by the African diaspora to connect to their common origins.

Thrity Umrigar is a much-lauded author of literary fiction, much of it set in India and among the Indian diaspora. Now, she returns to the Diwali celebrations of her Indian childhood for Binny’s Diwali, a picture book for children that explains how her family celebrates this important but little-understood Indian festival.

A seminarian decides to recharge by centering nature in her sacred practices and rituals in Ojai, California.  Within six years Victoria Loorz's exploration and experimentation sparked a new movement – The Church of the Wild.

Bob Smietana is an award-winning religion reporter and editor whose new book Reorganized Religion takes a closer look at the state of the American church and the way congregations and their leaders are adapting, shifting, or resisting.

Rev. Dr. Alvin Edwards has been part of the Charlottesville, Virginia faith community since 1981 but in 2015 after the horrific attack at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina he began to assess his relationships with the local clergy.   The question he could not shake – do we trust each other enough to come together if racially motivated hate and violence come to our community.