Episodes
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Religion and Diplomacy; Hiring the Homeless; High Holidays
S20 E5 - 25m 52s
Shaun Casey on Religion and Diplomacy; Hiring the Homeless; Jewish High Holidays Boot Camp
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New African American Museum; Project Mercy; Amidah Prayer
S20 E4 - 25m 53s
New African American Museum; Project Mercy; The Amidah Prayer
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Spiritual Healthcare; One Extraordinary Church
S20 E3 - 25m 53s
Spiritual care is gaining ground as an integral part of hospital patients' care; and Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber founded a church for all the sinners and saints who stand in need of God’s grace.
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9/11 Fifteenth Anniversary; Where Refugees Are Welcome; Hajj
S20 E2 - 25m 53s
9/11 Fifteenth Anniversary; Where Refugees Are Welcome; Children's Hajj
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The Singing Monks; Digital Addiction; Church Ushers
S20 E1 - 25m 52s
The Singing Monks of Norcia; Digital Addiction; Church Ushers
Extras + Features
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Shaun Casey on Religion and Diplomacy
S20 E5 - 5m 1s
This week, the US State Department sponsored a conference in Washington on the intersection of religion and diplomacy. Clergy, faith-based activists, academics, and diplomats attended. Critics have long charged that the US government has not done a good job in acknowledging the role of religion in foreign policy. Correspondent Kim Lawton talks with, US Special Representative Shaun Casey.
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Jewish High Holidays Boot Camp
S20 E5 - 3m 43s
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder and leader of the Lab/Shul community in New York City, talks about the necessary spiritual and mental preparations to undertake in advance of the Jewish High Holy Days (October 2-12), from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. The rabbi holds a boot camp filled with workshops, food, and music to encourage introspection, repentance, and honesty.
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Extended Interview: Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie
S20 E5 - 3m 53s
“There’s something about the shofar that is like the chatter of children. It’s the crying of babies. It’s the mother giving birth. It’s the grief wailing. It is a human, primitive voice.”
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Hiring the Homeless
S20 E5 - 8m 36s
While many cities in the U.S. have moved to criminalize homelessness, imposing fees for lying down, camping and begging, Albuquerque, New Mexico has taken a different approach. It has initiated a program it calls “There’s a Better Way,” picking up homeless individuals and transporting them to jobs that pay them in cash at the end of the work period. Correspondent Lucky Severson reports.
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New African American Museum
S20 E4 - 8m 5s
The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on September 24th on the National Mall in Washington. Correspondent Kim Lawton reports on the many ways it portrays the role of faith and spirituality in the African-American experience. She also talks with religious leaders about the impact they hope the new museum will have.
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Project Mercy
S20 E4 - 6m 56s
Correspondent Lucky Severson reports on Paula Claussen of San Diego, who decided to build houses for the poorest families in nearby Tijuana. She recruited volunteers, and together they have built nearly 1300 simple, sturdy homes—sometimes as many as 44 in one day. They call their work Project Mercy.
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One Extraordinary Church
S20 E3 - 9m 11s
We take you to The House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, a widely unconventional congregation led by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. She told correspondent Lucky Severson her language, teaching, and tattoos symbolize her acceptance of everyone, and they of her. Their church is thriving.
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Extended Interview: Dr. Christina Puchalski
S20 E3 - 5m 6s
“Relationship is what matters,” says Dr. Christina Puchalski, director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine at George Washington University. “My relationship with my patient—that’s where healing occurs. It’s within that relationship, and that’s what needs to be supported.”
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Extended Interview: Rabbi Shira Stutman Discusses the Amidah
S20 E2 - 6m 17s
Senior Rabbi Shira Stutman of Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC explains the meaning of the Amidah, “the central prayer in the Jewish tradition.”
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9/11 Fifteenth Anniversary
S20 E2 - 7m 45s
New York University chaplains Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna were both students in New York on September 11, 2001. Both men say the events of that day profoundly shaped what would become their mission: interfaith engagement. Today, they help lead NYU’s Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life. Correspondent Kim Lawton talks with the chaplains and some of their students about interfa
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The Amidah Prayer
S20 E2 - 3m 26s
“It is considered the time in the prayer service where we are most open spiritually, and we’re really ready to talk to God,” says Rabbi Shira Stutman, senior rabbi at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.
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Where Refugees Are Welcome
S20 E2 - 8m 1s
Much of the world is struggling to accommodate a record number of refugees. But in Uganda, in East Central Africa, refugees from 13 countries get land to farm, freedom to worship, schools for their children, and opportunities to go into business. Fred de Sam Lazaro explains that, despite many hardships, these new Ugandans are still doing well.
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