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Beyond the effigy that gives Burning Man its name, there’s another wooden structure: The Temple. Arguably, it’s the spiritual center of the event.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 39:07
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Burning Man is pagan at its core with a hell-ish aesthetic. So why do so many devout Christians attend? And what do they do there?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 20:34
Caption: Gerald Alston, Credit: Shefik
Faith - Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five a...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:50
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“The question becomes, when is enough enough?” Today, we’re talking about forgiveness.

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 33:35
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a pho...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
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In nineteenth century Jerusalem, Moses Wilhelm Shapira created forgeries of ancient relics that shook the world. But even today, 130 years later, n...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 2
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Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 52:54
Caption: Bobby Pickles, Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby and Martini podcast from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY, with Dr. David Orenstein, Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY system senior ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:26:32
Caption: Joseph Campo (accepting his gift of FAT ENZO tee shirts)
Bobby speaks with Joseph Campo, executive producer at Grassroots Films and the director of the St. Francis House. The two discuss a range of topics...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:38
Caption: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams - Monterey Jazz Fest., 1971, Credit: Paul Slaughter Photos
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 6
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This is a short piece on whether or not creationism should be taught in science classes.

Bought by Belfast Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
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This month we are in San Francisco, California exploring what it means to be American through those involved in the struggle for same-sex marriage ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2009
  • Length: 09:49
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The extraordinary popularity of the pilgrimage to Lourdes 150 years on.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 14:48
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A story about Muslims in the American military-including a WWII vet who lobbied the government to designate Islam on military dogtags.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at the secret society of La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padres Jesus Nazarino-Los Penitentes in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM, KUPR low power FM, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 3