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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-six of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we introduce listeners to Molly Burhans, a youn...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: :00
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This is a sonnet for the baseball teams who after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon each played the song the Boston Red Sox play during a game w...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mazu is a Chinese sea goddess, a tutelary deity of seafarers including fishermen and sailors. Worship of Mazu has spread throughout coastal Chinese regions and throughout Southeast Asia, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
We wrap up our seven-part thematic overview of the ocean edge this week by discussing the cultural edge: the place alongshore where we interact wit...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:03
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we don't recognize the unkindness of entitled hatred, we may be quietly consuming more of it than we realize. That may be a way in which a lin...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:52
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In this New Year’s episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill details a number of sacred places around the globe--on islands, along the shore, ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
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This conversation on being a single adult in America features Peg Birk, University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, Rabbi Andrea London, Emmy a...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 58:14
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks :As politicians one-up each other, what’s the difference between the candidate as demagogue- who openly app...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:21
Caption: Nobis Deus...he likes it.., Credit: Susan Cook
In Today's Department of Poetic Justice (and The Great American Wrongbook), "Donald J. Trump- The Evangelical Version" which could be sung to the ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:59
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The Pope's recent visit to the United States sparked much conversation and debate about the environment. Pope Francis has been very clear in his vi...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:19
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
Caption: Aaron Brown
In this essay Aaron Brown dresses down the most popular words from the year 2012, according to the Global Language Monitor.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Hopefully each of us want to improve upon ourselves, if only day to day. A moment of truth on a day of significance.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:19
Caption: David Bechmann, Credit: NPC
Reverend David Bechmann, president of Bread for the World, speaks at the National Press Club about the problem of global hunger

  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
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A Catholic scholars group says opposing unions is a mortal sin.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:28
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It's time for society's believers to quit pushing their religious views on non-believers.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:10
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Religious Toleration

  • Added: Mar 23, 2008
  • Length: 02:46

  • Added: Aug 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Writer Matt Terrell takes a closer look at the hypocrital use of the bible.

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jul 06, 2007
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Jul 02, 2007
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Exploring the idea of freedom in the American west through Mormons at BYU and a hermit in the hills of California

  • Added: Jun 04, 2007
  • Length: 20:05
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Sam Harris has written a book, "The End of Faith." Richard Dawkins & Christopher Hitchens have echoed his sentiments. Chuck contends they have fa...

  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 05:35
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Congressman Pete Stark is a rare politician. He takes seriously the separation of church and state and actually has the political courage to say he...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:44
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Rabbi David Gordis looks at Judaism in America and interfaith relaions today.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Religion has become too commercial in the US.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Erica doubts the need for God to have a messenger.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 2