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146: Snail Knights
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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There are over 70 examples of knights fighting snails in illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s. But why? First meme? A silly inside joke? A weird ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 04:47
The Spiritual Lives of The Beatles
From: Frederick Stella
Series: Common Threads: An Interfaith Dialogue
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These are 2 episodes featuring discussions with Kenneth Womack, one of the most prolific writers on all matters Beatle.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 56:00
Native Peace Values / Reconciling Clergy Abuse
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Oren Lyons
A two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of "Original Politics: Makin...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Police De-escalation / Quakers in Costa Rica
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Keeping the Faith: A Story of Black Religion in Rural Ohio
From: Harper Beeland
Caption: The Mount Calvary congregation standing outside the church, ca. 1950s, Credit: Ric Sheffield, Knox County Black History Archives at Kenyon College
A piece of local history audio storytelling exploring a now-defunct predominantly black church in Mount Vernon, Ohio, through the voices of its for...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 16:07
New Jerusalem
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A watershed moment in the life of a renowned philosopher.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KFCF FM, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 32
National Writers Series: David Blight and Miles Harvey
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interviews with authors David Blight and Miles Harvey.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5 - God & Country
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: Billy James and Betty Jane Hargis from the collection of Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett. The collection of negatives was salvaged some years ago from the Howard Hopkins photo studio negatives from 1966 to 1979, including rare images of Hargis' Christian Crusa, Credit: Photo by Howard Hopkins
In a special edition of This Land Radio, we go back to Cold War Oklahoma.

Bought by KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Nerd Nite: Jesus and War
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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It’s time to release your inner geek! Today on Culture Clique we take you to Nerd Nite at Ed’s No Name Bar in Winona, MN. The topic? “Jesus and the...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 35:15
Ode to the Old Gods
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Explosive Confession
From: Israel Story
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An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 21:47
Dear God
From: Israel Story
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The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 18:17
This Wall Is My Wall
From: Israel Story
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In 1988, a handful of tough, idealistic women banded together to fight for women's rights to pray, as men do, at the holiest Jewish site in the wor...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 47:26
The Complex History of AIDS and the Catholic Church: Michael O'Loughlin
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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An hour-long interview with Michael O'Loughlin, the reporter behind Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church. This six-part podcast s...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
The Golem and The Jinni
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: My interpretation of Chava, the Golem.
I talk with Helene Wecker, author of "The Golem and The Jinni," a novel about Jewish and Arabic mythological characters meeting in New York.

Bought by WABE and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 24:02
  • Purchases: 2
Three Kings: Agents of Radical Christianity
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Genuine Fakes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Genuine Fakes, Credit: jacket cover by Rob Ehle
There are fakes all around us. No, this isn’t about “fake news.” In fact, the overuse of that term as given real fakes a bad name. That’s right. We...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Story of 'Veggie Tales'
From: KUER
Series: Preach Specials
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The behind-the-scenes history of a '90s cultural phenomenon that put singing vegetables in living rooms across America. A one-hour radio special fr...

Bought by KOSU, WBEZ, KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WVPE


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
One Keeps Spinning: Saving Yiddish on Cape Cod
From: Theo Greenly
Caption: Ellie Glener reads a Yiddish phrase book. October 2019. Mashpee, Credit: Photo by Theo Greenly
A woman on Cape Cod tries to save the Yiddish language

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
NL 19-52: Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes to Church in the 1960s, 12/23/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed i...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Jewish Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
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Is Jewish philosophy more about Judaism or about universal philosophical issues?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Sound the Shofar! An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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The shofar, an instrument made from a ram’s horn, is heard in synagogues all over the world during the Jewish High Holidays. It has also been heard...

Bought by WRTI, WWFM, WRGY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Catholic Peacemaking Icons (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Catholic Peacemaking Icons
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:00

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