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Caption: Gilded Buddha statue at Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India., Credit: Sandip Roy
While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 35:44
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He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 26:10
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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 43:00
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Hill District pastor and community leader Johnnie Monroe (b.1941) reflects on the importance of the church and his faith in today’s youth to become...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
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Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 11:58
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“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 08:16
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Maeshowe Orkney
Humans learn to control sound for rituals with impressive monuments. David Hendy hears bizarre effects while beating a drum in Orkney, Scotland.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
  • Purchases: 2
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An entire generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served four terms and led them through the Dep...

Bought by WCNY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCWP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and WTJU


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
As seniors at Union Seminary, Richard and Jim are responsible for welcoming the incoming students through “round robins” hosted in the homes of fac...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:40
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:05
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 22:16
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 26:22
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:41
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 20:05
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 17:42
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:38
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
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A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:35
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A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2010
  • Length: 09:59