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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
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
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
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
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
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
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 2
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Latin America has been overwhelmingly Catholic for centuries, but that's changing, and Guatemala is leading the way, as Latin America's Evangelical...
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 30:31
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
A history of St. Philips Moravian Church, the only historic African-American Moravian congregation in the U.S.
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 18:59
In this episode, Conor takes a tour of the Mormon Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair with Nate Kogan.
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 07:15
What does an ancient African deity have to do with a Reese's cup? Meet Elegba, trickster spirit of chaos.
Bought by KOSU and Aspen Public Radio
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Instructed in a "vision" to save men from a drunkard's fate by smashing the bottles waiting behind the bars of Kansas taverns, Nation went forth in...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:47
A profile of Anne Hutchinson - a maverick spiritual leader in Massachusetts during the early 1600's.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:08
The life and ideas of media theorist Marshall McLuhan and the effect of those ideas on 1960s Canada. Meet his son, Eric, his biographer, Terrence G...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 51:48
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 10:35
- Purchases: 1
Mixed marriages - family fatwas and ruptured romance due to religious bigotry in Australia, told through compelling personal stories.
Winner, GOLD ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 53:20
As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KALW, WEKU, KERA, KGOU and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 16
Never before aired! PRX exclusive!
A personal tour through the Holy Land, looking at how the conflict started and what it's like today between Jeru...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, KZYX, KGLT, KFAI, KUT and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2009
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 7
