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Is it possible to lead a religious life without believing in God?

Bought by WRNC-LP and KSKQ


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
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What kind of divinity allows its believers to suffer?

Bought by KKRN, WRNC-LP, and KSKQ


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Imagine having all the power and moral authority of the Catholic Church focused on one person… you.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sally Kempton
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:12
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Co-Host Peter Kreten welcomes Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ to the program. Brother Guy is a research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatic...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 26:51
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Is it just dumb luck that the universe has just the right settings to support life as we know it?

Bought by KKRN, WRNC-LP, WNJR, and KSKQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Amnon Weinstein, with a Violin of Hope, Credit: Ken Lambla
Master violin maker Amnon Weinstein has spent the past two decades finding and restoring violins that survived the Holocaust. In April, 2012, he br...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
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: Miles Davis
In this short segment Rabbi Neil Blumofe highlights the significance of Mile Davis' album Kind of Blue.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Dancing Crow, Credit: Woody Crenshaw
Sometimes our life's path appears, quite mysteriously, as if we were chosen for it. Crow's Story tells tells of his path, blending his music with a...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:05
Caption: Mingus RIP, Credit: Robert Vye
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
Caption: Taste of Eternity, A Musical Shabbat: Part I
Taste of Eternity A Musical Shabbat Part I: Friday Night Service and Table Songs Sung by The Western Wind and Guest Chorus Matthew Lazar, Gue...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Deepak Chopra, San Francisco, CA 10/8/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Deepak Chopra talks identity, infinity, and the benefits of laughter.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
Caption: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Roger Lewis at a jazz funeral in 2010., Credit: Kim Welsh
In this hour, we go in search of jazz's spiritual side—from the sacred roots of sax titan John Coltrane to the unique New Orleans spiritual traditi...

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Barry Alter and Hymnal, Credit: Photo Courtesy Ellen Morgan
A sound-rich interview with a 91-year-old missionary who spent 35 years in India and never converted anyone -- on purpose.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:42

  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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Attendees of Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day discuss God, chicken sandwiches, gay marriage, and the power of bad words.

Bought by KGNU


  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
Caption: Mathew Barrett Gross
In the past dozen years, from Y2K to 2012, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 perce...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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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
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Tu B’shevat is the New Year for Trees. It takes place on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which is January or February, depending on the...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Venerable Aileen Barry, Buddhist nun, Credit: Liberation Prison Project
Venerable Aileen Barry, a Buddhist nun from Ireland and for­merly of the Liberation Prison Project in Australia, talks about spir­i­tu­al­ity behin...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2012
  • Length: 07:05
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A Vatican investigation into American nuns

Bought by WAMC, KUOW, Public Radio Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
  • Purchases: 4