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At weddings, there are different rituals, from breaking glass to receiving a necklace, depending on the culture. Here’s a day at a Bhutanese weddin...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 01:56
One in three young Americans say they do NOT belong to any organized religion. That’s according to research by the Pew Forum; and that’s more than ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 06:47
Most know the old stories about Noah's Ark and how Eve was tempted by a snake, but now God’s creatures are uncaged and in church. Producer Ruth Edd...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 04:32
On a Sunday in April, cheery faces populate the groundbreaking of a new church construction project in South Minneapolis. Almost a year earlier, th...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 05:08
The mid-Market district of San Francisco is undergoing tremendous change. Construction cranes literally cast shadows over the businesses and charit...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 11:15
What the foreign policy challenges facing a second Obama administration can tell us about the difficult challenges that lie ahead for America.
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 02:00
TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...
Bought by KUOW, HowSound, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 3
Diabetes among African-American adults has reached epidemic proportions. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls -- an innovative public health program in Ba...
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- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 06:33
- Purchases: 1
A sound-rich obituary honoring the life and works of the late Christopher Hitchens, who died on December 16, 2011. Suitable for news magazines an...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2011
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
Northeast Ohio's religious leaders make plans to tackle social problems in a more organized and comprehensive fashion,
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 28:30
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Charlene Schiff discusses her and her mother’s escape in 1942 from the Horochow ghetto in Poland. Soon after their escape, Charlene was separated f...
- Added: Jul 27, 2011
- Length: 09:04
The fires of revolution continue to spread across North Africa. First Tunisia, then Egypt, and now Libya deals with demands from its people for c...
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- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 1
This Buddhist monk from Tibet went from learning how to switch a computer on to programming sophisticated, innovative software all on his own in ju...
- Added: Jan 03, 2011
- Length: 05:52
In Washington, at D.C.'s Sixth and I Synagogue, toddlers are taking their first steps, attending their first services and singing their first Jewis...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 06:22
Religious Seattle residents are taking an in-your-face approach to housing the homeless.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 15:01
Over the last few weeks, protesters have targeted a mosque in Bridgeport, Conn., handing out flyers and talking to worshipers, sometimes through bu...
- Added: Aug 23, 2010
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 3
Mazal "Mali" Aklum has learned well the importance of remembering history. Her parents were among the first wave of Ethiopian Jews to flee their co...
- Added: Jul 29, 2010
- Length: 04:27
Through her participation in a youth program at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Navila Rashid says she became a better Muslim. Rashid believes ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2010
- Length: 04:57
At the age of 50, Rabbi Gila Ruskin left her pulpit position to teach Jewish studies at an urban-Baltimore Catholic school with a historically Afri...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 09:39
Bethesda Jewish Congregation traveled to Cuba to help teach and reintroduce Judaism to Cuba's Jewish population.
Bought by Interfaith Voices
- Added: May 31, 2010
- Length: 08:51
- Purchases: 1
The number of physicians who support the integration of alternative and conventional medicine is still small, but it’s growing. Part of the problem...
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: May 28, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A feature on the growing interest in community gardens among faith-based organizations.
Bought by KISU
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Thomas Friedman, the ground-breaking New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author, will receive the 2009 Fourth Estate Award, the National P...
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 01:02:03
In 1940, Tracy Strong left the relative safety of America to help students displaced by the war in Europe to continue their studies. While uncomfor...
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 05:14
