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Marcia Veldman talks about her obsession with gardening and how she strives for food justice through her work at the farmers market. And, quinoa is...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Greta Gerwig talks the addictive quality of multiple takes, the lightness of muscle memory, and keeping secrets from the cast.
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 10:38
James T. Kirk is alive and well in the sequel to 2009's successful relaunch of the venerable Star Trek franchise, and on this week's show Adam and ...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 55:30
It's a time of military memorials in our world, and that's the hallowed path we walk on this week's edition, with musical reflections on battles--a...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 55:00
Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 28:10
Esther England was good at everything she did. Singing opera around the world, teaching university students who wanted to be her, doing that even a...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 09:40
Mississippi native and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and awareness. Ford's latest novel...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 20:44
The term "Hinduism" refers to a multitude of traditions, so it's no surprise that Hindu attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality are complex. ...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:27
For Buddhists, whether homosexuality is "right" or "wrong" isn't the question - it's more important to ask whether a behavior is "skillfull" or "un...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 12:27
Like many other conservative-leaning Christian denominations, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially condemns homosexual acts. ...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 11:54
Anita Sherrill knew she was a lesbian since she was a little girl. But reconciling her sexuality with her Christianity, and with her father, hasn't...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 07:40
African-American Christian denominations run the gamut, from Baptist and Evangelical to Roman Catholic. One thing they've have tended to share, tho...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 15:46
Rev. Richard Cizik says he's undergone an "evolution" about the place of gays and lesbians in Evangelical Christianty - and says that American Evan...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:48
Compared with mainliners, Evangelical Christians emphasize a more personal relationship with Jesus, and believe they have a sacred duty to share th...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:23
Eve Tushnet is gay, Catholic, and proudly celibate. A recent convert, she decided she couldn't be a good Catholic and a practicing lesbian at the s...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 17:00
When Celestine married Hilary 34 years ago, they were a typical heterosexual couple, bound by love and their vows of Catholic marriage. So 17 years...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 05:52
Ever since she hit middle school, teenager Gabby Villarreal and her father have been experiencing a lot of conflict. In this moving story, Gabby in...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 08:54
In recent years, the Episicopal church has changed its rules on homosexuality, creating same-sex blessings and ordaining gay clergy. That hasn’t go...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 16:45
Bishop Marianne Budde, the spiritual leader of some 40,000 Episcopalians in the DC-Metro area, shares the church’s official stance on homosexuality...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 15:18
The director of one of the largest mosques in America presents Islam’s traditional approach to homosexuality: being gay is acceptable, but acting o...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 04:38
Immediately after the bombings on marathon monday in Boston, media reported that a Saudi man was being being questioned by authorities. Some stated...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 18:03
A gay, devout Muslim man recounts growing up in Pakistan, where being homosexual wasn’t just abnormal, it “wasn’t part of the vocabulary.” After mo...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:26
It all started with those two lines in Leviticus - a core text of Judaism. Two rabbis from opposite ends of the theological spectrum explain homose...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 18:53
In Orthodox Judaism, to be both actively gay and "frum," or observant, is a theological taboo. Producer Jon Kalish spoke to four Orthodox men and w...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 10:38
