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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
Caption: Dirk Ockhardt from Germany discusses jokes, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
Maintaining a sense of humor in another language can be difficult. Some misunderstandings can be humorous. Still, understanding the nuances of joke...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Interviews with Authors, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Or Maybe Just The Guy Down The Street!!!

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: The lights are dark and the music is loud at a 5:30 service at Hope Presbyterian Church called The Stirring.
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

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Predators of the Heart, a traveling wildlife exhibit and reptile show from Anacortes, Wash., displays animals from around the world to the Christian Assembly Foursquare Church in Missoula, MT., Credit: Samuel Wilson
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
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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
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The growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. B...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
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Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
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Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
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
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Robert Jevne shares "Oh Christmas Tree," a lighthearted poem from the perspective of the Christmas tree itself. Through Jevne's poem, the sheer mor...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
Caption: Holy Trinity, Brussels, Credit: http://www.holytrinity.be/fr/content/services
Brussels-based reporter, Alison Turner, ducked out of the cold this week to explore an Anglican church - just a stone's throw from the city's fashi...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:16
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Reverend Eric Williams tells his co-worker Jannette Berkley-Patton about his first experience with AIDS.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
Caption: Margaret and Mohammed discuss how Americans marginalize their religions. , Credit: Jesse Ellis
Islam and Mormonism — not exactly a perfect pair? Actually, these two religions have a striking similarity: both are marginalized in American socie...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 13:10
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Surinder Singh (L) and his son Rupinder (R) talk about their lives as Sikhs in the U.S. and Canada.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
  • 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
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Samuel Clifton Folks has lived in Tulsa all his life. Here, he remembers playing little league baseball as a young teenager in the mid-1960s.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1
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
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Sacred harp singing is considered to be one of the oldest forms of American folk music. It dates back to the 1700s, to a choral style that develop...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 2
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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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outLoud Radio producer Mykel takes us inside the world of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of fabulous queer San Francisco community or...

Bought by KSFR and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2