Place, Values, and Public Life – Thomas Tweed
Place is not only a backdrop to religious life but, as Thomas Tweed's work argues, a way of understanding religion itself. Our conversation with him considers how people make and inhabit places, the v...
15 Aug 57min
On Monsters and Medicine: What can spooky stories tell us about health and disease? - Lorenzo Servitje (Re-Release)
This episode of ReligionWise features Dr. Lorenzo Servitje, Associate Professor Literature and the Director of the Health, Medicine and Society program at Lehigh University. Trained in both Victorian ...
15 Jul 58min
Strategic Religious Engagement at USAID - David Hunsicker
David Hunsicker spent two decades at USAID building the institutional capacity for what came to be called Strategic Religious Engagement. That work culminated in the 2023 policy Building Bridges in De...
15 Jun 1h 19min
Reading America Together: Faith, Democracy, and the Nation's 250th
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a national initiative called faith250 is bringing faith communities together to study the nation's founding do...
15 Mai 58min
Faith, Failure, and Humanitarian Work - Maurice Bloem
Maurice Bloem has spent nearly four decades in development work, from leading the Church World Service's humanitarian efforts in Indonesia to representing CWS at the United Nations. He now leads the J...
15 Apr 1h 2min
Rethinking Religion, Nationalism, and Pluralism - Slavica Jakelic
Scholars keep predicting nationalism will fade, and it keeps surprising us. Slavica Jakelic argues we're asking the wrong questions. Drawing on her experience in Croatia during the Yugoslav wars and h...
15 Mar 56min
The Nonviolent Jesus: A Conversation with John Dear
What if the center of Jesus' teaching isn't the cross but the Sermon on the Mount? Father John Dear, peace activist, author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, has spent four decades living out that claim...
15 Feb 1h 1min
Religion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Mark Graves
Artificial intelligence is forcing engineers to define concepts that philosophers and theologians have wrestled with for centuries: consciousness, personhood, and morality, to name a few. The technolo...
15 Jan 50min
