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Religion

Members of the San Francisco 49ers kneel during the national anthem as others stand prior to an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, in Glendale, Ariz.
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Politics & Policy

Americans must decide who we stand with and what we kneel for

Does standing up for racial justice, economic equity, compassion, or truth demand, at crucial moments, that we plant one shoe on the earth and lower the other knee?

8 years ago

Religious leaders and community members pray outside the courthouse in Evesham, New Jersey.
Community

Clergy masses against hate directed at South Jersey pastor

Religious leaders and members of the community gathered to show their support for a South Jersey minister who received online threats after speaking out against hate crimes.

8 years ago

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, stops to say the Pledge of Allegiance as he walks around greeting supporters before his election party, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Meet Roy Moore, the new face of Republican extremism

Thank you, Alabama Republicans, for choosing a Senate candidate whose reactionary ravings and paranoid fictions make Donald Trump look semi-sane.

8 years ago

(File/WHYY)
Community

Wilmington church takes on violence with half-day conference

Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wilmington is partnering with Wilmington leaders to address the violent crime that persists in pockets ...

8 years ago

Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka greets pilgrims.
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Community

Pilgrims return to abandoned coal town for worship and fellowship

Only a few structures still stand in what was Centralia, Pennsylvania. Even fewer are visible through the tree cover from the top of an a ...

8 years ago

 Priest claimed God caused him to lose badly in poker. (Big Stock photo)
Lifestyle

Priest kept child porn as ‘revenge’ on God for poker losses

A New Jersey priest was trying to get revenge on God for poker losses when he collected computerized child pornography at his weekend hom ...

8 years ago

Steve Bannon
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Who is Steve Bannon?

Guest: Joshua Green White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is perhaps the most enigmatic figure in the Trump a ...

Air Date: August 8, 2017

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Ed and Kathleen Nader sit in their living room with a statue of St. Pantaleone that has been in Ed's family for four generations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Missing Saint Pantaleon statue found in South Philly

This Thursday is the feast day of Saint Pantaleon, a third-century physician from the region that is now Turkey, who is known as the patr ...

8 years ago

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 'I looked up at a canopy of leaves and saw not the leaves but the light filtering through them.' (Image courtesy of Rachel Swenarton)
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Community

Coming out, and coming back in

Unlike the path of worship and scripture and virtues, my journey in sexuality has no separate and distinct start and finish. They are the same.

8 years ago

Children play a game of tug of war at Eid al-Fitr festivities in FDR Park in South Philadelphia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. (Annie Risemberg for NewsWorks)
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Community

Philly Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr with outdoor celebrations [photos]

For many years, large public prayer gatherings have been held on Eid al-Fitr in Clara Muhammad Square, which is adjacent to a large mosqu ...

8 years ago

 The author, right, stands with a mentor, Father Gordon Reid, at Easter. (Image courtesy of Josh Kruger)
Speak Easy
Community

Being queer, I never thought I’d find God; then he found me

I grew up thinking that I wasn't allowed to love or praise God precisely because I am gay. Yet, God kept appearing in my life.

8 years ago

 Hanna Khoury, an Israeli Arab, plays violin, and Udi Bar-David, an Israeli Jew, plays cello. (Stacia Friedman
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Arts & Entertainment

Everyone’s talking. Is anyone listening?

A Jew and two Arabs walk into a room. They play beautiful music together, erasing the cultural, political, and religious boundaries that ...

9 years ago

Police at the site of the Manchester attack
Radio Times

Trump effect in the Middle East; Manchester terrorist attack

Guests: Rukmini Callimachi, Ali Al-Ahmend, Laura Rozen President Trump wrapped up his tour of the Middle East ear ...

Air Date: May 25, 2017

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In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump listens as he is introduced during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Want to preserve religious freedom? Preserve the line between church and state.

For the last 63 years, the ...

9 years ago

Radio Times

Yates testimony; then, ‘Salt Houses’

Guests: Andy Wright, Hala Alyan Poet HALA ALYAN’s deb ...

Air Date: May 9, 2017

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