MPR News Women of Faith-logo

MPR News Women of Faith

News & Politics Podcasts

As women's voices in faith communities become louder, MPR News with Kerri Miller is speaking with women who are energized by some of our most urgent policy, spiritual and philosophical questions.

Location:

United States

Description:

As women's voices in faith communities become louder, MPR News with Kerri Miller is speaking with women who are energized by some of our most urgent policy, spiritual and philosophical questions.

Twitter:

@mprnews

Language:

English


Episodes
Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Searching for God

7/9/2019
Anjali Kumar met with witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, and a faith healer in Brazil, in a quest to find her spiritual home. What she found wasn't what she sought.

Duration:00:39:55

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Suhag Shukla on reclaiming one's religion

7/2/2019
One Hindu-American is striving to correct her faith's misrepresentation.

Duration:00:20:46

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Millennial Christians say loving God means protecting creation

6/24/2019
Evangelicals have long focused more on saving souls than on saving God's creation. But some younger believers want to flip the script. Kerri Miller spoke with two environmental activists who are motivated by their faith to do something about climate change.

Duration:00:47:07

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Putting relationships over politics

6/19/2019
The women behind the podcast Pantsuit Politics say their faith compels them to stay in relationships, even with people with whom they disagree politically. It's the latest discussion in our Women of Faith series.

Duration:00:42:51

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: The #ChurchToo movement shines a light on sex abuse in evangelicalism

6/12/2019
The largest Protestant denomination in the United States grapples with its own clergy sexual abuse scandal.

Duration:00:40:14

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on real repentance

6/4/2019
In our culture, stubborn denials, glib apologies and quick comebacks often overwhelm any practice of repentance. The Judaic practice of teshuvah shows us a better way.

Duration:00:47:49

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Emmy Kegler on being a queer Christian

5/28/2019
How LGBTQ Christians can find a home, even in a church that often wounds.

Duration:00:48:24

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Misha Euceph on the many facets of being Muslim in America

5/21/2019
The creator of the new podcast "Tell Them, I Am" talks about making space for Muslims to define themselves.

Duration:00:49:13

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Jenan Mohajir on how Islam motivates her interfaith work

4/22/2019
What does it mean to be an empowered Muslim woman today?

Duration:00:48:25

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of Faith: Female atheists embrace skepticism

4/10/2019
Only 3 percent of the population identifies as atheist -- and even that small slice is mostly white and male. What does it mean to be a woman and an atheist?

Duration:00:39:36

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of faith: Sister Simone Campbell on #NunsToo and the Catholic Church

4/2/2019
As women's voices in faith communities become more integral and more influential, we are opening a new series of conversations titled "Women of Faith." Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun and founder of the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, joined MPR News host Kerri Miller.

Duration:00:48:30

Ask host to enable sharing for playback control

Women of faith: Nadia Bolz-Weber on the church, shame and sex

3/27/2019
Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber describes why she thinks the Christian faith is overdue for a sexual reformation.

Duration:00:48:00