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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.

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    • Jul 9, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
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    Women of Faith: Searching for God

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2019 39:43


    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.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2019 20:34


    One Hindu-American is striving to correct her faith's misrepresentation.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2019 46:55


    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.

    Women of Faith: Putting relationships over politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2019 42:38


    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.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2019 40:02


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

    Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on real repentance

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2019 47:36


    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.

    Women of Faith: Emmy Kegler on being a queer Christian

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 48:12


    How LGBTQ Christians can find a home, even in a church that often wounds.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 49:00


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

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2019 48:13


    What does it mean to be an empowered Muslim woman today?

    Women of Faith: Female atheists embrace skepticism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2019 39:24


    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?

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2019 48:18


    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.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2019 47:47


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

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