September 25, 2001 - Great religious minds reflect on tragedies surrounding September 11, 2001. As America moves beyond raw emotion and religious sentiment, this program explores theological and spiritual reflection for the long haul. Host Journalist-theologian Krista Tippett has gathered provocative reflections across a broad spectrum of faith, woven together with evocative sound and music. Guests: Richard Mouw, Christian philosopher and president of Fuller Theological Seminary. Joan Dehzad, Episcopal deacon and executive director of the Institute of New Americans. Rabbi Barry Cytron, director of the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning.Patricia Hampl, poet and author of A Romantic Education and Virgin Time. Linda Loving, pastor at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota. Dan Grigassy, Franciscan friar and professor of liturgy, Washington Theological Union. Cynthia Eriksson, clinical psychologist at the Headington Program in International Trauma.
June 16, 2003 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the 20th century's greatest Christian theologians. He also was involved in several attempts to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Host Krista Tippett speaks with Martin Doblmeier, director of the new documentary Bonhoeffer, which examines how this pacifistic figure struggled with some of the greatest moral issues of his day, and became an emblem of personal faith and conscience.
February 1, 2004 - Host Krista Tippett focuses on gathering a basic picture of what really happened in the fluid early years of Christianity. Why were some of the books early Christians read included in the Bible while others were left out? How did it happen that modern Christians inherited an erroneous view of women in the early Church, including Mary Magdalene? Voices: Luke Timothy Johnson, R.W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University, and Program Director of The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.
August 31, 2006 - A 30-year-old, Indian-American Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar is setting out to change the way young people relate to their own religious traditions and those of others. Al-Quaeda is the most effective youth program in the world, he says, and we neglect this work at our peril.
July 8, 2007 - American ideals and rituals of marriage, family, and divorce are infused with biblical messages. But what does the Bible really say, and how has it been taught across the centuries as the institution of marriage has changed dramatically and often? We'll explore nuances of Jewish and Christian teachings about marriage, family, and divorce - the striking practicality of Jewish tradition across the ages and the surprising ambiguities of the New Testament.
August 19, 2007 - Eboo Patel calls al-Qaeda the most effective youth organization in the world. But he says we must deepen rather than tame the innate religious energies of the young - as a matter of survival.
December 9, 2007 - In the second part of our series on a new generation of Evangelical leadership, I speak with Rick and Kay Warren. Rick wrote one of the best-selling books in the world and is pastor of one of the largest churches in the United States. Kay is his partner in global ventures to address poverty and AIDS.
December 16, 2007 - On this episode of Speaking of Faith, host Krista Tippet profiles the 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi, who has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism.
January 20, 2008 - We present a rare conversation with philosopher and Catholic social innovator Jean Vanier. He created a model of community, L'Arche, on the most paradoxical teachings of Christianity - notions of power in smallness, and light in darkness, that resonate as Christmas draws near.
August 21, 2008 - In this program we revisit a 2007 conversation with evangelical leaders Rick and Kay Warren exploring where they came from and what motivates them. Rick Warren hosted the first post-primary joint appearance of Barack Obama and John McCain at his Saddleback Church in southern California. This two hour event is just one sign of the cross-cultural authority he and Kay have achieved in a handful of years.