March 7, 1992 - Jewish and lesbian writer Judith Katz talks about writing and finding community in the Midwest.
April 9, 1992 - Camelia Sadat, president and one of the founders of the Sadat Peace Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting world peace, speaking at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, as part of the 1992 Peace Prize Forum “Striving for Peace: Resolving Cultural Conflicts”. The theme of address was “Islamic Culture and the West.” Camelia Sadat is the daughter of the late Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Sadat. She is an assistant professor at Bentley College in Massachusetts and is writing a book about the changing role of Arab women in Muslim society.
April 9, 1992 - Robin Wright, correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, speaking at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, as part of the 1992 Peace Prize Forum “Striving for Peace: Resolving Cultural Conflicts”. The theme of address was “Islamic Culture and the West.” Wright has spent several years living in the Middle East. She has worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, CBS News, and the London Sunday Times.
April 9, 1992 - Q&A period from " Islamic Culture and the West " discussion, as part of the 1992 Peace Prize Forum “Striving for Peace: Resolving Cultural Conflicts," held at Augustana College in Sioux Falls. Participants Camelia Sadat, president of the Sadat Peace Institute; and Robin Wright, correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, answered audience questions after their respective speeches.
April 13, 1992 - Midday program presents two documentaries - The Indian in the Global Mind, an examination of global views of Native Americans, including common stereotypes and the use of Indian cultures as mascots for sports teams; and Religious Freedom in America: A Question of Faith, a look at the legal challenges confronting Native Americans in preserving their religious heritage.
April 17, 1992 - MPR’s Kitty Eisele reports on a most incredible Minnesota find…at a garage sale in 1989, a young American photographer, John Barnier, bought eight wooden crates containing over 130 glass plate negatives. Realizing that many of the negatives were of Jerusalem, he brought them to the Harvard Semitic Museum where they were identified as the long-lost work of Mendel John Diness.
April 18, 1992 - As Ramadan concludes and the weekend marks Passover and Easter, Midday guest Clark Morphew, religious writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, answers listener questions about current issues in religion.
May 4, 1992 - MPR’s John Biewen reports on sermon by Rev. Richard Coleman at Saint Peter's African Methodist Episcopal Church following the acquittal of police officers in Rodney King trial and the subsequent unrest and rioting in Los Angeles. As part of report, Biewen interviews parishioners to get their thoughts.
May 30, 1992 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Ying Vang, who has become the first Hmong priest ordained in the United States. Vang shares his goal to provide comfort to those in Hmong community, as well as bringing together Hmong and Catholic beliefs.
September 7, 1992 - MPR’s Mark Heistad talks with Marylee Fithian, a Minnesota State Fair chaplain, about what a day at the fair is like for her. Those days entail a lot of walking, lost children, and spiritual guidance.