December 31, 1993 - On this Mainstreet Radio segment, MPR’s Leif Enger interviews Joel Hanson, member of the Minneapolis Christian rock group PFR (formally known as Pray For Rain).
February 16, 1994 - A Midday interview with Father Phillip Rask on the significance of Lent. Father Rask details the meanings and actions of the Christian religious observance.
May 30, 1994 - Midday’s Gary Eichten talks with Matthew Ramadan, member of Nation of Islam in Minnesota, about the differences between his religious organization and Louis Farrakhan’s Black nationalist organization, the Nation of Islam.
July 14, 1994 - MPR’s Minday Ratner interviews Alice Kaplan on her culture, growing up in Minnesota in a Jewish family and her book French Lessons: A Memoir.
August 15, 1994 - Sister Helen Prejean, lecturer and death row "inmate advocate,” speaking at Twin Cities seminar on the death penalty, sponsored by the group "Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights". In address, Prejean talked about her contact with death row inmates and the families of the victims, as well as her efforts to inform people of the financial and social costs of the death penalty.
October 4, 1994 - Father Michael O'Connell, of the Basilica of Saint Mary and the Church of the Ascension in North Minneapolis, explains the purpose and act of animal blessing.
December 9, 1994 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews Bea Vue-Benson, the first Hmong female pastor in Minnesota. Vue-Benson talks about the challenges of being a woman public leader. She also speaks on Christianity in the Hmong community.
March 20, 1995 - Mainstreet Radio’s reports on concerns of some Ely parents on students leaving during school day to attend church programs. While voluntary, these residents feel that education and church activities should not be connected. Those concerns don’t sit well with some in the community, who see religious release time as completely acceptable.
April 21, 1995 - On this Midday program, Dr. Stephen Carter, author of the book The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivializes Religious Devotion, talks in MPR studios about religion and public life.
April 29, 1995 - Midday presents a call-in program called "The End of Life," as part of the report series The Cancer War. Studio guests Father Jerry Foley, director of Spiritual Care for the Hospice at HealthEast; and Dr. Eric Anderson, an internist at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, answer questions about death and dying, hospice care, and cancer.