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Speaking of Faith Wins a Peabody and a Webby Award!
  Within the same month, we've been recognized for our work on the air and on the Web. Called the "Oscars of the Internet," the Webby Awards named speakingoffaith.org the best website over nominees from the BBC and NPR.
And, the broadcasting industry's highest honor, the Peabody, was awarded to SOF for its production of "The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi" — only one of 35 recipients. The Peabody board said of the program:
This hour of Speaking of Faith focused on the significance of a 13th-century poet exemplifies the approach of the long-running series. Here, spirituality and faith in contemporary life always remain central, and are explored with extraordinary breadth and understanding."
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The Beauty and Challenge of Being Catholic: Hearing the Faithful
We received hundreds of essays in response to our query about what anchors and unsettles our Catholic audience. So we asked some of you to speak about your tradition. The moving reflections we heard prompted us to depart from our usual format and bring you a fabric of voices from the Church itself.
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Planting the Future
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement — a grassroots organization that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment through planting trees. After helping plant 30 million trees, she speaks about the global balance of human and natural resources and shares her thoughts on where God resides.
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Evangelical Politics: Three Generations
In this live public conversation, Krista probes a passionate discussion unfolding among Evangelical leaders and communities. Should Christians be involved in politics and if so, how? What has gone wrong, and what has been learned from the Moral Majority up until now.
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Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh
In 2003, we traveled to a Christian conference center in rural Wisconsin to visit the revered the Vietnamese Buddhist monk. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence.
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The Spirituality of Parenting
We sense that there is a spiritual aspect to our children's natures and wonder how to support and nurture that. The spiritual life, our guest says, begins not in abstractions, but in concrete everyday experiences. And children need our questions as much as our answers.
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Exploring a New Humanism
In a recent Pew poll, 16 percent of Americans identified themselves as "unaffiliated" — atheist, agnostic, or most prominently "nothing in particular." Greg Epstein, a Humanist chaplain at Harvard, is passionate about articulating an atheist identity that is not driven by a stance against religion but by positive ethical beliefs and actions.
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 Free Six-Week Discussion Outline (PDF)
Religion matters. But how do we talk about it with our friends and colleagues? Use this outline as a guide for your book club, congregation, or religious education group.
And, if you don't have the book yet, you can get a 30% discount through Pretty Good Goods. The paperback now has a revised introduction, reader's guide, and helpful index.
Every purchase helps support this program.
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 SoundSeen:
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» "Bach's Bible"
Bach's compositions, Dr. Thomas Rossin says, stemmed from his private faith — a faith evidenced by Bach's handwritten notes in his Bible. Hear about the Bible's nomadic journey and its possible influence of his Mass in B Minor — what Pelikan holds up as an example of the "best we've ever done."
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Join the Conversation
Recent rebroadcasts of "The Spirituality of Parenting" and "Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh" are springboards, listeners tell us, for new conversations. But how do they talk about it outside the radio hour?
We've created a series of guides developed for 13 SOF programs to help facilitate discussion within families or among communities. Purchase these resources and learn new ways to speak together.
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The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery (May 15)
Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." We explore the spiritual foundations of addiction and recovery with authors Kevin Griffin and Susan Cheever. Griffin reflects on the consonance of Buddhist teachings and the 12 Steps; Cheever tells her personal story and that of her father, the late fiction writer John Cheever.
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Mapping the Landscape of Catholic Voices