Spirituality and Sexuality
We crack open the difficult subject of Christian tradition and healthy sexuality. What is the positive sexual ethic of the Bible, beyond the identification of sin? What does sexuality have to do with the human spirit and how might this change they way it is discussed in communities of faith?

Science and Being
How do science and religion — practiced together — distinctively illuminate what it means to be human? Host Krista Tippett speaks with three scientists on how science and religious faith inform their understanding of what it means to be human.

The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11
This hour of Speaking of Faith delves into uncomfortable religious and moral questions that the September 2001 terrorist attacks raised-questions of meaning that Americans have only begun to ponder one year later. Also-a riveting first-person account of the religious life that grew up at and around Ground Zero and was largely hidden from news reporting.

L'Arche: A Community of Brokenness and Beauty
During this "radio pilgrimage" into the world of L'Arche — communities formed around people with mental disabilities and others who share life with them — we discover a religious idea of difference as normal and imperfection as a source of strength.

Patterns of Prayer
In a country in which church and state are separate, over 90 percent of Americans say that they pray. Sales of prayer books of every variety have been exploding in America and Europe for years. Even Western medicine is looking at prayer as it expands its definition of healing. What is prayer, and how has the practice of prayer been changing in American lives?

Sacrifice and Reconciliation
We explore the legacy of four World War II chaplains — Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish — who all went down with their torpedoed ship in 1943. We hear interviews with surviving veterans from both sides. Krista speaks with a nephew of one of the chaplains, and a poet who served in the Vietnam War.

The Power of Fundamentalism
Krista speaks with three people-Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; a lawyer; a seminary president, and a journalist-who have experienced religious fundamentalism from the inside. What is the human appeal of fundamentalism, and how does it become dangerous? What might we learn from the fundamentalist impulse at this moment in time?

A Program for Passover and Easter
Through conversation and readings, we explore imaginative ways of approaching ancient texts and traditions to give them modern sense.

The Problem of Evil
Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as "evil." President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described "an axis of evil." But what does the word mean? It is a subject of enduring theological debate, even of scientific argument. It drives to the heart of the question: What does it mean to be human?

Reflections on the Death Penalty in America
With Sr. Helen Prejean, Rabbi Elie Spitz, and Debbie Morris, we ask religious questions about one of America's most controversial public policies of life and death. We explore the meaning of the biblical teaching to take "an eye for an eye" and the human impulses towards revenge, forgiveness, and justice.