Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. Father Ismael Moreno Coto – the Jesuit priest everyone calls Padre Melo – is a spiritual leader, the director of a radio station and one of the most respected political analysts in Central America. In his native […]
MAY 8, 2017—About 20% of American Muslims are converts — people who didn’t grow up with the religion and often don’t have any cultural ties. In some faiths, there’s a clear path for prospective converts. Catholicism, for example, has an official course of rites, rituals, and classes for those entering the Church. Islam doesn’t have […]
Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Maria Martin “It’s very important that you understand that each time I speak out, it’s not about an American nun who was tortured…It is about every mother whose son or daughter is disappeared.” Since she was […]
Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Becoming Muslim: AARON + RAUL Natasha Haverty for The Spiritual Edge Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Natasha Haverty “We’re completely used to breaking our fast alone, like this is something that’s not foreign to a […]
Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Hana Baba “I say, ‘I can’t bomb on stage cuz I’m one bad joke from Guantanamo.’” Sofie Lovern says Islam was probably the last religion she would have ever seen herself converting to. She says she […]
A week from now Muslims all around the world will begin observing the holy month of Ramadan. We thought this was a good time to share our one-hour documentary version of Becoming Muslim with you. You could say it’s our latest season in distilled form. We tell the stories of some unlikely converts to Islam […]
Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Hana Baba “I say, ‘I can’t bomb on stage cuz I’m one bad joke from Guantanamo.’” Sofie Lovern says Islam was probably the last religion she would have ever seen herself converting to. She says she […]
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The Spiritual Edge podcast seeks a part-time Digital Content Manager. The Spiritual Edge is a production of KALW Public Radio and we produce long-form, sound rich stories that explore the shifting landscape of religion and spirituality. Our website is www.spiritualedge.org. We just released our first podcast season, Sacred Steps, stories about people who lean on […]
When the phone rang, I heard an elderly woman’s voice on the other end: “We’re going to Washington DC to be arrested. Want to join us?” The call came from Sister Joann Persch and Sister Pat Murphy, two elderly Catholic nuns ages 85 and 90, who are famously engaged with the country’s immigration debate, and […]
Religion and culture are often intertwined. For converts to Islam, that can lead to isolation. Read More The sensual, enigmatic language of the Zohar is brought to life in a new translation. Read More For inmate Gary Shepherd, a new kind of spiritual wisdom emerged once he started to study evolution. It’s made him what […]
Season 1 of The Spiritual Edge begins with our new series, Sacred Steps: profiles of people rooted in a personal faith, and activated to look out for the wellbeing of others. Listen to the promo and make sure to subscribe on all your favorite podcast platforms. Season 1 starts fresh on May 23, 2021.
Al and Andi Tauber met in the 1980s, when they were students at Illinois Wesleyan University. After trying different denominations, they settled on the urban Mennonite Church, and for the past 20 years they’ve worked with male sex workers in Chicago. Photo Credit: Jules Wecker The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century was never really […]
A Palestinian man changes how he resists
Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. In the Palestinian town of Jericho, customers cycled in and out of Sameer’s cell phone shop to buy new SIM cards. Sameer sat behind a desk, clicking through Youtube for music from his teenage years. He sang […]