Caroline Yongue (in orange cap) talks with colleagues as they use GIS to map the location of graves throughout the Sanctuary. Photo Credit: Jess Engebretson In the latest installment of Sacred Action from KALW’s The Spiritual Edge, we meet a Buddhist lay minister who runs a small green burial cemetery in Western North Carolina. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dean Issacharoff was called a liar after he began speaking out about violence he had committed while serving as an Israeli soldier in the occupied Palestinian territories. Photo credit: Shaina Shealy https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6ov0v2c46m8i27r/WEB_Show_020520_USE.mp3 In a new series from The Spiritual Edge, we hear from a former Israeli soldier who questions violence towards Palestinians, and what it […]
AUG. 7, 2014—Across the country, surveys show a sharp rise in a category of people dubbed the “nones” by social scientists. Who are the nones? They check “none” when asked to identify a religious affiliation. The surveys indicate that many of the “nones” were born into a religion, even though now they don’t identify with […]
AUG. 18, 2014–These days a lot of people prefer the word “spirituality” over “religion”. Many people associate religion with dogma handed down by inflexible institutions that don’t keep up with the times. But David Campbell, professor of political science at Notre Dame University, is less condemning of religion and its place in American culture. He […]
Samuel Martinez. Photography by Tom Levy https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/nfudedbdtcp1tj1/WEB.SweatLodge.L.mp3 SEPT. 10, 2014–It’s intense in a sweat lodge. You enter a round structure, about five feet high at the center, and sit down on an earthen floor. The flap of heavy blankets closes and you’re left in utter darkness. Moments later, the leader pours water over hot, volcanic […]
The Spiritual Edge is a multi-media project from KALW Public Radio, San Francisco, that is exploring the shifting, dynamic nature of the American religious landscape. We seek the hot spots where change is occurring, including among immigrant groups, Christian communities, at the intersection between spirituality, religion and health, and in a growing DIY spiritual culture. […]
For most of her life, Neets’aii Gwich’in leader Sarah James has worked to protect her homelands, including the coastal plain of the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The United States government wants to lease some of the area for oil exploration and drilling. To the region’s longtime inhabitants, those plans threaten land they call […]
For most of her life, Neets’aii Gwich’in leader Sarah James has worked to protect her homelands, including the coastal plain of the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The United States government wants to lease some of the area for oil exploration and drilling. To the region’s longtime inhabitants, those plans threaten land they call […]
For most of her life, Neets’aii Gwich’in leader Sarah James has worked to protect her homelands, including the coastal plain of the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The United States government wants to lease some of the area for oil exploration and drilling. To the region’s longtime inhabitants, those plans threaten land they call […]
“[Religion] has occasionally provided a sense of community or been mildly frustrating.” “I respect others’ beliefs, but don’t feel any need for any ‘supernatural’ explanation for myself.” “I don’t love the term spiritual, but I do believe in something bigger than ourselves.” “I’m fascinated with other people’s religions and glad I’m not part of any […]
Judy Silber is the Lead Producer for The Spiritual Edge. After graduating from the science journalism program at Boston University, Judy got her professional start in journalism as a community reporter at the Orange County bureau of the Los Angeles Times. There, she learned the importance of local politics on land use issues. From Los […]
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In the latest installment of SACRED STEPS from KALW’s The Spiritual Edge, we’ll meet two Catholic nuns who, after decades of work with immigrant detainees, aren’t slowing down. Sisters JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy say their age — one is in her 80s, the other in her 90s — is irrelevant when […]