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Explore both traditional religions and what it means to be spiritual in a rapidly changing and diversifying religious world.

Episode Date
Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action
Jun 02, 2026
Climate Faith and Collective Responsibility with Bill McKibben
May 23, 2026
Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment
Jan 28, 2026
Addressing Antisemitism Islamophobia and Religious Intolerance
Dec 13, 2025
Righting Wrong When Sorry Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations with Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Aug 30, 2025
Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba
Jul 26, 2025
Rain of Ash: Roma Jews and the Holocaust
Jun 28, 2025
Addressing Antisemitism on Campus: Lessons from History Challenges for Today
Apr 04, 2025
Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism
Mar 03, 2025
Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral
Feb 03, 2025
Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred with Philip Gorski
Sep 10, 2024
Walter Capps and the Study of Religion (Part 2)
Jul 15, 2024
Walter Capps and the Study of Religion (Part 1)
Jul 10, 2024
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
Jul 03, 2024
Healing a Divided America with E.J. Dionne
Jun 21, 2024
Walter Capps and the Value of the Humanities
Jun 19, 2024
German Big Business and the Holocaust
Jul 10, 2023
Finding the Common Good with Michael Sandel
Apr 13, 2023
An Evening with Cornel West - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2022
Apr 01, 2022
Ministering to the LGBTQ Community: A Personal Journey with James Martin - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
Mar 23, 2022
Poverty God Politics - What this Experience Taught Me with David Beckmann
Jul 04, 2021
Bread for the World
Jun 27, 2021
The Catholic Politics of Poverty
Jun 21, 2021
The Politics of Global Poverty
Jun 13, 2021
Legislative Advocacy and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Jun 06, 2021
Organizations of Low-Income People 
May 30, 2021
Evangelicals and the Politics of Poverty
May 23, 2021
Using Digital Technology to Elevate Disenfranchised Voices
May 16, 2021
How Churchgoers Shape American Politics with Henry Brady
May 09, 2021
Latino Evangelical Advocacy on Poverty-Related Issues
May 02, 2021
How the Black Church Built Electoral Power
Apr 24, 2021
Lessons from the Biden-Harris Campaign
Apr 18, 2021
CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Tom Csordas - Imagination and Embodiment in Practices of Sacred Sonorous Being
Apr 15, 2021
Poverty God Politics: Getting Started
Apr 11, 2021
CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Ann Taves -Altered States in Human Rituals
Apr 11, 2021
The Talmud as Icon
Aug 26, 2020
Translating the Bible
Apr 15, 2020
The Bishop and the Imam: A Conversation on Immigration - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
Dec 10, 2019
A Path Forward: Breaking Down Barriers and Building Connections with Youth - Global Empowerment Summit 2019
Nov 14, 2019
An Evening with Christian Wiman - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2019
Apr 05, 2019
What is a Woman? What is a Man? Exploring The Buddhist Sources - Jose Cabezon - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
Mar 05, 2019
May We Make the World?: Religious and Ethical Questions with Dr. Laurie Zoloth - Burke Lectureship
Dec 11, 2018
My First Rosh Hashanah Since Leaving Orthodox Jewish Faith
Oct 09, 2018
If Kinship Were the Goal of Society
Sep 11, 2018
Biblical Women and Gender Constructions: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on Women in the Bible
Jun 26, 2018
Building Beloved Community: ReConnecting Church and Community in the Midst of Radicalized Chaos - Traci Blackmon - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
May 23, 2018
Spirituality and Healthy Aging - Research on Aging
Apr 12, 2018
In Conversation With Reza Aslan and Tim Kring
Apr 09, 2018
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship with Father Gregory Boyle - Burke Lectureship
Jan 09, 2018
Learning from Dying: Buddhist Understandings of Consciousness and Death - A Conversation with Robert Thurman
Dec 11, 2017
An Afternoon with Tova Mirvis
Dec 11, 2017
Making Room for the Stranger: Refugee Realities at Home and Abroad - David Murphy - Burke Lectureship
Jun 05, 2017
The Media's Biased Portrayal of American Muslims
May 15, 2017
A Canary in the Coal Mine: Muslims in Trump’s America
May 08, 2017
The Genius of Judaism
Apr 10, 2017
Jonathan Gribetz Defining Neighbors: The Arab-Zionist Encounter on the Eve of Balfour
Feb 20, 2017
Politics and Religion in a Changing America
Jan 13, 2017
Sky of Red Poppies with Zohreh Ghahremani -- One Book One San Diego Author Talk -- Library Channel
Dec 19, 2016
Journey of the Universe: A Story of Our Times with Mary Evelyn Tucker - Burke Lectureship
Dec 06, 2016
Ending the Cycle of Violence in Northern Iraq: The Role Ahead for Christians with Archbishop Bashar Warda -- Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Distinguished Lecture Series
Nov 28, 2016
Who Are the Jews? with Rabbi Donniel Hartman
Oct 17, 2016
The Future of Catholicism -- Up Next: Perspectives on the Future of Everything
Oct 14, 2016
The Search for Cracks in the City of Stone: An Anatomy of the Struggles for Pluralism in Modern Jerusalem
Jun 13, 2016
Islam and Religious Pluralism featuring John Esposito
Jun 07, 2016
Jewish Journeys: A Conversation with Michael Douglas and Natan Sharansky
Jun 06, 2016
In Pursuit of the Common Good: A New Alliance between Science Religion and Policy with Veerabhadran (Ram) Ramanathan -- Degrees of Health and Well-Being
May 09, 2016
Yoram Peri: The Second Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Cultural War in Israel
Feb 01, 2016
Immortality - An Egyptian Dream
Dec 21, 2015
Post-Racial Blues: Religion and the 21st Century Color Line with J. Kameron Carter - Burke Lectureship
Dec 15, 2015
The Future of Being Dead - Up Next: Perspectives on the Future of Everything
Dec 14, 2015
From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change with Jan Assmann - Conversations with History
Dec 07, 2015
Israel and America: Two Zions?
Sep 25, 2015
M. Hakan Yavuz - Zones of Islam: An Interpretative Framework from Extremism to Turkey's Gülen Movement - Burke Lectureship
Jun 02, 2015
David: The Divided Heart
Mar 23, 2015
Richard Gaillardetz - Vatican II: An Unfinished Building Site - Burke Lectureship
Jan 05, 2015
Constantine Eusebius and the Future of Christianity
Jul 18, 2014
Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock - Holocaust Living History -- The Library Channel
Jun 17, 2014
Stephen Prothero: God Is Not One
May 12, 2014
Religion and Peacebuilding: The Necessary Art of Specialization with Scott Appleby
Apr 04, 2014
The Quest for Heaven is Local: How Spiritual Experience is Shaped by Social Life
Feb 24, 2014
Enemy to Brother: Jews Catholics and Vatican II
Dec 09, 2013
Hammering the Devil with Prayer: The Contemporary Resurgence of Exorcism in the Catholic Church
Aug 26, 2013
From Text to Interpretation: How the Bible Came to Mean Some of the Strange Things It Means with James Kugel - Burke Lecture
Jun 18, 2013
The Future of Judaism with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Feb 25, 2013
A Passion for Waiting: Messianism History and the Jews with Leon Wieseltier
Jan 07, 2013
The Evolution of Religion Society and Consciousness: Reflections Inspired by Teilhard de Chardin with Ursula King - Burke Lecture
Jan 01, 2013
American Catholics in the Twenty-First Century
Jul 16, 2012
Sharing Jerusalem's Holy Places
Jul 09, 2012
Progressive Religion
Jun 11, 2012
Death and the Ancient Philosophers with Jonathan Barnes
Jun 04, 2012
The Global Impact of Climate Change: Balance Through Responsibility Compassion and Human Consciousness with His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Full Version)
Jun 01, 2012
Cultivating Peace and Justice with the Dalai Lama
May 21, 2012
Exploring Ethics: Is Henrietta Lacks Really Immortal?
May 07, 2012
To Be Human: Desire Temptation and Spiritual Struggle: Historical Christian Perspectives on Being Human
Apr 16, 2012
To Be Human: In His Image and Likeness: Being Human in Ancient Israel with William H.C. Propp
Mar 19, 2012
Jerusalem with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Mar 12, 2012
World Christianity with Peter C. Phan (Burke Lecture)
Dec 05, 2011
The Rebbe and The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism
Nov 21, 2011
The Atlantic Meets the Pacific: War of the Worldviews: Exploring Science vs. Spirituality with Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow
Nov 21, 2011
His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama at UC Irvine
Sep 26, 2011
Kamza and Bar Kamza
Aug 09, 2011
Religion and Law with John Witte - Conversations with History
Aug 08, 2011
Sharia in the West? Religious Legal Systems in American and Other Democracies with John Witte Jr.
Jul 25, 2011
Burke Lecture: Francisco J. Ayala: Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion
Jun 06, 2011
The Subtle Art of Dharma with Gurcharan Das (Conversations with History)
Feb 07, 2011
Religion Globalization and the Public Sphere
Jan 17, 2011
An Afternoon with John Polkinghorne
Dec 20, 2010
Islam Identity and Globalization with Tariq Ramadan (Conversations with History)
Dec 06, 2010
Ian Buruma: The Muslim Scare in Europe - Hysteria or Threat?
Oct 04, 2010
An Evening with Karen Armstrong: Religion and Secularism
Aug 09, 2010
Sacred Attunement: Judaism and the Cultivation of Mindfulness in the Everyday
Jul 19, 2010
Burke Lecture: An Ecological Inquiry - Jesus and the Cosmos with Elizabeth Johnson
Jul 06, 2010
From Salvation to Spirituality - Conversations with History
Jun 14, 2010
From Salvation to Spirituality: Contemporary Transformation of Religion Viewed from East Asia with Susumo Shimazono
Jun 07, 2010
Being the Hands of God: Jewish Perspectives on America’s Social Justice Agenda
May 31, 2010
How America Can Bring Arabs and Israelis Together Towards Peace and Coexistence
Apr 12, 2010
The Diaspora and Israel (Conversations with History)
Feb 01, 2010
Explaining Transformation: Material Miracles and Their Theorists in the Later Middle Ages with Carole Walker Bynum
Feb 01, 2010
Osher UCSD: Jane Via 2009 Three Years as a Woman Priest
Dec 07, 2009
U.S. Policy Toward Iran: Problems and Prospects (Conversations with History)
Nov 09, 2009
Who Are the Real Chosen People? The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism Christianity and Islam
Nov 09, 2009
Why the Dalai Lama Matters
Nov 02, 2009
Confronting Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
Nov 02, 2009
Evolution for Everyone
Oct 26, 2009
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama: Ethics for Our Time
Sep 21, 2009
Why Our Politics Cannot Be Freed from Religion: The State as Transformed Church
Aug 17, 2009
Spirituality and Culture
Jul 13, 2009
Everything Must Change: Rediscovering Christian Faith as a Spiritual-Social Movement
Jul 06, 2009
'All Israel will be Saved': Paul and Augustine on the Redemption of the Jews
Jun 01, 2009
Michael Shermer: Why Darwin Matters
May 11, 2009
An Evening with Brian McLaren - 2009
May 04, 2009
The Buddha as a Businessman: Economics and Law in an Old Indian Religion
May 04, 2009
Islam in the West with Jocelyn Cesari (Conversations with History)
Feb 16, 2009
Thinking About Religion Secularism and Politics - Conversations with History
Dec 08, 2008
Thinking about Religion Belief and Politics with Talal Asad
Dec 08, 2008
Moral Decision Making: The U.S. Congress and the Policy of Sexual Ethics
Nov 17, 2008
Faith Informing Politics: Pitfalls and Promise
Oct 06, 2008
God’s Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering with Bart Ehrman
Sep 08, 2008
Exploring the Contributions of Walter Capps to the Study of Religion: Vietnam War; Congress
Aug 11, 2008
Exploring the Contributions of Walter Capps to the Study of Religion: Religious Studies; International Politics
Aug 04, 2008
Biblical Insights into the Problem of Suffering - Conversations with History
Jul 28, 2008
Khaled Abou El Fadl: Islamic Law and the Challenge of Islamophobia
Jul 01, 2008
Lewis Lancaster: Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology
Jun 03, 2008
Abraham's Quest: The Common Link Between Judaism Christianity And Islam in the Journey Towards Peace
Jun 02, 2008
Sensory Experiences in Mystical Traditions
May 12, 2008
The Gospel of Cesar Chavez: My Faith in Action
May 05, 2008
An Evening with Philip Yancey - 2008
Apr 28, 2008
American Empire and the War Against Evil
Apr 22, 2008
Synaesthesia in Mystical Traditions: The Key to Understanding Language Metaphor and Abstract Thought
Mar 20, 2008
Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and Mine
Mar 10, 2008
Deborah Hertz: How Jews Became Germans
Feb 26, 2008
Gershom Gorenberg: The Struggle for the Temple Mount
Feb 04, 2008
Inside Muslim Militancy (Conversations with History)
Nov 12, 2007
The Jewish Century with Yuri Slezkine - Conversations with History
Oct 01, 2007
From Holy Land to Holy Land: In Search of the Lost Wax Method
Aug 29, 2007
Palestine and Israel: A Search for Common Ground
Aug 13, 2007
Religion in American Politics: Too Much or Too Little?
Aug 06, 2007
America Europe and the Islamic World with Mark Steyn (Conversations with History)
May 28, 2007
Is Christianity a Western Religion? A View from Asian Catholicism
May 07, 2007
Osher UCSD: Becoming A Woman Roman Catholic Priest with Jane Via
May 07, 2007
A Conversation with Eugene Peterson - 2007
Apr 16, 2007
Globalization and Islam with Olivier Roy (Conversations with History)
Apr 09, 2007
Burke Lecture: Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Apr 03, 2007
Robert Alter: The Bible Through Literary Eyes
Mar 26, 2007
The Body Politic: The Middle East
Feb 12, 2007
Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition by Martha Nussbaum
Feb 05, 2007
Frontiers: Muslim Studies; Airport Security
Jan 15, 2007
Rabbi Michael Lerner: Taking Back Our Country From the Religious Right
Jan 09, 2007
Rabbi Daniel Gordis: Coming Together Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel
Dec 11, 2006
Convocation on Intelligent Design Creationism with Robert Pennock
Dec 11, 2006
Shirin Ebadi: Iran Awakening: Human Rights Women and Islam
Oct 02, 2006
Islam and Democracy with Akbar Ganji (Conversations with History)
Oct 02, 2006
Marriage Debates: Religion and Education
Sep 04, 2006
Kevin Phillips on Religion Oil and Debt - Revelle Forum
Jun 12, 2006
Peter Steinfels: The Secular the Religious and the Demands of Citizenship
Jun 12, 2006
The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism with Robert A. Pape (Conversations with History)
Apr 24, 2006
CNS News March 10 2006
Apr 03, 2006
A Conversation with Nancey Murphy and Jeffrey Schloss
Mar 27, 2006
Gen-Xers: Changing American Religion
Mar 20, 2006
Reza Aslan in Conversation with Jack Miles
Mar 13, 2006
New Perspectives on Ecology Cognitive Science and Religion
Mar 06, 2006
Jon D. Levenson: The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism Christianity and Islam
Mar 06, 2006
Gary Hart: Point Loma Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2006
Mar 06, 2006
A Dialogue on Biology Morality and Theology: Nancey Murphy and Jeffrey Schloss
Feb 13, 2006
The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy with Juan Cole (Conversations with History)
Jan 23, 2006
Yossi Klein Halevi: Dismantling the Settlements- Road Map to Peace?
Jan 09, 2006
Mario Garcia and Father Virgil Cordano: Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Father Virgil Cordano
Dec 20, 2005
Jonathan D. Sarna: The Future of American Judaism
Sep 05, 2005
Rethinking Anti-Semitism: The Holocaust and the Contemporary World
Aug 29, 2005
Democracy and Global Islam: Globalization and Its Impact on Muslim Practices
Aug 01, 2005
Martin E. Marty: Mapping American Spiritualities
Jul 18, 2005
Burke Lecture: You Can't Get Here From There: The Logical Paradox of Creation Myths with Wendy Doniger
Jun 13, 2005
The Rise of al Qaeda with Steve Coll (Conversations with History)
May 02, 2005
Narrative Conventions in Myth: The Cave of the Magic Ring
Apr 18, 2005
An Evening with Jim and Joy Carroll Wallis: Writer's Symposium By The Sea - 2005
Apr 04, 2005
An Interview with Diana L. Eck
Apr 04, 2005
On Common Ground: A New Look at America’s Religious Diversity
Mar 07, 2005
Islam and the State with Vali Nasr (Conversations with History)
Feb 14, 2005
Burke Lecture: John Shelby Spong
Jan 10, 2005
James Rudin and Akbar Ahmed: Judaism and Islam A Conversation
Nov 08, 2004