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This is the weekly podcast of the National Council of Churches. Enjoy the best features and interviews from insightful guests from across the ecumenical and interfaith movement.

Part of the Faith & Fire Conversation Series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Chaos." Panelists: Rabbi David Saperstein...

Part of the Faith & Fire Conversation Series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Chaos." Panelists Dr. Loida Martell - VP o...

Part of the Faith & Fire Conversation Series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Chaos." Panelists: Derrick Lewis - Nationa...

Part of the Faith & Fire Conversation Series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Chaos." Panelists: Rev. Dr. Canon Kelly Br...

NCC's "Faith & Fire Conversations" series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Crisis" Panelists: • Rev. Dr. Dennis Edwards:...

Episode 3 of the Faith and Fire Conversations series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Crisis" Panelists Rev. Dr. Rob Sch...

Episode 2 of the Faith and Fire Conversations series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Crisis" Panelists Rev. Dr. John Do...

Episode 1 of the Faith and Fire Conversations series "Chaos or Community: Courageous Conversations During Crisis" Panelists Reuben Eckels -...

On Wednesday we celebrated Earth Day, a day that has been celebrated every year since 1970 on April 22nd. It's a day for raising awareness o...

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered nearly every aspect of life in the US and around the world. Every institution is affected, and the church...

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered nearly every aspect of life in the US and around the world. Every institution is affected, and the church...

As we ponder the horrors of the massacre of 49 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, we have to reckon with the fact that home-grown hatred...

Stop and think about it for a second: if you were to encourage churches to work together, wouldn't it make sense to be reading the same tran...

This week's podcast is an encore presentation of my interview with Dru Johnson, author of "Human Rites: the Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sa...

The quote goes like this: "The Death of Christianity within the United States has been a slow process, and it may very well be in its final...

How has your life been most changed, and where has God been most visible to you in that change? Social science suggests that relationships a...

Greetings from the 2019 government shutdown! As I record this podcast, we're in the middle of the longest government shutdown in history. Th...

Aside from going to church every Sunday, which I'm sure you do, and eagerly participating in the liturgy and ceremonies of worship, what are...

Tomorrow is election day! And many are saying that this is the most consequential election in modern history. Today we're once again hearing...

Over the past few weeks we have been holding webinars, with mixed success, designed to help us learn better ways of getting out the vote. Ou...

Awaken, confront, transform: that's what we're talking about when we say "ACT to End Racism." Awakening to racism means listening to the dif...

What's the most important thing you can do between now and November 6th? My guest today is LaKesha Womack, founder of the Womack Consulting...

Last weekend marked the first anniversary of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, that took the life of Heather Heyer along with two p...

When it became clear that the families crossing into the United States from Mexico were being separated as part of a "zero-tolerance" policy...

It's going to be a long time before we stop talking about the ACT to End Racism rally that took place in April, the launch of a multi-year i...

Quick: when you are out in the city or on an airplane and notice someone wearing a turban and a beard, what is your first thought? How much...

When justice-seeking is at the center of one's spirituality, community can sometimes be hard to find. That's why a group of people set out t...

In today's deeply divided society, it seems the church is not immune. Even as we in the National Council of Churches seek to find common gro...

In late July we heard from Phil Woodson, a pastor in Charlottesville, Virginia, who alerted us of a major action there on August 12. Today C...

As it seems to become more and more difficult to have discussions that cross party lines, the faith community has resources that could be mo...

As the war in Afghanistan continues into its 16th year, the United States continues down a course of continual warfare and blank-check fundi...

After hinting at it for weeks, President Trump this week announced his plan to do away with the program known as Deferred Action for Childho...

In recent months the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, has become a rallying point for groups on the farthest right reaches of American pol...

In July 2012, three protesters, an 84-year-old Catholic nun among them, broke into a secure facility in Oak Ridge, TN, where the United Stat...

The weather is warm and it's finally gardening season. Traveling through just about any community, you'll see community gardens springing up...

Many people think that the National Council of Churches is a top-down structure, but it's not. The ecumenical movement is just that: a MOVEM...

While the nation was focused on the firing of FBI Director James Comey, a few other major news items were swept under the rug. One of those...

Have you ever considered that riding a bicycle might not be just a good way to exercise and get around town, but it might also be a good spi...

During Ecumenical Advocacy Days, a delegation from the National Council of Churches in Korea came to visit the United States and meet with S...

April is almost over, but it's not too late to talk about Second Chance Month. Even a body as divided as the US Senate unanimously declared...

Here is the audio recording of the NCC's pre-gathering event, "A Time to Break Silence." Below is the workshop description: Christians gathe...

The power of the march has been clearly demonstrated over the past few months with huge marches gathering in Washington, DC and New York Cit...

In the days leading up to Holy Week, a chemical weapon attack against civilians has taken place in Syria, and the United States has attacked...

When we first started this podcast, we took a look at the problems that were occurring in Flint, Michigan, where the water has been unusable...

Since January, a rash of surprising and disturbing anti-Semitic incidents have taken place across the country, with Jewish centers being thr...

The world's various divisions seem to be growing and getting worse. Jesus once said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," and as people become mor...

As we wrap up our series on "the way forward," we will talk about a subject that touches nearly everyone in the nation: health care. How wil...

As we continue to consider the way forward, how will President-Elect Trump and Congress deal with issues of poverty? How will the churches c...

The Constitution guarantees religious liberty in this country. Over the past few years, the debate has intensified over what religious freed...

The response to 9-11 by the Bush Administration included harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, placing prisoners in tiny enc...