Angela Rice of Interfaith Community Initiatives in Atlanta shares how she became involved with interfaith work and how she sees herself as an activist.

Angela Harrington Rice is the Executive Director of Interfaith Community Initiatives, a community organization with a travel program called World Pilgrims. She worked for 35 years with Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters. Ms. Rice holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Mass Communication/Media Studies from Clark College.

Lapidus & Myles, and interfaith musical duo, share three original compositions with Steve. The two met through the interfaith work of their congregations, Ebeneezer Baptist and The Temple in Atlanta. The duo writes and performs music aimed at addressing contemporary social issues and inspiring listeners

Rabbi Micah Lapidus and Melvin Myles compose and perform music together in Atlanta, GA and across the country. Rabbi Micah is the Director of Jewish and Hebrew Studies at the Alfred and Adele Davis Academy. Melvin is the executive director of the Selym Inc Foundation.

Steve travels to Atlanta and sits down with Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser, who shares how interfaith work is civil rights work, and how Shabat might be the most important Jewish holiday.

Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser has worked in congregations, at Jewish summer camps, and at Emory University’s Center for Israel Education. She is currently the part-time rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Fayetteville, GA. She also serves as the president of Interfaith Atlanta.

Sherry Frank joins Steve from Atlanta to discuss Jewish involvement in civil rights and women's push for equality. They cover her connection to Daddy King (Martin Luther King, Sr.) and Congressman John Lewis, how committee and organizational work helped her achieve public good, and her decision to have an adult bat mitzvah.

Sherry Frank has served on committees of United Way, the Atlanta Regional Commission, and the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta. In addition, she was on the National Boards of the National Council of Jewish Women and MAZON, A Jewish Response to Hunger.

Steve travels to Atlanta and meets with Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, a "foot soldier" in the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s--and involved now in climate crisis activism as an extension of his faith and civil rights work.

The Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley was a student leader in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He served in the U.S. Peace Corp in Nigeria before moving to Switzerland, where he earned a postgraduate degree and played basketball for a National Swiss team. He then went on to earn a Master of Divinity from Howard University and served for 25 years as pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church. He published his memoir, I am amazed!: reflections on an awe-inspired life, in 2014.

Joshua Meyer discusses Eight Approaches, an art work of 8 panels that evokes Hanukkah, and his technique of painting with palette knives.

Joshua Meyer is an artist based in Cambridge MA. Originally from Lubbock TX, he attended the Bezalel Academy of art and Design in Jerusalem and Yale University. His exhibit Eight Approaches has been featured at the BYU Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Hebrew College and the Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. Meyer has been recognized with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a CJP Arts and Culture Impact Award, The Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and twice with the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Painting Fellowship.

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Rabbi Creditor discusses the history of Hanukkah in America and the symbolism of the lighted candles.

Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at UJA-Federation New York and was the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. An acclaimed author, scholar, and speaker, he was named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. He has written numerous books and 6 albums of original music. He and his wife Neshama Carlebach live in New York, where they are raising their five children.

Bridge Creek Bells is directed by Scott Hixson and has a dozen members, including: Ferris Derbidge, Scott Rawley, Steven Stromberg, Erika Kennard, Brittany Erickson, Janeen Scott, Elizabeth Richey, MaryAnne Uribe, Emily Whitchurch, Daniel Gibby, and Julie Dacus.

Light the World is a campaign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that runs every Christmas season, inviting people to contribute to their communities, in ways that will change people's lives. This year's Light the World theme is Be Someone's. If you would like to find out more about Light the World, visit https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/light-the-world

Patrick Mason of Utah State and Melissa Dalton-Bradford of Their Story is Our Story share moments when angels stepped in to support them during moments of trauma and tragedy.

Light the World is a campaign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that runs every Christmas season, inviting people to contribute to their communities, in ways that will change people's lives. This year's Light the World theme is Be Someone's. If you would like to find out more about Light the World, visit https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/light-the-world