In Good Faith

Kim Swain, Director of the Serve Refugees Sharehouse in Salt Lake City, on working with people of faiths different than your own. Shown here holding an embroidered milaya--a gift from the family of a refugee from South Sudan.To learn more about the Serve Refugees Sharehouse, visit http://www.serverefugees.org

Harry Kraemer, Jr. from the Kellogg School of Management, and former Chairman and CEO of Baxter International, talks about faith, life balance, and the importance of self-reflection, from his book, "Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life."

Harry Kraemer, Jr. from the Kellogg School of Management, and former Chairman and CEO of Baxter International, talks about faith, life balance, and the importance of self-reflection, from his book, "Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life."

Dr. Catherine Taylor has long enjoyed exploring the histories and lives of women in scripture texts, but she's also discovered a way to read between the lines and fill in some of the blanks in their stories, using the material culture of ancient & Medieval times--paintings, mosaics, tapestries, and everyday household objects. Together they give us an amazing larger view.

This week as we enter the Christmas season, we turn to Dr. Taylor's research on The Annunciation to Mary. I know you'll enjoy having your understanding expanded by this ardent disciple/scholar.

(originally aired December 1, 2019)

Dr. Catherine Gines Taylor

In spite of Covid-19, I was able to have an enlightening and responsibly-distanced interview in the back courtyard of the Beacon Hill Friends House, in Boston, MA, with Jennifer Higgins-Newman and Nils Klinkenberg, respectively the Program Manager and Executive Director, who are among the 20 or so residents in this community living venture.

You'll be surprised by the variety of spiritual thought and practice within Quakerism, also called The Society of Friends, and you'll be stirred--I believe--by Jen and Nils as they share some of the core beliefs that move them to stillness and move them to action.Originally aired Sunday, September 6, 2020.

(Photos / Top: Meeting Room at the Beacon Hill Friends House, Bottom: Jennifer Higgins-Newman and Nils Klinkenberg)

 

 

Jennifer Higgins-Newman, Program Manager

 

 

Nils Klinkenberg, Executive Director

 

Jennifer and Nils during our interview in the rear courtyard of the Beacon Hill Friends House

 

Plaque and flags at the front entrance of the Beacon Hill Friends House

 

Rear Courtyard of the Beacon Hill Friends House

 

Tables set up for the interview at the rear of the Courtyard.

British-born Geraldine Buckley is known nationally and even internationally as a professional storyteller who is quite open about her faith in her stories, including her tales of being the Chaplain in the largest men's prison in Maryland.

In this interview she talks about how the Lord can make his desires become our own, how she's kept track of the ways God has come through on his promises, and about her own Damascus Road experience.

First aired Sunday, September 15, 2019

(Pictured, Geraldine Buckley performing in Studio 6 at BYU Radio) See her poem for the prisoners below.

Geraldine Buckley, Storyteller

Do Not Think

by Geraldine Buckley

Do not think I have forgotten you, though you dwell in this desolate place

Though cold and gloom encircle you and despair has pushed out grace

The plans I have for you hold true, though all around has changed.

Though your hopes and dreams are smashed, destroyed, your future rearranged.

For there is destiny upon your life, I have not changed my mind.

Your name is scribed upon my palm. You will not be left behind.

My training grounds are mine to choose, this one's austere, no light.

but from this stark, dank valley you'll arise to fight my fight.

I have called you to the nations, my plans are still in place

This darkness will turn into dawn. Let me hold you. Seek my face.

From her first experience of healing through prayer at age 12, Michelle Nanouche has felt called to help others heal, emotionally and spiritually as well as physically; first as a Christian Science nurse, then as a lecturer and teacher on the Christian Science Board.

She talks about forgiveness and releasing anger, how she came to see herself as God sees her, and how the Lord's Prayer can be a model for our own prayers.

(First aired Sunday, November 3, 2019)

 Michelle Nanouche, CSB

Rev. Sage Cole, from Swedenborg Chapel in Cambridge, MA, talks about her conversion experience and walking in trust through the doors God opens, about the fascinating mystical experiences of Emanuel Swedenborg, and celebrates the most famous Swedenborgian of all--Helen Keller!

Pastor Oscar T. Moses, from Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City, shares his background as a police officer in Chicago, what it means to receive a call to ministry, and perspectives on race and faith in the time of Black Lives Matter.(Originally aired July 26, 2020.)(p/c Rick Bowmer)

New York Times no. 1 best-selling author Reza Aslan, a Sufi Muslim, talks about his journey of faith to Christianity and back again, and how we tend to create God in our own image instead of the other way around. I think any believer will enjoy this discussion with an author who has done a lot of thinking and research world-wide on the subject of faith in God.

Is faith different from religion? And are we hard-wired to believe?

(We're grateful to Lindsay Hansen Park and the Sunstone Foundation for allowing this interview with Reza Aslan while he was in town as their featured speaker at the 2019 Sunstone Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Thanks also to the Smith-Petit Foundation for a grant which sponsored his opening address for the conference. Click here to find Sunstone online.

Click Here for a link to audio of Reza's address "God: a Human History" at the Sunstone Conference.)

Dr. Reza Aslan