Interfaith-ish

This week, we have a special interview with the filmmakers behind The Gate, the first major film about the early history of the Baha'i Faith.

Peabody Award-winners Steve Sarowitz and Bob Hercules discuss the interfaith origins of their collaboration, creating a film to appeal to people of any or no religion, and how they told their story without actually showing their main character on screen.

Watch 'The Gate': https://thegatefilm.com

About the Baha'i Faith: https://www.bahai.us/beliefs/origins/

Guests Jay Kansara, Director of Government Relations at the Hindu American Foundation, shares his take on the recent Indian elections; Anne LeVeque, a former Senior Warden for the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, reflects on witnessing the first Episcopal ordination of women priests; and we all discover how rich, sensory experiences are common to both traditions.

Learn more:

Hindu American Foundation https://www.hafsite.org

Episcopal Church of the Ascension http://www.ascensionsilverspring.org

Are you down with AOC or Laudato Si? Guests Joelle Novey and Avery Davis Lamb of Interfaith Power & Light DMV discuss why we can read both the Pope's encyclical and the Green New Deal as moral documents.

Plus, what stirs up "holy envy", who the Bible calls a "dirt person" (spoilers: everybody), and tools for opening a conversation about climate change in your faith community.

Learn more about IPLDMV: https://ipldmv.org

Read Laudato Si: https://laudatosi.com/

We cover A LOT of topics with Lutheran Pastor Karen Brau and Fazia Deen of Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center: serving homeless women in a changing DC neighborhood, growing up Muslim in Guyana, finding common ground with Evangelicals, feeding the hungry during Ramadan, and what it means to love boldly…

More info:

Luther Place Memorial Church https://lutherplace.org

N Street Village https://www.nstreetvillage.org

Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center https://hijrah.org

Hugging imams in public, lying to avoid bad desserts, and other awkward anecdotes...

This week, Jack welcomes Dr. Sabrina E. Dent of the Religious Freedom Center at the Freedom Forum Institute and Usra Ghazi of America Indivisible to talk about religious liberty and literacy, but also just as importantly, to laugh.

Learn more about:

Religious Freedom Center https://www.religiousfreedomcenter.org

America Indivisible https://www.americaindivisible.org

ISPU's American Muslim Poll https://www.ispu.org/american-muslim-poll-2019-predicting-and-preventing-islamophobia/

The "consolation and desolation" of Notre Dame, lost histories of Sephardic Jews in the Holocaust, and amazing foods to try during Passover.

Vanessa Badré, a parishioner at St Louis du France in DC, provides a unique insider perspective, not only as an art historian and a French Catholic, but also a leading advocate for Notre Dame's renovation campaign.

And Franz Afraim Katzir, founding director of SHIN-DC, talks about preserving Sephardic Jewish stories and traditions.

About:

La Paroisse St Louis de France https://www.saintlouisdefrance.us

Sephardic Heritage International DC http://shindc.org

Guest hosts Miranda and Sue explore Sue's new book The Interfaith Family Journal! Together they go through a couple of the journal's exercises for blended families, including sharing food traditions and navigating the politics of gift giving.

Plus our hosts discuss their favorite moments from the past year of our show and why comedy is essential in interfaith work.

Thanks to everyone who called and emailed to pledge your support during our Takoma Radio fundraising week!

You can contribute any time at http://www.takomaradio.org/donate

Learn more about The Interfaith Family Journal at http://www.susankatzmiller.com

Two religions, originating in Persia. One, ancient and steeped in ritual. The other, founded in the modern age. What are the connections and differences between them?

Jack speaks with Hormuzd Katki, a lay priest with the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington (ZAMWI), and Nickole Best, a program coordinator with the DC Baha'i Junior Youth Empowerment Program.

Plus, we discuss how each celebrates the start of spring with Nowruz / Naw Ruz, the new year of both Zoroastrians and Baha'is.

More info:

ZAMWI: https://zamwi.org

DC Baha'i community: https://www.dcbahai.org/

Watch Nickole Best perform: https://youtu.be/SDKTOJdUXXg

Support her album: http://kck.st/2Tci1zL

How is LGBTQ inclusion discussed in the Methodist and Sikh traditions? What work needs to be done in the broader interfaith community?

This week, Jack welcomes Rev. Rochelle Andrews (who is ordained AME and works at University UMC) and Ranjana Kaur Kohli (Sikh volunteer with Center Faith) to share their perspectives.

Center Faith: http://thedccenter.org/faith/

University UMC: http://uumcp.org

Recorded at the 2019 DMV Interfaith Leadership Summit at American University’s Kay Spiritual Life Center.

For our first-ever live show, Jack talks with Chase Kimball about being a Mormon in Libya; Nada Zohdy tells the story of a cab driver who wanted to convert her boss; Adrian Graham shares how a Christian/Pagan ended up in charge of synagogue membership; and Aesha Mehta gives us the 411 on where all the Millennial Hindus are hanging out.

Plus we play a trivia game called Comics or Religion; and Jeph.ilosopher performs a couple of songs.

Watch video from our live show: http://bit.ly/interfaithishAU

More info on the DMV Interfaith Leadership Summit: ifcmw.org/summit