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Joni Eareckson Tada Breast Cancer Update, Mass Incarceration
Season 16
Episode 40
We revisit our 2012 interview with popular Christian evangelical author and speaker Joni Eareckson Tada about the role of faith in her battle with breast cancer; look back at our report on mass incarcerations in the U.S. and the challenges facing prison ministries; and reprise a recent story on the origin and meaning of whirling dervishes in Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam.
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Bivocational ministers work two jobs; Franciscans of the Holy Land; Blind Boys of Alabama
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Religious employers challenge Obamacare; "The Story of the Jews"; Women leading on Purim.
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Faith groups gather against gun violence; Dorothy Day; Sikh children learn to tie turbans.
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Journey of the Real Philomena; Solitary Confinement; Ash Wednesday
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Detroit Bankruptcy and Worker Pensions; Secular Ethics; Racial Reconciliation
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Edward Snowden and the ethics of whistle-blowing; and Christians in Jordan
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Rev. Tom Reese on UN criticism of Vatican; coping with grief; India's sacred cows
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Sisters of Loretto oppose gas pipeline; an American apparel maker pays his workers fairly.
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Faith-based groups aid Syrian refugees; ethics of refusing to vaccinate children
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Ministering to the poor in Camden; New Jersey; working to end poverty in the Philippines
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Prayer and recovery in the Philippines; a Jewish celebration of trees; Jews and humor