MPR News Women of Faith

As women's voices in faith communities become louder, MPR News with Kerri Miller is speaking with women who are energized by some of our most urgent policy, spiritual and philosophical questions.

Women of Faith: Searching for God

Anjali Kumar met with witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, and a faith healer in Brazil, in a quest to find her spiritual home. What she found wasn't what she sought.

07-09
39:43

Women of Faith: Suhag Shukla on reclaiming one's religion

One Hindu-American is striving to correct her faith's misrepresentation.

07-02
20:34

Women of Faith: Millennial Christians say loving God means protecting creation

Evangelicals have long focused more on saving souls than on saving God's creation. But some younger believers want to flip the script. Kerri Miller spoke with two environmental activists who are motivated by their faith to do something about climate change.

06-24
46:55

Women of Faith: Putting relationships over politics

The women behind the podcast Pantsuit Politics say their faith compels them to stay in relationships, even with people with whom they disagree politically. It's the latest discussion in our Women of Faith series.

06-19
42:38

Women of Faith: The #ChurchToo movement shines a light on sex abuse in evangelicalism

The largest Protestant denomination in the United States grapples with its own clergy sexual abuse scandal.

06-12
40:02

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on real repentance

In our culture, stubborn denials, glib apologies and quick comebacks often overwhelm any practice of repentance. The Judaic practice of teshuvah shows us a better way.

06-04
47:36

Women of Faith: Emmy Kegler on being a queer Christian

How LGBTQ Christians can find a home, even in a church that often wounds.

05-28
48:12

Women of Faith: Misha Euceph on the many facets of being Muslim in America

The creator of the new podcast "Tell Them, I Am" talks about making space for Muslims to define themselves.

05-21
49:00

Women of Faith: Jenan Mohajir on how Islam motivates her interfaith work

What does it mean to be an empowered Muslim woman today?

04-22
48:13

Women of Faith: Female atheists embrace skepticism

Only 3 percent of the population identifies as atheist -- and even that small slice is mostly white and male. What does it mean to be a woman and an atheist?

04-10
39:24

Women of faith: Sister Simone Campbell on #NunsToo and the Catholic Church

As women's voices in faith communities become more integral and more influential, we are opening a new series of conversations titled "Women of Faith." Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun and founder of the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, joined MPR News host Kerri Miller.

04-02
48:18

Women of faith: Nadia Bolz-Weber on the church, shame and sex

Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber describes why she thinks the Christian faith is overdue for a sexual reformation.

03-27
47:47

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