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The spiritual is celebrated in American culture and beyond.

A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature of fundamentalism, and the decline of America's mainline Protestant majority as Evangelical Christianity gains in influence.

American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent.

Americans are going broke in record numbers. In 2005 Congress overhauled the bankruptcy system to stem the tide of filings. What's behind the boom in going bust?

We'll take a fresh and thought-provoking look at Darwin's life and ideas.

The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world — beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West Bank city of Hebron.

We delve into the world and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days — ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany, offers us a model of personal morality and conscience in the most troubled and immoral of times.

The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction.

The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West.

Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning.

Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves.

Last month, conservative Christian leaders demanded that Richard Cizik be silenced or removed from his post.

Avivah Zornberg is one of the great, creative interpreters of Talmud and Torah in the contemporary world.

Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline.

Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye.

Jimmy Carter — former president and Nobel Laureate, author and global humanitarian — speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is striking even in today's political culture.

Theologian Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as "a call to our senses.

Shane Claiborne is an original voice, a creative spirit, in a gathering movement of young people known as the "new monastics."

Present-day relevance of 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, an influential, boundary-crossing voice in American public life.

Repossessing Economic Virtue is part of Speaking of Faith's ongoing series exploring the moral, spiritual, and practical aspects of the economic downturn. Host Krista Tippett and producers have been contacting familiar voices of wisdom and insight, and asking them a series of questions about the current economic climate.

An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even on old-time religion.

The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles.