Multifaith Matters Podcast
1) Batja Mesqita and Emotions of Cultures
In this episode I have a conversation with Batja Mesquita who discusses her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. We unpack the ideas in her book and make application to religious and politic...Show More
2) The Ongoing Spiritual Journey of a None
The Nones, that large demographic of those who have given up on institutional religion, have been the focus of a lot of scholarship and discussion. In this episode we have a conversation with Stephen ...Show More
3) Alan Streett and his book Exploring the Paranormal: Miracles, Magic and the Mysterious
R. Alan Streett returns as our guest in this episode discussing his book Exploring the Paranormal: Miracles, Magic, and the Mysterious (Eerdmans, 2024). Streett is senior research professor emeritus o...Show More
4) Andrew DeCort on Blessed Are the Others
In this episode Andrew DeCort discusses his new book Blessed Are the Others: Jesus' Way in a Violent World (BitterSweet Collective). Andrew has been called a dissident theologian by his friends. His w...Show More
5) Reid Locklin and Fred Stella on Hindu Mission, Christian Mission
Reid B. Locklin is Associate Professor of Christianity and the Intellectual Tradition at the University of Toronto, a joint appointment with St Michael’s College and the Department for the Study of Re...Show More
6) Kelly James Clark on the Raging Fire of Love in the Abrahamic Religions
In this podcast Kelly James Clark discusses his book Raging Fire of Love, a book on Muslim, Christian and Jewish love, and shares what he learned about how love of neighbor and even enemy. He discusse...Show More
7) George Chryssides and Fieldwork in New Religious Movements
Christians tend to develop their understanding of other religions, especially new religious movements or "cults," by way of comparison of sacred texts with concerns for orthodoxy and heresy. But other...Show More
8) Erin Stiles on Mormon encounters with the spirit world
Erin Stiles is the author of The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah. As the back cover describes: "In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-d...Show More
9) David J. Halperin on UFOs and Myth
Much of the discussion of UFOs is focused around the two poles of extraterrestrial spaceships or skeptical debunking. In this podcast David J. Halperin provides another perspective, that of myth, to h...Show More
10) Rabbi Ariel Mellul of the International Raëlian Movement
Rabbi Leon Ariel Mellul of the International Raëlian Movement is the guest who discusses the group's origins in a meeting with extraterrestrials called the Elohim, their work in the creation of humani...Show More