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First Rule of Racism, Don't Talk About Racism

Secular Left - June 18, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes
In this episode Doug goes into excruciating detail about two proposed Ohio laws that would prohibit the teaching or even acknowledgement of racism and sexism because it makes the people who've benefited from both very sad. Next Doug tells the story about the latest fight over abortion happening ...

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The Future of Religion: Josh Packard on Gen Z

Interfaith Encounters - June 15, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes
Dr. Josh Packard, Executive Director of Springtide Research Institute, is an accomplished researcher with an expertise in the sociology of religion and new forms of religious expression. A talented speaker and writer, with over 10 years of teaching experience, Josh has been a guest on numerous r...

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A Memorial Day Rant

Secular Left - June 02, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes
In this episode Doug goes on a rant about Memorial Day because it is used by people who have no clue about American values. Then Doug wonders how long can you be in business if you make fun of the Holocaust. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter 00:32 A Memorial Day Rant 18:23 The Holoca...

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The Bible, Christians, and Migrants with Dr. Danny Carroll R.

Interfaith Encounters - June 01, 2021 05:00 - 16 minutes
Dr. Carroll is half-Guatemalan and was raised bilingual and bicultural. In his youth, he spent many summers in Guatemala and later taught at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala City for thirteen years. The realities of Central America sparked Dr. Carroll's fascination with the Ol...

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Migration: The Bible, Christians, and Migrants with Dr. Danny Carroll R.

Interfaith Encounters - June 01, 2021 05:00 - 16 minutes
Dr. Carroll is half-Guatemalan and was raised bilingual and bicultural. In his youth, he spent many summers in Guatemala and later taught at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala City for thirteen years. The realities of Central America sparked Dr. Carroll's fascination with the Ol...

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Vedanta, Greeting the God with an Immigrant Face with Subrateem Ghosh

Interfaith Encounters - May 25, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutes
Suprateem Ghosh is an IT Auditor by profession and a musician by heart along with a spiritual seeker who has been involved in few interfaith conversations in Dallas. He was raised in India where he completed his education and was exposed to multiple faiths and believes. His introduction to Advai...

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Migration: Vedanta, Greeting the God with an Immigrant Face with Subrateem Ghosh

Interfaith Encounters - May 25, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutes
Suprateem Ghosh is an IT Auditor by profession and a musician by heart along with a spiritual seeker who has been involved in few interfaith conversations in Dallas. He was raised in India where he completed his education and was exposed to multiple faiths and believes. His introduction to Advai...

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Migration: Islamic Views of Migration, an Ismaili Perspective with Dr. Zahra Jamal

Interfaith Encounters - May 18, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes
Zahra N. Jamal is Associate Director at Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, and a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Consultant. An award-winning former faculty member at Harvard and MIT, Dr. Jamal was founding director of the Civil Islam Initiative at University of Chicago, fo...

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Islamic Views of Migration, an Ismaili Perspective with Dr. Zahra Jamal

Interfaith Encounters - May 18, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes
Zahra N. Jamal is Associate Director at Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, and a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Consultant. An award-winning former faculty member at Harvard and MIT, Dr. Jamal was founding director of the Civil Islam Initiative at University of Chicago, fo...

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Critical Race Theory Is Coming To Get Your Children

Secular Left - May 12, 2021 15:00 - 38 minutes
Just when you thought it was safe to ignore public health orders and send your children back to school, Doug looks at a new scary concept coming for your children. It is falsely labeled Critical Race Theory and it is sending white racist soccer moms screeching into school board meetings across t...

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UMCOR and Immigrants and Migration with Rev. Jack Amick

Interfaith Encounters - May 11, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes
Rev. Jack Amick, Director of Global Migration, United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).  He directs UMCOR’s Global Migration portfolio and represents the global migration work of the General Board of Global Ministries.  In his coordination of Global Migration work, Amick serves on the Unite...

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Migration: UMCOR and Immigrants and Migration with Rev. Jack Amick

Interfaith Encounters - May 11, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes
Rev. Jack Amick, Director of Global Migration, United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).  He directs UMCOR’s Global Migration portfolio and represents the global migration work of the General Board of Global Ministries.  In his coordination of Global Migration work, Amick serves on the Unite...

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The Sikh Response to Migrants and Migration with Manpreet Kaur Singh

Interfaith Encounters - May 04, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes
A Houston native dedicated to the causes of diversity and women’s empowerment, Manpreet K. Singh is a supervising attorney that has tried over 50 cases.  Currently a Chapter representative for the American Board of Trial Attorneys, she also is serving as a director and trustee with the Sikh Coal...

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Migration: The Sikh Response to Migrants and Migration with Manpreet Kaur Singh

Interfaith Encounters - May 04, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes
A Houston native dedicated to the causes of diversity and women’s empowerment, Manpreet K. Singh is a supervising attorney that has tried over 50 cases.  Currently a Chapter representative for the American Board of Trial Attorneys, she also is serving as a director and trustee with the Sikh Coal...

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Where Is The Accountability?

Secular Left - April 29, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes
We as Americans pay for and expect a fair justice system. Unfortunately in real life it doesn't work that way. You could be shot and killed for simply being black or poor or of if you are an elected official you are still being booked on political talk shows after trying to undermine our Democra...

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Bishop Greg Kelly on Migrants and Immigrants from a Catholic Perspective

Interfaith Encounters - April 27, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutes
Bishop Kelly is a native of Iowa and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied for the priesthood in Holy Trinity Seminary at the University of Dallas here in Irving and was ordained to the priesthood in 1982. He served in several parishes in the Dallas area since then and has served as ...

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Migration: Bishop Greg Kelly on Migrants and Immigrants from a Catholic Perspective

Interfaith Encounters - April 27, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutes
Bishop Kelly is a native of Iowa and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied for the priesthood in Holy Trinity Seminary at the University of Dallas here in Irving and was ordained to the priesthood in 1982. He served in several parishes in the Dallas area since then and has served as ...

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Migration: Rev. Marv Knox of Fellowship Southwest on Immigration and Immigrants

Interfaith Encounters - April 20, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes
Marv Knox is the coordinator of Fellowship Southwest, an ecumenical network affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Fellowship Southwest covers Arizona, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, Oklahoma, Southern California and Texas. It expands racial, ethnic and ecumenical relationships, and i...

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Rev. Marv Knox of Fellowship Southwest on Immigration and Immigrants

Interfaith Encounters - April 20, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes
Marv Knox is the coordinator of Fellowship Southwest, an ecumenical network affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Fellowship Southwest covers Arizona, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, Oklahoma, Southern California and Texas. It expands racial, ethnic and ecumenical relationships, and i...

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Ep 6: Discussing Medical Freedom with Stephanie Stock

Hang On Ohio - April 19, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Stephanie Stock is the Executive Director of Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom.  This week, we discuss COVID's impact on Ohio, how a citizen can become their own advocate, and what Medical Freedom means.   The organization states, " We all share the same concern and have learned that the only...

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Supreme Court Denies Facts and Science Again

Secular Left - April 13, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes
We knew it would be bad for religious freedom when Trump was allowed to appoint three justices to the Supreme Court, once again a majority on the court pull a decision out of their ass to give the religious special privledge during a pandemic. We also update a previous segment on our broken elec...

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Debra Boudreaux Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation

Interfaith Encounters - April 13, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes
Debra Boudreaux is a senior volunteer with the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation. She has more than 31 years of experience working on major projects related to charity, medical care, education, and humanitarian aid. Debra was previously the CEO of Tzu Chi Medical Foundation. She leads Buddhist and Cat...

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Migration: Debra Boudreaux Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation

Interfaith Encounters - April 13, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes
Debra Boudreaux is a senior volunteer with the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation. She has more than 31 years of experience working on major projects related to charity, medical care, education, and humanitarian aid. Debra was previously the CEO of Tzu Chi Medical Foundation. She leads Buddhist and Cat...

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Ep 5: Serial Killers, Senators and Cowboys

Hang On Ohio - April 09, 2021 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Can a cowboy be a Governor? And what do serial killers have to do with Senators? (A lot more than you'd think). In episode 5, Melissa and Jeff dive into the Ohio Governors race, as well as musings on the oddities you can encounter when on the campaign trail. https://www.facebook.com/HangOnOhio

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Migration: Anwar Khan and Islamic Relief USA on Migrants and Immigration

Interfaith Encounters - April 06, 2021 05:00 - 25 minutes
Anwar Khan President of Islamic Relief USA.  He has more than twenty five years of experience working in the field of humanitarian and development assistance. Mr. Khan has extensive experience in the field: he has traveled to five continents visiting more than 20 countries that have been affecte...

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Anwar Khan and Islamic Relief USA on Migrants and Immigration

Interfaith Encounters - April 06, 2021 05:00 - 25 minutes
Anwar Khan President of Islamic Relief USA.  He has more than twenty five years of experience working in the field of humanitarian and development assistance. Mr. Khan has extensive experience in the field: he has traveled to five continents visiting more than 20 countries that have been affecte...

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Making A Federal Case About Voting

Secular Left - March 30, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes
After the catastrophic disenfranchisement of voters in Georgia recently and the hundreds of copy cat bills across the country, Doug makes the case why elections need to be federalized. HR 1 For the People Act of 2021 is a great start in that direction. Why would any political person, draped in a...

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Jewish Understandings of Migrants and Migration

Interfaith Encounters - March 30, 2021 05:00 - 19 minutes
Julie Rayman, Senior Director of Policy and Political Affairs of the American Jewish Committee helps us understand how Jews relate through their history to migrants and immigrants, and what this means today. Since January 2012, Julie Rayman, Senior Director of Policy and Political Affairs, has ...

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Migration: Julie Raymon of the AJC, Jewish Understandings of Migrants and Migration

Interfaith Encounters - March 30, 2021 05:00 - 19 minutes
Julie Rayman, Senior Director of Policy and Political Affairs of the American Jewish Committee helps us understand how Jews relate through their history to migrants and immigrants, and what this means today. Since January 2012, Julie Rayman, Senior Director of Policy and Political Affairs, has ...

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Ep. 4: Advocacy, Abortion, and the Amish -- A talk with Sarah Cleveland

Hang On Ohio - March 29, 2021 21:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Ever wondered why Republicans push 'heartbeat bills' despite them not saving a single life? The answer doesn't sound very 'pro-life,' when you find out why. With Melissa out of town basking in Florida's freedom, Jeff welcomed on political activist, Sarah Cleveland. Sarah walks us through her li...

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