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MPR News with Kerri Miller: 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.

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Author Kate Bowler on finding faith and hope after an incurable cancer diagnosis

In 2018, Kate Bowler joined MPR News Host Kerri Miller to talk about her experience. She is an Assistant Professor at Duke Divinity School and the author of "Everything Happens for a Reason: And other Lies I've Loved."

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How a pastor's faith survived 'Beautiful and Terrible Things'

How a pastor's faith survived 'Beautiful and Terrible Things'

Pastor Amy Butler was the first woman pastor to lead New York’s historic Riverside Church. But despite that — and partly because of it — her faith had to learn to survive the brutal realities of this world. Her new book, “Beautiful and Terrible Things,” is her journey of learning to live without fear in the messy middle.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Women of Faith: What other religions teach us about our own

Women of Faith: What other religions teach us about our own

The final conversation in our Women of Faith series is with Barbara Brown Taylor, who describes how teaching world religions to college students stretched and reformed her own faith in her new book “Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Asma Uddin defends religious freedom for all

Asma Uddin defends religious freedom for all

Religious freedom is a strongly-held American value – until it gets applied to a religion that some view with suspicion. The latest conversation in our Women of Faith series examines the juxtaposition faced by Muslims in this country who want the same religious freedoms as Christian conservatives.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Women of Faith: Kate Bowler on living with chronic cancer in a fix-it-quick culture

Women of Faith: Kate Bowler on living with chronic cancer in a fix-it-quick culture

The next installment in our Women of Faith series: Kate Bowler lives with cancer. “Do you ever feel like a survivor?” she writes. “Or are you just an ongoing problem that makes for awkward small talk at parties?”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Women of Faith: Karen Swallow Prior on defying labels

Women of Faith: Karen Swallow Prior on defying labels

Conservative evangelicals are the group most likely to walk in lock-step with President Trump – a fact that dismays a vocal minority. Karen Swallow Prior counts herself in that group. It’s the next conversation in our Women of Faith series.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Women of Faith: Can Democrats win voters of faith?

Women of Faith: Can Democrats win voters of faith?

The Democratic candidates are actively courting religious voters this time around. But will it work? We talked to two women who study faith and politics – the next installment in our Women of Faith series.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Women of Faith: Jana Riess and ‘The Next Mormons’

Women of Faith: Jana Riess and ‘The Next Mormons’

New research shows millennial Mormons are leaving the church at a much higher rate than previous generations. The question is: Why? Religion columnist and LDS member Jana Riess spoke about a church trying to shepherd its young members through traditional faith and a rapidly changing culture.
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Women of Faith: Searching for God

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.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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