Religion Unplugged

Ministry Watch Episode 36: A Conversation with Religion Unplugged’s Paul Glader Hello, everyone. I’m Warren Smith and I’d like to welcome you to the MinistryWatch podcast. Here at MinistryWatch we bring you news about Christian ministries, as well as the latest in charity and philanthropy, all designed to help us become better stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us. Regular listeners to...

On December 29th, 2019, Keith Thomas Kinnunen shot and killed Tony Wallace and Richard White at the West Freeway Church before being shot down by Jack Wilson, a member of the church security team. Bobby Ross Jr. interviews Glenda White, looking back on the tragedy, the recovery of the church, and her struggle with how to reconcile ensuring safety in the aftermath of violence with the faith based c...

Mohammed bin Salman’s sudden rise and increasingly brutal actions against citizens, journalists and his own family are documented in the forthcoming Blood and Oil, a new book from award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope. Paul Glader’s conversation with Scheck details MBS’s rise, highlights the big questions for the future of Saudi Arabia and includes a reading fr...

ReligionUnplugged teams up in the first of a series of MinistryWatch Extra episodes, Paul Glader, the executive editor of ReligionUnplugged, is a guest on the MinistryWatch podcast, talking with MinistryWatch President, Warren Smith. MinistryWatch Episode Notes "Ep. 28 Warren Smith Talks with Paul Glader of Religion Unplugged" This is the first of our “MinistryWatch Extra” episodes. Today’...

Sportswriter and feature writer Jordan Ritter Conn talks to Religion Unplugged about The Road From Raqqa, his debut narrative non-fiction book from Penguin Random House that tells the story of two Syrian brothers born and raised in the city that would become the capital of ISIS. Ritter Conn explores the harrowing journey of how they each left Raqqa at different times and eventually found new lives...

The Russian Orthodox Church consecrated the new and controversial Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces in June 2020. Senior contributor and board member Roberta Ahmanson interviewed art historian and Byzantinist Alexei Lidov to investigate the controversy both on the right and the left of the Russian Orthodox community, and to discuss the broad implications of change in the Russian Orthodox Churc...

One Tough Out  is a new memoir from legendary Minnesota Twins baseball player Rod Carew. The book explores his struggles with health, and the role of his faith and family to get him through it. Senior contributor, Bobby Ross Jr. talked with talks to Carew about the his memoir and what he thinks about ongoing concerns of systemic racism in America and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police brutality protests have expanded to small towns and suburbs while many of the same communities have begun to lift quarantine restrictions, bringing Main Street to the center of the national conversation about health, faith and civil rights. Religion Unplugged's  executive editor Paul Glader interviews documentary journalist John Miller about his film “Moundsville,” recently released on...

In 1947, John Perkins' family, sharecroppers in Mississippi, put him on a train to California after white police officers shot and killed his brother "for talking too loud." There, Perkins encountered Jesus and a growing conviction that the Bible affirms human dignity of every race above all other philosophies. He has spent decades developing under-served communities as a civil rights...

Sybil Archibald creates art that explores the fundamental elements of spirituality. Her work is inspired by her experiences living with scleroderma, an autoimmune rheumatic disease sometimes described as a mummification of the body's tissues.  Archibald does not practice a particular religion, but she has studied medieval spiritualism and draws from that knowledge and imagery to produce her ow...

Has Africa's history of outbreaks with HIV, AIDS and Ebola better prepared faith communities to manage COVID-19? To find out, Roberta Ahmanson interviews Dr. Nyaradzo Murefu, a Christian chemist who has led research in HIV prevention and immunology, established the first African lab to study drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (how drugs absorb into the body) and helped produce Africa's f...

Before COVID-19 became a global pandemic and people rushed to buy extra food, hand sanitizer and toilet paper, thousands of Americans were already prepared for such an event: "preppers." Many have gradually stockpiled food, guns and even secret, remote motorhomes for years, creating complex survival and escape plans. Their beliefs are often rooted in theology more than fear and anxiety, an...

Our chairwoman at The Media Project and Senior Correspondent at ReligionUnplugged.com , Roberta Ahmanson Interviews a special guest and author. Roberta is a world traveller, an author herself, an award winning religion reporter, a philanthropist, an art collector and a voracious reader. When the coronavirus broke out, Roberta naturally thought we should interview the provost of the university of O...

In the wake of Covid19, the physical rituals of faith are being removed. As religious communities in major cities and towns around the world are faced with the removal of holy water and prayer rugs or having their services completely cancelled until further notice, there is a new question. How do you reach a congregation if you can’t leave your own home? We messaged every member of The Media Proje...

In the wake of Covid19, the physical rituals of faith are being removed. As religious communities in major cities and towns around the world are faced with the removal of holy water and prayer rugs or having their services completely cancelled until further notice, there is a new question. How do you reach a congregation if you can’t leave your own home? We messaged every member of The Media Proje...

Meagan Clark interviews Vishal Arora, an independent journalist based in Delhi and a founder of Stories Asia, about the ongoing unrest between pro-Modi Hindus and Indians who fear threats to religious minorities and pluralism. Since this recording, more than 50 people have died, mostly Muslims, after a Hindu mob rampaged a mixed neighborhood near protests against a controversial citizenship law th...

The Rev. Josphine Ngahu works with the All Saints Cathedral and the Anglican Church of Kenya doing some very innovative work in her parish with people who have lost their hearing. Ms. Rose Kanyunyuzi is from Uganda and works with the Global Orphan Project in Africa. She told us about the work she is doing in Uganda and other parts of Africa with orphans.  We met Rev. Josphine and Ms. Rose at a con...

Chris Moody is a correspondent at Vice News in New York City. He’s also a friend of Religion Unplugged and The Media Project. We caught up with Chris recently as he completed his year-long journey around America in a tiny house he and his wife, Christy, built into a cargo van. It was his adventure to report on the real America after reporting on politics for years at CNN in New York City and at Ya...

Tabitha Bühne is a journalist, author and fitness coach based in Leipzig, Germany. Tabitha edits a running magazine in Germany and is a friend and member of The Media Project. She spoke with Religion Unplugged about her latest book that explores the topic of fitness and faith and why people of faith should care about their bodies. 

A whistleblower complaint to the IRS alleges the mormon church has amassed a secretive $100 billion dollar investment fund and has misled church members about how tithe money is used with that fund.  On Monday night, we broke a story about this at ReligionUnplugged.com after a month-long investigation into claims the whistleblower made to the IRS.  Samuel D. Brunson, a law professor at Loyola Univ...

Paul Glader interviewed Jeffrey Alan Miller, an English Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, who made a major discovery in 2015. Looking at a notebook in an archive at the University of Cambridge, Miller came across the earliest known draft of any part of the King James Bible, unmistakably in the hand of one of the King James translators.” For this discovery along with his other...

Paul Glader interviews Emeka Izeze about why he loves the Massachusetts DMV, and how rule following and paperwork might be a useful message for churches in Nigeria.

Paul Glader has a conversation with Tim Pool, conservative political commentator, YouTuber and Co-founder of Subverse.

Executive Director Paul Glader talks with NYT’s bestselling author AJ Jacobs about his recent book “Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey” and his bestseller “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.”

Paul Glader has a conversation in São Paulo with Brazilian journalist and writer, Marilia de Camargo Cesar, about her four books that address issues of homosexuality and spiritual abuse in the evangelical church.