When Faith Endures

Hello, welcome back to When Faith Endures. I’m your host Angelyn Foster.  This season I’ve begun by opening discussions with my most immediate circle of Interfaith friends.  I wanted to start this way for two reasons: First, to discover and build on commonalities that I've suspected were there, and second, to gain experience with this kind of dialogue in a safe space, making it seem to listen...

My next guest, Laura Berman, is a musician I’ve collaborated with for Jewish Kol Nidre services for many years. Raised culturally Jewish, she now practices a widely integrated form of spirituality.  She has a successful career as a singer/songwriter of inspirational music, and now works as the Music Director at Mile Hi Church, which is a New Thought Congregation.  New Thought, is a spiritual movem...

Today’s guest is a friend I’ve played Chamber music with for almost seven years.  We are in a clarinet trio, which means that this ensemble includes Clarinet, cello and piano.  My guest Carrie Christensen is the pianist.  Carrie is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormons.  As the Latter-day Saints have a lay ministry, Carrie serves as the te...

Today I’m pleased to be sharing a conversation with my dear friend and stand-partner in orchestra, Kathleen.  Kathleen is Catholic and I chose her as the inaugural guest because she actually goes to not one but two services each Sunday.   Kathleen grew up in the Roman Catholic Church. However, when she married the son of displaced native Ukrainians, she began attending the local Ukrainian Catholic...

A short explanation of how I began to notice a desire to talk to people about their personal religious faith.  

Hi everyone.  In this episode I explain more fully the motivation for beginning this project.  As I’ve played many sacred gigs through the years, I’ve begun to notice that although much of the worship structure felt familiar, those of us participating rarely talked openly about our differing faiths, and often for good reasons: fear of offending, of being misunderstood, or of seeming as though we w...