ReligionWise

About ReligionWise

ReligionWise features educators, researchers, and other professionals discussing their work and the place of religion in the public conversation. Host Chip Gruen, the Director of the Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding of Muhlenberg College, facilitates conversations that aim to provide better understanding of varieties of religious expression and their impacts on the human experience. For more about the Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding, visit www.religionandculture.com.

Publisher

Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Oct 2021

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Faith, Strategy, and the Language of Purpose - Nikhil Bumb

   Nikhil Bumb works for the nonprofit FSG, where he helps companies and foundations find strategies that are good for business and good for the world, without being shy about creating a direct link between the two. He is also a practicing Jain. In this conversation we talk about how his Jain identity informs his work and, in general, how values that are often associated with faith and spiritual traditions can be a part of the public and professional discourse of corporate strategy and purpose. ...

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   The Hazard of Neutrality - Rev. Kevin Kitrell Ross

   Rev. Kevin Kitrell Ross believes that religious communities cannot stay on the sidelines of public life, and that staying neutral when people are treated unjustly is itself a choice with real consequences. A minister in the Unity tradition, Ross continues the work of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. in seeing political action as something his faith requires, not something optional. Our conversation looks at how his faith and community strengthen this conviction, the costs of s...

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   15 Aug 2026

   Place, Values, and Public Life – Thomas Tweed

   Place is not only a backdrop to religious life but, as Thomas Tweed's work argues, a way of understanding religion itself. Our conversation with him considers how people make and inhabit places, the values that surface within community gatherings, and the loss of shared spaces in contemporary life. Tweed also discusses his recent history book, Religion in the Lands That Became America. Show Notes: Religion in the Lands That Became America, 2025 (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/97803002...

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