KRFC Faith in Progress – Details, episodes & analysis

It’s hard to have a rational discussion over differing opinions about almost anything, in America these days, but the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University is training students to help change that.  On a new Faith in Progress podcast, I speak with Martin Carcasson, Director of the Center, and one of his students, about their work. 

That's  in the latest Faith in Progress podcast, now available at:  https://www.krfcfm.org/shows/faith-in-progress/   and you can now subscribe to Faith in Progress wherever you get your podcasts!  

With the new school year beginning, I speak with Delhia Mahaney, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Co-ordinator with the Poudre School District, about her work to keep students feeling safe from hate incidents while at school.

This podcast presents the Keynote program for the new CSU Multifaith and Belief Initiatives, given by author and activist Valarie Kaur, based on her book See No Stranger, A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love.

The Larimer County Office on Aging is holding its first annual Community Fair on May 1, to provide older Americans and their caregivers with information about services available to seniors. Rabbi Hillel talks with Tiffany Ballew, a supervisor in the Office on Aging.

In cases of child abuse, many victims' families are unable to afford the therapy that is often needed, both for the victim and the victim's family members. In this edition of Faith in Progress, I speak with Kathleen Baumgardner, Executive Director of ChildSafe of Colorado, a non-profit organization that makes the needed therapy available to those needy families.

Rabbi Hillel speaks with Jamie Moyer, J.E.D.I. (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) at CSU Health Network about successes in this work, and how we can all contribute to further progress.

Dawn Kirk of Alliance for Suicide Prevention in Larimer County discusses what to do if we think a friend or family member is thinking about suicide.

Interview with co-directors of UpRootColorado, a non-profit seeking to reduce food waste in Colorado by helping to glean farmers' fields and distributing the food to those in need.

The podcast re-airs an interview from 2021 with an Israeli and a Palestinian who work together for peace in an organization called Combatants for Peace.

The newest Faith in Progress podcast is a recording of a discussion between about 80 people in Fort Collins (live and virtual) with two spokespeople of the joint Palestinian-Israeli peace group Parents Circle Families Forum.  The group is made up of Israeli and Palestinian families, each of whom has lost a close loved one to the conflict; they have all chosen reconciliation over revenge, and work together for peace.