In Good Faith

Steve travels to Atlanta and sits down with Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser, who shares how interfaith work is civil rights work, and how Shabat might be the most important Jewish holiday. Rabbi Ellen Nemhauser has worked in congregations, at Jewish summer camps, and at Emory University’s Center for Israel Education. She is currently the part-time rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Fayetteville, GA. She also serves as the president of Interfaith Atlanta.

Sherry Frank joins Steve from Atlanta to discuss Jewish involvement in civil rights and women's push for equality. They cover her connection to Daddy King (Martin Luther King, Sr.) and Congressman John Lewis, how committee and organizational work helped her achieve public good, and her decision to have an adult bat mitzvah. Sherry Frank has served on committees of United Way, the Atlanta Regional Commission, and the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta. In addition, she was on the National Boards of the National Council of Jewish Women and MAZON, A Jewish Response to Hunger.

Steve travels to Atlanta and meets with Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, a "foot soldier" in the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s--and involved now in climate crisis activism as an extension of his faith and civil rights work. The Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley was a student leader in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He served in the U.S. Peace Corp in Nigeria before moving to Switzerland, where he earned a postgraduate degree and played basketball for a National Swiss team. He then went on to earn a Master of Divinity from Howard University and served for 25 years as pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church. He published his memoir, I am amazed!: reflections on an awe-inspired life, in 2014.

Joshua Meyer discusses Eight Approaches, an art work of 8 panels that evokes Hanukkah, and his technique of painting with palette knives. Joshua Meyer is an artist based in Cambridge MA. Originally from Lubbock TX, he attended the Bezalel Academy of art and Design in Jerusalem and Yale University. His exhibit Eight Approaches has been featured at the BYU Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Hebrew College and the Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. Meyer has been recognized with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a CJP Arts and Culture Impact Award, The Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and twice with the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Painting Fellowship.

The In Good Faith team shares their favorite interviews from 2024.

Rabbi Creditor discusses the history of Hanukkah in America and the symbolism of the lighted candles. Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at UJA-Federation New York and was the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. An acclaimed author, scholar, and speaker, he was named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. He has written numerous books and 6 albums of original music. He and his wife Neshama Carlebach live in New York, where they are raising their five children.

Welcome to a special Christmas episode of In Good Faith. Today we’ll share Christmas carols from local choirs—and it was quite a treat to be in the recording sessions as this music came together. We’ll hear from Bridge Creek Bell Choir, as well as Amplifyre and 1Achord, two A Cappella groups. We also have Utah Baroque, the BYU Jazz Ensembles (there are 2!), and the Irish band An Rogaine Dubh. We hope you enjoy our Choir Christmas and that this holy music brings light and peace into your December.

Our episode today is about being someone's angel in order to Light the World. Light the World is actually a charity campaign from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that runs every Christmas season, inviting people to contribute to their communities, locally and globally, in ways that will change people's lives. You can do this through Giving Machines in your area, through acts of service at JustServe.org, or by connecting with those who need a little more support all around you. This year's Light the World theme is Be Someone's Angel and so we thought we'd bring together stories from our past guests, where they discuss how someone was an angel for them. Hear from Benjamin Perry, Mark Miner, Pritha Lal, Phyllis Spiegel, Marianne Bahri, David N. Moore, Mathew Schmalz, Marian Edmonds-Allen, Michael Schnabel, SB Rodriguez-Plate, Joe Charnes, and Melissa Dalton-Bradford. This episode was produced by James Sturdevant.

Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen, sat down with Steve in studio, for a chat about Jesus, humility, and blow dryers. Dallas Jenkins launched his career producing the independent feature "Hometown Legend" at the age of 25 and shepherded it to distribution by Warner Brothers. In the nearly 20 years since then, he has directed and produced over a dozen feature and short films for companies such as Universal, Pure Flix, Hallmark Channel and Amazon. Most recently, he directed “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” which Lionsgate released nationwide in November 2024.

How can we find joy in immense hardship? Join Douglas Abrams as he takes us on a journey of searching for truth, recounting his experience in learning from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Douglas Abrams is an author, editor, and producer. He co-wrote The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with the His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, which inspired the film MISSION: JOY, which is now on Netflix. He also co-wrote The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times with Jane Goodall. He has coauthored many bestselling non-fiction books and has written two novels.