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Childcare is a cost not just to individuals and families but also to our society as a whole. Sessy Nyman of Everthrive Illinois outlines the most pressing contemporary issues. Rabbi Lauren Henderson and Changiz Geula of the Chicago Bahá’í Community respond from their traditions. All music provided by Poddington Bear.

Viator House of Hospitality in Chicago’s northwest suburbs provides a bridge for undocumented minors who turn 18 while awaiting their asylum hearing. Rabbi Lauren Henderson and Changiz Geula of the Chicago Bahá’í Community offer insight from their traditions on immigration, migration, and refugees. All music provided by Poddington Bear.

St. Leonard’s Ministries supports Chicago citizens returning from incarceration. Program Director Christopher Roach shares his own story of life after incarceration. Panelists Rabbi Ike Serotta, Pastor David Watkins, and Imam Abdul-Malik Ryan envision a new future. All music provided by Poddington Bear.

Carrie Thomas executive director of the Chicago Jobs Council outlines some of Chicago's greatest workforce challenges glossed over by record low unemployment. Rabbi Ike Serotta, Pastor David Watkins, and Imam Abdul-Malik Ryan respond.  All music provided by Poddington Bear.

Is there such a thing as a balanced life? Should we even try for one?  Join us for a conversation with Cali Yost, Quentin Mumphrey, Leena Suleiman, and Max Weiss.

As we approach the end of the calendar year, most of us will be flooded with requests for year end donations, but what difference does donating make to the world around us or for ourselves?Our conversation features Kashif Shaikh Executive Director of the Pillars Fund and David King, Karen Lake Buttrey Director, Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and Assistant Professor, Philanthropic Studies at the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. Our panel includes Rabbi Bruce Elder of Congregation Hakafa; Dr. Kimberly Lymore of St. Sabina's; and Karen Danielson of the Mosque Foundation.

In this year of uncivil discourse, Rev. Jennifer Butler of Faith in Public Life discusses what religious education taught her about conversing with the other.

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This all-star episode features Rev. Jennifer Butler of Faith inPublic Life and chair of the President's advisory council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar; Rabbi Bruce Elder of Congregation Hakafa; Dr. Kimberly Lymore of St. Sabina's; and Karen Danielson of the Mosque Foundation.

Children growing up in religiously observant homes often have multiple or hyphenated identities

Celebrating and living alongside your kids?  Great.  Living through them? Not so much.

How do you graciously accept someone you haven't chosen or might not choose for your child's partner?

How do you raise a kind child?  Veteran parents Steve and Betsy Peterson, Mary McLaughlin, Kiran Ansari Rasul, Max Weiss, and Matt Fitzgerald weigh in.

As many of us live far from our parents, how then do we honor them at a distance?  Kiran Ansari Rasul on honoring her mother back in Pakistan offers insight.

Psychologist Cheryl Rampage on the relative golden period between when kids are 30-50-ish and parents are 55-75-ish when the younger generation is settled and older aren't yet old old.

Honoring your parents is one thing while they are alive, but how do we honor their memory and do our best to live up to that?  Kiran Ansari Rasul offers one way.

Mary McLaughlin went home to run her family business once her children were grown. Then she moved down the street from her adult children. Listen in on her story and the wisdom of psychologist Cheryl Rampage in the dynamics between parents and their adult children as the world changes. Our interfaith panel includes Max Weiss, Kiran Ansari Rasul, and Matt Fitzgerald.

Journalist Jacoba Urist's parents supported her interests in writing from an early age, even when those interests were unconventional.  Here's how she translates that into her own parenting.

Marci Alboher of Encore.org on what longer lifespans mean for how we approach higher education and professional training.

Guest contributors include Jacoba Urist, Marci Alboher, Rabbi Max Weiss, and Leena Suleiman. Artists Laurie Frick, Greg Dunn, and Nathan Sawaya are profiled.