Our 7 Neighbors: Religion and Resistance in America
by InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary
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Season 5: Ep.9 Divided: White Christian Nationalism, MAGA and Where We Are Now
Jul 8, 2026
45m 17s
Season 5: Ep. 8 Freedom FROM Religion: The Right Not to Believe in a Nation of Faith
Jun 23, 2026
41m 52s
Season 5: Ep. 7 The Price of Belonging: How America Decides What Counts as Religion
Jun 16, 2026
47m 51s
Season 5: Ep. 6 Heathens: Chinese Religion and American Exclusion
Jun 9, 2026
35m 13s
Season 5: Ep.5 Strangers at Home: The American Tradition of Antisemitism
Jun 2, 2026
43m 53s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 7/8/26 | Season 5: Ep.9 Divided: White Christian Nationalism, MAGA and Where We Are Now | Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 6 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Pamela Cooper-White. | 45m 17s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | Season 5: Ep. 8 Freedom FROM Religion: The Right Not to Believe in a Nation of Faith | Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 8 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Leigh Eric Schmidt. | 41m 52s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | Season 5: Ep. 7 The Price of Belonging: How America Decides What Counts as Religion | Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 7 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Kathleen Flake. | 47m 51s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | Season 5: Ep. 6 Heathens: Chinese Religion and American Exclusion✨ | religious diversityAmerican exclusion+4 | Dr. Jonathan Lee | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | religionexclusion+5 | — | 35m 13s | |
| 6/2/26 | Season 5: Ep.5 Strangers at Home: The American Tradition of Antisemitism✨ | antisemitismreligious diversity+4 | Dr. Pamela Nadell | — | United States | antisemitismreligious diversity+5 | — | 43m 53s | |
| 5/26/26 | Season 5: Ep.4 Rome and the Republic: Catholicism and Questions of Loyalty and Identity✨ | religious diversityCatholicism+5 | Dr. John T. McGreevy | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | religionCatholicism+5 | — | 46m 30s | |
| 5/19/26 | Season 5: Ep. 3 From Slave Ships to 9/11: Islam and the Long Struggle to Belong in America✨ | religious diversityIslam in America+4 | Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | IslamAmerica+5 | — | 42m 13s | |
| 5/12/26 | Season 5: Ep. 2 Soul Wounds: Indigenous Survival and the Limits of Religious Freedom✨ | Indigenous survivalreligious freedom+4 | Dr. Farina King | University of OklahomaArizona State University+7 | Navajo Nation | Indigenousreligious freedom+5 | — | 51m 33s | |
| 5/5/26 | Season 5: Ep. 1 The Myth of a Religious Freedom✨ | religious diversityAmerican history+3 | Dr. Peter Manseau | Center for Understanding Religion in American HistorySmithsonian National Museum of American History | — | religious freedomdiversity+4 | — | 36m 17s | |
| 3/21/26 | Our 7 Neighbors Season 5 Trailer✨ | religious diversitypluralism+4 | — | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | religionresistance+5 | — | 1m 59s | |
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| 12/11/24 |  Season 4: Ep.7 Queering Orishas✨ | queernessBlackness+5 | Dr. Aurelis Troncoso | The Latinx Project NYUInterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | Orishasqueerness+5 | — | 38m 34s | |
| 12/4/24 |  Season 4: Ep.6 The Religion of Hip Hop✨ | Hip HopLatinx voices+4 | Dr. Daniel White Hodge | North Park University | — | Hip Hopreligion+5 | — | 38m 40s | |
| 11/27/24 | Season 4: Ep.5 Community as Resistance✨ | immigrationmass migration+5 | Amor Craun Reyes | Our 7 NeighborsSeason 4: Diversifying the Narrative | AmericaAmericas+1 | immigrationLatinx+8 | — | 34m 53s | |
| 11/13/24 | Season 4: Ep. 4 Organic Orbits✨ | immigrationmass migration+3 | Dr. Anandi Silva Knuppel | American Institute of Indian Studies | Salt Lake City | immigrationreligion+4 | — | 35m 08s | |
| 11/7/24 | Season 4: Ep. 3 Where Do We Belong?✨ | immigrationLatinx voices+5 | Dr. Laura Limonic | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological SeminaryOur 7 Neighbors | — | immigrationLatinx Jews+5 | — | 27m 18s | |
| 10/30/24 | Season 4: Ep. 2 The Legal, the Political and the Ethical✨ | immigrationmass migration+5 | Dr. Nichole M. Flores | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | immigrationLatinx+5 | — | 36m 02s | |
| 10/23/24 | Season 4: Ep. 1 I'm Trying to Be Nonviolent Here✨ | immigrationmass migration+3 | Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary | — | nonviolenceimmigration+5 | — | 36m 56s | |
| 9/30/24 | Our 7 Neighbors Season 4 Trailer✨ | ImmigrationReligion+3 | — | InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological SeminaryOur 7 Neighbors | America | season 4trailer+3 | — | 2m 18s | |
| 11/7/23 |  Season 3: Episode 6 Legacy | Hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, this season centers stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode features a part of an interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Chicago Breadbasket Movement. Then our host gets into conversation with the new leader of PUSH, Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes, pastor, passionate leader and social activist. | 48m 58s | ||||||
| 10/31/23 | Sneak Peek into Episode 6 | Take a quick listen to this teaser for our 6th and final episode dropping next week. Producer Kim Schultz and host Rev. Brian Smith discuss favorite parts of the season and the upcoming episode featuring Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes. | 10m 52s | ||||||
| 10/24/23 | Season 3: Ep. 5 Media in the Movement | Hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, this season centers stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode features a part of an interview with Ms. Hermene Hartman, founder of Chicago's leading Black magapaper N'DIGO, host of N’DIGO studio. and one of the few African American women in publishing. Then our host gets into conversation with Brandis Friedman, co-anchor and correspondent for “Chicago Tonight” on WTTW. | 32m 47s | ||||||
| 10/17/23 | Season 3: Ep. 4 Trailblazers | Hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, this season centers stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode features a part of an interview with Rev. Dr. Janette Wilson, Advisor to Rev. Jesse Jackson and Director of PUSH Excel. Then our host gets into conversation with Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, a retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 2000, McKenzie became the first woman to be elected as bishop in the denomination's history. | 36m 22s | ||||||
| 10/10/23 | Season 3: Ep. 3 How a Grocery Store Can Create Equity | Hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, Season 3 centers stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode features a part of an interview with Rev. Martin Deppe. Deppe was instrumental in implementing the Chicago Breadbasket Movement. Then our host gets into conversation with Mr. Jim Seidler, Grocery Sales Manager for Jewel Foods. Brought to you by Chicago Theological Seminary. | 31m 46s | ||||||
| 10/3/23 | Season 3: Ep.2 Decolonizing Your Imagination | Season 3 of OUR 7 NEIGHBORS, hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, features stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode showcases a portion from an interview with Rev. David Wallace, one of the primary organizers of the Chicago Breadbasket Movement. Then Brian gets into conversation with Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ. It's a stellar conversation you don't want to miss! | 40m 18s | ||||||
| 9/26/23 | Season 3: Ep. 1 A Family Based Movement | Join us for Season 3 of Our 7 Neighbors! Hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, this season centers stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode features a charming interview with Mrs. Betty Massoni, wife of late Chicago activist Gary Massoni. Then our host gets into a rich conversation with Mrs. Jackie Jackson, wife to Rev. Jesse Jackson. | 43m 50s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.