Sounds of Faith is a new podcast from Duke University Chapel that explores traditions of faith, sacred music, and spoken word. Tune in to hear voices and sounds from across place and time that have pointed to goodness, truth, and beauty—as part of current conversations at the intersection of faith and learning. Subscribe to Sounds of Faith on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or SoundCloud. Learn more at chapel.duke.edu/podcast.
Latest episodes
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26 min
Poetry Exhibition Explores the Boundary Between Life and Death
Poetry Exhibition Explores the Boundary Between Life and Death
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27 min
Preaching in the Pulpit of Martin Luther King, Jr.
This summer, Duke Chapel Dean Luke Powery was invited to be a guest preacher at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church—the home church of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dean Powery's sermon on…
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37 min
How the Church is Responding to AI
The possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence are prompting soul-searching in many corners of society, including the church. Most visibly, over the summer, Pope Leo XIV…
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23 min
A Musical Exploration of the Bible's Love Poetry
A concert this semester at Duke Chapel explored “700 Years of a Biblical Love Song.” The performance was the culmination of a yearlong exploration of musical settings of the love p…
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42 min
Reflecting on Four Decades of Campus Ministry
For forty-four years, Steve Hinkle has presented the Christian gospel at Duke and other campuses as a leader in the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship campus ministry. Along the way…
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42 min
Reflecting on Four Decades of Campus Ministry
For forty-four years, Steve Hinkle has presented the Christian gospel at Duke and other campuses as a leader in the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship campus ministry. Along the way…
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19 min
Chapel Organ Scholar Develops as a Musician, Leader, and Educator
Each week, Duke Chapel Organ Scholar David Lim plays the Chapel’s four organs dozens of times for services, weddings, rehearsals, demonstrations, and concerts. He is honing his ski…
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38 min
Joy Harjo on How Poems Transcend Words
“What I love about poetry is … how the words take you to wordlessness." That was one of the many insights former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offered during her appearance at Duke…
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45 min
Students Find Creative Self Exploration Through 'Say the Thing'
College is a place for studying, forming friendships, cheering for sports teams—and for some students it’s also a time of exploration into meaning, identity, and belief. That is wh…
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29 min
A Student Group Praises God in Song
For about sixty years, the United in Praise student group has performed gospel and praise music in services, concerts, and ceremonies on campus and in the Durham community. The gro…
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43 min
Faith-Based Community Service
As part of Duke University, Duke Chapel is located in Durham, North Carolina. It’s a home city that has much to celebrate as a growing community with a vibrant cultural scene as we…
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35 min
Collecting Stories of Black Alumni Who Created Educational Legacies
Growing out of Duke’s centennial celebration, a new project collects oral histories from Black alumni of the four universities designated for support by James B. Duke’s 1924 indent…
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25 min
A Custodian Whose Care and Wisdom Traveled Beyond Duke Chapel
After serving more than twenty-eight years as a custodian at Duke Chapel, Oscar Dantzler is retiring. His approach mixing hands-on cleaning with warm welcomes to people of all kind…
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26 min
The Artistry of a Church Organist
During a recent Duke Chapel Sunday morning worship service, Chapel organist Chad Fothergill opened the service with a late-seventeenth-century French composition, accompanied the c…
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1 h 20
Coach K on Faith, Sports, and Leadership
The audience filled the pews of Duke Chapel for this year’s William Preston Few Lecture on October 9. In this episode of Sounds of Faith, we listen to that public conversation on “…
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31 min
Luke Powery on the 'Wellspring of Wisdom' from the Spirituals
Music, and especially the spirituals, is an important part of Duke Chapel Dean Luke Powery’s preaching, scholarship, and Christian faith. A Baptist minister and professor of homile…
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22 min
An Introduction to 300 Years of Organ Music
Dr. Robert Parkins’s career at Duke has spanned five decades, and the music in his recent farewell recital spanned three centuries. A professor of the practice of music and univers…
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25 min
John Inazu on 'Confident Pluralism'
In a world of political, cultural, and religious divisions, Professor John Inazu makes the case for a public discourse characterized by what he calls “confident pluralism.” Dr. Ina…
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19 min
Learning the Art of Sacred Music
As an Organ Scholar at Duke Chapel, Katherine Johnson has taken on a robust schedule of practice, performance, service playing, and accompaniment as well as conducting and singing…
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37 min
A Fresh, Poetic Translation of the Bible’s Psalms
During an all-day prayer service on January 17, 2025, in Duke Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel, ministers and musicians from Duke Chapel joined students, faculty, and staff in chan…