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The Detour

Each month, host Adam Davis and guests explore tough questions about how we live together. Conversations on The Detour connect ideas and personal experiences without looking for easy solutions.

Podcast · By Oregon Humanities · American English · Official site

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Sep 1, 2026
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Jul 24, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    The Changing Roles of Religious Spaces (opens the original)

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    Wherever people live in Oregon, you are certain to come across churches. Sometimes you'll find mosques, synagogues, and other houses of worship, but as you'd expect in a majority Christian country, church buildings especially are everywhere. All these structures were built for a specific purpose, but with fewer and fewer people going to church, fewer and fewer are people using and paying for the upkeep of these buildings. In March of 2026, Brandon Rhodes, Amy Jayne, and Frank So explored what's

  2. Episode · Jul 24, 2026

    The Shared World with Naomi Shihab Nye (opens the original)

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    In a world divided by borders and beliefs, how can poetry and storytelling bring us back to one another? Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning poet and novelist who has traveled the world meeting people and observing the ways poems offer meaning, comfort, and belonging. She sees poetry as a true bridge between people, cultures, and nations, sharing that in all her travels, she has yet to find a place “where poetry does not live.” In this conversation from June 2026, Naomi reads from her work and

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