About the show
Crossing Faiths is a podcast where people from diverse religious backgrounds openly discuss everything you're NOT supposed to discuss at the dinner table. Join hosts Jt Pinna, a career national security, international affairs, and D.C. insider, and Elliot Toman, a former media director in the Evangelical church, as they engage in lively conversations about the impact of faith on current events. Crossing Faiths also welcomes guests from various religious and experiential backgrounds to share their insights.
The podcast was initially developed in collaboration with Matt Hawkins, a former policy director for the Southern Baptist Convention. Their conversations are built on a decade of collaboration, advocating in Washington, D.C., for religious freedom domestically and globally. The two developed the podcast to share conversations that model friendship and cooperation despite profound differences in religion and background. The podcast has reached almost 3 million multi-faith listeners, 83% millennials.
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Episodes
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165: Lost Civilizations, Including Ours
June 9th, 2025 | Season 9 | 56 mins 43 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
A conversation between co-hosts John Pinna, a Muslim, and Elliot Toman, an Evangelical Christian. In this episode, John and Elliot discuss the allure of lost civilizations, and explore the possible fate of our own.
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164: Joseph Yoo
May 26th, 2025 | Season 9 | 1 hr 22 mins
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
In this episode of Crossing Faiths, John Pinna talks with Joseph Yoo, an Episcopalian pastor, about his work planting a new, inclusive church in a former bakery in Texas.
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163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence
May 19th, 2025 | Season 9 | 29 mins 34 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
John Pinna sits down with Karen Volker, the newly appointed Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative (URI).
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161 - Maurice Bloem
May 4th, 2025 | Season 9 | 40 mins 33 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
John Pinna speaks with Maurice Bloem of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI) on Faith and Local Communities.
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162: John Kiriakou
May 3rd, 2025 | Season 9 | 41 mins 2 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou delves into the significance of the private meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican.
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160: Ani Zonneveld - Muslims for Progressive Values
April 28th, 2025 | Season 9 | 44 mins 41 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
In this episode, John Pinna has a conversation with Ani Zonneveld, founder and president of Muslims for Progressive Values.
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159: 159: Jeff Mitchell - Was Jesus Real?
April 14th, 2025 | Season 9 | 1 hr 16 mins
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
A conversation between John Pinna and Jeff Mitchell, an atheist and author of the book "Jesus Demigod", which argues that Jesus did not exist.
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158: Francesca Albanese - Palestinian Human Rights
April 7th, 2025 | Season 9 | 28 mins 29 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
This episode features a conversation with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, who details the legal and political realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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157: 157: The Problem with Human Presidents
April 2nd, 2025 | Season 9 | 1 hr 2 mins
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
A Christian and a Muslim talk religion & politics.
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156: Hasia Diner - Food and Culture of Jewish Immigrants
March 31st, 2025 | Season 9 | 34 mins 40 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
This podcast episode explores the multifaceted relationship between food, identity, and community, particularly within immigrant and Jewish communities in America.
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155: 155: Momin Sheikh
March 24th, 2025 | Season 9 | 58 mins 26 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
A Christian and a Muslim talk religion & politics.
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154: 154: Roya Mahboob - Rule Breakers
March 17th, 2025 | Season 9 | 23 mins 38 secs
bible, christianity, islam, politics, quran, religion
Roya Mahboob details how her organization, Digital Citizen Fund, has shifted from teaching digital literacy in Afghanistan to supporting underground education networks since the Taliban takeover.