About
Who's at the table
Every neighbor has a story. Most of us just never hear it.
Neighbor Radio is a show and a website about the people next door. What they believe. What they celebrate. Where their families came from. And what they wish you'd just ask them.
Most of us know our neighbors by sight, not by story. We wave from the driveway, and that's about as far as it goes.
We don't know that the man across the street fasts all of Ramadan and still coaches Little League. Or that the woman next door lights candles every Friday night for her grandmother. Once you know those things, it's hard not to care about the person.
So we ask the questions people are shy to ask, and we let neighbors answer for themselves. Nobody here is perfect, including us. Every group has people who get it right and people who get it wrong. We'd rather judge by what people do, and then try to love them anyway.
Who counts as American here?
If you're a citizen, you're American. If you were born here, you're American.
Your faith, your skin, your accent and what your grandmother cooked on Sundays don’t change that. They just make the block more interesting.
Same porch. Same country. Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Native, Latter-day Saint, atheist, still figuring it out. That's who we mean.
That's why we say "Americans" and not some smaller word. This country has always been more than one kind of neighbor. We'd like to know all of them.
Why 102.9?
Luke 10:29. A lawyer asks Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus answers with a story.
A man is beaten and left on the road. A priest walks past. A temple worker walks past. A Samaritan, someone the audience was raised to distrust, stops and pays for his care.
Then Jesus flips the question: which one acted like a neighbor?
Every answer on this site ends with the same four questions from that story. We call it the Samaritan Test.
- Did they see? Or look right past?
- Did they stop? Even when it was inconvenient?
- Did it cost them? Time, money, comfort, reputation?
- Did they treat the person like a person? Not like a label?
How an answer gets made
Every answer starts with the mind (how we know), moves to the heart (how it feels from the inside), and ends with the hands (one small way to love the people around you). Sources are listed so you can read them yourself. Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible. Other sacred texts are summarized with references.
Pages say "Neighbor review in progress" until people from that faith or community have checked them. We'd rather take our time than make something up.
Who makes it
Made by Christians who'd rather listen than preach. Neighbor Radio is a free project of Hope for Americans, a small nonprofit in Flagstaff, Arizona that builds free tools for Americans. No account, no ads, and we don't track you.
Guests are recorded only with permission, by phone, for about 20 minutes. You review how you and your community are described before anything airs, you can skip any question, and you choose how you're named.