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June 25, 2009 05:22 PM EDT --
Fragility and the Evolution of Our Humanity — A Geophysicist's View
People often ask me to name my favorite interviews — the people who have made the deepest impression. That is an impossible . . .
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June 19, 2009 04:18 PM EDT --
Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual
I once met an American tourist who went to Siberia — and was peppered with questions about Joe Carter. Joe had made one of his riveting . . .
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June 12, 2009 03:18 PM EDT --
The Long Shadow of Torture
In the post-September 11th era, torture became an aspect of U.S. identity, a defining part of our national repertoire of intelligence gathering and military detention. . . .
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June 03, 2009 03:00 PM EDT --
Obama's Faith-Based Office — Meeting Joshua DuBois
I've been intrigued ever since I first heard about Joshua DuBois when he was the even younger director of religious affairs for Barack Obama's . . .
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May 20, 2009 05:01 PM EDT --
Repossessing Virtue: Living Differently, Beyond Economic Crisis
This is a new installment in our ongoing series, Repossessing Virtue , which we've been building online and on-air since the economic . . .
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May 11, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Parenting
The notion of God as father is a metaphor, of course, like much religious language. It is necessary approximation and analogy. When I became a mother myself, I was stunned . . .
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May 04, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Planting the Future with Wangari Maathai
Many of my interviews are conducted over long distances, by way of a clear channel communications miracle called an ISDN line. People are often surprised . . .
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April 27, 2009 04:51 PM EDT --
The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi
We've created a memorable hour of listening that's fresh and lush with the sounds and the texture of the great Sufi poet, Rumi. There is no formula for our programs, . . .
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April 17, 2009 01:05 PM EDT --
Opening to Our Lives — Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness
I'd read and heard of Jon Kabat-Zinn for years. But I hadn't really grasped, until recently, that he is first a scientist . . .
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April 13, 2009 03:13 PM EDT --
Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter
I have long been fascinated by Eastern Orthodox spirituality and theology, and I'm delighted to throw a spotlight on it in this holiest . . .
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April 03, 2009 12:23 PM EDT --
Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories
This week we hold the Exodus story up to the light and turn it — like a jewel, the ancient rabbis would say. And Avivah Zornberg tells us what she sees: astonishing . . .
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April 02, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
Alzheimer's, Memory, and Being
When I came to study theology in my early 30s, I wanted from the first to be doing "field work," not just scholarship. I arrived in the middle of the . . .
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March 23, 2009 03:52 PM EDT --
Laying the Dead to Rest: Meeting Forensic Anthropologist Mercedes Doretti
I'm often asked about our process for choosing people and topics. The answer goes something like this. We are always . . .
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March 13, 2009 02:51 PM EDT --
The Biology of the Spirit
In the summer of 2005, a few colleagues and I went to the Chautauqua Institution's week on "The Brain." We were invited by Chautauqua's Religion Department, . . .
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March 06, 2009 11:12 AM EST --
Repossessing Virtue — Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry, and the Arts
As global economic crises began to unfold this past fall, my producers and I wanted to respond immediately, in our . . .
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February 27, 2009 12:16 PM EST --
The Soul in Depression
We're increasingly aware in our culture of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis and medical treatment . . .
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February 19, 2009 05:40 PM EST --
Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
I picked up Janna Levin's novel off a table at a bookstore, drawn to it initially perhaps because we had just completed our program with Paul Collins and Jennifer . . .
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February 17, 2009 10:46 AM EST --
Obama's Theologian: David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present
This is our second program on Reinhold Niebuhr's fascinating thought and legacy . And as I prepared . . .
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February 05, 2009 04:47 PM EST --
Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. We've come to imagine him as a godless naturalist and to see the publication of this . . .
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February 02, 2009 02:00 PM EST --
The Novelist as God
One of the driving assertions behind the life of this show is that we are all theologians. If, for example, as Christians and Jews believe, human beings are created in the image . . .
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