Tag: christianity
group name: speakingoffaith
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June 02, 2006 01:16 PM EDT --
Broadcast on Thursday, June 1, 2006
The wildly popular novel turned movie reimagines the New Testament, in part, as a cover-up. What really happened in the fluid early years of Christianity? What is . . .
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October 14, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
An estimated one in 13 American adults abuse, or are addicted to, alcohol. Until the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the 1930's, alcoholism was a ruinous and nearly always fatal affliction, immune . . .
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November 25, 2005 11:47 AM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, November 24, 2005
From the earliest days of Christianity, Communion was among the most mysterious of Christian practices to outsiders. But the word "Eucharist" simply . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
If we have an archive of Speaking of Faith "classic" programs, this is one of them. It is quite unlike anything else we've done, but we have broadcast it every winter for the past few years. . . .
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April 28, 2006 02:00 PM EDT --
Broadcast on Thursday, April 27, 2006
The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. We'll be taking our show on the road to cover this global gathering . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:05 PM EDT --
As creator and host of NPR's Speaking of Faith radio program , Krista Tippett has spent countless hours doing just that. Her conversations with religious authorities, scholars and others . . .
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May 12, 2006 09:09 AM EDT --
Broadcast on May 11, 2006
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is the largest umbrella group on policy formation and advocacy for 25 percent of American voters. In recent years, evangelical . . .
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March 17, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Liberating the Founders
I've enjoyed Steven Waldman as a journalist and commentator through the last two election seasons because he refused to tolerate or perpetuate the culture wars that embittered . . .
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December 09, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on December 9, 2004
A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life -- including the nature of fundamentalism, . . .
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September 09, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
September 9, 2004
The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world?beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West . . .
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March 11, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on March 4, 2004
A long tradition exists asserting that religion is not only intellectually implausible, but socially harmful. This point of view argues that for the sake of peace, religion . . .
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December 13, 2007 06:54 AM EST --
Sometime last year I had in interesting informal conversation with Richard Mouw, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, a respected center of Evangelical scholarship and learning. Mouw has spoken . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery
In 1961, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a now-famous letter to Bill Wilson , the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), describing . . .
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September 23, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
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 book as a dramatic moment in history, one that created an . . .
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June 23, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning
The word "sustainability" has entered our common vocabulary, a critical concept for the period ahead. But like every catchword, new and old, this . . .
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April 18, 2008 05:27 PM EDT --
Evangelical Politics: Three Generations
I am fascinated this year by how some of the religious dynamics of recent electoral cycles have been turned on their head. Public faith ceased to be the sole . . .
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May 12, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
We had a lively and challenging response to my program with Jennifer Michael Hecht and to my characterization of her ideas as an alternative — a reconciliatory counterpart — to our culture's . . .
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November 02, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, November 2, 2006
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A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty . . .
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October 05, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
I first met Joan Chittister a decade ago. I'd heard many entertaining and admiring stories about Sr. Joan's passion and intelligence and wit. She would scribble notes for her next book or column . . .
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December 03, 2006 09:08 PM EST --
Broadcast on Saturday, December 2, 2006
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Just in time for Christmas, there's a new video game based on the popular Christian book series, "Left Behind." But . . .
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