Tag: faith
group name: speakingoffaith
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March 28, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
Hello Gather,
Since my radio program Speaking of Faith began, people have asked how I came to care about large questions of meaning, how I think about the dangers and promises of religion . . .
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March 19, 2007 05:35 PM EDT --
C h a p t e r O n e
Genesis: How We Got Here
What is faith? What is religion? What is spirituality? Each of these words is difficult for some of us and richly meaningful for others. . . .
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October 16, 2003 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on October 16, 2003
The Pentecostal movement is arguably the largest and most influential religious movement ever to originate in the United States. In less than 100 years, it has grown to . . .
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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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March 19, 2007 06:00 PM EDT --
On Thursday, March 29th from 1PM-3PM (ET) we will welcome Krista Tippett for a live chat as an Ask The Author guest on Gather.com.
Krista Tippett, creator and host of one of public radio’s fastest-growing . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:10 AM EST --
Broadcast on Friday, December 15, 2006
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Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost . . .
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June 05, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
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I love books that invite me into large worlds of experience and thought. By that measure, and by many others, Pankaj Mishra's . . .
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December 25, 2006 07:51 PM EST --
Broadcast on Saturday, December 23, 2006
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Author Sam Harris wrote a bestseller called "The End of Faith" arguing that religious faith has . . .
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December 11, 2003 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on December 11, 2003
Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She defines doubt generously, broadly . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
Exploring a New Humanism
I first met Greg Epstein, as it happens, at a fantastic conference pulled together by Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. This was an energetic gathering . . .
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June 09, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
June 9, 2005
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May 01, 2001 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast in May 2001
The Dalai Lama calls himself "a simple Buddhist monk," but that itself is not so simple. Through conversation, stories, sound, and music, we explore the religious and . . .
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March 31, 2006 01:30 PM EST --
March 30, 2006
An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit . . .
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July 13, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
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Esther Sternberg is a scientist's scientist. She is wary of the commercialized self-help industry and of unsubstantiated . . .
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March 26, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
C h a p t e r Two
Remembering Forward
In the mid-twentieth century, before the temporary death of God, before Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, there was such a thing as “public . . .
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February 15, 2002 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on February 15, 2002
Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as "evil." President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described "an axis of evil." . . .
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December 23, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
December 23, 2004
Forty years ago in France, philosopher Jean Vanier founded an international movement, L'Arche. The L'Arche community in Clinton, Iowa is part of this movement?people of faith . . .
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December 19, 2002 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on December 19, 2002
Christian scripture and tradition have overwhelmingly shaped American attitudes toward sexuality. And in the past year, our national attention has been riveted on sexual . . .
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January 15, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on January 15, 2004
At the center of our history of church and state is a troublesome irony. What began as an attempt to guarantee religious tolerance in the new world has at various times . . .
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November 06, 2003 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on November 6, 2003
What might a philosopher have to tell us about American democracy in the 21st century? Jacob Needleman became an acclaimed philosopher of contemporary America over six . . .
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