Tag: god
group name: speakingoffaith
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January 10, 2007 02:41 AM EST --
While cruising the Internet yesterday I came across an interesting site -- Mormon Converts. At first, I saw it advertised as a Google text ad, and it annoyed me as a devout Mormon that someone is trying . . .
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June 10, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on June 10, 2004
Pentecostalism began on the American frontier, and it has become one of the largest expressions of global Christianity. In less than a century, it has grown to hundreds of . . .
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September 16, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
September 16, 2004
The theory of the "God gap"?often broadly suggesting that religious Americans are conservative and will vote Republican while non-religious Americans are liberal and will . . .
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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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August 17, 2006 01:41 PM EDT --
August 17, 2006
Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, . . .
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December 08, 2005 07:04 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, December 08, 2005
Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, . . .
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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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August 22, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
So much of the news of recent years has a religious component, for good or ill, and often involving the young. Since I interviewed Eboo Patel, I watch this unfold with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem ringing in . . .
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April 21, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
Broadcast on Thursday, April 20, 2006
Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest . . .
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July 21, 2006 12:09 PM EDT --
Broadcast on July 20, 2006
From the Scopes Trial to school board controversies in our day, Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution are portrayed as a refutal of the very idea of God. With Darwin . . .
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November 09, 2006 04:20 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, November 9, 2006
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You wouldn't know it from headlines about school . . .
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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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January 15, 2008 09:04 PM EST --
Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College with a special interest in the origins and shape of the universe. She's also the author . . .
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December 16, 2005 02:44 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, December 15, 2005
Einstein and the Mind of God: Einstein's Ethics
Albert Einstein opened our eyes to the idea that space and time are not fixed and absolute, but elastic and . . .
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May 20, 2008 12:19 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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January 29, 2008 05:06 AM EST --
Inside Mormon Faith
Americans have been hearing about Mormonism in the context of the presidential campaign. But we're learning about this faith of 13 million people indirectly, by way of rhetoric . . .
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February 16, 2008 09:18 PM EST --
Reflections of a British Muslim Extremist
Ed Husain has taken Great Britain by storm with his memoir, The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left . . .
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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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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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