Tag: religion
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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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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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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June 17, 2007 12:36 AM EDT --
I am sitting on the deck at the Inn at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, looking out over the endless, cloud-covered Pacific. (It's the time of June Gloom in San Diego.) Far out to sea, I can see a long . . .
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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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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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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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August 01, 2003 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on August 1, 2003
Over the last four decades, women's roles have changed dramatically -- at home, in the work force and in religious institutions as well. In America, resistance to this . . .
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August 08, 2003 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on August 8, 2003
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has sharpened our culture's intensifying focus on homosexuality. In a year of political and religious milestones for gays . . .
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May 12, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
Speaking of Faith: Approaching Prayer
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May 19, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
Speaking of Faith: Globalism and the Rise of Religion.
May 19, 2005
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June 09, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
June 9, 2005
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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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November 12, 2005 11:07 AM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, November 10, 2005
Al-Qaeda appeals powerfully, if destructively, to the need of young people to be important and make a difference in the world, says our guest Eboo Patel; it is . . .
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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 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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January 22, 2004 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on January 22, 2004
Religious pronouncements seem to have become mandatory for the Democratic candidates in this election. Yet it's been easy to deride the resulting sound bites that are . . .
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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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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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