Tag: speaking of 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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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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September 30, 2007 01:56 AM EDT --
The Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum of autism. In other words, this is a condition that affects many lives, many families. . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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October 20, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
Twenty-five years after The Secular City , Harvey Cox wrote some lines that help me frame what I hope to accomplish with my program "Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide," and how I want to . . .
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October 17, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Being Autistic, Being Human
The Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum of autism. In other words, this is a condition that . . .
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September 07, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
At the beginning of this conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous and again at the end, we discuss a seminal prayer-poem of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Unetaneh Tokef. It is a recital of commonplace mortal . . .
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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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June 17, 2006 12:32 PM EDT --
Broadcast on June 15, 2006
More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, at least for part of their lives. Others are religious and find themselves creating a family . . .
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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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November 16, 2007 05:43 AM EST --
Our emerging national conversation about sustainability has a decidedly "eat your spinach" tone. We're steeling ourselves to enter the realm of sacrifice, and penance. But in all my conversations . . .
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July 11, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
A Sophisticated Theology Behind the Musical Tradition
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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December 21, 2006 12:43 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, December 21, 2006
Our guest founded the Green Belt Movement — a grassroots organization that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment through . . .
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