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Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. Concepts of reality have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plant...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: John R. Vile, Credit: newschannel5
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of Kaldi the goat herder discovering coffee by accident is a common tale. Religious studies scholar Jamel Velji explores a few more origi...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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In June, 2002 I overheard an American woman now living in Israel passionately describe her belief that teaching children to be suicide bombers is t...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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To learn more about the importance of Nevada's AJR4 for the preservation of Native American cultural sites not only in Spring Valley but across the...

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 17:34
Caption: Oren Lyons
A two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of "Original Politics: Makin...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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It’s time to release your inner geek! Today on Culture Clique we take you to Nerd Nite at Ed’s No Name Bar in Winona, MN. The topic? “Jesus and the...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 35:15
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In the 1960s, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed i...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dr. Brad Gregory
Notre Dame history professor discusses the secular effects of the Reformation.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
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Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Bernie Taylor
Bernie Taylor, naturalist and author discusses this myth and how it shapes religion and science.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Professor Matthew Hockenos
Most of us are familiar with the Nazi concentration camp confession, “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
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Caption: Dr. Nicholas Morton
he year 1099 marked the Crusade’s final act … the conquest of Jerusalem. This deed has long been taken as proof of the crusaders’ anti-Islamic hatr...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today, politicians and intellectuals warn that we face a crisis of civility and a veritable war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal de...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:03
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The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
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The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popular...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
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On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popula...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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We're re-visiting our 2014 interview with Phyllis Tickle. In our conversation we explore the idea that our culture has been shaped by roughly 500-y...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00