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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...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 3
The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...
Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KALH, WTJU and more
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 11
The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 12
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
Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Can you imagine what it must be like when your family history – the one that defines you, is not ‘you’ after all – but rather, a long-kept secret t...
Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Peru is a county about which I’ve been curious for over 60 years, beginning when I first learned of the Inca Empire. Ten years later the Peace Cor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Presidential scholar Barbara Perry discusses Protestant fears that JFK would answer to the Pope, not the American people if elected president — and...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WOUB, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 09:39
- Purchases: 5
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh heads to Our Lady of the Angels, a Trappist monastery in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to find out what life is really like behind th...
Bought by WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Bruce Wallace heads to the birthplace of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first indigenous saint from North America, to see how she is remembered to...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WETS, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 3
With our guest, George Kateb, who has been called "the most interesting and important philosopher of liberalism alive today,"* we'll focus on oppre...
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 59:49
Radio Curious visits with David Ebershoff, author of "The 19th Wife," a book about Ann Eliza Young, and her realization and then quest to speak out...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
On today's show, we have an in-depth conversation about the experience of women in religious communities and in the academic study of religion with...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:30
Host Doug Storm is joined by Asma Afsaruddin to discuss her bookStriving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 58:39
We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 59:36
Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 12:13
Historian David Hollinger discusses the long-lasting influence of liberal Protestantism. Though conservative Evangelicals get more media attention,...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 10:12
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Anthropologist Nabeel Abraham tells host Brian Balogh about the fight between two Muslim communities over the future of a Dearborn, Michigan mosque...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 09:42
Jonathan Judaken on existentialism and religion; Katy Scrogin on The Myth of the Muslim Tide.
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 53:50
Phyllis Tickle on The Great Emergence; Katy Scrogin on Alain Badiou: Between Theology and Anti-Theology.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 43:16
Catherine Brekus on the Bible and democracy; Katy Scrogin on Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 35:56
Amy Black on the separation of church and state; Katy Scrogin on The Reason I Jump.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 34:11
Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 32:00
