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Bernie Taylor, naturalist and author discusses this myth and how it shapes religion and science.
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 53:59
Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 15-20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine each year. Part 1 o...
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- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
The Varkaris, farmers turned piligrims, are said to be the world’s oldest and largest people’s movement as they walk for weeks from their homes to ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
HOUR ONE: "Worshiping Waterfalls" - Jane Goodall has seen chimpanzees stop at a roaring waterfall and bristle with excitement. Are they having spir...
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.
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- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
A leading authority on Israel/Palestine tells the story of Gaza's martyrdom and its stand for liberation.
Bought by WETS
- Added: May 01, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Oregon Repertory Singers perform Rodion Shchedrin's The Sealed Angel
Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 3
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
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
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
This is a special edition of TriPod New Orleans @300. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson handed the mic over to the New Orleans Scholars, a group of st...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 11:10
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a portrait of Mother Catherine Seals, one of the city’s most prominent 20th century spiritual church leaders.
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 12:24
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of The Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order of nuns for free women of color founded by He...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 11:25
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of the city’s above ground cemeteries, and those working behind the scenes.
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 10:47
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 58:10
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts ...
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- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 3
Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.
- Added: Sep 23, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
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
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
