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Chris Stedman on faith and atheism; Katy Scrogin on Roland Barthes' Mourning Diary.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 39:14
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Beth Katz on Project Interfaith; Katy Scrogin on Sherman Alexie's Blasphemy.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 36:25
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on misconceptions about Islam; Katy Scrogin on The Man Who Quit Money.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 38:24
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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
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Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 31:18
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Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 46:35
Caption: World Ocean Journal | Volume I
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
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At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all others ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:09
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Berryman's Hands." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesot...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:03
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Holding on is part of what it is to be truly alive and to be in every moment, whatever it is. Holding on is part of being alive. And then there's...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Why do we expect ourselves to know things that we don't yet know? If we would truly trust the timing of our own evolution, then we'd stop expecting...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 30:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
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In this episode, we look at one of the most pressing environmental issues; fracking. There are so many ways to think about an issue like this; with...

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  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 1
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The image of 8 year old Martin Richard holding a handmade sign saying, "No more hurting people- Peace" pretty well broke my heart. To think that he...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Censorship never works for long. People power prevails, eventually. No matter how much dictators, or religions, try to control the spread of inform...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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In the movie The Interpreter, the character played by Nicole Kidman says, "Vengeance is a lazy form of grief." If we're honest, most of us have mo...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Awareness is the first step to freedom. You won't leave a relationship, confront an abuser or change a habit until you become aware of the problem....

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Ian Lawton enjoins listeners to be authentic and mindful of true wisdom, by virtue of knowing our highest sense of self. Jen Sygit and Laura Bates...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Ian Lawton explores the meaning of soul, and living soulfully, in this episode featuring original singer songwriter Garret Borns.

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: CD Wright
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections. Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:22