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The say Sunday at 11am is the most segregated hour in America. But one of the nice things about this land of freedom to worship is that there seem...
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:02
Literary ecocritic George Handley discusses how literature ranging from sacred texts like the Bible to Charles Dickens to Twilight shape our percep...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 26:18
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 14:22
Originally commissioned by Radio France Culture, this soundscape radio essay by Jean-Luc Nancy explores the 1967 meeting of Paul Celan and Martin H...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 39:48
Deepak Chopra talks identity, infinity, and the benefits of laughter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:52
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:55
Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:29
The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A "non-saccharin", "non pie-in-the-sky" exploration of the power of Hope.
Bought by Nevada Public Radio and WLRN
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 2
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 30:00
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 24:21
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 24:56
A Grand Rapids man recently wrote and illustrated a picture book about a cowboy… a cowboy who finds
himself a pawn in a parlor game between God a...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and mnartists.org
- Added: Oct 07, 2010
- Length: 11:27
- Purchases: 2
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Friedman, the ground-breaking New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author, will receive the 2009 Fourth Estate Award, the National P...
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 01:02:03
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 28:26
- Purchases: 1
Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
The LVIS girls return to you this week (after a brief thesis-induced hiatus) with the Loss and Found episode.
- Added: May 10, 2009
- Length: 35:20
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
How do those who have experienced the direct presence of God capture this heightened state in words?
Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUT and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
Public intellectual Jack Beatty, theologist Harvey Cox and philosopher Simon Blackburn -- on ThoughtCast!
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRNC-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 07, 2008
- Length: 57:30
- Purchases: 3
Two words: Thank you. They sound simple enough. But there is always more to a topic, phrase, or ritual than one might think.
Bought by WABE, KOSU, Michigan Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2008
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 29
