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James Carroll’s “Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age”

Guest: James Carroll “What is bothering me incessantly is the question—Who Christ actually is for us today? ...

Air Date: December 9, 2014

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Abortion Rights
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Katha Pollitt on her book “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights”

Guest: Katha Pollitt Abortion is one of the most furiously-fought issues in our country although it’s been lega ...

Air Date: October 30, 2014

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A shift in tone from the Catholic Church?

Guests: Elizabeth Dias, Father James Martin and Michael Viola On Monday, Catholic bishops from around the world ...

Air Date: October 15, 2014

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Sam Harris on spirituality without religion

Guest: Sam Harris In his new book, Waking Up, ...

Air Date: October 7, 2014

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Donald Kraybill’s “Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers”

Guest: Donald Kraybill In the fall of 2011, the Amish community in eastern Ohio was shaken by a string of beard-c ...

Air Date: September 15, 2014

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ISIS and the Syria conundrum

 Guests: Joshua Landis, Trudy Rubin The beheading of another American journalist by ISIS has further increased t ...

Air Date: September 3, 2014

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Child marriage, the lives of young girls and the policies to protect them

Guests: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and Ann Warner While some countries have passed laws against child marriage, a rece ...

Air Date: August 18, 2014

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Scott Cheshire’s “High As the Horses’ Bridles”

Guest: Scott Cheshire In his debut novel < ...

Air Date: August 15, 2014

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Iraq and the Islamic insurgency

Guests: Shadi Hamid, Trudy Rubin Violence and chaos continues to spread in Iraq.  The Islamic militant group ISI ...

Air Date: July 3, 2014

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Supreme Court Hobby Lobby ruling

Guests: Tobias Wolff, Sarah Barringer Gordon, David Cohen The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that private ...

Air Date: July 2, 2014

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The execution of Clayton Lockett

Guests: Megan McCracken, Michael Mannheimer, Frank Newport The execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma last wee ...

Air Date: May 5, 2014

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The ethics around testing for Alzheimer’s

Guests: Dena Davis and Jason Karlawish If you could have a blood test to find out your chances of developing Alzheimer’s, would ...

Air Date: April 21, 2014

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Defining hate crime

Guests: Emily Bazelon, Daniel Filler, and Heidi Beirich On Sunday, three people were shot dead outside a Jewish c ...

Air Date: April 17, 2014

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Frank Schaefer, same-sex marriage and the United Methodist Church

Frank Schaefer, Bishop Peggy Johnson and Tim Schaefer Frank Schaefer was defrocked last year for officiating his son’s same-sex ...

Air Date: February 11, 2014

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The story of the 1971 break in of the FBI office in Media and its lessons for government surveillance

Hour 2 Guests: Betty Medsger, Bonnie Raines and John Raines On March 8, 1971, Philadelphians BONNIE AND JOHN RAINES were tw ...

Air Date: January 14, 2014

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