Tag: spirituality
member name: Speaking of Faith
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September 15, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
We began piloting Speaking of Faith in 1999. Listener response was strong from the beginning. But it was hard to make the case in some wider circles that religion mattered in people's lives and in . . .
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October 15, 2006 07:10 AM EDT --
U.S. culture glorifies "perfect" bodies. At the other end of that spectrum, we champion people who fight when their bodies fail. Matthew Sanford has charted another way. In his lyrical . . .
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August 25, 2006 02:13 PM EDT --
The fact of inner-city poverty and racial isolation often comes to us in the form of statistics. Too often, they make us feel overwhelmed and hopeless. The pictures from New Orleans in the days following . . .
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July 24, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
Wangari Maathai was born in colonial Africa in 1940. She excelled in science and was trained as a biologist. She became the first woman in central Africa to earn a Ph.D. and the first woman to chair a . . .
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January 08, 2009 05:40 PM EST --
A History of Doubt
Is doubt an absence of faith? Or is it an essential and enlivening purifier to human certainty, religious and otherwise? Historian of science and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht says . . .
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