Progressive Spirit talks intelligently about spirituality and social justice. Listen to interviews with top scholars, authors, social justice activists, and spiritual leaders from around the world.
Parker J. Palmer, Founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for
Courage & Renewal, is a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist who
focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and
social change. He has reached millions worldwide throug...
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Matthew Fox. Silenced by the Vatican for his views, left the Catholic
priesthood in the early 1980s. Matthew Fox is a theologian and activist who
has written over 30 books. He has introduced millions of people to Creation
Spirituality. In 2016 he published A Way to God: ...
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What is moral? How has morality changed and how does that effect how we
make decisions and evaluate the decisions of others in politics, business,
and sex? In Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex and
Business. Eden Collinsworth embarks on a personal jour...
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Victoria Price, author of Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography, discusses
with John Shuck her latest book, The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My
Truest Self.
Despite doing “all the right things” to successfully rebuild her life and
her finances after a period of de...
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In this episode I take us back to 2012 for a re-broadcast of interviews with
Sarah Sentilles and Eugenie Scott.
In the first part of today’s show, you will hear an interview that first
aired in January 2012 with Sarah Sentilles. Sarah Sentilles broke up with the
Creato...
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In this episode I take us back to 2012 for a re-broadcast of interviews with
Michael Zimmerman and Barbara Kingsolver.
In the first part of today’s show, you will hear an interview that first
aired in February 2012 with Michael Zimmerman, the founder of the Clergy
Lette...
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From the Progressive Spirit Archives, here are two interviews from 2012 and
2013.
Cultural Anthropologist, Carol Delaney discusses her book, Abraham on Trial:
The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth. Dr. Delaney explores the roots of
patriarchy by asking the question, what ...
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Why do the powers that be try to convince us that there is a “clash of
cultures” or a conflict between Islam and the West or between Islam and
Christianity?
To answer that, Dr. John Andrew Morrow discusses his book, The Covenants of
the Prophet Muhammad with the Chris...
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Isaac Butler and Dan Kois take us backstage and behind the scenes of the
iconic play, "Angels In America" in their book, The World Only Spins
Forward: The Ascent of Angels In America. The book is an oral history,
telling the story of the play and its influence from the v...
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Frances Shure is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is now retired from
her private practice and from her position as adjunct instructor at Naropa
University at Boulder, Colorado.
In her 20 years as a psychotherapist, she focused on "depth psychology,"
which involves bo...
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