Faith/Religion/Spirituality

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Jennifer Grace Bird, Permission Granted: Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands

Airs at: Sun, 06/14/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
I finish my three-part series on the "good" book with Jennifer Grace Bird.   She teaches at Portland Community College and the University of Portland and has written a fantastic guide to the Bible, Permission Granted:  Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands.  She doesn't flinch... Read more

John Dominic Crossan, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian

Airs at: Wed, 06/10/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
In my second series of three on the Bible, world-renowned scholar on the historical Jesus, John Dominic Crossan returns to Religion For Life, to address one of the most troubling aspects of the Bible, the violence of God.   How do we read and trust a book whose main charact... Read more

David Felten, Fact or Fiction?

Airs at: Sun, 05/31/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
David Felten, co-creator of Living the Questions, is also pastor of The Fountains in Fountain Hills, Arizona.  He found himself under attack by fellow clergy who do not approve of his brand of Christianity.  These clergy have used the op ed page of the local paper, newspape... Read more

Anti-Islam Rally Planned in Phoenix

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A rally in front of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, Arizona, has been scheduled for tomorrow night at 6:15, during Friday prayers. the organizers say it is in response to the attack on a "draw the prophet" event in Garland, Texas earlier this month, in which two gu... Read more

Lisa Schumacher talks about Gangaji, Eli Jaxon-Bear, integrity, love, awakening, happiness & being true to yourself

Airs at: Sun, 05/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  New Visions for Peace
Host Sutree has an engaging conversation with Lisa Schumacher about Gangaji, Eli Jaxon-Bear, integrity, love, awakening, discovering happiness and being true to yourself.   Lisa has through her 20 years of study with Gangaji and Eli Jaxon-Bear, gained a unique insight into ... Read more

Harvey Cox, How to Read the Bible

Airs at: Sun, 05/24/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
I am doing a three part series on the Bible, what it is and how to read it.   Three excellent scholars and teachers will be our guides, Harvey Cox, John Dominic Crossan, and Jennifer Grace Bird.   Leading off is Harvard University professor, Harvey Cox, author of the famous... Read more

Carolyn Baker, Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse

Airs at: Sun, 05/17/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Spend the apocalypse with someone you love.  Carolyn Baker returns to Religion For Life to talk about her book, Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse:  Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive.   The Long Descent is not a pretty picture.  As industrial civilizatio... Read more

How to Lose Your Virginity?

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
This is a Bread and Roses web exclusive. Delphine Criscenzo speaks with Therese Shechter, the producer of the new documentary “How to Lose Your Virginity? What if all we had to lose were our virginity myths?” A local organization, A Fourth Act is bringing the film to Portla... Read more

Doug Pagitt, Flipped

Airs at: Sun, 05/10/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Doug Pagitt is the pastor of Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis and the author of Flipped:  The Provocative Truth That Changes Everything We Know About God.    We talk about many different emergent movements including emergent atheism as well as the progressive evangelical move... Read more

Alice Eve Cohen Interview

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Author Alice Eve Cohen has told two stories of personal upheaval that have visited her family in the last six years; "What I Thought I Knew" in 2009, and her most recent memoir, "The Year My Mother Came Back".  She talks with Don Merrill about what those two different stori... Read more