December 2010
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“But I still pretty much think the same thing that I sometimes said to Kathie...”
– —Kellie Henderson
This series from The Wichita Eagle will make you question everything about humanity, family, love, neighbors, forgiveness, God. “Promise Not To Tell” documents the perpetual rape of Kellie and Kathie Henderson by their father and two brothers since they were small...
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“But I still pretty much think the same thing that I sometimes said to Kathie...”
– —Kellie Henderson
This series from The Wichita Eagle will make you question everything about humanity, family, love, neighbors, forgiveness, God. “Promise Not To Tell” documents the perpetual rape of Kellie and Kathie Henderson by their father and two brothers since they were small...
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Audience Responds to Chef Dan Barber's Statements
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
Will Allen, CEO and founder of Growing Power. (photo: Growing Power/Flickr)
A movement starting with elites. Conflating the lower Hudson Valley and New England. Vegetarians have “blood on their hands.” Our show with chef Dan Barber clearly touched some nerves judging from listeners’ passionate responses, especially about Barber’s unapologetic...
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Audience Responds to Chef Dan Barber's Statements
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
Will Allen, CEO and founder of Growing Power. (photo: Growing Power/Flickr)
A movement starting with elites. Conflating the lower Hudson Valley and New England. Vegetarians have “blood on their hands.” Our show with chef Dan Barber clearly touched some nerves judging from listeners’ passionate responses, especially about Barber’s unapologetic...
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“Beauty resists easy definition, because it rests on the particular as well as...”
– — Judith Dupré, from her newly published book, Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art, and Life.
posted by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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“Beauty resists easy definition, because it rests on the particular as well as...”
– Judith Dupré, from her newly published book Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art, and Life.
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A Visual Feast at Dan Barber's Blue Hill at Stone...
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
After hearing chef Dan Barber describe his dishes as “unconstructed,” we wanted to experience the beauty that he and so many other people describe. Unfortunately, we’re based in Minnesota and we’re a public radio gig, which means we don’t quite have the funds to fly to the Pocantico Hills for a gourmet meal. Fortunately, we found a set...
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WatchClint Eastwood and David Lynch Teach 10,000 Veterans to Meditate with Operation Warrior Wellness
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The filmmaker David Lynch has been a vocal advocate of transcendental meditation for some time now. But I’m quite intrigued with the work that his foundation is doing with returning veterans. The national initiative they are calling “Operation Warrior...
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Our Twitterscript with Poet Elizabeth Alexander
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor + Shubha Bala, associate producer
On December 1, Krista interviewed Elizabeth Alexander, a poet probably best known for her poem “Praise Song for the Day”, which she delivered at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. We’re producing this show for release on January 6, our first show of the new year!
We live-tweeted the 90-minute...
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“Christakis and Fowler showed that even people separated from you by up to three...”
– — Time’s Alice Park cites a study in “Religion’s Secret to Happiness: It’s Friend, Not Faith” that one’s social network can influence our health.
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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Kashmiri Definition of Freedom Shifts with Young...
by Shubha Bala, associate producer
A Kashmiri protestor displays empty bullet cartridges on a poster in Srinagar during an anti-India demonstration on September 11, 2010. (photo: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)
Wikileaks has been the latest entry point into examining what freedom, in practice, really means. It’s a discussion that has been taking place as long as people, and nations,...
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Home Church: Fellowship in the Living Room →
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The Blue Fish Group worships in the living room of one of its members. (photo: Nikki Tundel/MPR News)
Nikki Tundel’s photo essay of two home church groups in Cambridge, Minnesota provides an intimate look at worship in small spaces in a satellite community. I’m particularly smitten with the image of a man using a Foosball table as an...
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When Gifts Are Offered, Take Them: Advent in...
by Kate Moos, executive producer
José Napoleón Duarte, president of El Salvador, speaks with Minnesota delegation while I place my microphone.
In the late 1980’s, an unlikely series of events carried me to Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador to meet high-ranking political figures and rebel leaders. But, it was an unexpected encounter with an unknown woman in Managua during La Gritería that...
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Flag-Raising My Hijab: An American Revert's...
by Amanda Gormley, guest contributor
The first time I prayed the Islamic prayer, or salat, I stood in my living room in the silvery morning just moments before dawn. I was self-conscious and unsure of what to do. I had prepared flash cards to help me through the complicated process of standing, sitting, and bowing while reciting verses in Arabic. I stood facing Mecca and folded my right...
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