January 2011
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WatchDr. Oz’s Mystical Muslim Identity
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
“I’ve struggled a lot with my Muslim identity. … As a Turk growing up in America with one parent from one side of the religious wall and one from the other side, I found myself tugged more and more towards the spiritual side of the religion rather than the legal side of the religion.”
The popular...
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The Harmonic Chaos of Icy Sidewalks with Rumi and...
by Charity Burns, guest contributor
In the wake of a recent blizzard, cars were buried in snow, curbs of intersections were submerged in a grimy soup, and sidewalks became paths of ice. One day I was rushing to work. The sidewalk appeared mostly clear, way more concrete than muddy slush. I passed a young woman in thermal boots that I thought was going much slower than necessary, and then,...
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“We saw a white, Catholic, Republican federal judge murdered on his way to greet...”
– —Mark Shields quotes historian Allen Ginsberg on PBS NewsHour.
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Sacred Conversations
by David Gushee, special contributor
At the heart of my Christian faith is the belief that each and every person I encounter is absolutely cherished by God. I believe every human being is ineffably sacred in God’s sight. This implies a moral responsibility on my part to do my very best to treat them accordingly. If God loves each person, followers of God’s way must love each person...
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Recognizing an Obscure Photographer's Hidden Gifts
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
We all have gifts. But sometimes those gifts remain invisible to the people around us. This was true for Vivian Maier (1926-2009), a Chicago transplant who earned her living as a nanny and privately honed her craft as street photographer for over four decades.
Maier’s work was first discovered at an estate auction in 2007 by John Maloof, a twenty-something...
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Houses of Life: The Jewish Cemeteries of Jamaica
by Rachel Frankel, guest contributor
At the outskirts of Kingston lies Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery, Jamaica’s oldest burial ground still in use today. The cemetery has recently been inventoried and mapped, and is now a Jamaica National Heritage Trust Site. Inventory work continues this month on another cemetery in Jamaica, the Orange Street Jewish Cemetery, a 200-year-old bet haim (“house of...
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WatchCreating Civility: A Live Public Conversation with Krista Tippett!
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
photo: Arne Halvorsen/Flickr
what: Creating Civility: A Public Forum when: Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 time: 7:00 p.m. CST where: Being LIVE
We’d like to invite you to join us tonight online for a somewhat impromptu event in Minnesota Public Radio’s UBS...
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Interview with Terry Tempest Williams: A...
by Susan Leem, associate producer
This past Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Krista interviewed Terry Tempest Williams for an upcoming show slotted for release on February 3rd. An author and environmentalist, Tempest Williams’ writing and storytelling is imbued with her experience growing up in the American West.
As a wilderness activist who grew up in Utah and teaches at the University of...
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Interview with Terry Tempest Williams: A...
by Susan Leem, associate producer
This past Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Krista interviewed Terry Tempest Williams for an upcoming show slotted for release on February 3rd. An author and environmentalist, Tempest Williams’ writing and storytelling is imbued with her experience growing up in the American West.
As a wilderness activist who grew up in Utah and teaches at the University of...
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Cinema as a Moral Compass
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a scene from “The Fighter.”
“We are a storytelling species, and we have always used our stories to teach one another how we should live, and how we should not.” — David Gushee, “Teaching virtue at the movies in 2011”
In a recent article from the Associated Baptist Press, David Gushee, a...
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WatchChange Happens on the Margins: Moses Wright and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
“I think that change comes about at the margins. I’ve always believed that. People in the center are not going to be the big change makers. You’ve got to put yourself at the margins and be willing to risk in order to make change.” —Frances Kissling
Today,...
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How Do We Live Together While Holding Passionate... →
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Tell us a story. Share an experience. It’s this sense of possibility and vulnerability that just may be the way in to hearing each other — to engaging and understanding those who fundamentally challenge us in the deepest ways, on the most contentious of issues. We (me included) often posture and blame.
We’ll be selecting the best of these stories for a...
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WatchMoses Wright and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
“I think that change comes about at the margins. I’ve always believed that. People in the center are not going to be the big change makers. You’ve got to put yourself at the margins and be willing to risk in order to make change.” —Frances Kissling
Today, on Martin Luther King Day,...
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WatchJon Stewart’s Introduction: A True Moment of Civility
by Krista Tippett, host
In all I’ve read and pondered these past days, nothing has galvanized me more than Jon Stewart’s introductory remarks in his show on Monday night. If anyone could have used the powerful media space at his disposal to parody vitriol and point to it as a direct cause of last weekend’s violence, it...
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Cinema as a Moral Compass
by Susan Leem, associate producer
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a scene from “The Fighter.”
“We are a storytelling species, and we have always used our stories to teach one another how we should live, and how we should not.” — David Gushee, “Teaching virtue at the movies in 2011”
In a recent article from the Associated Baptist Press, David Gushee, a...
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“The dream of the prophets is not for conquest, power, or wealth. The dream of...”
– — Susannah Heschel, from “Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?” in Religion Dispatches.
The professor of Jewish Studies at Darmouth College and daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel traces the history of the phrase “blood libel” and the danger of... 