March 2011
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A Twitterscript with Sherry Turkle, Founder of the...
by Susan Leem, associate producer
For 20 years Sherry Turkle has asked unusual questions about the human side of technology. She wants to know how our relationship with devices affects our psychology, and why it is that “we no longer care if we are among life.” She’s referring to our love of gadgets, robots, and the way we obsess over email and smart phones, ultimately giving...
February 2011
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Listening Past the Shrillness of Our Own Voices —...
by Krista Tippett, host
A man listens intently as he waits his turn to speak at a at a village meeting in Kule, Maharashtra, India. (photo: Daniel Bachhuber/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
There are some lines I love of the 20th-century German theologian and political martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. They emerged in the clarity, and self-awareness, that arise on the edges of survival:
“Many people...
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Religion and Activism...in Wisconsin
by Shubha Bala, associate producer
Religious leaders have been joining the march against the Wisconsin government. Catholic, Episcopalian, ELCA, and Jewish voices were amongst those who have reached out to their congregations, and the governor, publicly stating their support for the workers. In her opinion piece for Religion Dispatches, Kim Bobo, the founder and executive director of...
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WatchRelearning What Our Elders Had Once Taught Us
by Krista Tippett, host
Many of my interviews are conducted over long distances, by way of a clear channel communications miracle called an ISDN line. People are often surprised to hear this because these weekly conversations about “meaning, religion, ethics, and ideas” are singularly intimate. But I have come to enjoy the discipline...
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The Primordial Silence of Light on Deer Isle
by Taline Voskeritchian, guest contributor
Luminous, mysterious. Trust me, such adjectives are not excessive nor maudlin. If anything, they capture only part of the mystery that’s Deer Isle, and the entire area which stretches from Bucksport to Stonington. For once you are Rt. 15 Hill, the drive takes a strange turn: In a moment of insight, you grasp something as you have never before —...
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A Force More Powerful
by Margaret Benefiel, guest contributor
Children watch fish in the reflection of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at a park in Thrissur, India on International Non-Violence Day. (photo: Ragesh Vasudevan/Flickr)
In the midst of the American discussions of violence and civility in public discourse, we would do well to remember a lesson that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. learned and taught: nonviolence is...
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Sharing Love with a Woman I Hardly Know
by Destiny Dorozan, guest contributor
“The Platform of Surrender” (photo: Anna Gay/Flickr, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
While going through the process of divorcing my husband, living as a single mother with my daughter, working full time in a classroom for severely physically and cognitively disabled children, and going to college full time in the evenings, I began to ponder...
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“I don’t practice as a Catholic anymore. It’s so hard to reconcile what the men...”
– —Marie Collins, a 64-year-old Dubliner who was abused by a hospital chaplain, Rev. Paul McGennis, when she was 13, as quoted in The New York Times Magazine article “The Irish Affliction.”
Two decades later, she confided in another parish priest about what happened. He suggested it was...
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An Israeli “Tribe” in Los Angeles
Israeli brothers fare well when it comes to immigration and employment
by Christin Davis, USC “Reporting on Israel” Journalism Student
Oz and Jonathan Zilberberg (photo: Christin Davis)
In a one-bedroom condo just off Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, friends and family of the four Zilberberg brothers — immigrants to Los Angeles from their home in Israel — began arriving around 9 p.m. on a Friday. The...
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The Consequence of Cohabitation
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
A participant writes on a “Why Are You Conservative?” poster at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“The pro-life movement is definitely very appealing to younger evangelical Christians. … Definitely pushing the whole gay marriage thing,...
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WatchWhat Kind of Man and Thinker Is the Crown Prince of Bahrain? (video)
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Bahrain’s crown prince is navigating protesters’ demands for a democratically elected government by ordering troops to withdraw from Pearl Square and by saying he’ll meet with opposition leaders. If you’re wondering who Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa even is, he is the...
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“Love is brightest in the dark.”
– —Katara, a Waterbender, recites this inscription during “The Cave of Two Lovers” episode of The Last Airbender.
OK. I’ll admit it. My two sons have sucked me in to watching this absolutely riveting cartoon series from the Nickelodeon network. Netflix paired with AppleTV is a...
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“China’s biggest strategic resource is not oil, not rare earths, not even...”
– —Luo Tianhao, as quoted in Damien Ma’s recent blog post in The Atlantic.
A women looks at a bouquet of roses at a flower market in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (photo: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
by Susan Leem, associate producer
I couldn’t help but swoon a little when...
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“We are not going to enter a dialogue as Shi’ites. They try to put the issue in...”
– —Ibrahim Mattar, member of the Bahraini Shi’a bloc Wefaq, in a statement published in today’s Guardian.
(afghanipoppy via thepoliticalnotebook) 