June 2012
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“Individualism and individuality have to be separated. Individualism can take a...”
– —Jacob Needleman, from the On Being show “The Inward Word of Democracy”
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“To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that...”
– Jean Vanier, as quoted by Hannah Kinsley in “Living Life Abundantly at L’Arche Ireland”
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“Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or...”
– —E.O. Wilson, from his New York Times Opinionator post “Evolution and Our Inner Conflict”
Definitely worth a read, especially if you have never heard of the competing theories of kin selection and multilevel selection being battled out by evolutionary biologists.
~Trent Gilliss, senior...
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“Serpent handlers, like other Christians, have chosen something to emphasize....”
– —Seth Perry, excerpted from his commentary “Adiaphora and the Dark Extremes of an Eccentric Faith”
How do we respect the depth of a Christian snake handler’s faith — and talk about it without caricaturing or lauding his life?
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The Quiet Man
by Norman Allen, guest contributor
For my father’s memorial service, my sister suggested that I stand before the congregation and say, “We’d like to share with you exactly what it was like to live with our father. So let’s have a moment of silence.”
It’s not that Dad didn’t speak, it’s that he didn’t speak about the personal. He could rant against George McGovern and lift Richard Nixon up as a...
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“It seems to me that while other cities may be mortal, this one will remain as...”
– Petrus Gyllius (1490-1555), the French scientist and translator on the city of Istanbul as quoted in Strolling Through Istanbul
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Tea + Ink: The Empty Space Inside the Mountain
by Dorothée Royal-Hedinger, guest contributor
An intimate portrait of ex-Yugoslavian émigré artist Slobodan Dan Paich, Silent Crescendo follows his daily ritual of creating simple drawings with tea and ink. In response to the modern pace of the art scene, Slobodan has embraced these fluid works of art to express his searching approach to life.
Dorothée Royal-Hedinger is a producer at the...
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“The first experience is going through the sunlit area and into the twilight zone...”
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—Oceanographer Sylvia Earle on her decent to the bottom of the ocean floor in a Jim Suit (pictured here). Hear her description in our latest show.
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The Wrong Side of White: Black Mormons in a...
by W. Paul Reeve, guest contributor
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has consistently found itself on the wrong side of white. In a recent New York Times article, “Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity,” an embedded video begins with a Times reporter commenting “it may come as a surprise to people that there are black Mormons in America.” It is a telling...
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“Mormons are excoriated in popular culture (see: “The Simpsons”) for...”
– —Thomas C. Terry, from his insightful commentary on anti-Mormon bigotry within academia for Inside Higher Ed
Photo of LDS Temple in Rexburg, Idaho during a a lightning story by Doug Garding via Flickr’s Creative Commons license.
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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Who Are Turkish Voices We Can Speak with in...
Photo by José Manuel Ríos Valiente via Flick’s Creative Commons license
Our production team will be traveling to Istanbul this Saturday, and we’re looking to speak with some big thinkers for our public radio program. We want to better understand how Turkey carries forward its historical roots in the Ottoman Empire and before, and how its making the transition from a strict, secular...
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