Historian Tom Holland joins us to talk about tracing Christian concepts from antiquity to today and how they’ve shaped the western world.
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When A White Supremacist Attended Shabbat
Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson join us to talk about the time Matthew invited Derek to attend a Shabbat dinner – and how that interaction paved the way to a new understanding.
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How Religion, Violence And Greed Shaped Latin America
Marie Arana, literary director of the National Book Festival, joins us to talk about how exploitation, violence and religion have combined to make the region the place it is today.
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She Fights for Muslim’s First Amendments And She Would Fight For Yours Too
Lawyer Asma Uddin joins us to discuss how a battle for the rights of one religion affects all religions.
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The Dallas Pastor Who Has Trump’s Ear
Michael J. Mooney joins host Krys Boyd to talk about what he learned about from First Baptist Dallas church pastor and Trump supporter Robert Jeffress.
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Losing My Religion
Jessica Wilbanks talks about how her decision to leave her childhood church alienated her from her fundamentalist parents – and about the difficult process of charting her own spiritual path, which she writes about in “When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and its Loss.”
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Who Says You Can’t Have More Than One Religion?
Duane R. Bidwell of the Claremont School of Theology joins us to talk about people who find it limiting to practice just one faith.
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What Is Pope Francis Trying To Do?
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins us to talk about why rethinking some Catholic policies could come with unwanted consequences.
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Consequences of Tribalism in America
Amy Chua joins us to talk about how our tribalism influences the ways in which we interact with the rest of the world – and about how we might transcend these divides.
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Where In The World Is God?
Anjali Kumar joins us to talk about visiting shamans, witches, faith healers and many other figures to examine her belief system.
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When Sex Got Political
R. Marie Griffith joins us to talk about how the split between liberal Protestants and more conservative Christians set the stage for many of the cultural battles still fought today.
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What If God Was One of Us?
Reza Aslan talks about his latest work of religious scholarship, which digs into the historical desire to humanize the divine.
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