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05.08.08
Drawing Strength from Many Traditions
"After my conversation with Karen Armstrong, I felt that her personal trajectory of faith strengthens her personal appeal for modern readers. She is a formidable intellectual, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur, in the full sense of the Latin root of that word 'amateur' — 'a lover' of her subject."
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05.01.08
The Humanness of Being Catholic
"When Pope Benedict's visit to the U.S. was announced, it seemed a right moment had come. We wanted, as is our way, to look searchingly, but from inside a perspective of faith. I began to interview a few leaders and theologians recommended as wise and authoritative in the deepest sense of that word..."
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04.24.08
Nature's Coded Wisdom
"[Wangari Maathai] is a 68-year-old force of nature, with a beautiful face and flashing black eyes. She is palpably gracious but rather subdued until she starts speaking about her work. Then, sitting across from her, it is not hard to imagine that this woman has stood up to a dictator and won, and that she has fought off encroaching desert by leading thousands of people to plant 30 million trees."
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04.17.08
A Time of "Evolution" and "Maturation"
"I am fascinated this year by how some of the religious dynamics of recent electoral cycles have been turned on their head. Public faith ceased to be the sole domain of Republicans at the very outset of this presidential campaign. And now that we are down to three candidates, the contrast with 2000 and 2004 could not be more stark..."
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04.10.08
Brother Thây: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh
"This is one of the gentlest programs we've created, and one of the most far-reaching and practical in its effect — if e-mail correspondence is taken as a guide. I hope that you find courage, as I do every time I listen with fresh ears, in this program's reflections on spiritual 'technologies' for lived compassion — even in the face of wars of terror and the everyday anger and fears inside us."
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