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2034: Welcome to the Holy Lands

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Ubu Hour
Welcome to the year 2034, fifty years after 1984. Refugees flee religious extremists in white robes. People try to cope in the face of out of control climate change and world upheaval.. The Ubu Hour presents the futuristic radio theater drama: 2034: WELCOME TO THE HOLY LAND... Read more

Joseph Lumbard, The Study Qur'an

Airs at: Sun, 01/31/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
In the second in my series, "Islam 101: Meet Your Muslim Neighbor" I speak with Joseph Lumbard.  He is the General Editor of The Study Qur'an:  A New Translation and Commentary.   Dr. Lumbard is a professor at the American University of Sharjah in the Department of Arabic a... Read more

Ali Houdroge, Islamic Center of Portland

Airs at: Sun, 01/24/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
With the increase in instances of Islamophobia and certain presidential candidates calling for "a ban on all Muslim travel to the U.S.," it is long past time to get to know our neighbors.  For the next several weeks I am presenting a series, "Meet Your Muslim Neighbor."   A... Read more

Tom Boyd, Lusting For Infinity

Airs at: Sun, 01/17/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
They went into the wilderness to discover religion.  What is it all about?  Why are people religious?  The adventure is recounted in Dr. Tom Boyd's, Lusting For Infinity:  A Spiritual Odyssey.   Dr. Boyd is professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies at the Unive... Read more

John Van Hagen, Rescuing Religion

Airs at: Sun, 01/10/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
John Van Hagen is a licensed psychologist with 30 years experience in a variety of clinical, training, and teaching positions.   In his book  Rescuing Religion: How Faith Can Survive Its Encounter With Science, he offers a way to retain a connection to biblical stories even... Read more

Steve McIntosh, The Presence of the Infinite

Airs at: Sun, 01/03/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Steve McIntosh is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and is president of the social policy foundation The Institute for Cultural Evolution.   Steve is the author of Evolution's Purpose and Integral Consciousness and he speaks to me about his latest book, The Prese... Read more

Robin Meyers, Spiritual Defiance

Airs at: Sat, 12/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Robin Meyers has been the senior pastor of Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City for over thirty years.  He has a strong voice for social justice and has pulled no punches criticizing forms of Christianity co-opted by the religious right.  His books include Savin... Read more

Diana Butler Bass, Grounded

Airs at: Sat, 12/19/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Following her last book, Christianity After Religion, religious scholar, Diana Butler Bass, returns to Religion For Life to ask, "Where is God?" The answer that many of the "spiritual but not religious" are discovering is that God is in the world of nature and human relatio... Read more

Rodney Wilson, Killing God

Airs at: Sun, 12/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Rodney Wilson teaches school at a community college in Missouri. He was the first openly-gay K-12 public school teacher in Missouri and founded LGBT History Month (October).  He has a master's degree in religion and history and he turned his master's thesis into a book, Kil... Read more

Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God

Airs at: Sun, 12/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Twenty-five percent of all the people incarcerated in the world are in America's prisons.  60% of those are people of color.   America is a "carceral state."  Taking on "Lockdown America" a triad of "police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty" Mark Lewis Tayl... Read more