KBOO is proud to be broadcasting live from the Q Center for InQuisitive, another round of inter-community dialogues. InQuisitive invites interesting, intriguing guests for a 1:1 Q & A with Q Center’s Executive Director, Barbara McCullough-Jones. The guest is evangelical leader Kevin Palau, President of Luis Palau Association

The Luis Palau Association - an Oregon-based Evangelical ministry. Kevin joined the Palau Association in 1985 and began directing the day-today operation of the ministry in the late 1990s. Under his leadership, LPA has produced some of the largest Christian events ever staged.

Hosted by Denise Morris, this episode covers a wide variety of topics: the current situation in Egypt, an imaginary encounter between Nietzsche and Freud in Vienna, an upcoming workshop on surviving and thriving in oppressive times, and how Studs Terkel dealt with agents of McCarthyism in the 1950s.  

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1.  Middle-east expert Stephen Zunes talks with Old Mole Bill Resnick about Egypt and its prospects for democratic change.

 Fabian Romero, queer Chicano poet, performance artist and community organizer, helped to found several writing and performance groups including Hijas de Su Madre, Las Mamalogues and Mixed Messages:
Stories by People of Color.  Here he talks with the Old Mole's Joe Clement about a workshop "Self-preservation in Times of Oppression" that he will be facilitating at In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth, Portland, on Saturday, December 15.   This self-reflective workshop is meant to address everyday struggles that can accumulate and result in burn out.  For more information, click here.  

Andrew Solomon has just written a book called "Far from the Tree."  In it, he looks at how a handful of ancient conditions that are part of the human condition affect children and the parents who love them.  Don Merrill talks with Andrew Solomon about why he did the book, why it seems to resonate so deeply with people and how much he had in common with the people he wrote about.