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John Loftus, How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from An Atheist

Airs at: Sun, 05/01/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
John Loftus was an evangelical minister.  He has several degrees in Christian apologetics.  He pastored churches and taught at Christian colleges.  Then he left it all.   He has written a dozen books with titles such as Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Ch... Read more

John Loftus on "How To Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from An Atheist"

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Host John Shuck speaks with John Loftus about "How To Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from An Atheist." John W. Loftus is an American author and atheist activist who writes about his conversion from Christianity to atheism. During his almost twenty years as an evange... Read more

Conversations With Coach RJ: The 'ME' in Mommy

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Mother’s Day is May 8th. Mom: a loving, rewarding, gratifying assignment. It’s also challenging, selfless work with years of noble, dedicated sacrifice. What a joy having and being a mom, or “like a mom”! A celebration of mothers is well-deserved, giving thanks and expressi... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

John Loftus, How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from An Atheist

Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
John Loftus was an evangelical minister.  He has several degrees in Christian apologetics.  He pastored churches and taught at Christian colleges.  Then he left it all.   He has written a dozen books with titles such as Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Chr... Read more

May Day - Twining the Green, the Black, and the Red

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
“May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an esse... Read more

Terry Lindvall, God Mocks

Airs at: Sun, 04/24/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
What is the purpose of satire?  It is it effective?  Can it get you in trouble?  Terry Lindvall is the CS Lewis Professor of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan College.  He writes about humor and in his latest book, God Mocks:  A History of Religious S... Read more

Remi Kenazi

Airs at: Fri, 04/22/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  One Land Many Voices
We hear a talk by Remi Kanazi,  a Palestinian-American performance poet and human rights activist based in New York City. His latest book is : Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine   He is the editor of the anthology of... Read more

Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin

Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners, is an evangelical Christian with a social conscience. He speaks and writes about ethics and public policy. His latest book is called America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to A New America. He has bee... Read more

John Shelby Spong, Biblical Literalism

Airs at: Sun, 04/10/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
A pioneer of the progressive Christian movement, John Shelby Spong, returns for the third time to Progressive Spirit.  We discuss his 25th book, Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy. The retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark demonstrates that the gospel writers were not writi... Read more