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Episode 003: Interview with an Ex-Pimp, Ex-Gang Member, and Ex-Prostitute

Airs at: Tue, 08/11/2015 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Justice Hope Freedom
The story of Raymond Grant.  Once a gang member, pimp and prostitute, he is now giving back. He is sharing his story to deter others from that lifestyle. Click here to listen to Episode 003!   Read more

Episode 002: Human Trafficking Sergeant Discusses Domestic Sex Trafficking

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2015 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Produced for Justice Hope Freedom
Molly McDade-Hood, Multnomah County, Human Trafficking Sergeant discusses the issue and sex trafficking and domestic sex trafficking.  She talks about pimps, victims, buyers and more. Click here to listen to Episode 002! Read more

Justice Hope Freedom

Purpose: Justice. Hope. Freedom. Learn about the issues of sex trafficking & exploitation and where this issue intersects with other societal ills such as violence, abuse, poverty, gangs, etc.  Here I will highlight individuals and organizations that are working to bring ju... Read more

Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise

Airs at: Sun, 06/12/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Krista Tippett is the host of NPR’s On Being. It is a show that asks, “What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live?” She was trained as a journalist and reported from divided Berlin. She received a Masters of Divinity Degree from Yale in 1994 and turned her att... Read more

Patricia Tull, Inhabiting Eden

Airs at: Sun, 06/05/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
Patricia Tull is an ordained Presbyterian minister and professor of Hebrew Bible.  She retired from Louisville Theological Seminary where she is A.B. Rhodes Professor Emerita of Old Testament.  She is the author of Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological ... Read more

Wendy Doniger on Redeeming the Kamasutra

Airs at: Fri, 06/03/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Progressive Spirit
  Host John Shuck speaks with Wendy Doniger, a leading Indian/Hinduism scholar, about her latest book, Redeeming the Kamasutra, which argues for the restoration of The Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon. Doniger finds The Kamasutra a liberating text for wo... Read more

Steve Theme, Asphalt Asylum

Airs at: Sun, 05/29/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
“I didn’t squander my youth on responsibility,” quips Steve Theme, author of Asphalt Asylum: The Dark Roads to Light.   It is part hitchhiking journal, part mythic adventure as Steve Theme tells the story of his 7,000 mile hitchhiking quest to run away and find home again. ... Read more

Joseph T. Reiff, Born of Conviction

Airs at: Sun, 05/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
On September 29th, 1962, Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett spoke before a halftime crowd at a University of Mississippi football game.  He said he loved Mississippi's heritage.   This compelled him to personally block African-American James Meredith from enrolling at Ole Mi... Read more

Wendy Doniger, Redeeming the Kamasutra

Airs at: Sat, 05/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
The Kamasutra brings to mind (and to Google searches) erotic and exotic sexual positions.   OK, it is that.  But it is much more.  It is about the art of living.   Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of ... Read more

Dan Barker, God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

Airs at: Sun, 05/08/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
America’s leading atheist, the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and co-host of Freethought Radio, Dan Barker, talks about his latest book, God the Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (audiobook)   The roots of the book go to Richard Dawkins’ famous... Read more