Faith/Religion/Spirituality

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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

Jim Wallis, America's Original Sin

Airs at: Sun, 04/17/2016 at 12:00am
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

The World is Churning

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
    Join us for the second part of our in depth conversation with renowned storyteller, author and scholar of mythology,  anthropology and phsycology, Michael Meade. Some of his books include Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul and Why the World Doesn't End, ... Read more

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