Progressive Spirit talks intelligently about spirituality and social justice. Listen to interviews with top scholars, authors, social justice activists, and spiritual leaders from around the world.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Peter Steinberger is the Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of
Political Science and Humanities at Reed College in Portland. His area of
expertise is political philosophy. But he ventured into a book about the
concept of God. It is called The Problem With God: Wh...
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Joseph Baker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at East
Tennessee State University. His latest book, American Secularism:
Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems, co-authored with Buster
G. Smith, explores the rise of secularity in the United ...
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Mary Pflum Peterson is an Emmy Award winning producer for Good Morning
America. She is a driven, highly successful television professional and
former reporter for CNN. Her childhood, however, was complicated. Her
mother suffered an emotional breakdown and took solace in...
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Eric Elnes is a minister in the United Church of Christ at Countryside
Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska and author of Gifts of the Dark Wood:
Seven Blessings for Soulful Skeptics (and Other Wanderers). He is also
the author of The Phoenix Affirmations: A New Vision f...
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Val Webb is a theologian and scientist from Australia. She is the author of
nine books including her latest Testing Tradition and Liberating Theology:
Finding Your Own Voice. She returns to Religion For Life to speak with me
about the importance of being critical of theolog...
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