Faith/Religion/Spirituality

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Robin Meyers, Spiritual Defiance

Airs at: Sat, 12/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Diana Butler Bass, Grounded

Airs at: Sat, 12/19/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Rodney Wilson, Killing God

Airs at: Sun, 12/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God

Airs at: Sun, 12/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Peter Steinberger, The Problem With God

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Mary Pflum Peterson, White Dresses

Airs at: Sun, 11/15/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Eric Elnes, Gifts of the Dark Wood

Airs at: Sun, 11/08/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Val Webb, Testing Tradition and Liberating Theology

Airs at: Sun, 11/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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... Read more

Joseph Baker, American Secularism

Airs at: Sun, 11/22/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
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 ... Read more

Salvation Army Story

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Paul Sowards is a bell ringer for the Salvation Army in Wilsonville, Oregon. He says the organization has saved his life as well as let him reach out to people in his own unique way. But for a secular community like Portland, the Salvation Army is viewed skeptically for ... Read more