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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Jeffrey Robbins is Chair and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon
Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of eight
books. He is a Westar Fellow and a member of the new "God and the Human
Future" Seminar. He along with Thomas Sheehan ...
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Martin Winiecki is the coordinator of the Institute for Global Peace Work
in Tamera, Portugal. Terra Nova is a movement, a school, a community, and
a vision for a world at peace. He speaks with me about the community and
the book he helped translate from German by Dr. D...
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Jerry Coyne is a professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the
University of Chicago. He specializes in understanding the origin of
species. In addition to numerous scientific papers and his scholarly book
in his field, Speciation, he is the author of the p...
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Peter Watson is an intellectual historian and the author of fifteen books on
the history of ideas. His latest book is The Age of Atheists: How We Have
Sought to Live Since the Death of God. He traces the history of atheism from
Nietzsche to Dawkins. His book is a fascinatin...
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Ryan Bell, a former Seventh Day Adventist Pastor, tried an experiment. What
would life be like if he spent a year without God? He blogged about his
adventure at Year Without God. He talks about that year, what he is doing
now, and his new podcast, Life After God. Ryan i...
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In the second of my three-part series on ex-ministers, I speak with Pat
Green. When the ministry ended for Pat due to his commitment to same-gender
marriage, he left the church and scrambled to find work. He ended up
driving a taxi in the Chicago area. That is where his ...
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My conversation with David Hayward of Naked Pastor kicks off a three-part
series on ex-preachers, preachers who have left their careers in organized
religion. Pat Green left the ministry and now drives a taxi. Ryan
Bell took a year off from God and stayed there. David H...
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Gretta Vosper, a minister in the United Church of Canada, and pastor
of West Hill United Church in Toronto, Ontario, is under fire from her
denomination. Like many clergy, myself included, she doesn't believe in a
supernatural, interventionist god, or a god called God. She ...
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One of the most interesting (and entertaining) scholars with two Ph. D.'s,
Robert M. Price, talks with me about three books: The Historical Bejeezus:
What A Long Strange Quest It Has Been, The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The
Search for the Historical Paul, and Preaching Decon...
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The murder of Trayvon Martin clinched the deal for Kelly Brown Douglas,
Episcopal priest, and professor of religion at Goucher College. She decided
she had to write a book about America's racism. She had to write about what
it means to be a mother of a black male child in A...
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