Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; NPR/TED Staff (NPR.org, 11-24-13); SCPR.org
Believers and Doubters
Why
do some of us believe in something greater than ourselves, while
others of us do not? Can our doubts bring our beliefs into sharper
focus? Or what is the difference between belief and faith? TED speakers,
courtesy of Guy Raz and National Public Radio, offer personal
perspectives on belief from all ends of the spectrum, from ardent
atheists to the devout faithful.
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| Devil vs. Super Devil ("Family Guy") |
First, the daughter of the Christian televangelist
Billy Graham,
Anne Graham Lotz, speaking for her elderly father on the difference between (rational) belief and (emotional) faith.
Lesley Hazleton asks,
Is doubt essential to faith? Former Catholic and SNL comedienne
Julia Sweeny explores the journey,
How does a person go from believer to atheist? Then
Alain de Botton asks,
What can atheism learn from religion? Finally, Indian Hindu intellectual
Devdutt Pattanaik wants to know,
Are there any universal beliefs and truths? LISTEN
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| Kimberly Reed (themoth.org, 11-12-13) |
A high school quarterback leaves Montana as a promising son and returns
years later to reveal a shocking secret; a boy from Sierra Leone
describes his transformation from innocent child to cold-hearted
soldier; a teenage girl discovers how to control her errant parrot; and a
construction worker discovers the up-side of his girlfriend’s one-year
prison sentence.
LISTEN
Storytelling with a Beat
(
SnapJudgment.org)
American life is much richer and diverse than we usually get to hear on
NPR. Host Glynn Washington is doing something, bringing us Snap
Judgment's amazing array of stories with extras only available to the
podcast audience and the story-behind-the-stories on
Facebook.
This American Life
(
512: House Rules, 11-22-13)
Where we live is important. It can dictate the quality of the schools and
hospitals we have access to, as well as things we will experience -- like cancer rates, unemployment statistics, or whether
the city repairs roads in our neighborhood. On this week's show,
stories about "destiny by geography."
Much of this story is told to Nancy Updike by
ProPublica reporter Nikole
Hannah-Jones, whose series on the Fair Housing laws in modern America -- with more
stories, research, and interviews — is
here.
More comedy, more stories:
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