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Seth Godin — The Art of Noticing, and Then Creating

202

Reza Aslan — Islam's Reformation

203

Bernard Chazelle — Discovering the Cosmology of Bach

204

Nadia Bolz-Weber — Seeing the Underside and Seeing God: Tattoos, Tradition, and Grace

205

Scott Atran — Hopes and Dreams in a World of Fear

206

Michel Martin — The Fabric of Our Identity

207

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Jonathan Sacks, Et Al. — Pursuing Happiness

208

Richard Rodriguez — The Fabric of Our Identity

209

Imani Perry — The Fabric of Our Identity

210

Dan Barber — Driven by Flavor

211

Adele Diamond — The Science of Attention

212

Anita Desai and Andrew Robinson — The Modern Resonance of Rabindranath Tagore

213

Seane Corn — Yoga, Meditation in Action

214

Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Memory

215

Steven Waldman and Philip Hamburger — The Long Experiment of American Democracy (July 3, 2014)

216

Stuart Brown — Play, Spirit, and Character

217

Rosanne Cash, Time Traveler (June 5, 2014)

218

Maria Tatar — The Great Cauldron of Story: Why Fairy Tales are for Adults Again (May 8, 2014)

219

Jaroslav Pelikan — The Need for Creeds (Apr. 24, 2014)

220

Avivah Zornberg — The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses, and God (April 10, 2014)

221

Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (April 3, 2014)

222

Desmond Tutu — A God Of Surprises (Mar 20, 2014)

223

Brian McLaren — The Equation of Change (Mar 13, 2014)

224

Sherwin Nuland — The Biology of the Spirit (Mar 6, 2014)

225

Bobby McFerrin — Catching Song (Feb 27, 2014)

226

Paul Elie — Faith Fired by Literature (Feb 20, 2014)

227

David Hartman — Hope In a Hopeless God (Feb 6, 2014)

228

Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Paul Lederach, and Michael Orange — Justice and a Just War (Nov 9, 2001)

229

Robert Pollack, Rami Nashabishi, Lisa Lampman, and others — The Problem Of Evil (Feb 15, 2002)

230

Parker Palmer, Phyllis Tickle, Ingrid Mattson + others — The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11 (Sep 5 2002)

231

Mario Cuomo and Mark Souder — Faith and Politics in America (Feb 20, 2003)

232

Peter J. Gomes, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Chris Hedges — Religion in a Time of War (April 25, 2003)

233

Thomas Moore, Debra Haffner, and Anthony Ugolnik — Spirituality and Sexuality (Jun 27, 2003)

234

Rebecca Chopp, Kecia Ali + Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen — Women, Marriage, and Religion (Aug 1, 2003)

235

John Lipscomb and Catherine Roskam — Homosexuality and The Divided Church (Aug 8, 2003)

236

Roberta Bondi, Michele Balamani, Anoushka Shankar, and others — Patterns of Prayer (Nov 27, 2003)

237

Charles Haynes, Philip Hamburger + Cheryl Crazy Bull — Religious Liberty in America (Jan 15, 2004)

238

Michael Cromartie and E. J. Dionne — Religion on the Campaign Trail (Jan 22, 2004)

239

Coleen Rowley and Tim McGuire — Work and Conscience (Feb 12, 2004)

240

Ahmed H. al-Rahim — A Perspective on Islam in Iraq (Mar 4, 2004)

241

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Richard Hays, and Linda Loving — Passover and Easter (Apr 8, 2004)

242

David Fox-Benton and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation (May 27, 2004)

243

Robert Franklin and Margaret Poloma — Pentecostalism in America (Jun 10, 2004)

244

Joseph Califano — Religion and Politics (Jul 14, 2004)

245

Khaled Abou El Fadl, Richard Mouw + Yossi Klein Halevi — The Power of Fundamentalism (Aug 19 2004)

246

Steven Waldman — Beyond The God Gap (Sep 16, 2004)

247

Carl Feit, Anne Foerst, and Lindon Eaves — Science and Being (Sep 23, 2004)

248

Vincent Cornell — Violence and Crisis in Islam (Sep 30, 2004)

249

Sharon Salzberg, Lawrence Kushner, Anne Lamott, and Omid Safi — The Meaning of Faith (Oct 7, 2004)

250

Muqtedar Khan and Cheryl Sanders — The Other Religious America in Election 2004 (Oct 21, 2004)

251

Robert Coles, Diane Komp, and Carol Dittberner — Children and God (Dec 16, 2004)

252

Steven Waldman — The Future of Moral Values (Jan 20, 2005)

253

Phyllis Tickle + Lynn Clark — A Return To Mystery: Religion, Fantasy + Entertainment (Feb 3, 2005)

254

Laurie Zoloth — A Theological Perspective on Cloning

255

Joel Marcus — The Jewish Roots of the Christian Story

256

Sylvia Poggioli, Donald Cozzens, and Margaret A. Farley — The Religious Legacy of John Paul II

257

Jelle de Boer and Ursula Goodenough — The Morality of Nature

258

Debbie Morris, Helen Prejean, and Elie Spitz — Reflections on the Death Penalty in America

259

Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad — Serving Country, Serving Allah

260

Khaled Abou El Fadl and Harold M. Schulweis — Religion and Our World in Crisis

261

Joseph L. Price — In Praise Of Play

262

Kecia Ali, Omid Safi, Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, and Michael Wolfe — Progressive Islam in America

263

Miroslav Volf — Religion and Violence

264

James K. A. Smith and Nancey Murphy — Evangelicals, Out of the Box

265

Joan Brown Campbell and Thomas Hoyt, Jr. — Living Reconciliation Two Ecumenical Pioneers

266

Don Saliers and Edward Foley — The Meaning of Communion: At the Table

267

Joan Halifax — A Midwife to the Dying

268

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith — Living Vodou (Jan 9, 2014)

269

Marilynne Robinson + Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are (Jan 2, 2013)

270

Alberto Ambrosio + Elpidophoros Lambriniadis — Spiritual Boundaries in Modern Turkey (Aug 2, 2012)

271

Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons — The Next Christians (Sep 20, 2012)

272

Sen. Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin — Political Bridge People (Oct 25, 2012)

273

Sherry Turkle — Alive Enough? Reflecting — Our Technology (Nov 15, 2012)

274

Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad — No More Taking Sides (Nov 29, 2012)

275

Kate Braestrup — A Presence in the Wild (Dec 13, 2012)

276

Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives and a Science of Mindfulness (Dec 27, 2012)

277

Tami Simon — Inner Life at Work: Business, Meditation, and Technology (May 30, 2013)

278

Omid Safi and Seemi Bushra Ghazi — The Spirit of Islam (Jan 6, 2005)

279

Where Was God? (Sep 22, 2001)

280

Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination (Dec 19, 2013)

281

Phil Donahue — Transformation, On-Screen and Off (Dec 12, 2013)

282

Vincent Harding and Phyllis Tickle — Racial Identity in the Emerging Church and the World

283

Martin Rees — Cosmic Origami and What We Don't Know

284

Ira Byock — Contemplating Mortality (Nov 7, 2013)

285

Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places

286

David Sloan Wilson — Evolving a City

287

Keith Devlin — The Joy of Math and Learning and What it Means to Be Human

288

Arthur Zajonc — Holding Life Consciously (Sep 12, 2013)

289

Natalie Batalha — Exoplanets and Love: Science That Connects Us to One Another (Aug 29, 2013)

290

Kwame Anthony Appiah — Sidling Up to Difference: Social Change and Moral Revolutions (Aug 15 2013)

291

Sylvia Earle — Her Deepness (Aug 8, 2013)

292

David Montgomery — Reading The Rocks: Flood Stories and Deep Time (Aug 1, 2013)

293

David Gushee and Frances Kissling — Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue (July 25, 2013)

294

Meredith Monk's Voice (June 27, 2013)

295

Sarah Kay's Way with Words (June 13, 2013)

296

S. James Gates — Uncovering the Codes for Reality (June 6, 2013)

297

Andrew Zolli — A Shift to Humility: Resilience and Expanding the Edge of Change (May 16, 2013)

298

Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture (May 9, 2013)

299

Lawrence Krauss — Our Origins and the Weight of Space

300

Alan Rabinowitz — A Voice for the Animals (April 18, 2013)