Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She’s also written several works of fiction in which she explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality. In this conversation, Anchee Min tells us what she learned about the human spirit in the forced labor camp in which she spent her teenage years, and how she’s found healing in America.
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#022: Surviving the Religion of Mao (Speaking of Faith)
Monday, October 22nd, 2007From Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life”
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Anyone remember this song?
Fun stuff…now set to NASA animation !!!!
#020: Cornel West and Mos Def on Real Time w/ Bill Maher
Thursday, October 18th, 2007episode 107
Premiered September 7, 2007
Guests: Scholar Cornel West and rapper/actor Mos Def. Via satellite, consumer advocate Ralph Nader and Colonel Larry Wilkerson.
Monster Camp
Friday, July 13th, 2007This is hilarious. Apparently it’s a documentary about World of Warcraft fans who are staging a real life World of Warcraft event (”Live Action Role Playing” or LARP’ing).
What a beautiful world we live in.
#008: Radiowest — Sicko
Saturday, June 30th, 2007SALT LAKE CITY, UT (2007-06-27) The new film Sicko may present some typical Michael Moore theatrics, but in it, Moore poses some important questions about health care in the United States. Who are we as a nation if we allow 44 million people to go uninsured? Thursday, we’ll look at Canadian politician and icon Tommy Douglas who fought for universal coverage in the early 1960s. Some 50 years later, and the United States remains embroiled in a similar debate. Doug talks to Gregory Marchildon of the University of Regina and to Gerard Anderson of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about what the US can learn from other health care models, and why it is we seem so reluctant to change.
#007: Speaking of Faith — The New Monastics
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Shane Claiborne is an original voice, a creative spirit, in a gathering movement of young people known as the “new monastics.” With virtues like simplicity and imagination, they are engaging great contradictions of our culture — beginning with the gap between the churches they were raised in, the needs of the poor, and the “loneliness” they find in our culture’s vision of adulthood.
Are The Following Religious Questions Fair Game for Mitt Romney?
Monday, June 25th, 2007In light of the ruckus made by Senators McCain and Brownback, and Mayor Rudy Guliani about Mitt Romney’s religion, and since my concerns as a Mormon about Mitt Romney have already reached the public domain, I would like to take the opportunity that this strange confluence of events affords to ask my fellow Mormons a few questions.
First…..my biases: (more…)
Moving my blog to http://johndehlin.com
Friday, June 15th, 2007My blog has traditionally been located at: http://johndehlin.com/blog
I am moving it today to: http://johndehlin.com
For those interested, please update your RSS feeds accordingly….
Collins: Why this scientist believes in God
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
This is a cool piece (from my buddy Marion).
CNN.COM: POSTED: 6:15 p.m. EDT, April 4, 2007
Editor’s note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. His most recent book is “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.”
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) — I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.
As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God’s language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God’s plan.
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked “What do you believe, doctor?”, I began searching for answers. (more…)