Archive for August, 2007

#018: The Ethics of Eating

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

From Speaking of Faith — Barbara Kingsolver and the Ethics of Eating.

Gay Mount Everest

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

MAJOR ouch on this one….

#017: Mormon Bloggers Rise to Prominence

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Julie Rose rules.

Mitt Romney Unplugged

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this footage of Romney actually makes me like him more than I did before. What do you think?

#016: Richard Bushman on Radiowest

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Richard Bushman’s biography of Mormon founder Joseph Smith has been called the best book written about this extraordinary man. Bushman himself is a believer, and while he doesn’t pretend he isn’t invested in the crucial question of whether Smith was a visionary or a fraud, as an historian he’s more interested in trying to understand the mind of Joseph Smith and how he came to believe he spoke for God. Bushman has said that Smith isn’t interesting as a fraud, he’s interesting as a prophet. Richard Bushman joined us to talk his cultural biography of Mormonism’s founder. (Rebroadcast)

#015: No End in Sight — America’s Iraq Advistors Look Back in Anger

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

In the suburbs of Washington and all around the country today, there’s a small army of civilian and military experts and soldiers who did their time in Iraq and are now back, brooding, ashamed and angry.

They are angry about how badly wrong their mission went, about how they might have done it better, but mostly about how virtually all their best ideas and direst warnings were steadfastly ignored by the handful of men who led them.

This hour On Point: In a new documentary “No End in Sight,” those men and women look back in anger, and if you think you’ve heard it all, you haven’t.