From Speaking of Faith — Barbara Kingsolver and the Ethics of Eating.
Archive for August, 2007
#018: The Ethics of Eating
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Gay Mount Everest
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007MAJOR ouch on this one….
#017: Mormon Bloggers Rise to Prominence
Friday, August 17th, 2007Julie Rose rules.
Mitt Romney Unplugged
Saturday, August 4th, 2007I 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, 2007Richard 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, 2007In 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.