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Martin Winiecki, Global Revolution

Airs at: Sun, 10/18/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Martin Winiecki is the coordinator of the Institute for Global Peace Work in Tamera, Portugal.   Terra Nova is a movement, a school, a community, and a vision for a world at peace.  He speaks with me about the community and the book he helped translate from  German by Dr. D... Read more

Jerry Coyne, Faith Vs. Fact

Airs at: Sat, 10/10/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Jerry Coyne is a professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago.   He specializes in understanding the origin of species.  In addition to numerous scientific papers and his scholarly book in his field, Speciation, he is the author of the p... Read more

Peter Watson, The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

Airs at: Sun, 10/04/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Peter Watson is an intellectual historian and the author of fifteen books on the history of ideas. His latest book is The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God. He traces the history of atheism from Nietzsche to Dawkins. His book is a fascinatin... Read more

First Day of Retail Pot Sales in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Today was the first day of legal retail pot sales in Oregon, and spirits were high at dispensaries across the Portland area. In this piece, KBOO reporter Jim Thompson speaks with customers lines up outside Shango's, a dispensary in Hillsboro, followed by KBOO reporter Doug ... Read more

The Psychology of Mass Shootings

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
After a mass shooting claimed ten lives this morning at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, President Obama adressed the nation with visible frustration, saying, "[Thoughts and prayers do] not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel, and it does noth... Read more

Douglas County Residents Respond to Roseburg Shooting

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On the morning of October 1, a gunman entered Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and killed at least ten people and injured twenty before being killed by law enforcement. Residents of Douglas County are still in shock over today’s events but they are pulling together. Vig... Read more

Ryan Bell, Life After God

Airs at: Sat, 09/26/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Ryan Bell, a former Seventh Day Adventist Pastor, tried an experiment. What would life be like if he spent a year without God?  He blogged about his adventure at Year Without God.  He talks about that year, what he is doing now, and his new podcast, Life After God.   Ryan i... Read more

Pat Green, Night Moves: An Ex-preacher's Journey to Hell in a Taxi

Airs at: Sun, 09/20/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
In the second of my three-part series on ex-ministers, I speak with Pat Green. When the ministry ended for Pat due to his commitment to same-gender marriage, he left the church and scrambled to find work.  He ended up driving a taxi in the Chicago area.   That is where his ... Read more

David Hayward, Questions Are the Answer

Airs at: Sun, 09/13/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
My conversation with David Hayward of Naked Pastor kicks off a three-part series on ex-preachers, preachers who have left their careers in organized religion.  Pat Green left the ministry and now drives a taxi.  Ryan Bell took a year off from God and stayed there.   David H... Read more

Greta Vosper, A god called God

Airs at: Sun, 09/06/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Gretta Vosper, a minister in the United Church of Canada, and pastor of West Hill United Church in Toronto, Ontario, is under fire from her denomination. Like many clergy, myself included, she doesn't believe in a supernatural, interventionist god, or a god called God. She ... Read more