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November 13, 2009: Listen Now

November 13, 2009: Listen Now

Listen to this week's show.

Posted: Nov 12th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 123   
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November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall

November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall

"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 378   
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November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview

November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview

Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 7   Views: 367   
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November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good

November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good

Hastings Center bioethicist and philosopher Daniel Callahan says the common good as a moral value should be the foundation for American health care reform, but it has been largely absent from the current public debate.

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 1   Views: 318   
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November 6, 2009: The Aim of Health Care

November 6, 2009: The Aim of Health Care

Read an excerpt from a new book on medical technology costs and health care by Daniel Callahan, who advocates "an open discussion on what counts as good or bad choices, wise or imprudent ones, and our social obligations to our community as we make them."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 228   
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November 6, 2009: City Creek Center

November 6, 2009: City Creek Center

City planner Stephen Goldsmith says this private development project of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints creates a "we-they" divide. Jason Mathis of Salt Lake City's Downtown Alliance says the church is creating "a community that is going to last for the next hundred years."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 25   Views: 423   
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November 6, 2009: Healing the Wounds of War

November 6, 2009: Healing the Wounds of War

Revisit our November 2007 Web-only essay on the spiritual and moral pain of war. "My sense is that this is a fundamentally religious issue," says clinical psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, a combat trauma expert.

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 232   
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November 6, 2009: Listen Now

November 6, 2009: Listen Now

Listen to this week's show.

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 140   
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October 30, 2009: New Federal Hate Crimes Law

October 30, 2009: New Federal Hate Crimes Law

A recent expansion of the federal hate crimes law "does not suspend the First Amendment," says New York Times staff writer David Kirkpatrick, "and there's nobody, I think, on either side of the US Senate or House of Representatives that intends to see preachers locked in jail."

Posted: Oct 30th, 2009  Comments: 11   Views: 412   
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October 30, 2009: Muslims in Germany

October 30, 2009: Muslims in Germany

Germany has twice as many mosques as the United States, but it still has a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for Muslim immigrants and their children.

Posted: Oct 30th, 2009  Comments: 3   Views: 387   
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