British novelist Zadie Smith tells Steve Paulson why she admires writers who don’t sound just like her. Her book “On Beauty” owes a lot to E.M. Forster...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Karen King tells Anne Strainchamps that there are many early Christian texts that didn't make it into the Bible.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company perform an even further abridged version of their theatrical show "The Bible: The Complete Word of God" - abridged.
Garry Wills tells Jim Fleming that we know very little about the historical Jesus and that it doesn't matter because faith does not depend on historical facts.
Renowned biologist E.O. Wilson talks with Steve Paulson about the difficulty of reconciling science and religion.
Kazuo Ishiguro talks with Steve Paulson about his book about a boarding school full of cloned children bred to donate their organs.
Cultural critic Stanley Crouch tells Steve Paulson that Americans have some pretty messed up ideas about what it means to be authentic.
Historian Garry Wills details Jefferson’s complex relationship with slavery and says its legacy still haunts us.
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