Phillip Jenkins is the author of “The Next Christendom: The Coming of Age of Global Christianity.” Jenkins tells Steve Paulson that Christianity may be declining in the nations of the industrialized West, but Pentecostalism is experiencing explosive growth in Latin America and Africa.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Tucker is a child psychiatrist and director of the University of Virginia's project on children's memories of previous lives.
Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith tell Anne Strainchamps how they got started soliciting six-word memoirs, recite some of their favorites, and say that crafting them can become an addiction.
Jan Harold Brunvand reviews some of his favorite urban legends for Steve Paulson and explains that they always happened to a friend of a friend.
John Landis talks about his new book, "Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares."
Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests. She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.
Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house. So he wrote a song about it!
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