Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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As Jim prepares to step out of the hosting chair, he welcomes Anne as the new TTBOOK host and reflects on his long career in radio. We also hear listeners' letters to Jim.
Julia Sweeney grew up Catholic, but lost her faith and left the Church.
Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
Here's our extended conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and imagining the future.
Robert Baer, CIA agent turned novelist is also a film-maker. His documentary is called "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber" and it's scarier than anything Hollywood is producing.
Joe Nick Patoski has been writing about his friend Willie Nelson for thirty five years. He talks about Nelson's first claim to fame in Nashville was as a songwriter.
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