Theologian Martin Marty tells Steve Paulson that The Rapture is a fairly recent concept and can't be found in the Bible.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What do the three Abrahamic religions have in common about the concept of heaven?
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.
Author Jonathan Lethem talks to Jim Fleming about his "Harper's" Magazine essay, "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism."
"Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong"
So maybe you're not going to be the next Richard Pryor.
Even if you don't get many more laughs, you can laugh more. Katie West tells us how.
Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.
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