Why has the story of Abraham and Isaac inspired generations of religious martyrs? Bruce Chilton tells us why.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Emily Gould became an Internet celebrity for her writing on Gawker, a popular New York City blog.
Christine Maggiore is HIV positive. She denies that HIV causes AIDS and says science is abandoning its own model of proving a theory.
Craig Werner tells Jim Fleming that the Soul Music of the 1970s combined the secular and the sacred and was heavily influenced by gospel music.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
Who's the real Barack Obama? Biographer David Maraniss traveled around the world searching for answers. He says Obama's life is surrounded in mythology.
Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International magazine and the author of “The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.” He talks about how free elections are not the answer for the third world.
This book really got us excited. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic.And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. And who is this Luigi Serafini? Is he the author?
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