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American Songcatcher

Nicholas Edward Williams

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Tracing the roots of American music from its cultured past to artists playing it forward, folk musician, musicologist and host Nicholas Edward Williams takes listeners on a unique documentary-style podcast experience. Dive into the stories of centuries-old Traditional songs and migrants who carried their musical heritage here, and uncover the lives of pioneers and integral musicians who created and shaped styles such as Bluegrass, Ragtime, Jazz and Swing, Country, Gospel, Blues, Old-Time, an ...
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Guiding Grief

Nicholas J Welzenbach

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This podcast is a series of conversations around Something we all will feel and yet no one really talks about and we are never prepared for. Grief My goal is to provide a resource people can access to help them understand they are not alone as they experience grief. Stay tuned for Future episodes, we'll host: o Faith leaders with decades of experience helping people deal with grief o Hospice workers and Nurses sharing their experiences And other Guru's talking about the effect physically and ...
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Beyond the Vow

Nicholas and Janelle Lavender

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Welcome to Beyond the Vow! Beyond the Vow is hosted by Nick and Janelle Lavender and focuses on religious and marital topics. We delve into the ups and downs, the twists and turns, the victories, the struggles, and everything that a couple may encounter as they journey through life and faith together. Habits will be tested, boundaries will be stretched, views will be analyzed, and compromises have to be made. All this and MORE as we go "Beyond the Vow!" You can find us on Facebook by simply ...
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The HR Data Labs® podcast is dedicated to Human Resource professionals hearing the latest thoughts of innovators and experts from around the world of business focusing on HR Process, Technology, Regulations, Data and Analytics. Sometimes we may get passionate or a little carried away, but we are always fun and insightful. Merch store at http://hrdatalabs.com. HR Data Labs is a registered trademark of David Turetsky. Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off.
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The goal and purpose of this podcast is to help guide people to the truth about God, the Bible, and what we are supposed to do as Christians. Even though I may give some opinions, my opinions will be differentiated from scripture.
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Slap Chop is an opinionated news podcast that covers Politics, Health and Science and Tech news. While we may comment on conspiracy theories, we don't promote them. This is opinionated but all of information stated is from multiple news sources that are reliable. We're also not afraid to comment on idiocracy that happens around us.
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A band of porcine musicians have entered an international competition with the hopes of changing the world's unflattering prejudices concerning their species. An unknown opponent works behind the scenes, however, to sabotage the event. As pranks turn bloody, the swine find that more than their reputation is on the line. If they fail to help local authority capture their enemy, their very lives may be in danger.
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First Action Bureau

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Spy-fi audio drama starring Genevieve Gaunt, Sacha Dhawan, Paterson Joseph and Nicola Walker. From the worlds of Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson. Series Summary: The First Action Bureau exists to protect the Earth - near-utopian by 2068 - from criminal elements before they get the chance to act. Using decades of ‘big data’ and globally connected quantum artificial intelligence, the Bureau is able to predict criminal activity before it occurs. Nero Jones may be the best agent the Bureau h ...
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Welcome to Angry little Welshman and friends, the fortnightly, seasonal podcast exploring mental health, male attitudes towards it and anger, and in particular how we can use that to make positive change, I call angergy. In each episode, I will share my own mental health journey, as well as being joined by a special guest to hear their experiences on these topics and how they may be using their Angergy.
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Greenelines

Dr. Steve Greene

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Life is abundant. The Greenelines podcast provides interviews, commentary, and general yapping on the spiritual things of abundant living. Host Dr. Steve Greene invites you to come up higher and walk in God's abundance. Hear personal stories from Dr. Greene's and his guest. In John 10:10 Jesus says, "I came that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly."
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Compensating Controls

James Keeling on Podiobooks.com

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Nicholas Edgwood rides a wave of good karma–a job he excels at, a new girlfriend, and a bright future. When he gets framed for a cyber-crime he did not commit, he must run for his life while his entire world crumbles around him. Betrayal and murder replace peace and hope as he finds himself in unfamiliar territory. He may not be the biggest and baddest guy out there, but he has skills, the kind garnered from a career steeped in computers and code. Now he must leverage these skills to their f ...
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Stoke the Wild

Nicholas & Joy Dertinger

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Stoke the Wild was created by Nicholas and Joy Dertinger. Nicholas is a writer and illustrator. Joy is a researcher, linguist, and artist. This creative arts podcast is dedicated to discussing the things that inspire, invoke, and invite creativity within us through film, arts, literature, and culture. Each week we discuss topics and ideas related and designed to stretch and challenge us as well as push us towards creativity. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoke ...
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To the Echo Radio Show

Sit and Spin Radio Network

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To The Echo Radio Show is your top choice for entertainment radio. Hosts Nicholas O'Kelley and Derek Daisey talk about the newest trends in music, movies, video games and showcase rising artists. You may even hear some improv sketches and funny commercials along the way!
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Being Green

Fine Music Radio

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PROUDLY SPONSORED BY GERLINDE MOSER OF RE/MAX. Being Green – Your window on the environment broadcast every Friday morning at 9.30. Glynis Crook will focus on key issues affecting our lifestyles, science and research outcomes, the quest for sustainable living and a healthier planet.
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The Den

Nicholas Robinson

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The Den offers people an alternate view to many topics, you go into the den to have a conversation where you can be yourself and unfiltered. We will host topics that some people may not be comfortable with and guests with knowledge of those topics (most cases), however we are here for to have a fun, educational and entertaining time. Welcome to The Den, come in and have a seat. We promise it'll be worth it Topics include but not limited to: Health, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, unpopula ...
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Stories in the Cemetery

Stories in the Cemetery

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This podcast goes into questions about the paranormal that you may not hear on other podcasts along with personal investigations conducted by your host, Nicholas McGirr. The analytical approach to ghost hunting is portrayed throughout each episode with stats, data and raw material captured during investigations. McGirr has the unique opportunity to revisit several locations on a weekly routine looking for patterns, moon phase settings, along with those he brings with him during each investig ...
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Hernan Cattaneo described Kay 's work as "Quality Stuff !" After Shining in his Country in 2009 by winning the national mix competition , Kay did a lot appearances in many Radios (Mosaique FM , FNOOB , Groundworx ,..) in addition to gigs (Le First , Podium , Saint Tropez ,..) , before establishing his Own Radioshow at Insomnia FM . In 2011 , Kay begin makin his own tracks , gaining attention of many big artists . Lately in that year , he brings the attention of Ryan Luciano a huge producer & ...
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A Sickness in Time

MF Thomas & Nicholas Thurkettle

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Kirkus Reviews: "...pure exhilaration. The authors’ prose is, like the book overall, intelligent and comprehensive, especially with chic terminology like 'gravity wake,' a field created by accelerated particles, the essence of traversing space-time. Complex scientific notions in a story format prove equally entertaining and perceptive."In 2038, the human race is in a death spiral, and most people do not even know it yet. Technology that was supposed to make us better and stronger instead is ...
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"Get Real About Creativity: The Truth Behind Successful Creators and Their Never-Ending Journey to Redefine Success Metrics. No Magic Bullet Here!" - Nicholas Rhodes (Founder of OutSnapped.com) Are you tired of podcasts promising you an overnight transformation and a one-size-fits-all solution to success? Look no further! In "The Big Picture" podcast, Nicholas Rhodes aims to takes you on a journey to uncover the truth about the creative process and how successful creators continuously redefi ...
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The Philosophy Society Podcast

UWA Undergraduate Philosophy Society

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The Philosophy Society Podcast is the place where well supported opinions, beliefs and arguments are shared. Present your views and hear the views of other students and staff at the University of Western Australia as well as the broader philosophical community. Topics discussed may include but are not limited to epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, religion, politics, psychology, and sociology and their relation to philosophy. If you want to explore the big questions of life, reality, and the ...
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The Arktos Chronicles

Obrastoff, Indest, & Randle

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Theodore Andrew Obrastoff has been creating plays, musicals, rock music and more for over four decades. At one mystical juncture he created the region of Arktos and it’s chief city, Tighna. Within the borders of this very real and yet something more setting, Obrastoff provided an environment for many of his unreleased works. In a sense, Arktos is Mr. O’s Opus; his greatest work. It wasn’t until the Covid Epidemic struck that the inspiration to publish this idea came into focus. The center of ...
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The personal stories shared on this podcast serve as an extension of the book and video project, Voices of Hope. It is a living repository of faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sharing stories of how they seek to reconcile their sexual orientation or gender dysphoria, or of those they love, with their faith. You’ll hear how they have chosen to embrace the restored gospel, the inherent challenges they face, and how they’ve found peace and hope in their decisio ...
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What if you could help change or even save lives with very little effort? It may sound too good to be true, but in The Life You Can Save, world-renowned professor of bioethics Peter Singer shows us how small sacrifices can make a big impact and help end the needless suffering caused by extreme poverty. Listen to a free audiobook narrated by Kristen Bell, Stephen Fry, Paul Simon and more in The Life You Can Save podcast. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-life-y ...
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The Daily Gardener is a podcast about Garden History and Literature. The podcast celebrates the garden in an "on this day" format and every episode features a Garden Book. Episodes are released M-F.
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A monthly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did everything change so fast? Where are we headed? The conversations are informal, edgy and always informative. If Warren's asking, you want to know the answer.
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The Second Epistle to Timothy is, by any standard, a remarkable document. Even as the apostle urges his friend and coworker hasten to Rome for a final meeting, the intimacy and urgency of Paul's words make clear his awareness that Timothy might not arrive in time to say goodbye. This makes the epistle deeply personal. But Paul has a much larger pur…
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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-century Protestantism. Always controversial, often persecuted, and well-known for their proselytising efforts, they have made a substantial contribution in terms of human rights, and they count numerous fam…
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The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers the first theology of trust in the New Testament. 'Trust' is the root meaning of Christian 'faith' (pistis, fides), and trusting in God and Christ is still fundamental to Christians. But unlike faith, a…
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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaeval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a mediaeval narrator – including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator – introducing various asp…
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The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of Jewish-Christian relations. Cordelia Heß's The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden (de Gruyter, 2021), the first study on antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, provides new insights into the debate fr…
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South Africa’s Marion Island is being overrun by more than a million house mice. And as the growing population runs out of their normal food, they’re increasingly turning to the island’s seabirds as an alternative source of nourishment. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Anton Wolfaardt of Mouse-Free Marion about its p…
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Send us a Text Message. Summary: Tonille Miller is the founder of EXT - Experience and Transformation, a boutique consulting firm that helps organizations thrive in the ever-changing world of work. Tonille has over 15 years of experience working as a management consultant, an organizational psychologist, and an executive coach; and she has recently…
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Katharine Sykes joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Symbolic Representation in Early Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2024). In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new …
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Eyal Regev's The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred (Yale UP, 2019) is he first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their respective fai…
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With the election season well underway, the nation finds itself at the crossroads of significant political and potential economic uncertainty. How will each candidate impact the economy, specifically equity markets? And what can investors do to prepare? Join us on this episode of Disruptive Forces, where host Anu Rajakumar sits with Raheel Siddiqui…
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Ayobami Adebayo talks to James Naughtie and readers about her novel, Stay With Me, a moving story of loss and motherhood. Set against the backdrop of tumultuous political events in Nigeria, it tells the story of Yejide and Akin, whose marriage is childless. The novel, which is narrated by them both, explores the pressure to have a child, the toll i…
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Written in Rome as a book with revelatory intentions, the early Christian work known as the Shepherd of Hermas flourished especially in the second, third, and fourth centuries CE, was quoted as scripture by several church fathers, and, on the balance of manuscript attestation and translations from Greek to other languages, “is one of the most widel…
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For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University Press, 2021), Nicholas Orme describes how parish churches operated and details the roles they played in the lives of their parishioners. While there was a considerable variety of experience over the cent…
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Scientists and officials gathered in Cape Town last week to discuss what they know about the rabies outbreak in Cape Fur Seals and what to do about it. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to one of the delegates, Dr Tess Gridley, co-director of Sea Search, which is a collective of marine mammal scientists, who told her that s…
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Send us a Text Message. Summary: Nicholas Rhodes is the Founder and Creative Director of OutSnapped.com and an experience specialist in leveraging generative AI and machine learning to create memorable and engaging company events. In this episode, Nicholas defines generative AI and talks about how HR professionals can use it in the workplace to str…
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Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting the church. But for centuries, theological disagreements, political differences, and issues relating to church leadership have made it challenging for Christians to foster unity and love for one another. In When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the …
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Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. Where Men No More May Reap or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400–1850 (Birlinn, 2024) by Dr. Richard D. Or…
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The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age, Evagrius stands out for his short, perplexing, and absorbing aphorisms, which provide sharp insight into philosophy, Scripture, human nature, and the natural world. The first part of the trilogy, the…
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As the Olympic Games get underway in Paris on 26 July, the Worldwide Fund for Nature has launched a video campaign urging people to focus on the world records we don’t want to break. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to James Reeler, Senior Manager: Climate Action at the WWF South Africa about what it hopes to achieve with …
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Send us a Text Message. Summary: Amber Ontiveros is the Founder and President of Ontiveros and Associates, LLC, a professional change management firm. She’s been working in change management around equity and civil rights for about 25 years and has written federal civil rights laws used to determine discrimination. Amber is also the author of Heal …
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This autobiography--Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story (Bloomsbury, 2024)--traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since his wide learning, Christian …
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Today on the program, we present the story behind the Father of Soul, Sam Cooke. Growing up in the church, Sam knew he wanted to be a singer by the time he was five years old. There was a magnetic and infectious quality to this young Gospel singer, and he knew he was destined for bigger things than singing sacred music. The risk he took in becoming…
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The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations (Cambridge UP, 2023) traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of kno…
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In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features,…
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Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019) presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and mo…
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Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…
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Trees and plants make life better in a city, including improving air quality, providing homes to birds and insects, and cooling our streets. A recent heat-mapping campaign as part of the World Bank’s City Resilience Programme and the National Treasury’s Cities Support Programme found large temperature differences in parts of the city with densely-p…
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Send us a Text Message. Summary: Lybra Clemons is an executive coach and human capital and culture strategist with 20 years of experience in HR, DEI, and talent management. She has previously held HR leadership positions at major financial and fintech companies including Twilio, PayPal, and Morgan Stanley. In this episode, Lybra talks about the dif…
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For some four hundred years, Hindus and Christians have been engaged in a public controversy about conversion and missionary proselytization, especially in India and the Hindu diaspora. Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology (SUNY Press, 2024) reframes this controversy by shifting attention from "conversion" to a wider,…
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The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gospels that would later be located at the front of the church’s New Testament were accepted by most churches and transmitted together in the same codex. Instead, erudite Christian readers employed new an…
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Joel, Obadiah, and Micah all prophesied not after a calamity struck but right before a potential crisis or during the crisis itself. Facing immanent catastrophe, the Jewish people had to decide where their loyalties lay. Join us as we speak with Rav Yaakov Beasley about his book Joel, Obadiah, and Micah: Facing the Storm (Maggid, 2024). He draws fr…
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Contemporary thought typically places a strong emphasis on the exclusive and competitive nature of Abrahamic monotheisms. This instinct is certainly borne out by the histories of religious wars, theological polemic, and social exclusion involving Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But there is also another side to the Abrahamic coin. Even in the midst …
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An urban greening trend that is gaining momentum around the world for its environmental benefits is something called a Miyawaki pocket forest. The concept was developed in the 1970s by Japanese botanist, Dr Akira Miyawaki. Now Aghmad Gamieldien, founder of Mzanzi Organics, has created five of them in Cape Town. He joins Glynis Crook on this week’s …
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Send us a Text Message. Summary: Heather Bussing has been a California employment attorney for over 30 years, has worked in the HR tech space for nearly 20 years, and is a newly published author! In this episode, Heather talks about why pay equity is so closely related to DEI&B, why American legislators are finally breaking new ground with pay equi…
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Watching the footage of the January 6 insurrection, Professor Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left evangelicalism, would I have been there? Today’s book is: Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next (Broadleaf Books, 2023), by Dr. Bradley Onishi, which unpacks recent U.S. history to show how th…
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In this episode of the Guiding Grief podcast, host Nicholas Welzenbach engages in a heartfelt conversation with Jennifer Sarmento, Executive Director of the Kyle J. Taylor Foundation. Jennifer formed the Foundation in memory of her son, Kyle, who passed away in February 2018 from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). She and the KJT Foundation Team are dedi…
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In the wake of past banking volatility and high-stake crises like the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, regulatory scrutiny has continued to increase across the financial sector with proposals such as Basel III Endgame. The industry will need to adjust to the new disruptive forces at play. But what opportunities lie within the banking sector that co…
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What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible 'says' or what it 'means'? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the USA of its…
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The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospitals and never seen again. Social distancing often meant conventional funerals could not be held. Religious communities of all kinds were disrupted at the exact moment mourners turned to them for supp…
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Marlon James answers readers' questions about his award-winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. The novel, which is narrated by multiple characters, opens in Jamaica in the run-up to the 1976 election. Kingston is riven by violence as competing gangs, some supported by the US government, compete for territory and control of the drugs trad…
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Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of “service mag…
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Today on the program, through our host public radio station WNCW in Spindale, NC, we’re sharing one of our favorite cultural podcasts, called Southern Songs and Stories, a documentary series about the music of the American south and the artists who make it. The show is based in western North Carolina and the surrounding Appalachian and foothill reg…
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American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensivel…
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Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist monk, as well as allegations of proselytizing in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and during the…
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In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien foregrounds the racial and religious meanings of surgery to draw important connections between historical and contemporary politics regarding fetal and maternal healthcare. She traces practices of caesarean …
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Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The book is a biography, hagiography, and delightful conversation about the participation of the Communion of Saints in our lives and how can join hands with them in our daily lives. Like many of us, Bl. Pier …
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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Prof Peter Ryan, emeritus professor at UCT’s FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, who co-authored a study which found that colourful plastics degrade to form microplastics faster than those with plain colours.By Glynis Crook
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Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (LSU Press, 2020) demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominati…
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Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late mediaeval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, midwives - these are the people we think of immediately as agents of healing; whilst we identify university teachers as authorities on medical writings. Yet from their first appearance in England in the 1220s to the disp…
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