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| Embracing the Mystery of Darkness, Religion and Cartoons, and More |
| November 24, 2014 |
Summary: Three of our favorite guests from 2014: Barbara Brown Taylor on learning to love the dark, the New Yorker's cartoon editor on religion and humor, and Barbara Ehrenreich on mysticism. Plus, Soundscapes: sacred harp.
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| Learning to Love the Dark Night of the Soul |
November 20, 2014 |
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Fear of the dark: many of us remember that feeling from childhood. As we get older, we can become fearful of other kinds of darkness: the emotional blackout of depression, or the spiritual gloominess of doubt. A new book offers a different way of looking at darkness, not as something to be feared, but as something to be embraced. From March 2014.
Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Learning to Walk in the Dark |
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| Bob Mankoff: 'I'm Not Arguing, I'm Jewish' |
November 20, 2014 |
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Sitting behind his desk at The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff thinks about humor all day, and then, he goes home to dream about it at night. He's been the magazine’s cartoon editor since 1997. But Mankoff is more than a cartoon guru; he's also a serious thinker about the history of humor and its role in society. As it turns out, cartoons provide a powerful lens through which to see religion today.
Mankoff spoke to Nadine Epstein, editor of Moment Magazine. This is part four of our occasional series, "Great Jewish Thinkers" - our collboration with Moment about Jewish trailblazers in arts, politics and culture. From April 2014.
Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker cartoon editor and author of the new book, How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
Listen to our complete interview with Bob Mankoff:
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| Barbara Ehrenreich: Turning an Investigative Eye Inward |
November 20, 2014 |
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Barbara Ehrenreich is best known for looking outward at injustices in society. In her 2001 book Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, she went semi-undercover as a minimum wage worker. In her latest book, she turns inward, struggling to sort out a strange mystical encounter she had at 17. Whatever it was, she says, it was most certainly not a brush with God, which she calls 'the great non-answer.' From April 2014.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
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| Soundscapes: Christianity |
November 20, 2014 |
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For the third part in our Soundscapes of Faith series, we listen to the strange and beautiful sounds of sacred harp singing, an early form of American church music. There's no harp in sacred harp singing; it refers to the instrument we all have: the human voice.
Nancy Groce, Senior Folklife Specialist at the Library of Congress |
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