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Why Corruption Breeds Religious Extremism and a Prayer for a Fragile Planet
November 24, 2015
Bribes in exchange for drivers licenses. Sex in exchange for fair trials. Why corruption--the misuse of public office for personal gain--rouses religious extremism. And an interfaith panel on solving the climate crisis.
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Need a New License? That'll Cost You November 24, 2015
Former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes spent 10 years living in Afghanistan, and in her new book, she reports what she saw. It isn’t pretty. After years of putting up with government officials who demand bribes, sex and cash for routine business, she says many citizens of the Middle East have turned to the moralistic "God's law" offered by groups like ISIS. From April 2015.

Sarah Chayes, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security


"Militant, puritanical religion is a quite common reaction on the part of humans to severe lapses in public integrity."


An Interfaith Panel on the Environment November 24, 2015
The Pope's official plea to save the planet goes way beyond the Catholic Church. This week, ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris, we talk to a Muslim, a rabbi and an Episcopal priest about the growing role people of faith are playing in solving the climate crisis. And we confront a passage in the Bible that has long troubled environmentalists: the idea from Genesis that humans have “dominion over....all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” From June 2015.

Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Chair of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
Colin Christopher, Executive director of Green Muslims
Kim Lawton, Managing editor of  Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly on public television
Rev. Sally Bingham, Episcopal priest and the founder of Interfaith Power and Light