The Apocalypse That Didn't Come
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Date: 5 November 2008
Religion in an Underground Bunker
What happens when you think the world is coming to an end....and it doesn't? On March 15th, 1990, 750 members of a fringe religious sect braced themselves for the end of the world by nuclear holocaust. When midnight struck... nothing happened. In the aftermath, they were forced to re-examine everything they knew about their leader, Elizabeth Claire Prophet (pictured.)
Erin Prophet, author of Prophet’s Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant
Obama: Closing the "God Gap"
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2008 may be remembered as a year when the Republican Party could no longer take religious believers for granted. Millions of mainline Protestants, Evangelicals and Catholics who have avoided the Democratic party pulled the lever for Barack Obama. Steven Waldman tells us why.
Steven Waldman, editor-in-chief of Beliefnet
Faith and the Fog of War
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On Veteran's Day, Nov. 11, we remember the men and women serving in our military . Mike Leard brings us the stories of soldiers and chaplains at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Produced by Mike Leard
Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science Monitor
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The Christian Science Monitor announced last week that it's dropping the daily print edition of its paper, making it the first major news source to move exclusively online. The Church of Christ, Scientist's founder, Mary Baker Eddy, started the secular paper 100 years ago with the goal "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." We find out what that means for the paper today.
John Yemma, editor of the Christian Science Monitor
Guru Nanak, Founder of Sikhism
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Guru Nanak taught that everyone can have direct access to God—without rituals, priests and other formalities. On Nov. 13, Sikhs around the world celebrate his birthday by reading their holy scripture from start to finish. Nanak Singh Manku tells us why this 15th century guru still matters to modern Sikhs.
Nanak Singh Manku, architect of the National Gurdwara in Washington, DC
This Week's Interfaith Calendar
Nov. 12- Birth of Baha'u'llah (Ba'hai)
This leader of one of the youngest world religions was born in Tehran in 1817, and would later declare himself a messenger of God.
Nov. 13- Birth of Guru Nanak (Sikh)
The founder of Sikhism was born in modern day Pakistan in 1469.
