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.
Summary: Why the Mormon church is admitting that founder Joseph Smith had up to 40 wives, and we meet a modern Utah family of 27. Plus, Soundscapes part two: Islam's call to prayer.
Summary: Why Thailand's new military government is trying to clean up the Buddhist monkhood, Gene Weingarten's new children’s book on atheism, and The Soundscapes of Faith: Judaism.
Summary: Karen Armstrong examines the knotted history of religion and violence, and a conversation with the Jesuit priests who run the Vatican's observatory.
