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Book Review: The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow
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Imagine spending a year living among the poorest of the world’s poor: the African farmer. That’s what award-winning journalist Roger Thurow did beginning in the winter of 2011. He wrote the awe-inspiring book: The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. The Last Hunger Season is a…
High on Religion
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In our culture, places of worship—churches or synagogues or temples or mosques—are the locations where religions are learned and practiced. Within those walls, people are building a relationship with God—or, at least, that’s what we’re led to believe. These are the storehouses of spiritual wisdom handed down through generations. But I did not attend worship…
Open Book: John Donne’s Holy Sonnet #9
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How can we be judged as sinful when we are what we were created to be? Is it a bad idea to be too assertive with God? Does mercy really come? Join Lori and Alice today as they discuss the 9th of John Donne’s Holy Sonnets. LISTEN NOW!
Open Book: The Short Stories of Woody Allen
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Despite what you might think of Woody Allen as a human being, his work is almost uniformly hilarious. Often, he deals with his struggles with religion, God, and spirituality in a playful way. But “many a true word is spoken in jest”! Listen to Lori Strawn and Alice Shelton get to the heart of things…
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