Lessons from a month with Hepatitis A?

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A Humanist Conversation

A few weeks ago I was a guest on a local (Minneapolis) Cable TV show hosted by the Minnesota Humanists.

It was a really interesting conversation. One of the comments that struck me was the host mentioning that he had looked around the internet and had noticed that there were some people who were not, shall I say, “big fans” of mine. I mentioned that Christianity is a big family with many squabbles. He said, (my paraphrase) yes I have seen that, but it is not quite as bad as it is in the battles between the Humanist and Atheist (you can see that part at roughly the 4 minute mark).  It was strangely encouraging to know that our squabbles are not only caused by our religious sensibilities.

I’m sure there are some who will be bothered by how much in common I have with a Humanist, but I thought it was really great. And, since I am often accused of being a humanist, this was certainly fun.

We also talked about the “Nones” as a movement within Humanism.

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Conversation with John Shelby Spong on Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World

Here is my conversation with Bishop John Shelby Spong on his book “Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World” from my Radio Show.

In the conversation I ask John why people are not hearing from him the point he is trying to make, that the Bible is important to our lives and we should fully engage with it, and rather they hear him and others saying they want to get rid of the Bible?

In the second video I ask him what we should do as an alternative to a simplistic literal reading of the Bible or ignoring it all together.

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Physicality of Lent

In the third installment of my conversation with Phyllis Tickle about Lent we talk about the physical nature of spirituality.

You can follow the entire lent conversation on the Lent Blog here.

You can watch all the videos in our conversation here.

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