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Joe Fuiten on Clergy & Politics

In a follow up to our earlier podcast with Erik Stanley regarding clergy and free speech, Tony talks with Pastor Joe Fuiten of Cedar Park Church (Bothell, WA) about his involvement in the political...

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Jay Hein on the Faith-Based & Community Initiative

Jay Hein – Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion and founding president of The Sagamore Institute — talks with Tony about his tenure running the Office of...

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David Wills on Religious Charity and Taxes

David Wills, president of the National Christian Foundation (NCF) and a lawyer specializing in charitable giving and estate planning, joins our program to discuss the relationship between charitable...

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Kevin den Dulk on Religion, Education, and Civic Engagement

Please visit our Facebook fan page and “like” us for weekly updates about forthcoming episodes.  We are trying to reach 300 “likes” by the end of July! With all the talk about declining levels of civic...

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Theodore Malloch on Spiritual Capital & Virtuous Business

In the light of recent business scandals involving the likes of Enron, Tyco, and Bernie Madoff, Research on Religion turns attention to the role that spiritual capital can play in America’s free...

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David Wills on Religious Charity and Taxes

(While your host is taking a short break, we rebroadcast this interview from two years ago.  The issues remain as timely today as they were then!) David Wills, president of the National Christian...

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Robert Delahunty on Alexis de Tocqueville and Religion

Back in the 1830s, a young Frenchman by the name of Alexis de Tocqueville travelled to the United States to write a report about its prison system.  Although he did write such a report, the trip became...

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Pamela Edwards on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

While best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) also was a philosopher, historian, and theologian who had a great deal to say about...

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David Buckley on the Demand for Clergy in Politics

Do religious individuals prefer to have their spiritual leaders directly involved in politics?  Whereas the common assumption might be that religious adherents would like to see clergy directly...

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Robert Joustra on Zombies, Cylons, Charles Taylor, and the Apocalypse

It is the end of the world as we know it!  Actually, when hasn’t it been the end of the world as we know it?!  That is the question that motivates a fascinating new book looking at the world going to...

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