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...
View ArticleJay 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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleKevin 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...
View ArticleTheodore 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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleRobert 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...
View ArticlePamela 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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleRobert 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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