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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson reports from Cambridge University in England on Charles Darwin's own views regarding whether his theory of evolution was compatible with religious faith.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sallie Ann Glassman is a voodoo priestess. She talks about why vodou (or voodoo) is such a misunderstood religion and what spirit possession feels like.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Tim Tyson tells Anne Strainchamps about the racially motivated murder that has informed much of General William Tecumseh Sherman's professional life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist who's written books on consciousness, memes and parapsychology. She's also fascinated by what Zen Buddhism can tell us about the mind. In this EXTENDED interview, she says her daily practice of meditation has revealed truths that have eluded the scientific study of consciousness.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you made it all the way through Tolstoy's "War and Peace?" Well, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky  took on the task of retranslating the classic...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Najla Said is a Palestinian-Lebanese Christian Arab-American who grew up on New York’s Jewish Upper West Side.   And she’s the daughter of the late Edward Said –the famous Palestinian intellectual and activist.   

A SCENE FROM "PALESTINE"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jesse Ball's new novel is called "How to Set a Fire and Why." The protagonist is a teenage girl who joins a secret Arson Club at her new school.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Stephen Mitchell talks with Jim Fleming about classic creation stories from several major religious traditions.

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