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from Tokens 2: "Jubilee - Land, Greed, & Grace in American Folk" |
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, a contributing writer for The American Conservative and National Review, and the author of Crunchy Cons. Rod shares with us his critique of what has become known as mainstream conservativism while describing a different, and for him more truly conservative, lifestyle.
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 | | Melissa Fay Greene
from Tokens 2: "Jubilee - Land, Greed, & Grace in American Folk" |
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Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning journalist contributing regularly to many major publications, including The New York Times and Good Housekeeping. She has authored severeal books, but her newest, There is No Me Without You chronicles the story of Haregewoin Teferra, a foster mother in Ethopia whose story is shaped by the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Greene shares with us stories local to Haregewoin as well as the larger political, economic, and social issues contributing to the AIDS crisis as a whole.
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 | | A.J. Jacobs
from Tokens 1: "The Appalachian Longing for Home" |
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AJ Jacobs is the recent author of the best-selling The Year of Living Biblically. The New York City resident, Jewish agnostic, and editor of Esquire magazine set out to follow the Bible, “as literally as possible” for one year. He read the Bible cover-to-cover, and wrote down a list of all the rules he could find, and reported to us on his experience.
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 | | Marcus Rediker
from Tokens 1: "The Appalachian Longing for Home" |
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We talked to Marcus Rediker, professor of history at University of Pittsburgh, on his newly published and noteworthy book Slave Ship: A Human History. He opens his book with a quote from W.E.B. DuBois, famed early twentieth century author, social critic, and graduate of Fisk University here in Nashville: Dubois called the export of Africans for the slave markets of Europe and the Americas as the “most magnificent drama” of the last 1000 years.
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 | | Brian McLaren
from Tokens 1: "The Appalachian Longing for Home" |
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Brian McLaren is the best selling author of numerous books such as A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy. We talked with him about all sorts of volatile topics coming out of his new book, Everything Must Change.
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