On Being with Krista Tippett

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It was in 2008 called Salvation on the Small Screen, where I watched 24 consecutive hours of Trinity Broadcasting Network.

And when the publisher asked me to do this, it was really... I was like, well, you pay me a advance. They paid me a little bit of money and I needed a new furnace.

It was in 2008 called Salvation on the Small Screen, where I watched 24 consecutive hours of Trinity Broadcasting Network. And when the publisher asked me to do this, it was really... I was like, well, you pay me a advance. They paid me a little bit of money and I needed a new furnace. And so, now I need a new furnace is not the best reason to write a book. It's just the one I had at the moment.

I dedicate Darling to them because they were truly the first feminist in my life.

I dedicate Darling to them because they were truly the first feminist of my life.

Dan Barber has just published a terrific book. His first called The Third Plate, Field Nodes on the Future of Food.

Dan Barber has just published a terrific book. His first called The Third Plate, Field Nodes on the Future of Food.

His new book is well worth a read It's called The Third Plate field notes on the future of food

And he was as opposed to untouchability as Gandhi. Yes, I think almost as much. But he said physical events have physical causes I mean here are some lines from the sadhana sadhana yes when when was when did you write that.

That was in the in the teens of the last century. So early early on about 1913 I think the memory.

here are some lines from the sadhana sadhana

He literally sat there with four versions of the Bible, Greek, Latin, French and English, went through with a knife or scissors and cut out the parts that he liked most and paced it into a fifth volume.

He cut out miracles. He cut out most of what we did the Christmas story. He cut out most of the Easter story, resurrection is gone in Jefferson's Bible.

But it is not a anti-religious book. It's Jefferson's passion for Jesus and his need to rescue and ressuscitate Jesus is really palpable.

And he literally sat there with four versions of the Bible, Greek, Latin, French and English went through with a knife or scissors and cut out the parts that he liked most and paced it into a fifth volume.

He created his own Bible and you know he cut out miracles. He cut out most of what we did the Christmas story. He cut out most of the Easter story, resurrection is gone in Jefferson's Bible.

The rock is placed in front of the tomb and it never moves. He Jesus never rises.

But it is not a anti religious book. It's Jefferson's passion for Jesus and his need to rescue and ressuscitate Jesus is really palpable.

And my friend Dan Leviton Who wrote This is your brain This is your brain And the world in six songs

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For example Ironweed by William Kennedy that's a real religious novel in my view. This character is really trying he's in a kind of purgatory his son has died in an accident for which he was responsible and he's trying to expiate that somehow and there's just enough references to Dante and purgatory to make it really work.

For example Ironweed by William Kennedy that's a real religious novel in my view.