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Tapestry | Aug 20, 2012 | 54:00
Autism and the Divine
How does the autistic mind view god? Temple Grandin is among the guests who join Mary to explain.
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May 10, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane (streaming) AudioTapestry A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane (streaming) May 10, 2013 | 53:59This week on Tapestry, we explore the music and spirituality of the jazz great, John Coltrane. To some jazz fans, he was the high priest of the avant-garde movement. And to others, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was a saint.
May 17, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry Gerald Shea on discovering his partial deafness halfway through life AudioTapestry Gerald Shea on discovering his partial deafness halfway through life May 17, 2013 | 53:59Gerald Shea spent years transcribing what he heard, trying to make sense out of what people were saying to him. He talks to Mary Hynes about "all the "lost time, lost words and lost loves."
May 3, 2013 | 53:58Tapestry Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? AudioTapestry Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? May 3, 2013 | 53:58Jeanette Winterson is an acclaimed British writer. She was adopted by very religious Pentecostal parents, who hoped she would become a missionary. Instead, Jeanette fell in love with a woman. Her memoir is called Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Apr 19, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry The Faces of Eve AudioTapestry The Faces of Eve Apr 19, 2013 | 53:59Eve represents the first woman on earth in Christian and Judaic traditions. In Islam she's known as Hawwa. To many, she's the thoughtless vixen who tempted man away from God. A closer look at Eve shows a daring champion of human ingenuity and equality.
Apr 12, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry The Importance of Being Sexual AudioTapestry The Importance of Being Sexual Apr 12, 2013 | 53:59What if the classic sensual tome 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a
Thousand and One Nights' had been written by a scientist? A scientist
with specialties in sexual health and public policy - and a wicked sense of
humour?
May 10, 2013 | 49:45Tapestry A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane AudioTapestry A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane May 10, 2013 | 49:45This week on Tapestry, we explore the music and spirituality of the jazz great, John Coltrane. To some jazz fans, he was the high priest of the avant-garde movement. And to others, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was a saint.
Mar 22, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry I'm Right, You're Wrong AudioTapestry I'm Right, You're Wrong Mar 22, 2013 | 53:59This week on Tapestry, why dialing down self-righteousness is so important - and so hard. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains why arguments about politics and religion get so toxic. Later, writer Philip Yancey talks to Mary about finding strength in your
Apr 26, 2013 | 53:58Tapestry The Exit Ramp AudioTapestry The Exit Ramp Apr 26, 2013 | 53:58On this week's show, the elusive exit ramp. One guest tries to escape a soul-crushing line of work - he is a minister who has lost his religious belief - and another guest leads gang members away from lives of violence.
Apr 5, 2013 | 53:58Tapestry How Do You Want to Live? AudioTapestry How Do You Want to Live? Apr 5, 2013 | 53:58Anthony Lawlor is an architect who has made it his job to find the sacred in the ordinary. He and Mary talk about how the divine is not limited to churches, mosques, synagogues and temples. Lawlor says you can find it everywhere, if you just look - even
Mar 1, 2013 | 54:00Tapestry Lamenting the Road Not Taken AudioTapestry Lamenting the Road Not Taken Mar 1, 2013 | 54:00It's only human to assess one's life and ponder what might have been. Everyone from John Lennon to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront has tried to express the mix of regret and foggy optimism that our hearts associate with the roads not taken.
Author Adam Phillips put it this way: We're "haunted by the myth of our own potential." He talks about it to Mary this week.
Apr 29, 2012 | 53:58Tapestry Forgiveness (Encore May 29, 2011) AudioTapestry Forgiveness (Encore May 29, 2011) Apr 29, 2012 | 53:58To err is human...to forgive...is complicated. In this episode of Tapestry, host Mary Hynes explores the idea of forgiveness, confession, regret and apologies. She's in conversation with Dave Bry, who has been writing public apologies for years to those whom he has somehow wronged. And we hear the moving story of how one father, who, after eight years of anger and bitterness, came to forgive the drunk driver who killed his daughter.
Nov 23, 2012 | 53:59Tapestry Checking the Box Marked 'None' AudioTapestry Checking the Box Marked 'None' Nov 23, 2012 | 53:59There was a time, not so long ago, when Canada's census form didn't offer "no religion" as an option. The category simply didn't exist. Now, those who tick that box are so numerous they have their own nickname: the 'nones.' They include atheists and agnostics, but also a lot of people who describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious."
Mar 8, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry High Anxiety AudioTapestry High Anxiety Mar 8, 2013 | 53:59The ruminations, the worry, the fretting, the unshakable conviction that the worst is about to happen. If this doesn't sound familiar to you, congratulations, you well-adjusted soul. If it's ringing a few bells - welcome to the club.
Mar 28, 2013 | 53:58Tapestry Spring Cleaning in God's House (streaming) AudioTapestry Spring Cleaning in God's House (streaming) Mar 28, 2013 | 53:58There was a phrase ringing out in a lot of churches over the holiday weekend, as Christians think about the message of hope and rebirth offered to them at this time of the year. "We are an Easter people."
Feb 8, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry Spiritual but not religious...and totally self-obsessed. AudioTapestry Spiritual but not religious...and totally self-obsessed. Feb 8, 2013 | 53:59Author David Webster argues that modern spirituality is not only unhelpful, it can make you stupid, selfish and unhappy.
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