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 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 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?
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 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
Mar 16, 2013 | 53:58Tapestry When in Rome AudioTapestry When in Rome Mar 16, 2013 | 53:58Habemus Papam! - We have a pope! With those words, Pope Francis became the leader of the Catholic Church. On this episode, we explore what it was like to be in Rome, what we can expect from the pontiff, and the story behind St. Francis of Assisi.
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 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.
Feb 22, 2013 | 54:00Tapestry Keeping the Doubt AudioTapestry Keeping the Doubt Feb 22, 2013 | 54:00We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
Feb 15, 2013 | 53:59Tapestry What is the World Made of? AudioTapestry What is the World Made of? Feb 15, 2013 | 53:59All through the ages, the question has been asked by everyone from the toddler to the philosopher: What is the world made of? What is the stuff of the universe? On this week's show, we delve into fire, earth, and water.
Michael Winter starts us off with story about fire. You get too close to it and it might change who you are. One minute, the Newfoundland author was heaving a pile of garbage into a raging incinerator and the next, well, he was going down the chute.
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