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On 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.  We bring Tapestry's award-winning story about the preacher 'Adam' up-to-date and we meet Father Gregory Boyle, founder of "Homeboy Industries."

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Eve 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. CBC producer Nicola Luksic explores the mystique of the woman so many claim to understand. 

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What 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? This week on Tapestry, Mary speak to Shereen El Feki, an expert on Arab sexuality.

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Anthony 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 in your own kitchen

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There 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," some of them will say ... trying to reconcile their church's good news with the world they see all around them.

If Easter does mean thoughts of renewal, then this a good time to hear from Garry Wills. He's just published a new book, Why Priests? The scholar and historian is a life-long Roman Catholic who believes it is time for the church to embark on some renewal and change of its own -- a very big change.

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This 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 community and why he travels to the world's most troubled areas asking the question, "What good is God?"

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Habemus Papam! -- We have a pope!

With those words, Pope Francis became the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Then in the heart of Rome, the crowd went wild. With them was David Perlich, a Canadian freelance journalist who specializes in the Vatican. He speaks to guest host Kevin Sylvester about what he saw, heard and felt in Saint Peter's Square.

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On the show today:  High Anxiety.  

The 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.

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