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Gerald Shea on discovering his partial deafness; When All Saints shut its doors

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Season 18: Episode 35

We meet a man who went decades without realizing he was partially deaf. Gerald Shea spent years transcribing what he heard, trying to make sense out of what people were saying to him. Later in the show, the story of an anglophone community in Quebec that lost its church. Now, parishioners must cross a provincial border to pray in English. 

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A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane

Season 18: Episode 34

A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane
This 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.

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Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?

Season 18: Episode 33

Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson is an acclaimed British writer. In the house where she grew up, there were only six books and one of them was the Bible. Winterson was adopted by very religious Pentecostal parents, who had great plans for her: Jeanette would work as a missionary. What was not part of the plan was that she would fall in love with a woman. Her memoir is called Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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The Exit Ramp

Season 18: Episode 32

The Exit Ramp
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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The Faces of Eve

Season 18: Episode 31

The Faces of Eve
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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The Importance of Being Sexual

Season 18: Episode 30

The Importance of Being Sexual
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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How Do You Want to Live?

Season 18: Episode 29

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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Spring Cleaning in God's House

Season 18: Episode 28

Spring Cleaning in God's House
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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I'm Right, You're Wrong

Season 18: Episode 27

I'm Right, You're Wrong
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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When in Rome

Season 18: Episode 26

When in Rome
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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High Anxiety

Season 18: Episode 25

High Anxiety
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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