 A series of talks with people of all faiths about their religion, their experiences and their views on the world. A look at how religion makes us more alike than different, and how much closer we are as human beings than we think.Primary Format :
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New Radio Interview!I promised that you'd get to hear more fiction once the Satellite of Grace stopped broadcasting, and here it is. This is an excerpt from the first chapter of my latest effort, "Two Women and a Boat, To Say Nothing of Cthulhu." This recording comes from my interview with Ann Arbor on her show "Dancin' in the Fast Lane," heard on KFJC 89.7 on December 24, 2008. Enjoy!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Launch of the Satellite of GraceIt's the Satellite of Grace's maiden voyage, and I'm a little nervous. I'm woefully underfunded, my scientific knowledge is sketchy at best and I've had a few shifty-looking contractors working on key portions of this project. So, with the understanding that this could all blow up in my face at any minute, the Satellite is launched.The Satellite's maiden podcast lays out the Junglemonkey Manifesto. I want people to know what they're in for, and what they're NOT in for. You're not in for bei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nazareth to NepalEveryone who's had a kid or been a kid knows that you put a plate down in front of a kid, and that kid is going to look at it and say "I'm not eating that."From liver to lima beans, there's always something that kids won't eat - something they can't swallow. But what if that thing your parents are trying to give you is God, and you just can't swallow it?Guest Stephen Beitzel talks about his journey to find a place for his faith.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your EyesMillions of people start their day with their horoscope, but do they remember it once they've closed their newspaper, magazine or browser window? Guest Deborah Bennett talks about what astrology really means, what you can learn from it, and what it can do for you. The website Deborah mentions at the end is Astro Communications Services (www.astrocom.com), formerly Astro Computing Services. Our music is by Athy, Argentina's best Celtic harpist.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Scenes From a PartyIn any group of people there will always be this many who like baseball, that many left-leaning Republicans and that group in the corner who's still bitter that Firefly was cancelled. And those are just the things you're allowed to talk about. When I go to parties, I want to talk about people's out-of-body experiences. The fact that they were thinking seriously about joining the clergy when they were kids, or the fact that they saw the Virgin Mary getting on BART. I recently went to a party ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Shaking the Trees for GodI grew up in a Catholic family. To me, Catholicism looked to be about who contributed the most to the Retired Religious Fund, a whole lot of extracurricular lessons, and whether you were going to be sent to a school that had uniforms. What it DIDN'T look like was evangelism. Catholics don't go out and preach on streetcorners - Catholics increase their numbers by multiplying.That's what I thought, until my guest Bertha Murillo set me straight about Catholics, Christianity and what's really ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Investing in Your SoulAre you a gambler? Does the idea of hitting Vegas with a fat wad of cash, possibly turning it into an obscenely fat wad of cash appeal to you? If you could invest in something that had the potential to be the next Microsoft or Amazon, would you? That something is here, and the investment won't cost you a cent. My guest John Eichenauer talked to me about Baha'i, a faith that started a hundred fifty years ago in Iran and is one of the most rapidly-growing faiths in the world. It's not an offs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Fiction Show #1I'm not just a podcaster and a smooth-voiced confessor of other people's spiritual secrets. I'm also a writer. The first piece of advice that most writers are given is to write what you know, and of course, I know religion. My writing is all about what happens when you believe. "Narciso" is the story of a young man who wants to become San Martin. This reading originally aired on KFJC's "Unbedtime Stories" program back in January 2005.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Oh, the Humanity!I liked the last Harry Potter book. I also love books about vampires, aliens, gods and superheroes. For a little while, those books relieve me of the burden of being human - a burden that's just too heavy. That burden includes constantly making mistakes. It includes the knowledge that no matter how hard I try, I will never be perfect. Guests Wally and Lizz Beitzel endeavor to lighten that burden with the news that all of us struggling with our humanity are doing exactly what we're supposed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
A Single Maple LeafWhen George Bush took office, he made it clear that the separation between church and state was about to become much thinner. It worried a lot of people, to the extent that many people looked to Canada as a possible haven from the political and religious conservatism taking hold in the US. Guest Astrid Bin, an artist living in Toronto, stopped by to chat while on a tour of the U.S. promoting her latest project My Million Dollar Year. I talked to her about being raised Catholic and her perce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Autumn Leaves - Book Reviews!I read a whole lot. Yes, I have a day job, I also write fiction, have a husband and children and do my podcast, but I can't give up reading. I have given up sleeping. With books being churned out like leaves raining down in autumn, it's sometimes hard to pick. Fiction or nonfiction? Entertainment or enlightenment? If I have to make a choice, my choice is "yes." Yes to everything! I read magazines, check stuff out at the library, buy books that look to hold particular promise, and listen to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ask Why, BrotherThere is a fundamental mystery about Christian faith. How is it that a rational person can believe something so improbable - without empirical evidence, without a money-back guarantee, with nothing more than a wildly self-contradictory book that's two thousand years old? I think that there's a fundamental human need for religion, and that it doesn't take a genius to understand that need and look to fill it in one's own life. It does, though, take a genius to take on that burden for others. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
It's All OneIndians first started coming to the US in 1790, and in the 1900 census they numbered 2,050 including the original 500 or so immigrants and their children and grandchildren. The first Indians, like many of the first Europeans, came here as indentured servants. By the 1980s, Indians were coming in droves to use their technological skill and savvy to cash in on the booming US economy. And yet, for many Americans they still seem like strangers, in no small part because of their religion. Ironic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Happiness is Where You AreThe SGI,or Soka Gakkai International has attracted millions of followers in more than 190 countries and territories around the world and is one of the fastest-growing sects of Buddhism. This form of Buddhism, which originated in Japan, got a bad rap when it came west. My guest Sven Hillring talks about his experiences as a 23-year member of the SGI and about how, at its core, all its members want is what anybody wants. To be happy.Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music NetworkFake Ta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
All Together NowGuest Sam Oppenheim shares his experiences with TM - Transcendental Meditation. Sam is a teacher in New York and has been practicing TM since his parents introduced him as a child. According to teachers of the practice, TM is a non-religious form of meditation that can be used alone or in conjunction with any other form of spiritual practice to give the practitioner a higher state of consciousness that allows that practitioner to reduce stress and garner other mental and physical benefits. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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