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Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, author of The Gospel of According to Oprah. We discuss why she decided to write The Gospel of According to Oprah; seeing Oprah as a spiritual leader; Proah's interviews as a form of confession; Oprah's show as a church experience; Oprah's book club; how Oprah teaches generosity; how Oprah teaches gratitude; Oprah's lessons of forgiveness; fundamentalist Christians who disagree with Oprah's acceptance of homosexuals, bisexuals and transexuals; her book The God of Second Chances and Come and Sit: A Week Inside Meditation Centers; how she began writing about faith and religion.
Featured song is "Full Circle" by Allan Richard Feliciano.
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