Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
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MPR News host Kerri Miller has never skirted the topic of faith.
On her former weekday show, she regularly dialoged with leaders like Jenan Mohajir from Interfaith America, activist and author Anne Lamott, theologian Jemar Tisby, Sister Joan Chittister, and evangelical disrupter Rachel Held Evans. She even did a year-long series with women from a variety of faith backgrounds in 2019.
So it seemed fitting, during the 2024 winter member drive, to return to this theme and remember a few of the best conversations.
Included are portions of Miller’s recent discussion with Pastor Amy Butler, who penned the memoir, “Beautiful and Terrible Things;” Miller’s 2019 conversation with podcaster Misha Euceph about being Muslim in America; and a snippet of the 2023 Talking Volumes season finale with author Margaret Renkl about why Renkl left the Catholic church of her upbringing and found a new one in nature.
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Alexandra Fuller on ‘the braid, the spiral, the knot of grief’
Don Winslow’s final chapter as a novelist
The feminists who built America
Can the fabric of a friendship be rewoven?
Kao Kalia Yang channels her mother in the memoir ‘Where Rivers Part’
What the deepest ocean reveals and how to save it
How memory works
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Heather Cox Richardson on 'Democracy Awakening'
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How women of the CIA changed history
Tracy K. Smith delivers a plea for the American soul
Can higher education be saved from itself?
The inside story of the government’s search for alien life
Three historians and authors reflect on this American moment
How a pastor's faith survived 'Beautiful and Terrible Things'
Can a 5,000-mile journey help a mother and son survive their differences?
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