January 2006 - December 2006

Monday December 25, 2006 An Interconnected Christmas, Nine spiritual teachers, some of them internationally known, offer their ideas about the meaning of Christmas (This is an encore of a show that originally aired December 25, 2000)

Monday December 18, 2006 Mindfulness During the Holidays Guest: Jeanie Seward-Magee, teacher, facilitator and author of A Mindful Way

Monday December 11, 2006 "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" Where do you stand in the so-called "War on Christmas?" Guests: William Messer, Cincinnati writer and activist; Patrick Korten, Vice President of Communications for the Knights of Columbus

Monday December 4, 2006 Fundamentalism, Carlene Cross, author of Fleeing Fundamentalism; Dr. Ben Voth, Director of Forensics & Assoc Professor at Miami University

Monday November 27, 2006 Life After Death, Guest: Raymond Moody, MD, researcher, counselor, lecturer and author of Life After Life, Reunions and other books (encore from May 1, 2006)

November 20, 2006 The Benefits of Thankfulness: Why are You Thankful this Year? Guests: the Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker, Minister with Hopedale Unitarian Church, Oxford, Ohio; the Rev. Therese Anne Ward of the Pathways of Light Church

November 13, 2006 Connecting or Disconnecting: If Communicating is So Easy, Why are We So Lonely? Guests: Dr Lynn Smith-Lovin, Sociology Professor at Duke University; Dr. Pam Haldeman Sociology and gerontology professor Mt. St. Mary's College, Los Angeles

November 6 , 2006 How Will Your Religious or Spiritual Values Affect the way you Vote in This Year's Election?Guests: Dr. Steven DeLue, Professor of Political Science and the Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Miami University; Rev. Romal Tune is CEO with Clergy Strategic Alliances, Washington, DC; Rev. Russell Johnson, Senior Pastor at Fairfield Christian Church in Lancaster, OH.

October 30, 2006 Guest: Graham Hancock, author of Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind

October 23, 2006 Unattended Sorrow, Guest: Steven Levine, grief counselor and author (encore from March 13, 2006)

October 16, 2006 Answering Life's Big Questions through the Humanities Guests: Historian Michael Carrafiello, PhD from the Miami University Hamilton Campus; and Philosopher Brian Domino, PhD of Miami University, Middletown.

October 9, 2006 This I Believe Guest: Dan Gediman, Executive Producer of NPR's This I Believe series plus area guests sharing their TIB essays, Megan Solon and Caroline Williamson, with an additional essay from Sean Kleefeld.

October 2, 2006 Death & Afterlife from a Buddhist Perspective, Guest: Dr. Nicholas Ribush, author, lecturer, physician and former Buddhist monk.

September 25, 2006 Roman Catholicism and Islam: How Will the Pope's Comments in Germany Affect Relations Between these two World Religions? Guests: Jonathan Y. Tan, Professor of Theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati; Rev. Dr Britt Minshall, Pastor of St. Matthew's United Church of Christ, Baltimore, MD; Karen Dabdoub, Director of the Cincinnati Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations; Dr. Dennis Doyle, Professor of Religious Studies, the University of Dayton.

September 18, 2006 Rational Spirituality, Guest: Bernard Haisch, PhD, Astrophycist and author of The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields and What's Behind it All

September 11, 2006 How Have we Changed since 9/11, 2001? Guests: Ken Czillinger, Bereavement Manager, Vitas Hospice Center, Cincinnati; Neal Conan, host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation and anchor of much of NPR's 9/11 coverage; Spencer Crew, President of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center; and exhibit creator Tonya Hoggard.A special broadcast from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. Join us at the Freedom Center by 8:30 and offer your comments or personal stories.

September 4, 2006 God's Politics, Guest: Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics and other books, founder of Sojourners, a Christian ministry of spiritual renewal and social justice. (special holiday encore from March 20, 2006)

August 28, 2006 Spirituality without Religion, Guest: Joseph Dispenza, Lecturer, Counselor, intuitive dream counselor and co-founder of LifePath Retreats in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He is also author of God On Your Own: Finding a Spiritual Path Outside Religion

August 21, 2006 Holy Places and Sacred Sites, Guest: Erik Davis, Culture critic and author of The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape; Barb Kozlowski, Program Director for the Bergamo Center and Mt. St. John, Dayton, Ohio

August 14, 2006 Environmentally Sound: What's Happening in our Oceans and What is our Responsibility? Guests: G. Bruce Knecht author of Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish; Dr. Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director , Fisheries Centre Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, Vancouver, BC

August 7, 2006 Superheroes: Why do we Need Them? (or not) Guests: Danny Fingeroth, former comic book editor and author of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell us About Ourselves and Our Society; and Margaret McGurk, staff writer and former film critic with The Cincinnati Enquirer

Monday July 31, 2006 Answering Life's Big Questions through the Humanities Guests: Historian Michael Carrafiello, PhD from the Miami University Hamilton Campus; and Philosopher Brian Domino, PhD of Miami University, Middletown.

Monday July 24, 2006 The Scent of God: A Memoir, Guest: Beryl Singleton Bissell, author and former cloistered nun

Monday July 17, 2006 Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality, Guests: Dr Gina Ogden Ph.D, certified sex therapist, and author of Women Who Love Sex. and The Heart and Soul of Sex; and Judie Harvey, editor of the Dr. ChristianeNorthrup Newsletter and Dr. Northrup's monthly e-letter, Women's Health Wisdom

Monday July 10, 2006 95 Theses: Articles of Faith for a Christianity for the Third Millennium, Guest: Author, teacher and former Dominican priest, Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox (encore from June 27, 2005)

Monday July 3, 2006 Freeing Your Creative Spirit, Guest: Sark, Artist and author of Sark's New Creative Companion (encore from September 19, 2005) Note: Due to the "live" broadcast from this year's Red, White & Kaboom festival, there will be no evening re-play of this week's show.

Monday June 26, 2006 The DaVinci Code: Truth or Fiction? Guests: Margaret Starbird, lecturer, retreat leader and author of The Woman with the Alabaster Jar, The Feminine Face of Christianity and other books; Bart D. Ehrman, PhD, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Truth & Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary and Constantine. (encore from January 31, 2005)

Monday June 19, 2006 Positive Parenting, Guest: Jane Nelsen Ed.D. Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and author of Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation and Problem Solving

Monday June 12, 2006 From Vampires to God, Guest: Anne Rice, author of Interview With a Vampire, The Queen of the Damned and her latest, Christ the Lord: Out of EqyptNote: This is the full version of the program we aired in abbreviated form April 3, 2006

June 5 , 2006 The Mental Health System in America, Guests: Pete Earley, author of Crazy: A Father?s Search Through America?s Mental Health Madness; and James J. Brush, PhD, Cincinnati child psychologist

May 29, 2006 Coping with Unexpected Grief Guest: Ken Czillinger, Bereavement Manager, Vitas Hospice Center, Cincinnati; and Rachel Weinstein, Grief Specialist in San Jose, California.(encore from Aug. 29, 2005)

May 22, 2006 The Hidden History of Jesus Guest: James D. Tabor, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family and the Birth of Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2006); and Rev. Anthony Geraci, Catholic priest and pastor of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Dayton

Monday May 15, 2006 Scientology Guests: Mary Ann Ahmad, Director of Public Affairs with the Church of Scientology of Illinois; and Bob Adams, Senior Spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International.

Monday May 8, 2006 Honoring Mom: Why is Your Mom the Best? Guest: Michele Slung, author of Momilies; and Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Katherine Ellison, author of The Mommy Brain

Monday May 1 , 2006 Life After Death, Guest: Raymond Moody, MD, researcher, counselor, lecturer and author of Life After Life, Reunions and other books

Monday April 24, 2006 Living the Authentic Life, Guest: Susan Piver, author of The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life

Monday April 17, 2006 The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, Guest: Dr. Larry
Dossey M.D.

Monday April 10, 2006 Judging People Based on Appearances, Guest: Michael Berman, attorney, lobbyist, political activist and author of Living Large: A Big Man's Ideas on Weight, Success and Acceptance

Monday April 3, 2006 From Vampires to God, Guest: Anne Rice, author of Interview With a Vampire, The Queen of the Damned and her latest, Christ the Lord: Out of Eqypt

Monday March 27, 2006 Reasoned Faith Guest: George Shaffner, businessman, mathematician and author of the novel, In the Land of Second Chances (2006, Ballantine)

Monday March 20, 2006 God's Politics, Guest: Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics and other books, founder of Sojourners, a Christian ministry of spiritual renewal and social justice.

Monday March 13, 2006 Unattended Sorrow, Guest: Steven Levine, grief counselor and author

Monday March 6, 2006 Civil Rights for Atheists, Guests: Edward Tabash, civil rights attorney; and Doug Berger, editor of the Central Ohio Humanist

Monday February 27, 2006 Compassionate Self-Discipline, Guest: Cheri Huber, founder and resident teacher at the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, CA. and the Mountain View Zen Center. She is also founder and executive director of Living Compassion

Monday February 20, 2006 The Globalization of Religion, Guest: Paul Courtright, author of Ganesa: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings (Oxford, 1985), various articles in the Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1986), co-editor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays in Gender, Culture and Religion (Oxford, 1995), and is currently completing The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice (Oxford, forthcoming).

Monday February 13, 2006 One Man's Near-Death Experience Guest: Rev. Howard Storm, pastor and author of My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life (an encore presentation from March 28, 2005)

Monday February 6, 2006 Yoga: Ancient, Timeless Path to Open our Hearts Guest: Meditation and yoga teacher Kirin Mishra

Monday January 30, 2006 The State of our Values - Whatvalues would you like to hear included in this year's State of the Union Address? Guest: Dr. Robert M. Franklin Jr.Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and former president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta; and Tony Stieritz, Director of the Office of Catholic Social Action for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Monday January 23, 2006 The Winter Blues Guest: Dr. Kathleen Hall, motivational speaker, founder of The Stress Institute and author of Alter Your Life.

Monday January 16, 2006 Grace & Invisible Power, Guest: Carolyn Myss, teacher, medical intuitive and author of Invisible Acts of Power, Sacred Contracts, Anatomy of the Spirit, and other titles.

Monday January 9, 2006 Women in Islam Guest: Dr. Dilek Cindoglu, Assistant Department Chair and professor for Political Science at Bilkent University of Ankara, Turkey.Monday January 2, 2006 Resolutions for the New Year Guests: Joshua Estrin, President & CEO of Concepts in Success and John G. Miller, founder of QBQ Inc. and author of Flipping the Switch (Putnam, 2006)