Culture Shocks
Summary: A daily radio show hosted by the Rev. Barry Lynn. You never know what you will hear. The show discusses how America is in the middle of a real, not imaginary, \"culture war.\" It pits people who want to maximize freedom — freedom to believe, freedom to speak, freedom to make intimate moral decisions — against those who want to use government power to push their religious, moral and cultural beliefs on everyone. It is also a battle over which role governments should have in seeing to the needs of everyone in the United States. It is a struggle between genuine populist \"progressive\" values and repressive ultra‑conservative ones.
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Evgeny Morozov argues that we badly need a new, post-Internet way to debate the moral consequences of digital technologies in, To Save Everything, Click Here (http://www.amazon.com/Save-Everything-Click-Here-Technological/dp/1610391381/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364325045&sr=1-1&keywords=evgeny+morozov).
In The Myth of Persecution (http://http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Persecution-Christians-Invented-Martyrdom/dp/0062104527/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363107612&sr=1-1&keywords=candida+moss), Candida Moss, (http://http://www.candidamoss.com/)a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.
Absorbing and thought-provoking, Douglas Rushkoff’s, Present Shock (http://http://www.amazon.com/Present-Shock-When-Everything-Happens/dp/1591844762/ref=la_B000AP9QLE_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363112342&sr=1-1) is a wide-ranging, deeply thought meditation on what it means to be human in real time.
Banished (http://http://www.amazon.com/Banished-Surviving-Westboro-Baptist-Church/dp/1455512427/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364239550&sr=1-1&keywords=banished)is the first look inside the Westboro Baptist Church and Lauren Drain’s fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance in a church that she eventually renounced.
Guy Harrison's, 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian (http://www.amazon.com/50-Simple-Questions-Every-Christian/dp/161614727X/ref=la_B001JP2MJC_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1363104362&sr=1-3) is an unique book which poses questions that will hopefully foster mutual understanding between Christians and non-Christians.
The Supreme Court ruled in (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0372_0335_ZS.html)Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Chasing Gideon (http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Gideon-Elusive-Peoples-Justice/dp/1595588698/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363028797&sr=1-1&keywords=karen+houppert)chronicles the stories of people in all parts of the country who have relied on Gideon’s promise.
Film director and producer David DeCoteau (http://www.rapidheart.com/about/) talks to Barry about his career in low budget films.
The Graves Are Walking (http://www.amazon.com/Graves-Are-Walking-Famine-People/dp/080509184X/ref=la_B001ITTPH6_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363026833&sr=1-1) is deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly’s retelling of the awful story of Ireland’s great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times.
Rev. Debra Haffner (http://www.amazon.com/Hank-Greenberg-Heroes-John-Rosengren/dp/0451235762/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363026185&sr=1-1&keywords=john+rosengren)talks about her new book, Meditations on the Good News (http://www.amazon.com/Hank-Greenberg-Heroes-John-Rosengren/dp/0451235762/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363026185&sr=1-1&keywords=john+rosengren).
Inside Rehab (http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Rehab-Surprising-Addiction-Treatment-/dp/0670025224/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360008595&sr=1-1&keywords=inside+rehab) is Anne Fletcher (http://annemfletcher.com/)'s eye-opening tour of the addiction treatment industry exploring the gap between what should happen and what does.
Rethinking Money (http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Money-Currencies-Scarcity-Prosperity/dp/1609942965) lifts the veil on the mystery of money, tells us what it really is and why it causes so much trouble, and shows us how we can use new currencies to create a more sustainable, equitable and prosperous world.
Hank Greenberg (http://www.amazon.com/Hank-Greenberg-Heroes-John-Rosengren/dp/0451235762/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363026185&sr=1-1&keywords=john+rosengren)offers an intimate account of the man’s life on and off the field. It is a portrait of integrity, triumph over adversity, and one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace the field.
Hate groups are on the rise and Mark Potok (http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are/staff/mark-potok) with the Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org/) tells us who they are. Later, Rob Boston, senior policy analyst with Americans United (http://http://au.org) discusses separation of church and state issues.
The framers of the Constitution saw society as essentially hierarchical, led by landed gentry like themselves, yet we still obey their commands, two centuries and one civil war later. In On Constitutional Disobedience (http://http://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Disobedience-Inalienable-Rights/dp/0199898278/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361997048&sr=1-1&keywords=louis+michael+seidman), Louis Michael Seidman argues that it's time to stop.
Former nun Mary Johnson (http://http://www.maryjohnson.co/) experienced her calling when she saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of a magazine; eighteen months later she began her training as a Missionary of Charity, now she tells the world what really happens behind convent walls in An Unquenchable Thirst (http://www.amazon.com/Unquenchable-Thirst-Memoir-Mary-Johnson/dp/0385527489/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361995855&sr=1-1&keywords=an+unquenchable+thirst+by+mary+johnson).
