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October 20, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
The Wright Show
- Jay's new book on sadness, The Gate of Tears
- The most common mistake we make in dealing with sadness
- Examining the contours of your negative emotions
- Connections between Jewish and Buddhist teachings
- Jay: Pushing away the difficult is 90% of the difficult
- Spirituality and the power of negative thinking
October 26, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Dena Merriam
The Wright Show
- Commonalities between Hindu and Buddhist meditation
- What a Buddhist calls "non-self," a Hindu might call "oneness"
- Dena decries the commercialization of meditation
- The work of the Global Peace Initiative of Women
- An alliance of contemplative practitioners
- Could meditation help solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?
November 23, 2015 —
Robert Wright & David Carr
Conversations@Union
- How personal trauma inspired David's book on trauma and the Bible
- Ancient Israel's transition from polytheism to "monolatry"
- The Babylonian exile and the birth of Abrahamic monotheism
- The link between trauma and God's covenant with Israel
- Why the crucifixion of Jesus shocked his followers
- Why have Biblical texts survived?
May 30, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
The Wright Show
January 14, 2017 —
Robert Wright & Mark Juergensmeyer
The Wright Show
- How Mark got his start studying under Reinhold Niebuhr
- Using religion to justify violence
- The appeal of ISIS's apocalyptic vision
- What Obama got right--and wrong--in his response to terrorism
- Will Trump's war on terrorism lead to another 9/11?
- What would Reinhold Niebuhr say about religion and violence today?
- Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism
September 01, 2017 —
Robert Wright & Phil Torres
The Meaning of Future Life
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