Ave Maria in the Afternoon – October 1, 2024 – Hour 1
We talk with Michael New about Kamala Harris’ proposal to remove the Senate filibuster and Nathan Guy looks at the wave of “intellectual converts” in to Christianity.
Marcus’s Monologue: Big Men and the Little Flower
Today we celebrate the feast of St Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower. Men, in particular, have much to learn from this gentle Doctor of the Church and her Little Way. Marcus explains how.
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Why does Kamala Harris want to change the Senate filibuster?
In an interview last week, Vice-President Kamala Harris said she wants to “eliminate the filibuster for Roe and get us to the point where fifty-one votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom.” Michael New joins us.
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Kamala Harris Busts Another Norm
Harris would sacrifice the filibuster for abortion
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When Skeptics become Converts
50 years ago, American Christianity was swept up in the Jesus Movement, a wave of “counter-culture Christians” who held highly emotionally-charged notions of the Christian experience. Today we see the polar opposite: a wave of dispassionate converts whose turn to faith is tethered far more to cognitive knowledge than to subjective experience. Nathan Guy joins us to explore this phenomenon.
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Some of Christianity’s Biggest Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts
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