John Shuck

Five years ago the nation was stunned by the case of the Bergholz beard cutters. The Bergholz Amish Community in southern Ohio found itself outside the law by following its bishop, Sam Mullet, who became increasingly authoritarian. He controlled his community, doling out... Read more

David Ray Griffin will go down in history (assuming the future has a history) as the most important theologian and prophet of the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries.  He is a philosopher/theologian who has written over 25 books on that topic.  He wrote anot... Read more

Veda Gill is the Executive Director of the Presbyterian Education Board in Pakistan (Facebook).  She oversees a number of schools that educate over 6,000 students.   These schools founded initially by Presbyterian missionaries in the mid 19th century are now far superior... Read more

Rick Ufford-Chase was the moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly from 2004 to 2006. He worked as a Presbyterian Mission Worker for twenty years on the U.S./Mexico border, supporting migrants and refugees and developing educational programs for peo... Read more

On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile, Alabama in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury ... Read more

Beaverton is one of the most diverse cities in Oregon with one in 5 residents born in a different country and 99 different languages spoken in homes.  Megan Cohen is the Cultural Inclusion Specialist with the Mayor’s office.  She discusses the Cultural Inclusion Program ... Read more

Host John Shuck speaks with Bart Ehrman, the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his latest book, Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savi... Read more

Krista Tippett is the host of NPR’s On Being. It is a show that asks, “What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live?” She was trained as a journalist and reported from divided Berlin. She received a Masters of Divinity Degree from Yale in 1994 and turned her ... Read more

Host John Shuck speaks with Dr. Nahida Gordon, a Palestinian-American who was nine years old when she and her parents had to leave their home in Jaffa in 1948.  Palestinians refer to this event as Nakba or Catastrophe.   She still has the keys to her childhood home.  In ... Read more