Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons — The Next Christians
Two Christian leaders are working to restore Christian engagement in the world. Gabe Lyons and Jim Daly discuss how they who are reshaping their part in common life, and the common good. This often...
View ArticleNJ Alimony Reform; Nocera on Guns; Food and Family; Ask a Bioethicist
As New Jersey legislators weigh an end to permanent spousal support, Laura Morgan of Family Law Consulting explains the role of alimony in modern divorce -- and takes your calls on whether or not it's...
View ArticleKeep Running
Running from Wisconsin to Indiana: 80 miles, 12 hours, 1 day. Performed by Peter McNernery, with Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Julia Hynes, and Teddy Shivers. Based on an interview with Brian Foy....
View ArticleA Map Of All The Divorces
The hyperlocal site Patch has a history of strange dysfunction. But today's dysfunctional Patch story is exceptionally strange. As Romenesko reported, every single Patch outlet has been publishing maps...
View ArticleRabbis Accused of Kidnap and Torture
Oren Yaniv, reporter for the New York Daily News, talks about last week's news that two local rabbis were accused in Federal Court of accepting large sums of money to torture men into providing their...
View ArticleThe All-Or-Nothing Marriage
Dr. Eli J Finkel, professor of psychology and professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University discusses his piece in The New York Times which argues marriage today isn't better or...
View ArticleJane Fonda After Death and Divorce
What do you think of when you think of Jane Fonda? The sexy space traveller from Barbarella? Vietnam War activist? Fitness goddess? Fonda, now 76, has had quite the career. She’s also had three...
View ArticleI Love You, But There's This Money Thing...
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of spreadsheets and tax documents. But here's the thing: serious relationships are both romantic and financial...
View ArticleNine People, One Bedroom: A Teen's Take on Life In Poverty
Jairo Gomez never thought he was poor, even though he was one of seven kids and his family lived in a one-bedroom apartment. The cramped quarters made for a loud and sometimes tense home life. When he...
View ArticleMy Father's Secret Life
Whitney Joiner was 13 when her father Joe told her he was HIV-positive. He said he hoped to see her graduate from high school. Five months later, he was dead. It was rural Kentucky in 1992, and Whitney...
View ArticleLiving Alone and Liking It. Sometimes.
Living alone has its perks. You can eat what you want, wear what you want, and listen to show tunes as loud as you want. You can let your dishes pile up for days—or you can be a total neat freak....
View ArticleLeaving Family in Africa, Starting Over in America
A child of the Rhodesian wars and a conflicted family, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. In Leaving Before the Rains Come, she confronts the tough questions about her past, the American man she...
View ArticleMargaret Cho's Sex Education
The daughter of Korean immigrants, comedian Margaret Cho made a successful career in comedy by making fun of her parents, and telling jokes about the ethnic snacks they put in her lunchbox. Cho felt...
View ArticleSongs In The Key Of Strife
Teddy Thompson was six years old when his parents, English folk rockers Richard and Linda Thompson, split up. The breakup coincided with the release of the duo's most successful album. They were on...
View ArticleIn Israel, A Husband and Rabbis Decide Divorce
Sibling directors and writers Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz talk about their movie “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem.” In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce; only Orthodox...
View Article[Unedited] Helen Fisher with Krista Tippett
Helen Fisher is a Visiting Research Associate and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is also the Chief Scientific Advisor...
View ArticleHelen Fisher — Love and Sex and Attachment
In her TED talks that have been viewed by millions of people and the research she does for Match.com, Helen Fisher wields science as a sobering, if entertaining, lens on what feels like the most...
View ArticleReal Love: A Valentine's Special
This whole show started with a love story. I’d been married in my 20s, then divorced at 30. Months later, I started dating Arthur, a biologist studying wolves in Wyoming. The distance made things hard,...
View ArticleCheating Happens.
People cheat. But they don't often talk about the aftermath, and how they and their partners decide what comes next.When I asked you to send in your stories about infidelity, I heard from so many of...
View ArticleGustavo Dudamel and Wife File for Divorce
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Court records show the wife of Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel has filed for divorce.Eloisa Maturen cited irreconcilable differences in her petition filed March 3...
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