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Global Issues
Item# 39348
© 2010
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-918-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-919-9
The Internet, world travel, international business, and ever-expanding political spheres of interest have turned the 20th-century concept of the global village into the dominant reality of the 21st ce...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Robert Wright on the Evolution of God / Obama and Environmentalists
Item# 40652
© 2009
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-195-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-194-1
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Robert Wright, author of the bestseller The Evolution of God, to discuss why Wright thinks that a concept of God is imperative to a moral soc...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Faith and Social Justice / Food Bank Update
Item# 40628
© 2009
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-167-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-166-8
This edition of the Journal features three renowned scholars-Cornel West, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien-who team-taught a provocative and insightful course called "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis" a...
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Fundamentalist Fervor
Item# 39349
© 2009
26 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-920-5
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-921-2
Religious fundamentalism underpins some of the world's most intractable political problems as members of fundamentalist groups seek to influence both domestic and international policy. After identifyi...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Religious Scholar Karen Armstrong
Item# 40364
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-541-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-542-9
A self-proclaimed "freelance monotheist," Karen Armstrong is on a mission to bring compassion, the heart of religion, as she sees it, back into modern life. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Parker Palmer on Spiritual Wholeness / Robert G. Kaiser on Washington Lobbyist Culture
Item# 40325
© 2009
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-516-0
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-517-7
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Parker Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, for a conversation about maintaining spiritual wholeness even as the economy and...
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Second Opinion with T. R. Reid: Inside Ayurvedic Medicine
Item# 40616
© 2008
54 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-153-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-152-1
When his American doctor suggested shoulder replacement surgery, veteran reporter T. R. Reid decided to investigate other options. This program documents his three-week stay at a clinic in southern In...
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Alaa Al Aswany
Item# 40649
© 2008
29 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-189-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-188-0
In the early years of his dental practice, Alaa Al Aswany had an office in Cairo's deteriorating Yacoubian Building-eventually turning his experiences there into a successful novel by the same title....
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Daniel Kehlmann
Item# 40647
© 2008
29 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-185-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-184-2
A novel is a "map of contradictions," says German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann-an arena of clashing viewpoints, each with its own persuasive logic. This program presents an interview with Kehlmann...
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Orhan Pamuk
Item# 40648
© 2008
29 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-187-3
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-186-6
Refuting any connection with overt political goals, Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk aims to create stories "as a child, not knowing where I am going next." Yet few writers in the Islam...
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