In 2011, Stephen King
released his much anticipated novel 11/22/63, which was on the New York Times
best seller list and won several literary awards. The novel, which focuses on the life of Jake
Epping – a divorced English teacher who goes back in time and tries to change
the course of history by stopping the assassination of JFK – has since been
made into a miniseries and was released on Hulu last month, starring James Franco, Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones,
and my guest TR Knight, who you all
know from other shows like Grey’s Anatomy
and The Good Wife. He joins me on the show today to talk all about this epic new
time traveling thriller and so much more.
On the show we talk a lot about religion and the
effect it has on people and society, and an essential feature of religious
experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence.
More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors
religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in the scientific literature
on religion. However, that is no longer
the case, in his new book The Illusionof God’s Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longings
computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey examines the biological origins of this compelling feeling, and
attributes it to innate neural circuitry that evolved to promote the
mother-child bond, which is eventually transferred to the realm of religion
when the infant grows into adulthood.
John Wathey joins me on the show to today to talk all about the book and
the biological origins of spiritual longings.
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
Joe Sudbay, a DC-based political consultant with over twenty-five years of experience at both the state and federal level, is sitting in for Michelangelo today while he's traveling up to New Hampshire today. Joe has served as a Deputy Editor at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay and in February 2009, he became the first blogger credentialed to attend a presidential news conference and was one of five bloggers to conduct the first-ever sit-down interview with President Obama. In his non-blogging time, Joe works with nonprofit organizations, companies, and campaigns, primarily designing and implementing strategies for dealing with the social networking and online world. He's got some great things planned for the day so be sure to tune in and give him a call.
Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 3-6 pm ET on SiriusXM Progress 127 and on the SiriusXM iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free thirty-day pass or, if you have an if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone
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