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William Stringfellow discusses the book "The Christian Ethic." Includes passages from the book.
White, Anglo-Saxon, Episcopalian lawyer William Stringfellow moved to a slum tenement of Harlem after his graduation from Harvard Law. Through the lens of personal experience, Stringfellow outlines the failures of the legal system and the Church to alleviate poverty and racism in his 1964 book, "My People is the Enemy."
Charles M. Schultz gave high praise to Robert L. Short's book, "Parables of Peanuts". Long explained Schulz's comic strips and his thoughts of cruelty among children. Short further explained that Schulz's comic strips turns the readers back to themselves and gives the readers the opportunities to see their own lives as they really are.
"Where is Joey?: Lost Among the Hare Krishnas" is about Morris Yanoff's twelve-year-old grandson, Joey. The book covers the law, parents' rights and the ordeal of the seventeen month-long search for Yanoff's grandson in California.
Milton Mayer discusses the state of U.S. education and the educational ideas of Robert Hutchins.
Celibacy, a new religion, group marriages and unorthodox life styles are covered in Lawrence Foster's book, "Religion and Sexuality: the Shakers, the Mormons and the Oneida Community". Foster said these new groups came about because people were looking for something that was missing in their lives.
Church leaders Howard Schomer, Elsie Schomer and Rabbi Jacob Weinstein talk about their experiences with the Vietnamese people they encountered. The group determined no matter who they came in contact with, two things were true, they were never told that they should leave Vietnam and that all the Vietnamese people longed for peace.
Discussing the book "Covering Islam" with the author Edward Said.
Discussing the philosophy of "Ramparts" and interviewing Edward Keating.
Discussing the book "The word remains: the life and death of Bishop Oscar Romeo" with the author James R. Brockman, S. J.
Nick Salvatore discusses Eugene V. Debs' life.