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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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A conversation with the founder and editor of Feministing.com.
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Oscar Wilde is his first pick but an equally famous American author is a close second.
Fry stays up nights fretting about disappointing his grandfather.
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The British comedian admires Oscar Wilde, Nelson Mandela and likes “anyone as unlike [him] as possible.”
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It’s never a good idea to follow the money when you’re picking projects.
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After touring all 50 states, the British comedian likes San Francisco most, with its close proximity to Sequoia National Park and Big Sur.
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Stephen Fry’s own experience with manic depression lead him to create a documentary about the condition.
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The “unbelievable hole” of yearning and longing that it creates can never be returned.
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As an adolescent, the comedian found comfort, inspiration and fellowship in the nineteenth-century playwright’s work.
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A Mormon tour guide did not appreciate his sly questions.
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The prep-school-educated actor grew up in a country house with gardeners and servants. While his mother was warm and loveable, his forbidding father was more like Sherlock Holmes.
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Actor and comedian Stephen Fry details the positive influence philosophers have had on his life, as well as his journey of understanding both what he believes and why he believes it.
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Making others feel better, finer, and funnier—that’s the sign of “character and quality.”
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A conversation with the British comedian, author, actor and filmmaker.
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Luke Timothy Johnson explains how many secular phenomena—from political campaigns to college football—can have a religious character.
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New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson explores whether the ways in which Christians practice their faith might be more important than the content of their beliefs.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson reviews New Testament writers, including Paul, and whether their condemnation of paganism was a product of their time.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson explores the impact of paganism and early Christianity on today’s Christians.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson examines how early Christian polemic caricatured pagans and describes the real relationship between Greco-Roman religion and early Christianity.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christianity over time came to resemble the broad range of pagan/gentile religions, but that Judaism pulled back from its involvement with Hellenism.