Why We Should Teach Bible in Public Schools

Guest: Stephen Greenblatt, PhD, Professor of Humanities, Harvard, Author, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve” The fall of Adam and Eve from innocence when they ate the forbidden fruit and were kicked out of their garden paradise has impacted nearly every branch of human thought. It teaches us about our relationship to God, to each other, and to the natural world. Adam and Eve in the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, by Jan and Hubert van Eyck source: wikipedia

Guest: Mohammed Ashour, CEO and co-founder of Aspire Food Group

Guest: Derek Black, JD, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Segregating schools by race has been illegal in the US for more than 60 years. But today, many of the gains made after that landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education have disintegrated. Schools across America are steadily re-segregating along racial lines. The separation isn’t as explicit as it was in the Jim Crow South, when communities designated schools for white children and other schools for black children. But if the effect is the same and more than a third of US schools are now attended almost entirely by students of one race, is that acceptable?

Guest: Dennis Cutchins, PhD, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University "Murder on the Orient Express," based on Agatha Christie's novel, is getting a lot of press.  Coming out this week is a film adaptation of the children’s novel "Wonder." Do the movies live up to the beloved books that inspired them? How often does a director ruin a great story in bringing it to the screen?