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Is the Religious Right really on the decline? Is Christianity undergoing a third period of transformation marked by a disregard of dogma in favor of a more open “spirituality,” and a collapse of barriers between different religions? What are the consequences of these shifts as we debate health care - particularly the controversial Stupak Amendment?

Join us tonight, at 6pm Eastern, as Harvard divinity professor Harvey Cox, and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne discuss Cox’s new book, The Future of Faith.

If you are in New York City, join us at the WNYC Greene Space for this important - and FREE - event.

If you are not in New York, watch the live stream here on the PBC blog, or join our partners at Street Prophets, an online community for progressives of faith, who will also be hosting a live stream of the event.

Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker columnist and the author of ¡OBÁMANOS!, talks to PBC about Barack Obama’s memoirs, “Dreams From My Father”. Hertzberg argues that the qualities that Obama (the author) displayed then were the initial signs of “a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe.”

British newspaper editor and writer Harold Evans talks about the books that have most influenced him in the latest edition of Progressive Book Club’s Open Books video series. Evans’ memoir, My Paper Chase, recounts the story of his life and career, on both sides of the Atlantic, over five decades of experience in the ever-changing media landscape.

David Owen, author of the book Green Metropolis, explains how New York City’s structure makes its residents live greener — and how other cities should follow the example.

New Yorker writer and author David Owen tells how Jane Jacobs’ book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, influenced his own writing of Green Metropolis in the latest in our Open Books video series.

Yesterday, a year to the day from the historic presidential election that swept Barack Obama to the White House on a wave of hope and expectation, we hit the streets to ask some New Yorkers how they think the president is doing and what they remember about Election Day, 2008. Here’s what they had to say:

In her new book When Everything Changed, New York Times columnist Gail Collins discusses the television shows, commercials, books and icons that were influenced by as well as influenced the women’s movement from the 1950s to the present. Below are some of the cultural influences that defined generations of women in America.

1952 to 1966
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet came to be thought of as the “prototypical American family: breadwinner father, stay-at-home mom, and their kids, nestled in their comfortable suburban home, eating pancakes.”

1953
Alfred Kinsey stuns the nation with his famous study Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, finding that half of American women had had sex before they were married.

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How can it be that in our world of plenty, 25,000 people die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every day?  That’s the question at the heart of Enough, a book Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus called “a passionate and clearly-reasoned call to action.” Written by Wall Street Journal reporters Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman, Enough blends on-the-ground reporting, vivid human stories, and sharp big-picture analysis to argue that our collective failure to solve the problem of world hunger is a shameful failure of politics and policy. In this video, the authors discuss their book with an audience at Google’s headquarters in Mountainview, California.

Here’s the latest installment in our Open Books video series. In this one, New York Times columnist Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present, explains the importance of Betty Friedan’s 1963 classic The Feminine Mystique.

To say that Tracy Kidder’s latest book, Strength in What Remains, has received a warm critical reception would be understating things. Ron Suskind, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called it ”one of the truly stunning books I’ve read this year.” Alex Kotlowitz found it “a tour de force. Inspiring. Moving. Gripping.” And Adam Hochschild had this to say: “Believe me, at the end of this riveting narrative, your eyes will not be dry.” To see for yourself what the fuss is about, start here, with the book’s trailer.

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