Madeleine L'Engle, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien each embraced the Christian faith and found in their imaginative fantasy a way to explore and understand it. Yet to this day, some Christians see no place for fantasy literature. Tonight's subject is Fantasy and Myth: Christian Contributions and Consumption. We explore the subject with author and film critic Jeffrey Overstreet whose most 55
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A reprise of a Dick Staub Interview with Thomas Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck (1902-1968) who was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. His son's stories bear the marks of his father's storytelling gifts. Enjoy some rare insights into storytelling. Pat Conroy observes, "Thomas Steinbeck writes with grace, authority, and passion. If John Steinbeck were my father, I would not have the courage to write a laundry list or letter to the editor. But Thomas Steinbeck inherited his father's great love of story. It is a grand thing to have a Steinbeck back in American letters."
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A reprise of a Dick Staub Interview with Thomas Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck (1902-1968) who was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. His son's stories bear the marks of his father's storytelling gifts. Enjoy some rare insights into storytelling. Pat Conroy observes, "Thomas Steinbeck writes with grace, authority, and passion. If John Steinbeck were my father, I would not have the courage to write a laundry list or letter to the editor. But Thomas Steinbeck inherited his father's great love of story. It is a grand thing to have a Steinbeck back in American letters."
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A reprise of a Dick Staub Interview with Thomas Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck (1902-1968) who was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. His son's stories bear the marks of his father's storytelling gifts. Enjoy some rare insights into storytelling. Pat Conroy observes, "Thomas Steinbeck writes with grace, authority, and passion. If John Steinbeck were my father, I would not have the courage to write a laundry list or letter to the editor. But Thomas Steinbeck inherited his father's great love of story. It is a grand thing to have a Steinbeck back in American letters."
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A reprise of a Dick Staub Interview with Thomas Steinbeck, son of John Steinbeck (1902-1968) who was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. His son's stories bear the marks of his father's storytelling gifts. Enjoy some rare insights into storytelling. Pat Conroy observes, "Thomas Steinbeck writes with grace, authority, and passion. If John Steinbeck were my father, I would not have the courage to write a laundry list or letter to the editor. But Thomas Steinbeck inherited his father's great love of story. It is a grand thing to have a Steinbeck back in American letters."
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In this encore presentation of a Dick Staub Show Interview, we visit with George Smoot soon after he announced his findings confirming the "big bang" theory. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather for "their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science". He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003 he was awarded the Einstein Medal.
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