Maybe the best two songs (they’re the first two that race to mind) about how painful love can be are Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and REM’s “Losing My Religion”. What’s interesting is that both express the nothing-else-quite-like-it pain of romantic loss as a kind of religious experience. Leonard Cohen gives love the biblical potency to “cutContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Season 2, Episode 8: “Losing My Religion””
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The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #18: “Three Songs, One Book”
In a way, our podcast is “How To Have A Conversation With People With Whom You Fundamentally Disagree” lessons. Note — this title should never appear in the “For Dummies” series. Dummies are people who can’t get past their fundamental differences in order just to talk to each other. At some point, that inabilityContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #18: “Three Songs, One Book””