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Tapestry is your guide through the messy business of being human. You’ll hear surprising conversations and rediscover your connection to something larger than yourself. Tapestry: your time to pause and go deep.
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Living the bittersweet life from 2023-06-16T15:10
Writer Susan Cain explores the idea that longing and sorrow can make you more human and more whole. Cain is the author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of I...
ListenAlcohol helped shape civilization and ferment innovation, says author from 2021-09-10T00:10
Given the enormous costs of intoxication, why has the consumption of alcohol remained at the heart of social life? Author Edward Slingerland says it was essential to human evolution.
ListenGrandstanding from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Philosopher Brandon Warkme says there is a very fine line between showing up and showing off. He’s studied the ethics of grandstanding and says, if your number-one goal is showing that your heart i...
ListenQAnon and busking for hope from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Edwin Hodge is a sociologist who studies conspiracy theories and alt-right movements. He says it is possible to think of QAnon as a kind of religion. Busker Will Boyajian invites you to toss some...
ListenCreating Indigenous architecture on campuses, Pandemic wisdom from a public health specialist and Buddhist monk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Architect Alfred Waugh is designing Indigenous spaces on campuses, to help establish a sense of identity for Indigenous people on Canada’s universities. As a hospital chaplain, Jeff Braff, used his...
ListenSexual Healing: finding holiness in sexuality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Can sex and religion co-exist peacefully? Elyse Ambrose thinks so. She’s working to bring healing to those who have been alienated by their faith’s views on LGBTQ issues.
ListenHumans are 'a species in a very rare planet': cosmologist makes the case against existential dread from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
While some might respond to the vastness of the universe with a sense of existential dread, physicist and cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser takes a different approach, offering up something he calls “hum...
ListenSocial justice in the NBA, curing pandemic cabin fever with WindowSwap from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Toronto Raptor personality Akil Augustine weighs in on players’ unprecedented social justice action in the NBA. And a couple in Singapore created WindowSwap, a website that allows users to open a v...
ListenLGBT refugees welcomed by Toronto church; being blind in the pandemic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The documentary “No Going Back” tells the story of three LGBT refugees who fled persecution in their home countries and found support and acceptance at the Metropolitan Community Church in downtown...
ListenShould I stay or should I go? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jason Shron won’t finish building the model railroad in his basement - a scaled down replica of the Toronto-Montreal route circa 1980 - until he is 95 years old. But that’s OK: for him, model railr...
ListenCrafting your child’s spirituality; musician Daniela Andrade’s path to womanhood from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rachel Meyer is a theologian and the mother of a six-year-old boy. She speaks to Mary Hynes about how she’s trying to pass on the best of her Lutheran upbringing, yoga and Buddhist philosophy, and ...
ListenWondrous strange: when science meets transcendence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Veteran psychiatrist Manuel Matas on his mission to destigmatize paranormal experiences. A profound mystical experience leads scientist David Yaden to devote his life to researching spiritual exper...
ListenTapestry@25: The Good Place creator Michael Schur from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michael Schur, creator of NBC comedy The Good Place, gambled that viewers were hungry for discussions about ethics and philosophy, even if they didn't know it at the time. His gamble paid off, maki...
ListenTAPESTRY@25: pop star turned vicar Reverend Richard Coles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you were to play ‘where are they now’ about pop stars from the 1980s - you’d couldn’t do much better than Richard Coles. Back then, he was a member of the British pop duo The Communards, with a...
ListenTapestry@25: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rabbi Sacks won the 2016 Templeton Prize for his book, "Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence." This award is given annually to someone who has made a profound spiritual contribution to...
ListenTapestry@25: musician Salman Ahmad from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Salman Ahmad and his band Junoon perform an irresistible blend of rock and qawwali. Their lyrics are in Urdu, inspired by the mystical branch of Islam ... Sufism. Junoon is the most popular rock gr...
ListenTapestry@25: Patricia Pearson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
According to Patricia Pearson, about fifty percent of the bereaved sense the presence of the dead. Her book is called, Opening Heaven's Door: What The Dying May Be Trying to Tell Us About Where The...
ListenTapestry @25: 2020 Templeton Prize winner Francis Collins from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dr. Francis Collins is the geneticist who directed the Human Genome Project mapping DNA, which he calls the "first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God."
ListenConversations about Race - Part 1 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, wants to change the conversation about racial oppression. “We need to look at what racial oppression actually is. It is not a collection of ...
ListenNavigating the moral maze of the pandemic, music for the soul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In our new COVID-19 world, decisions that were once easy — going to the park, visiting friends and family — are suddenly more complex and morally fraught. Philosopher Alice MacLachlan and moral psy...
ListenFictional characters inspire real-world virtues, BC salon owner offers music for the soul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Frodo Baggins, Odysseus, Dante. Three characters on epic, dangerous quests. According to scholar Joy Clarkson, reading stories like theirs can inspire strength and courage in people during hard tim...
ListenDr. Brian Goldman gets personal, Blue Jays commentator phones fans, the power of scent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the Before Times, Mary Hynes and Brian Goldman were work pals. We called Dr. Goldman to talk about our Soundtrack for the Soul — the playlist of songs giving people life right now — but the scri...
ListenHealing power of K-pop, pandemic playtime, music for the soul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Korean boy band BTS has legions of devoted fans known as ARMY. In her documentary, CBC producer - and self-professed ARMY - Jane van Koeverden explores why the connection between BTS and its fans i...
ListenJournalist turned believer Randall Sullivan, new music for your soul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We revisit an unforgettable interview from 2006 with journalist Randall Sullivan as part of our Tapestry@25 celebrations. Sullivan began investigating purported miracles — sightings of the Virgin M...
ListenNWT family self-isolates on the land during pandemic, the sacred lives of black girls from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Dene artist and activist Melaw Nakehk’o packed up her three sons, left their home in Yellowknife, and set up camp with her parents along the Dehcho River....
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