We've put together a gallery of images of Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Flannery O'Connor in their environs.
SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)
SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)
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View a gallery of images of Chinese propaganda posters from the early 1950s to the late 1970s.
On Being has worked with Cambridge University Library to present a narrated tour of Darwin's private notebooks and hand sketches with one of the few scholars who knows it best, David Kohn. You can zoom in tight on high-resolution images, listen to a scholar tell you more about why Darwin was writing the selected passages, and read the transcript of Darwin's cryptic handwriting!
View the changing perspectives of Mary Magdalene depicted in art over the centuries.
This audio gallery features a photographic landscape of places associated with early Christianity. Image accompanied by the Kronos Quartet performing Franghiz Ali-Zadeh's "Oasis." (Flash required)
In this audio gallery, Maj. Morris describes images taken during his time spent ministering to soldiers in Iraq. (Flash required)
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Bach's compositions, Dr. Thomas Rossin says, stemmed from his private faith — a faith evidenced by Bach's handwritten notes in his Bible. Hear about the Bible's nomadic journey and its possible influence of his Mass in B Minor — what Pelikan holds up as an example of the "best we've ever done."
View images of the Pasadena Foursquare Church and its members while they discuss their religious backgrounds, the role Pentecostalism plays in their lives, and the community they've found in this congregation.
In 1946, the U.S. Army printed a haggadah for the first Passover after liberation from Nazi control. A stirring series of woodcut images by Miklós Adler interweaves the Exodus story with the liberation of Jews in Germany after World War II.
Listen and view an audio gallery features images of Kenyan women striving for a more verdant future. Photos are accompanied by Wangari Maathai singing a native tune in Kiswahili that's often sung while planting trees.
