http://www.mgshow.orgThe Mimi Geerges Show is an independently produced talk radio program that each week brings a fresh take on politics, culture, and the trends that shape our world. This one-hour interview series features the country's leading experts, authors, and entertainers. The Mimi Geerges Show speaks to a new generation of listeners who are turned off by shout-shows but still want to hear frank and inquisitive radio. The program airs nationally on XM Satellite Radio as well as public stations around the country. The program is a production of Focal Point Radio, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. en-usFri, 29 Jul 2005 23:39:38 GMTFeedSpring - http://feedspring.com/Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:20:20 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssThirty years ago, with the passage of Roe v. Wade, Evangelical Christians entered the political fray. In the middle of it all was Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back. The son of the late Evangelical author and speaker Francis Schaeffer, Frank shares his personal experiences. "I'm sorry for the part I played in that. I look back with great regret now at the fact that had it not been for my father and I and a lot people we inspired, it's very unlikely somebody like George W. would have been president for eight years." - Frank Schaeffer Then ... Jeff Sharlet, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power investigates the secretive, pseudo-Christian group that operates at the highest levels of government and industry. www.mgshow.org/contact.htmlWed, 28 Jul 2010 17:18:50 GMTAdopting a child from another country is fraught with emotions on all sides. Beth Nonte Russell, Forever Lily: An Unexpected Mother's Journey to Adoption in China went to China to support a friend who was adopting a little baby girl. She wasn't expecting her friend to reject the baby and ask Beth to take her instead. She tells the remarkable story of going to China as a tourist and returning a mother. "It blew my heart wide open. I felt that she was so deserving, not just of my love, but of just love in general. ... It was a demarcation in my life from sort of not having that heart engaged, to having it fully engaged. To the point it changed my life totally." - Beth Nonte Russell Then ... Hollee McGinnis is the Policy and Operations Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Institute. She was adopted from an orphanage in South Korea at the age of three. She has since been united with her birth family and leads trips of adult adoptees to South Korea. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:19:52 GMTBorn in the jungles of Eastern Burma, Zoya Phan, Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma is a member of the Karen ethnic group. Through the story of her life, she describes the struggle for democracy against Burma's brutal military dictatorship. "We walked through the jungle for weeks. While we were in the jungle, we had very little food and no shelter. We had to survive with anything we could find in the jungle. With many people, not just our family, thousands and thousands of people…" - Zoya Phan Ever thought of running a Bed and Breakfast? How hard could it be? Carol Eron Rizzoli, The House at Royal Oak: Starting Over & Rebuilding a Life One Room at a Time and her husband Hugo had to make a change in their lives. So in 2001, they took a chance on an old Victorian house near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. After two years of renovations and many set-backs, they were able to open and start a new life. www.mgshow.orgFri, 09 Jul 2010 22:22:18 GMT