Dave Hall, the informant who gave up everything to go inside the Aryan Nations and Tym Burkey, the special agent who sent him in are co-authors OF INTO THE DEVIL’S DEN: How An FBI Informant Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got Him Out Alive.

What will Pope Benedict XVI say about the clergy sex abuse scandal and the role of women in the church while visiting the U.S.? Is he out of touch? David Clohessy, national director of SNAP and Angela Bonavoglia, writer and author of Good Catholic Girls: How Women are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.

Paul Hudson and
Kate Hanni

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TIME Magazine’s Nation editor, Amy Sullivan analyzes Democrats’ failure to win religious voters in 2004 in The Party Faithful: How Democrats are Closing the God Gap.

Should Texas law authorities have taken hundreds of children and women from the polygamist compound in El Dorado? Is this about religious persecution or child abuse? Marci Hamilton, visiting professor at Princeton University and Alan Reinach, President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council join us.

The grammar snobs are out there watching, listening and ready to pounce on your word usage. June Casagrande is back to take the 101 most frequently attacked word choices in the humorous Mortal Syntax.

Is time travel impossible? Michio Kaku, says it may not be that far fetched in Physics of the Impossible.

John Gorenfeld introduces listeners to the bizarre world of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom.

David Dranove, economist and author of Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System Without Destroying It.

Mark Vonnegut and
Martha Frankel

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