Craig Parshall is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the National Religious Broadcasters Association, and the author of six legal–suspense novels. He has co-authored with Tim La Haye,  Edge of Apocalypse, an adrenaline-fueled political thriller laced with End Times prophecy.

David Brog is the executive director of Christians United for Israel and his new book, In Defense of Faith , rebuts the fashionable arguments against religion and presents the strong and lasting record of the Judeo-Christian idea .

Daniel Radosh is a writer for the Daily Show and freelance journalist. His book Rapture Ready! is written with the perfect blend of amusement and respect and is an insightful, entertaining, and deeply weird journey through the often hidden world of Christian pop culture.

The Utah Supreme Court  threw out the rape convictions of the polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs and sent the case back for a new trial. What happened? Marci Hamilton, a professor, leading church state expert and author of God vs. the Gavel and Justice Denied tells us what she thinks. Then best selling author, screen writer and Oscar winner John Irving with his 12th novel, Last Night in Twisted River.

Melanie Phillips is an award-winning columnist for London’s Daily Mail and author of the book The World Turned Upside Down. In it, she explains how she believes the Western world has fallen into a soft totalitarianism by distorting truths and allowing rationality and science to dominate over spirituality and faith.

A billboard in Charlotte, N.C. on Billy Graham Parkway promoting atheism was vandalized by someone who  spray painted the words “Under God” onto the sign. William Warren a spokesman for Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics will explain why his group picked that location. Later in the hour, Danny Schecter,  journalist, author and filmmaker talks about why Wall St. is being held responsible for our financial crisis, the housing crisis and mortgage fraud. His new film is Plunder The Crime of Our Time.

If you live in Maryland and are arrested and want to record that arrest, then think again because a wiretapping law makes it illegal to record a conversation without the consent of all parties involved. David Rocah, a staff attorney with the ACLU is representing a man who did just that and posted it on YouTube. Then later, Jonathan Green’s Murder in the High Himalaya is the unforgettable account of the brutal killing of  a seventeen-year-old Tibetan nun fleeing to India by Chinese border guards. Her death sparked an international debate over China’s savage oppression of Tibet.

Michael Zimmerman, professor of  Biology at Butler University takes a look at how religious fundamentalists have begun promoting creationism outside the U.S. by using the the same strategies as here. Then, Baba Brinkman, a self styled rapper gives us an innovative theatrical view of evolution through pop culture.

To many, Pat Robertson is little more than a Christian charlatan whose intemperate remarks on diverting hurricanes and divine healings are a symptom of religiosity gone bad. David Edwin Harrell, a retired professor at  Auburn University, is convinced otherwise. His biography, Pat Robertson, portrays the religious broadcaster as a centrist within the Pentecostal movement and a major player to spread American Christianity around the world.

The Left Left Behind is Terry Bisson’s satire about the Rapture and it  is sardonic and merciless. This entire apocalyptic enterprise provides a humorous and timely interpretation of the bestselling Left Behind series-the adventures of those “left behind” to battle the Anti-Christ after all Born-Again Christians have ascended into heaven. From predatory preachers and goth lingerie to Indian casinos and “art cars” at Burning Man, this religious spoof deftly pairs the personal with the fictional.