Psychjourney Audio Book Club

How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine

Length-23 minutes, 1 second

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast, interviews Fr. Paul Coutinho, SJ, author of How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine published by Loyola Press.

Father Paul Coutinho, SJ

Fr. Paul Coutinho, SJ is an internationally recognized Ignatian scholar and speaker who brings an Eastern influence to Western spirituality. A Jesuit from the Bombay province of India, he frequently leads retreats, gives spiritual direction, and trains people to lead the Spiritual Exercises. Fr. Coutinho holds masters degrees in both clinical psychology and religious studies, and he has a doctorate in historical theology from Saint Louis University. He currently divides his time between India and the United States. For more information, please visit www.loyolabooks.org

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website and blog.

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Length-52 minutes, 27 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr.  Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War  published by Viking Adult.

Mr. Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant writes an online column that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on America’s long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. Until recently he worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group. Bageant and his wife recently downsized their lives in America so that Joe could spend half the year in Belize, where he writes and sponsors a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village.  Visit his website.

Read a Q & A with Joe Bageant about his book Deer Hunting With Jesus.

Grace and Divorce: God's Healing Gift to Those Whose Marriages Fall Short

Length-51 minutes, 51 seconds

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of Public Forum, interviews Dr. Les Carter, author of Grace and Divorce: God's Healing Gift to Those Whose Marriages Fall Short published by Jossey-Bass.

Dr. Les Carter

Dr. Les Carter is a psychotherapist in private practice in Southlake, Texas. He is the best selling author of 20 books including The Anger Workbook: A 13-Step Interactive Plan to Help You and his latest, Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me. Over the years he has conducted many seminars across America focusing on emotional and spiritual well being. Visit his website.

Visit Dr. Keough's website.

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Length-30 minutes, 49 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion- The Spiritual Memoir of a twenty-first century Christian published by Ballentine.

Ms. Sara Miles

Sara Miles is the author of How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley and co-editor of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan and the anthology Opposite Sex. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Out, The Progressive, La Jornada, and Salon, among others. She has written extensively on military affairs, politics, and culture. The Founder of St. Gregory's Food Pantry, she lives in San Francisco, California with her family. Visit her website.

Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers

Length-52 minutes, 30 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Mark Regnerus, author of Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Mark Regnerus

Mark Regnerus is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a faculty associate at the university's Population Research Center. He is the author of over 25 published articles and book chapters.  Winner of the Best Article Award twice from the American Sociological Association's section on the Sociology of Religion, Regnerus is also a collaborator on the National Study of Youth and Religion, and Principal Investigator of a NIH grant entitled, "Race, Religion, and Adolescent Sexual Norms and Conduct."

He is currently co-investigator (along with Weinreb) of the NIH-funded Malawi Religion Project, is an editorial board member of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, and a council member for the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Religion. Results from his published research have been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, Detroit News, Time Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Christianty Today, among other media outlets. He lives in Austin with his wife Deeann and two children. Visit his website.