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Baseball and Religion

Baseball has its own relics, prophets and rituals—as does religion—according to John Sexton, president of New York University and author of “Baseball as a Road to God.”  But beyond surface similarities, Sexton says, the game’s most magnificent moments, its timelessness and its intensity, can bring us to a sense of “the ineffable”—the transcendent.
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Clip Season 16 Episode 34 Length 07:36 Premiere: 04/25/13

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Season 16 Episodes

Moral Questions on Syria Strikes, Sister Joan Chittister
S16 E52 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 08/30/13

March on Washington 50th Anniversary, Moral Mondays
S16 E51 Length 25:39 Premiere Date 08/23/13

Bride Trafficking in India, buildOn Movement
S16 E50 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 08/16/13

New State Department Faith Office, Bobby McFerrin
S16 E49 Length 25:37 Premiere Date 08/09/13

Interfaith Village, Churches and Domestic Abuse, LDS Pageant
S16 E48 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 08/01/13

Papal Trip to Brazil, Sikhs One Year Later, Tobi Kahn
S16 E47 Length 25:40 Premiere Date 07/26/13

Zimmerman Verdict, Hispanic Protestants, Combating Extremism
S16 E46 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 07/19/13

Egypt's Turmoil, Bloodless Surgery, Kahlil Gibran
S16 E45 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 07/12/13

Landmark High Court Decisions, Reaction, and Analysis
S16 E43 Length 25:41 Premiere Date 06/28/13

Civil Rights 50th Anniversary, Prisons and Mentally Ill
S16 E42 Length 25:36 Premiere Date 06/21/13

Government Data Collection, Russell Moore
S16 E41 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 06/14/13

Joni Eareckson Tada Breast Cancer Update, Mass Incarceration
S16 E40 Length 25:36 Premiere Date 06/06/13

May 31, 2013
S16 E39 Length 25:44 Premiere Date 05/30/13

May 24, 2013
S16 E38 Length 25:36 Premiere Date 05/23/13

May 17, 2013
S16 E37 Length 25:36 Premiere Date 05/16/13

May 10, 2013
S16 E36 Length 25:35 Premiere Date 05/10/13

May 3, 2013
S16 E35 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 05/02/13

April 26, 2013
S16 E34 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 04/25/13

April 19, 2013
S16 E33 Length 26:42 Premiere Date 04/18/13

April 12, 2013
S16 E32 Length 26:42 Premiere Date 04/11/13

April 5, 2013
S16 E31 Length 26:42 Premiere Date 04/04/13

March 29, 2013
S16 E30 Length 25:33 Premiere Date 03/28/13

March 22, 2013
S16 E29 Length 25:34 Premiere Date 03/21/13

March 15, 2013
S16 E28 Length 25:33 Premiere Date 03/14/13

March 8, 2013
S16 E27 Length 25:33 Premiere Date 03/08/13

March 1, 2013
S16 E26 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 03/01/13

February 22, 2013
S16 E25 Length 25:33 Premiere Date 02/22/13

February 15, 2013
S16 E24 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 02/15/13

February 8, 2013
S16 E23 Length 25:33 Premiere Date 02/08/13

February 1, 2013
S16 E22 Length 25:34 Premiere Date 02/01/13

January 25, 2013
S16 E21 Length 25:34 Premiere Date 01/25/13

January 18, 2013
S16 E20 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 01/18/13

January 11, 2013
S16 E19 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 01/11/13

January 4, 2013
S16 E18 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 01/04/13

December 28, 2012
S16 E17 Length 25:30 Premiere Date 12/28/12

December 21, 2012
S16 E16 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 12/21/12

December 14, 2012
S16 E15 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 12/14/12

December 7, 2012
S16 E14 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 12/07/12

November 30, 2012
S16 E13 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 11/30/12

November 23, 2012
S16 E12 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 11/23/12

November 16, 2012
S16 E11 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 11/16/12

November 9, 2012
S16 E10 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 11/09/12

November 2, 2012
S16 E9 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 11/02/12

October 26, 2012
S16 E8 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 10/26/12

October 19, 2012
S16 E7 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 10/18/12

October 12, 2012
S16 E6 Length 25:33 Premiere Date 10/12/12

October 5, 2012
S16 E5 Length 25:30 Premiere Date 10/05/12

September 28, 2012
S16 E4 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 09/28/12

September 21, 2012
S16 E3 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 09/20/12

September 14, 2012
S16 E2 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 09/14/12

September 7, 2012
S16 E1 Length 25:31 Premiere Date 09/07/12

Muslim Community Building in Chicago
Clip Length 08:36 Premiere Date 07/04/13

Bangladesh Worker Justice
Clip Length 05:54 Premiere Date 07/04/13

Birmingham and the Children’s March
Clip Length 10:13 Premiere Date 04/25/13

Baseball and Religion
Clip Length 07:36 Premiere Date 04/25/13

Freeman Hrabowski Extended Interview
Clip Length 13:02 Premiere Date 04/25/13

Martin Luther King Jr. as Pastor
Clip Length 07:51 Premiere Date 01/13/06

Rabbi Lew on Spirituality of High Holy Days
Clip Length 03:18 Premiere Date 09/30/05

Marilynne Robinson Reading from "Gilead"
Clip Length 02:58 Premiere Date 03/18/05

Tibetan New Year
Clip Length 03:07 Premiere Date 02/18/05

Bishop Frank Griswold and the Episcopal Church Crisis
Clip Length 06:48 Premiere Date 11/26/04

Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clip Length 02:49 Premiere Date 01/23/04

John Lewis
Clip Length 07:43 Premiere Date 01/16/04

Sunni/Shiite Relations in Post-War Iraq
Clip Length 02:44 Premiere Date 04/04/03

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