Sex And Christian Politics, A Memoir In Novels, A Crusade In The Name Of Cake

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 13, 2017

R. Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses her book Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics. Award-winning novelist Kathleen Hill talks about her memoir, She Read to Us in The Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels, in which she explores defining moments of a life illuminated by novels. Joan Silber joins us to discuss her new book Improvement about a young single mother living in New York. Sarah Posner, a reporter with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, talks about her special investigation, "The Christian Legal Army Behind ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop,’”  for an upcoming special issue of The Nation magazine.

This episode is guest hosted by Mary Harris. 

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