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October 24th, 2019 || Ethics, journalism, News and Public Affairs, Religious Issues/Spirituality.

How Scientology and its Church members have secretly bought much of the property in downtown Clearwater

Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Or follow this link and select 10/24/19 from the drop down menu: Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning- welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up—the mystery behind the recent purchase of much of the commercial property in Downtown Clearwater by the Church of Scientology and… Read more »

The symbols and meaning of Good Friday on Morning Energy

April 18th, 2019 || Religious Issues/Spirituality

Dispelling The Myths Of Thomas Cromwell on Life Elsewhere

November 9th, 2018 || Art

Does God Exist? on Life Elsewhere

October 18th, 2018 || blog

Escaping Scientology on Life Elsewhere

September 20th, 2018 || blog

Leading Rock Journalist Discusses Her Biography of Leonard Cohen

April 18th, 2018 || Culture

The History of Muslims in America and How Does President Trump's Decision to Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem Fit in with End...

December 12th, 2017 || American History

Scientology Insider Aaron Smith-Levin on Radioactivity Thursday

April 21st, 2017 || Development

Sadhguru's Inner Engineering on Radioactivity Thursday

April 10th, 2017 || Alternative Medicine/Health

Author Robert P. Jones on Radioactivity Wednesday

March 30th, 2017 || American History

Tampa-area mosque arson being investigated as hate crime

February 24th, 2017 || Arab Americans

Women’s Show 2/16 – Separation of Church and State and Women's March Going Forward

February 15th, 2017 || blog

February 1st, 2017

What Do Mainstream Faiths Think Of President Trump’s Ban on Refugees from Seven Countries?

WMNF’s MidPoint with Rob Lorei February 1, 2017 President Donald Trump has banned the entry of Syrian refugees into the US until further notice. He has also halted the issuing of visas to the nationals of six other mainly Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, for three months. Trump said the measures were… Read more »

October 18th, 2016

Faith leaders call on Hillsborough & Pinellas to halt death penalty

Dozens of faith leaders are calling on Hillsborough and Pinellas County prosecutors to stop calling for the death penalty; this comes after the two Tampa Bay area counties were counted by a Harvard study as outliers in their use of the sentence of death. WMNF News interviewed Fr. Bob Schneider, pastor of St. Stephen Catholic Church… Read more »

July 14th, 2016

Queer Muslims — they exist

Queer Muslims exist; what’s it like to be LGBTQ and Muslim in the United States — and especially in Florida? Since a Muslim man — who may have been gay and in the closet — killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, there’s been renewed discussion of how LGBT people are viewed by Islam. WMNF… Read more »

June 24th, 2016

Local religious leaders preach acceptance of LGBT community, interfaith unity

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160623_110617_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei St.Pete Pride will be kicking off this weekend with a parade on Saturday. It is the largest LGBT event in Florida, attracting around a quarter of a million people every year. On Radioactivity Thursday, we spoke with two people from local religious congregations that are gay-friendly: Jen Daysa, pastor at the Good… Read more »

May 18th, 2016

“Undue Burden” and Trump/Ryan Meeting on Women’s Show

“Undue Burden” – It is an awkward phrase, isn’t it? On Monday the Supreme Court kicked the “undue burden” back to the courts. The balance in this case is the “under burden” on one’s religious convictions about the morality of contraception and the mandate of the Affordable Care Act that contraception needs to be provided… Read more »

May 12th, 2016

Radioactivity Thursday: Atheism Activist David Silverman says morality not based on religion

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160512_110617_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Thursday our guest is David Silverman, president of American Atheists, a group which works to protect the civil liberties of atheists and other secularists, and advocates for the separation of church and state. Silverman has been an atheist since he was 6, and has frequently been a guest on Fox… Read more »

May 12th, 2016

Upcoming forum aims to create better understanding of Islam – Radioactivity

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160511_110617_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday, we first discuss an effort by two local organizations to foster better understanding and dialogue between Muslim and non Muslim communities in a time of increased Islamophobia. Community Tampa Bay and the Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program has formed a partnership called the Pathways to Understanding, whose goals… Read more »

March 2nd, 2016

Florida Senate rejects amendment requiring unanimous jury recommendation for death penalty

Wednesday the Florida Senate narrowly rejected a proposal that would have required a unanimous jury recommendation in order for a death penalty sentence to be imposed; that means the bill the Senate will vote on requires a minimum of 10 out of 12 jurors to recommend the death penalty in order for an execution to be… Read more »

January 23rd, 2016

Rev. Barry Lynn discusses the role of religion in modern American politics

Religion and personal faith is a topic that has been brought up frequently during this presidential campaign cycle, even though Americans are becoming more and more secular . Today we talk about the role of religion in politics with Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Lynn tackles the… Read more »

December 29th, 2015

Year in Review: Stories that had us talking in 2015

As the year 2015 comes to an end this week, we take time to review some of the top stories that had us talking this year. Gay marriage was legalized by the Supreme Court in June and COP 21 was signed in December. However, unfortunately in 2015 there was an increase in gun violence, police… Read more »

December 23rd, 2015

Radioactivity speaks with religions scholar on the historical accuracy of The Bible

In the midst of the Christmas season, we listen back to an interview we had in October with Bart Ehrman, the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of over 30 books on the discrepancies and historical inaccuracies that occur in the Bible, particularly… Read more »

December 9th, 2015

CAIR Florida speaks out against Trump’s call to ban muslims from entering US

By Rob Lorei In the latest in a string of controversial remarks made during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump last night called for a ban on all Muslims traveling to the United States until politicians “figure out what is going on” following terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris. Trump, who last month called for… Read more »

December 2nd, 2015

Women’s Show on “Standing Up to Terrorism” 12/3

With the recent Paris attack, terrorism is in all of our minds….. Congress seems to be obsessed with the dangers from Syrian widows and orphans. Women throughout this country are in daily fear when they go to their neighborhood Planned Parenthood Clinic. Domestic terrorism has been a problem for a very long time. Anthrax? The… Read more »

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