Tapestry from CBC Radio

Three people whose scientific beliefs are raising the ire of the church nearly 400 years after the astronomer Galileo ran afoul of Roman Catholic teaching.

According to Patricia Pearson, about fifty percent of the bereaved sense the presence of the dead. Her book is called, Opening Heaven's Door: What The Dying May Be Trying to Tell Us About Where They're Going.

What Am I Doing With My Life? An ivy league prof, a philosopher of science and a travel writer offer a few answers.

George Saunders, Marion Kane and a poetry reading by Richard Dawkins.

It wasn’t the most famous Stephen King novel - not by a long shot. But ‘Salem’s Lot’, in its made-for-tv movie form, was an inspiration to a kid named Jess Peacock. Jess would grow up to write a thesis on vampires and religion; he believes his two passio

Closing the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be, with David Brooks.

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When it came to shame, few knew more about it than the Victorians. We take you back more than 100 years to a society that really knew how to keep its skeletons in the attic. Plus, teaching compassion at the dinner table and we visit a Muslim cemetery.

What if you could only live the present? With no past to remember and no future to dream of, Henry Molaison was the world's most famous amnesiac. We speak to the neuroscientist who studied him for over forty years.

Two terrific documentaries: first, the story of a man who learned the most important lessons of his life from a group of babies. Then, is it possible to be agnostic, or even an atheist, and still call yourself Jewish?

We'll meet a pastor who suffered a breakdown and asked his psychiatrist to stand at the pulpit and tell his congregation what was happening to their leader.

Mary talks with Renaissance scholar Gordon Campbell, author of "Bible; The Story of the King James Version, 1611- 2011." He explains that the KJV's power, comes from the fact that it was the first Bible designed to be read out loud.

Gerald Shea spent years transcribing what he heard, trying to make sense out of what people were saying to him. He talks to Mary Hynes about "all the "lost time, lost words and lost loves."

This week on Tapestry, we explore the music and spirituality of the jazz great, John Coltrane. To some jazz fans, he was the high priest of the avant-garde movement. And to others, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was a saint.

Jeanette Winterson is an acclaimed British writer. She was adopted by very religious Pentecostal parents, who hoped she would become a missionary. Instead, Jeanette fell in love with a woman. Her memoir is called Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?