Keeping the Faith Without a Religion

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon interviews author and poet Roger Housden, creator of the New York Times bestseller Ten Poems to Change Your Life. With Sounds True, Housden has recently published the book Keeping the Faith Without a Religion. Tami and Roger have a conversation regarding the extraordinary access contemporary peoples have to different faiths, as well as why increasing distrust of authority has driven many away from traditional religious practice. They also discuss how it’s possible to maintain one’s faith even in the midst of pain and suffering. Finally, Housden speaks on poetry and its inherent relationship to faith. (67 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Roger Houston.
0:45.8	Roger has spent decades traveling the Earth,
0:48.4	studying the teachings of both Eastern and Western
0:51.3	Masters.
0:52.9	He has published 20 books, as well as the best-selling book, 10 Poems to Change Your Life.
1:00.5	With sounds true, Roger is releasing a new book and a companion audio series called
1:07.6	Keeping the Faith Without a Religion.
1:10.3	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Roger and I spoke about our increased access
1:17.0	to the wisdom of all of the spiritual traditions of the world, alongside our society's increasing distrust of authority and how this
1:27.0	is led to a migration away from traditional religion.
1:31.8	We also talked about what it might mean to have faith when terrible things
1:36.4	happen in our lives, and the relationship between faith and having an unconditional trust in life itself.
1:45.0	Finally, we talked about the connection between poetry and
1:50.0	faith and poetry as a non-denominational universal language of the spirit.
1:57.0	Here's my conversation with Roger Houston. with you about something that we could call a phenomena in our time.
2:14.0	And really it's the phenomena that the title of your new book encapsulates,
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