To The Best Of Our Knowledge

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

“To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a Peabody award-winning national public radio show that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose and wonder in daily life. Whether it’s about bees, poetry, skin or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners feel less alone and more connected — to our common humanity and to the world we share.

TTBOOK is produced in Madison, Wisconsin at Wisconsin Public Radio, and is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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    In 2020, Donald Trump won 84 percent of the white evangelical vote. Lately, he’s been leaning even more deeply into the rhetoric of Christian nationalists. Who are they, and what’s their role in the evangelical church? We talk with some Southern Baptists today, whose views may surprise you.

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    If you had to travel 500 miles across country, on foot, with no map, no GPS, without talking to anyone — to a destination you’ve never seen, could you do it? It sounds impossible, but millions of creatures spend their lives on the move, migrating from one part of the Earth to another with navigation…

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