What happens when a beagle bred for laboratory research gets a second life—and changes a human forever? Journalist and author Melanie D.G. Kaplan joins me for a conversation about her book Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research. It’s also our December pick for It Has to Be Read. At the center of the story is Hammy—a former lab dog who survived isolation, fear, and trauma, and went on to teach lessons about forgiveness, patience, joy, and what it tr...
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What happens when a beagle bred for laboratory research gets a second life—and changes a human forever? Journalist and author Melanie D.G. Kaplan joins me for a conversation about her book Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research. It’s also our December pick for It Has to Be Read. At the center of the story is Hammy—a former lab dog who survived isolation, fear, and trauma, and went on to teach lessons about forgiveness, patience, joy, and what it tr...
Brian Cranley: Wonder, Logic, and the God of Reason
In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer
59 minutes
1 month ago
Brian Cranley: Wonder, Logic, and the God of Reason
What happens when a former evangelical-turned-atheist-who-prays sits down with a Catholic engineer–philosopher who nearly became a priest… and then founded a medical device company… and then wrote a book arguing that logic, science, and divinity aren’t enemies but dance partners? Frank Schaeffer speaks with Brian Cranley, author of The Call of Wonder: How the God of Reason Created Science in His Image, about the Big Bang, Aquinas, Plato, Aristotle, cosmology, consciousness, mystery, logic, fa...
In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer
What happens when a beagle bred for laboratory research gets a second life—and changes a human forever? Journalist and author Melanie D.G. Kaplan joins me for a conversation about her book Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research. It’s also our December pick for It Has to Be Read. At the center of the story is Hammy—a former lab dog who survived isolation, fear, and trauma, and went on to teach lessons about forgiveness, patience, joy, and what it tr...
