British religious scholar, KAREN ARMSTRONG. She wrote the bestseller, "A History of God" (Knopf), now in paperback. In that book Armstrong says "All religions have been designed to help us touch the God in each other" Her research traces 4000 years of Monotheism in the form of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The author, a Catholic nun for seven years in the 1960's, left the order to take a degree at Oxford, and now teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the study of Judaism. (REBROADCAST. Originally broadcast 12
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