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Fresh Air, Michael Weisskopf and Philip Jenkins, October 3, 2006
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Summary
Journalist Michael Weisskopf and professor and author Philip Jenkins on this edition of Fresh Air. Weisskopf is the senior correspondent for the Washington, D.C. bureau of Time. In 2003, while on assignment in Baghdad, he threw a live Iraqi grenade from the back of an open Humvee. He saved himself, four soldiers, and Time's photographer, but he lost his hand. His story is the subject of the September 25, 2006 cover story of Time, as well as his new book, Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57. Weisskopf has won many awards for his reporting. His other books are Truth at Any Cost and Tell Newt to Shut Up. Prior to his position at time, he was a reporter for the Washington Post. Then, religion professor Philip Jenkins. His latest book is The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. It's a follow-up to his 2002 book The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, which was named on of the top religion books of that year by USA Today. Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. (Broadcast Date: October 3, 2006)
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