Messiah Community Radio Talk Show

Religious intolerance, the resurgence of fundamentalism, hate crimes, repressive laws, and mass shootings are pervasive in today’s world. Selina O’Grady asks how and why our societies came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are; whether tolerance can be expected to heal today’s festering wound between different religions or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed.Selina O’Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish faiths.In the Name of God is an original and thought-provoking history of monotheistic religions and their ever-shifting relationship with each other. Selina O'Grady was a documentary film producer at BBC Television for many years. She is the author of And Man Created God and has written for the Guardian, and the Literary Review in Britain. She lives in London. I was brought up in London by very religious parents. My father was a strict Irish Catholic; we had an altar in our house and prayed every night before the statue of the