Today on Boston Public Radio:
- Our political roundtable with Jennifer Braceras and Jeffrey Sanchez discussed the news that Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is throwing his hat in the ring and running for president in 2020. Braceras is a political columnist, senior fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, and a former Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Sanchez is a former state representative and Ways and Means chairman.
- Charlie Sennott discussed the rise of Christian Zionism in the United States. Sennott is the founder of The GroundTruth Projectand a WGBH News analyst.
- Attorney General Maura Healey weighed in on the Mueller Report and took questions from our listeners.
- Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett Price discussed pushback from students at a Christian college after administrators decided to invite Vice President Mike Pence to speak at their commencement. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, and a visiting researcher in the religion and conflict transformation program at Boston University School of Theology. Price is a professor of worship, church & culture and founding executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
- We opened up the lines and asked our listeners about Moulton's candidacy.
- Television expert Bob Thompson went over the best and worst TV moments of the week. Thompson is founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a trustee professor of television and popular culture at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse.
