Miriam Carter, Executive Director of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, joined us to talk about this weekend’s Capital Arts Fest in downtown Concord and prize-winning author and Dartmouth College Professor Randall Balmer discussed his new book, “Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America”.

Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed against