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    Michael Krasny Wednesday, October 13, 7:00 p.m.  Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest  BUY NOW   How do we make sense of a nice person suffering, or our financial crisis when we’ve done everything “right”? How about the love we feel for our partner, the peace we find in nature, or our passion for a piece of music? What makes life meaningful? Is there a loving God, a higher power, an after life? Many of us find it easy to back burner these Philosophy 101 questions in the rush of everyday living. Then, when we least expect it — while wide-awake at 3:00 in the morning, or waiting for a diagnosis, or reading about an oil spill — we wonder…   As host of the nation’s most listened to locally produced NPR talk show (KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny out of San Francisco), and a longtime college professor and literary scholar, Michael Krasny has spent years leading conversations on every imaginable topic. He’s discussed life’s most important questions with the foremost thinkers in virtually every discipline. And yet Krasny finds himself without answers to the Big Questions — about God’s existence, the nature of good and evil, the meaning of life. “I was,” he finds, “a doubter, an agnostic, and like perhaps hundreds of thousands of others, a seeker.”   In this delightfully personal universal reflection, Krasny seeks not to convince, but to converse. There are no stupid questions and everyone is welcome to chime in, from contemporary "new atheists" (and Forum guests) like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, to believers like T.S. Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Paul Tillich.     'Spiritual Envy,' by Michael Krasny Don Lattin, Special to The Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle October 3, 2010 04:00 AM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Sunday, October 3, 2010 Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/03/RVV81F7CLQ.DTL#ixzz11Qlx7wTO