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Ep. 64 - Greener Pastures
Season 1 Episode 64
Our modern food system and its reliance on industrial farming practices has caused considerable harm in rural communities, breaking up family farms a…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 63 - The Rite Stuff
Season 1 Episode 63
This July, Pope Francis largely rescinded permission for priests to celebrate the so-called “Extraordinary Form” of the Roman Rite, also known as the…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 62 - Life Sentences
Season 1 Episode 62
For National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, being a writer is a lot like being a believer. You get used to uncertainty, and become comfortable li…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 61 - Bishops & Blind Spots
Season 1 Episode 61
Commonweal editor-at-large Molly Wilson O’Reilly addresses the U.S. bishops’ misguided approach to President Biden and communion, their missteps in r…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 60 - The Parson’s Office
Season 1 Episode 60
Both priest and poet have one vocation: to love.
Few know that as well as Spencer Reece—an accomplished poet, former chaplain to the Episcopal Bishop …
4 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 59 - Friend of God
Season 1 Episode 59
The life and thought of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) exerted a profound impact on the history of American religion and social activism.
Th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 58 - A Diminished Thing?
Season 1 Episode 58
Three months into the Biden presidency, with pandemic restrictions at last beginning to ease, author and New Yorker contributor Paul Elie joins us to…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 57 - Ending Islamophobia
Season 1 Episode 57
Though often invisible, Islamophobia is still alive in the United States today, from bullying in schools to political scapegoating to violence at hou…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 56 - Iran & America
Season 1 Episode 56
Nearly one hundred days into Joe Biden’s presidency, the new administration is rethinking American foreign policy on a number of fronts—including rel…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 55 - ‘The Open Destiny of Life’
Season 1 Episode 55
Kirstin Valdez Quade’s debut novel The Five Wounds tells the story of a year in the life of a Mexican-American family, chronicling their struggles as…
4 years, 11 months ago