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Ep. 70 - A Book That Builds Community
Season 1 Episode 70
When the first pandemic lockdowns began back in March 2020, acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li took to social media with a modest proposal: a communal readi…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 69 - Violent Faith
Season 1 Episode 69
In 1940, a group of armed, anti-Semitic Catholic militants were arrested by the FBI in Brooklyn and charged with plotting to overthrow the U.S. gover…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 68 - The Varieties of Religious Community Today
Season 1 Episode 68
The November issue of Commonweal featured a special package of stories on Catholic religious communities in the broadest sense of the term, including…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 67 – A Hostile Climate
Season 1 Episode 67
Even as political leaders gather in Glasgow to discuss global solutions to climate change, why is it that the most basic facts of climate science sti…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 66 - Beliefs Made Visible
Season 1 Episode 66
The murder of eleven Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue three years ago in October 2018 was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. histor…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 65 - War Without End
Season 1 Episode 65
Six weeks after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, can we really say that America is no longer a country at war?
On this episode, we’re featuring t…
5 years ago
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…
5 years 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This July, Pope Francis largely rescinded permission for priests to celebrate the so-called “Extraordinary Form” of the Roman Rite, also known as the…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 3 months ago