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Transitions, with Susan Stryker
Season 2 Episode 12
When she was born, Susan Stryker’s parents thought they were welcoming a baby boy. She knew they were wrong by the time she was five years old, but i…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mission, with Kathryn Gin Lum
Season 2 Episode 11
Race and religion have been intertwined throughout American history. Christians believed they could detect so-called “heathen” unbelief by the color …
3 years, 3 months ago
Shell Play, with Toni Jensen
Season 2 Episode 10
Toni Jensen grew up around guns. As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face n…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hope, with Tom Whyman
Season 2 Episode 9
When Tom Whyman started thinking about becoming a father, he worried. Would he and his partner be able to make a living to support a child? What abo…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Fire, with Danté Stewart
Season 2 Episode 8
Coming up out of the waters of baptism at a new white Christian church, Danté Stewart envisioned leaving his blackness behind, washing away his boyho…
3 years, 4 months ago
Heritage, with Masha Rumer
Season 2 Episode 7
Masha Rumer immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union when she was thirteen. At first, her nationality made her self-conscious; sh…
3 years, 6 months ago
Monsters, with David Livingstone Smith
Season 2 Episode 6
David Livingstone Smith has studied dehumanization for decades. He's spent a lot of time researching horrific genocides, lynching, massacres, and oth…
3 years, 7 months ago
Voices, with Jeff Chu
Season 2 Episode 5
When Rachel Held Evans unexpectedly died in 2019, the thirty-seven-year-old Christian writer left behind a husband and two young children, as well as…
3 years, 7 months ago
Margins, with Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming
Season 2 Episode 4
It’s been said that, like the Bible, there are few women in the Book of Mormon. And that’s true, in one sense. But in another, women are everywhere t…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Books, with Vanessa Zoltan
Season 2 Episode 3
What happens if we approach some of our favorite books with a similar kind of devotion and attentive reading religious communities bring to their scr…
3 years, 8 months ago