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Civility, with Alex Zamalin
Season 2 Episode 2
In his book Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in our Obsession with Civility, Alex Zamalin traces the history of civility from its deployment again…
3 years, 9 months ago
Hidden, with Ayala Fader
Season 2 Episode 1
Ultra-Orthodox Jews structure every aspect of their lives around their religion. But those who come to doubt their beliefs, or who question various p…
3 years, 9 months ago
BONUS—Let's Talk (Anna Sale)
Season 1 Episode 11
Anna Sale says a loss of faith in social institutions has left people seeking alternative ways of celebrating, mourning, and connecting. At a fractur…
4 years ago
Options, with Taylor Petrey
Season 1 Episode 10
Is human gender and sexuality fixed and binary, or malleable and multi-various? Taylor Petrey discusses the fascinating twists and turns in Latter-da…
4 years, 3 months ago
Home, with Lauren Sandler
Season 1 Episode 9
Lauren Sandler was a journalist covering homelessness in New York City when she met Camilla, a woman without a home who didn’t seem to fit the homele…
4 years, 4 months ago
Slow Down, with John Swinton
Season 1 Episode 8
John Swinton’s path-breaking book, Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefulness, and Gentle Discipleship takes us through a brief history of tim…
4 years, 4 months ago
Reckoning, with Anthea Butler
Season 1 Episode 7
Anthea Butler is a top expert on religion, politics, and race in the United States. In her latest book White Evangelical Racism she tells the history…
4 years, 6 months ago
No Compartments, with David Dark
Season 1 Episode 6
David Dark seems hard to pin down. He's a professor of religion and the arts, he's a Christian, and also a self-identified agnostic. He engages reade…
4 years, 6 months ago
Lost and Found, with Elaine Pagels
Season 1 Episode 5
Elaine Pagels is a ground-breaking scholar of Christianity. Back in the Sixties she was a student at Harvard when long-forgotten ancient texts re-eme…
4 years, 7 months ago
Revision, with Kiese Laymon
Season 1 Episode 4
Kiese Laymon is a writer and professor of English who believes time travel is possible. It's as easy to access as human language. Laymon discusses hi…
4 years, 8 months ago