Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWe Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
Season 1 Episode 21
Though we are all one—“there is neither Jew nor Greek,” St. Paul wrote to the Galatians—each of us brings a particular heritage to the mosaic of God’…
3 years, 5 months ago
On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
Episode 268
Today I talked to Steven Lukes about Émile Durkheim's classic The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). Lukes is the author of Emile Durkheim: H…
3 years, 5 months ago
Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
Episode 349
Elia Meghnagi last saw his childhood home in Benghazi when he was only seventeen. A member of the endangered and fast-shrinking millennia-old Jewish …
3 years, 5 months ago
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Season 1 Episode 18
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion…
3 years, 5 months ago
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
Episode 130
Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together …
3 years, 5 months ago
Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution
Season 1 Episode 16
Vatican journalist Colleen Dulle discusses her biography of the French Mystic Madeleine Delbrêl, author of The Marxist City as Mission Territory (195…
3 years, 5 months ago
Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)
Episode 155
In the middle of the twentieth century, in South Africa, Nelson Mandela organized a group of revolutionary freedom fighters to openly denounce the ra…
3 years, 5 months ago
Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 347
Wout J. van Bekkum's The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.) (Brill, 2022) is a comprehensive edition of Hebrew hymns…
3 years, 5 months ago
Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis
Season 1 Episode 13
David Bates, Catholic apologist and CS Lewis expert, reflects upon Lewis's conversion (how he was 'surprised by joy'), how his reason confirmed his f…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 345
In The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Duke UP, 2022), Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessi…
3 years, 5 months ago