The Making of U.S.: Lived Religion in America with Matt Nowakowski

Welcome to another episode of “The Making of US: Lived Religion in America”, a subseries of the podcast “Religion in the American Experience”, which makes each of us more effective stewards of religion’s positive role in the American experiment in self-government. In this subseries we explore the role religion has played in the lives of everyday Americans, reminding us that while religion exerts a significant influence on the events and movements of the American project, religions primary work and where it has the most influence, is in the everyday lives of adherents.   Season 4, Episode 22 – The Making of U.S.: Lived Religion in America Today Matt Nowakowski of Minneapolis, Minnesota joins us to share his own religious history. Veronica Mrnik, Matt's maternal grandmother, immigrated from Czechoslovakia and raised the family through St. Joseph's Church in Cudahy, WI. https://www.nativitycudahy.org/our-parish-history Matt is associated with the Brothers of the Christian Schools-The Lasallian Brothers. https://www.lasalle.org/en/   Podcast Support Scholarly support provided by Dr. Lauren Turek, Associate Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.  Technical audio and video assistance provided by Dr. Randall Stephens, a Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo.  Religion in the American Experience is a podcast of the private, digital-first National Museum of American Religion, which tells the story of how religion has shaped America and how America has shaped religion. This includes the establishment of religious freedom in the United States Constitution’s Article II, Section 1 “Oath or Affirmation” clause; Article VI “no religious Test” clause; and the free exercise and non-establishment clauses in the Bill of Rights.