Unearned Intimacies with Jason DeRose

Jason DeRose loves audio storytelling. He began listening to public radio as a young child in the back seat of his parents’ car and began making radio himself in high school. He went to St. Olaf College and the University of Chicago Divinity School. Now, he’s the Western Bureau Chief and Senior Editor for Religion and LGBTQ Issues at NPR News, where he’s worked for more than a decade. He’s a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Santa Monica, where he chairs the congregation’s Seminary Internship Committee. He likes doing yoga, lifting weights, cooking dinner, and reading novels. He lives in Santa Monica with his husband Willis and their dog Ajax. They grow Meyer lemons on the balcony.To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org