All Episodes

Ep. 167 - The Objects We Call Bibles

Ep. 166 - A Middle Way for AI?

Ep. 165 - Is Anti-Vaxx Really Anti-Science?

Ep. 164 - How to Exit ‘Enemy Mode’ on Immigration

The City and the Cross—Episode 3: Dots on a Map

The City and the Cross—Episode 2: A Padlock on All the Doors

Ep. 163 - ‘A Coherent Picture of Reality’

The City and the Cross—Episode 1: From the Ground Up

The City and the Cross—Series Trailer

Ep. 162 - Subversive Cartography

Ep. 161 - Catholicism and Community Organizing

Ep. 160 - Humble Work

Ep. 159 - Reclaiming Attention

Ep. 158 - ‘My First War’

The Black Church and Progressive Politics: A conversation with Gary Dorrien

On the Altar: A conversation with historian Jonathan Sheehan

Revelation and Reporting: A conversation with journalist Daniel Silliman

American Charisms: A conversation with 'Spellbound' author Molly Worthen

Christianity's American Fate

An End-of-the-Year Message

Ep. 157 - The Counterweight: MAGA vs. the World

Ep. 156 - The Counterweight: The Common Good & American Liberalism

Ep. 155 - The Counterweight: Against White Christian Nationalism

Ep. 154 - The Counterweight: Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching

Ep. 153 - It’s Just Wrong

Ep. 152 - Crypto-Religiosity

Ep. 151 - The First U.S. Pontiff

Ep. 150 - Remembering Francis

Ep. 149 - When the Good Book Isn’t a Book

Ep. 148 - What Novels Do

Ep. 147 - The New ‘Preeminent Urgency’

Ep. 146 - Aging in America

Ep. 145 - Memory Matters

Ep. 144 - Best Interviews of 2024

Ep. 143 - ‘Hope Grows in the Dark’

Ep. 142 - ‘What Backlash Looks Like’

Ep. 141 - Follow the Money

Ep. 140 - Fewer Screens, More Meaning

Ep. 139 - Detroit’s Black Christian Utopia

Ep. 138 - The Work AI Can’t Do

Ep. 137 - Epic in the Everyday

Ep. 136 - Are Catholic Colleges Unique?

Ep. 135 - When A Church Dies

Ep. 134 - Whose Paris?

Ep. 133 - ‘Live from Death Row’

Ep. 132 - The Glory of ‘Too Much’

Ep. 131 - How to Talk About Having Kids

Ep. 130 - What Plants Know (And Why We Should Care)

Ep. 129 - Judaism’s Loving Heart

Ep. 128 - Diagnosing Disadvantage in America

Ep. 127 - Criticism as a Way of Life

Ep. 126 - God, According to Marilynne Robinson

Ep. 125 - What Are Universities For?

Ep. 124 - The GOP Attack on Catholic Shelters at the Border

Ep. 123 - The Hall Beside Belief

Ep. 122 - The New Suburbia

Ep. 121 - Rescuer of the Written Word

Ep. 120 - An Evening with Christian Wiman

Ep. 119 - Best of 2023

Ep. 118 - Why Conservatives Should Be Pro-Labor

Ep. 117 - Processing the Synod

Ep. 116 - Saving Liberalism

Ep. 115 - An Opera for ‘Life People’

Ep. 114 - Moving With the Ocean

Ep. 113 - How to Abolish Poverty

Ep. 112 - Has News Always Been ‘Fake’?

Ep. 111 - Writers Shouldn’t ‘Prance’

Ep. 110 - Living for God Alone

Ep. 109 - Bordering on Compassion

Ep. 108 - God’s Editor

Ep. 107 - Rescuing Philosophy

Ep. 106 - Belief in Something Big

Ep. 105 - How Hospitals Could Be

Ep. 104 - After We’re Gone

Ep. 103 - Out Loud

Ep. 102 - Writing Climate Change

Ep. 101 - A ‘Mindset’ of Misanthropy

Ep. 100 - Renaissance Man

Ep. 99 - Hot & Bothered

Ep. 98 - Gustavo Arellano’s California

Ep. 97 - Ukraine, Revisited

Ep. 96 - Unity, not Uniformity

Ep. 95 - Must We Forgive?

Ep. 94 - Best of 2022

Ep. 93 - A Flock without Shepherds?

Ep. 92 - Which Latino Voter?

Ep. 91 - Care, Commodified

Ep. 90 - A City to Live In

Ep. 89 - Life Inside, and Out

Ep. 88 - A Hidden Struggle

Ep. 87 - Sounds of Silence

Ep. 86 - Not Too Late

Ep. 85 - Should Catholics Promote Democracy?

Ep. 84 - Forward & Backward

Ep. 83 - ‘An Early Spring’

Ep. 82 - ‘Broken Places’

Ep. 81 - Is This What We Wanted?

Ep. 80 - McMorrow’s Way

Ep. 79 - Beyond Consent

Ep. 78 - Unholy War