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The Commonweal Podcast — 188 episodes
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
Ep. 77 - Democracy or Empire?
Ep. 76 - Will Catholic Colleges Embrace Synodality?
Ep. 75 - Love Entails Loss
Ep. 74 - ‘Always Writing, Always Thinking’
Ep. 73 - The Way We Work
Ep. 72 - The Right Questions
Ep. 71 - Best of 2021
Ep. 70 - A Book That Builds Community
Ep. 69 - Violent Faith
Ep. 68 - The Varieties of Religious Community Today
Ep. 67 – A Hostile Climate
Ep. 66 - Beliefs Made Visible
Ep. 65 - War Without End
Ep. 64 - Greener Pastures
Ep. 63 - The Rite Stuff
Ep. 62 - Life Sentences
Ep. 61 - Bishops & Blind Spots
Ep. 60 - The Parson’s Office
Ep. 59 - Friend of God
Ep. 58 - A Diminished Thing?
Ep. 57 - Ending Islamophobia
Ep. 56 - Iran & America
Ep. 55 - ‘The Open Destiny of Life’
Ep. 54 - ‘Tell Me Your Story’
Ep. 53 - Why We Pray
Ep. 52 - Baseball & Borders
Ep. 51 - Story as Ceremony
Ep. 50 - The Second Catholic President
Ep. 49 - Capitalism Can’t Save Us
Ep. 48 - How We Found Hope in 2020
Ep. 47 - The Hidden Cruelty of U.S. Immigration Law
Ep. 46 - Broken Open
Ep. 45 - The Kids Are All Right
Ep. 44 - Local People
Ep. 43 - The Election & Social Catholicism
Ep. 42 - Killing Machines
Ep. 41 - White Churches & White Supremacy
Ep. 40 - El Paso: One Year Later (Part 2)
Ep. 39 - El Paso: One Year Later
Ep. 38 – A ‘Form for Failure’
Ep. 37 - A ‘Musical’ Life
Ep. 36 - ‘Divine’ Summer Reading
Ep. 35 - A Response to Racism
Ep. 34 - Is There a Religious Left?
Ep. 33 - A Community Afflicted
Ep. 32 - Ending Mass Incarceration
The American Parish Today, part II
The American Parish Today, part I
Ep. 28 - Why Hong Kong Matters Now
Ep. 27 - The Democrats’ Dilemma
Ep. 26 - Reporting Religion
Ep. 25 - Public Education in Crisis
Ep. 24 - God & Mammon
Ep. 23 - Truth & Dignity
Ep. 22 - Against the Machine
Ep. 21 - End Times
Ep. 20 - Before & After
Ep. 19 - Borderlands & Barrios
Ep. 18 - A Call to Public Life
Ep. 17 - Back to School
Ep. 16 - Servants of Memory
Ep. 15 - Leisure & Labor
Ep. 14 - Forget-Me-Not
Ep. 13 - Action & Contemplation
Ep. 12 - Crime & Sanctuary
Ep. 11 - Literature & Longing
Bonus Extended Segment: Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America with associate editor Matthew Sitman
Bonus Extended Segment: Poet and memoirist Carolyn Forche with Garvey writing fellow Nicole-Ann Lobo
Bonus Extended Segment: National Poetry Month Edition: Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America, Shane McCrae, poet and Guggenheim fellow, and poet and memoirist, Carolyn Forché
Eula Biss with Assistant Editor Griffin Oleynick
Ep. 9 - Austen Ivereigh on the Vatican Summit on Clerical Sex Abuse, Eula Biss on "Whiteness", Hoffsman Ospino on the Latinx Church, and Tony Domestico with Novelist Kathryn Davis
Bonus Extended Segment: A Wide-ranging Chat with Archetypal New York Personality Fran Lebowitz
Ep. 8 Marie Collins and Massimo Faggioli on Clerical Sex Abuse, Vinson Cunningham writes about hell, and Staffers on Swedish Abstractionist Hilma af Klint
Ep. 7 - Peter Steinfels on the PA Grand Jury Report on Clergy Sex Abuse, Allan Lichtman on Voting Rights in the U.S., and poet Danielle Chapman with Tony Domestico
Ep. 6 - "Why We Came. Why We Left. Why We Stayed.", Christmas Critics Roundup, and Cassandra Nelson on the Liturgical Calendar and Advent
Ep. 5 Long Segment - Dominic Preziosi and Dan Barry
Ep. 5 Long Segment - Tony Domestico and poet Katie Ford
Ep. 5 - The USCCB, the NYT's Dan Barry, poet Katie Ford, and staffers on Cultural Appropriation
Ep. 4 Long Segment - Katherine Lucky with Meghan O'Gieblyn
Ep. 4 Long Segment - Tony Domestico with Emily Ruskovich
Ep. 4 - Synod 2018, writers Emily Ruskovich and Meghan O'Gieblyn, and Derek Jeffreys on America's Jails
Ep. 3 Long Segment - Dominic Preziosi interviews Katherine Lucky
Ep. 3 Long Segment - Staffers on David Wojnarowicz
Ep. 3 Long Segment - Julian Revie on Sacred Music
Ep. 3 Long Segment - Matthew Boudway and Alan Jacobs
Ep. 3 Long Segment - Paul Moses and Donald Kerwin on Immigration Policy
Ep. 3 Long Segment - The editors on Brett Kavanaugh
Ep. 3 - Donald Kerwin on Immigration, Alan Jacobs on Christian Humanism, Julian Revie on liturgical music; the editors on the Kavanaugh hearings, and staffers on artist David Wojnarowicz
Ep. 2 - Paul Griffiths on Brexit, Christine Emba on a Moral Economy, and Cole Stangler on French Politics
Ep. 2 Long Segment - Matthew Sitman interviews Cole Stangler
Ep. 2 Long Segment - Griffin Oleynick interviews Christine Emba
Ep. 2 Long Segment - Matthew Boudway interviews Paul Griffiths
Trailer: We're Making a Podcast
Ep. 1 - Kathleen Sprows Cummings and Massimo Faggioli on the sex abuse crisis, Sam Adler-Bell on Jonah Goldberg, the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail, and staffers on Alberto Giacometti
Ep. 1 Long Segment - Staffers discuss the work of Alberto Giacometti
Ep. 1 Long Segment - Anthony Domestico interviews Michael O'Siadhail
Ep. 1 Long Segment - Matthew Sitman interviews Sam Adler-Bell
Ep. 1 Long Segment - Dominic Preziosi interviews Massimo Faggioli
Ep. 1 Long Segment - Dominic Preziosi and Kathleen Sprows Cummings