Wed, 26 December 2018
For 15 years, theologian Stanley Hauerwas has been writing letters to a young man about essential virtues. Now, he has shared those letters in a new book.
Direct download: TNS-1824a_Hauerwas_96K_CBR_47m46s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:12pm CDT |
Sun, 2 December 2018
In Los Angeles, Chicago, and around the world, Soraya Deen is working with women across faiths to build bridges and heal the world.
Direct download: TNS_1834_DEEN_96K_CBR_48m17s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:30pm CDT |
Sun, 18 November 2018
We talk with Fr. Dan Horan, OFM, about his new book, All God's Creatures.
Direct download: TNS-1833_HORAN_96K_CBR_48m48s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:48pm CDT |
Sun, 11 November 2018
We speak to Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana about her new book, God, Improv, and the Art of Living. She discusses the philosophy of improvisation and how it can inform our decisions about life and faith.
Direct download: TNS-1811a_Dana_96K_CBR_47m30s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:00am CDT |
Sat, 10 November 2018
Our guest, Diana Butler Bass, returns to the show to discuss her new book, Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
Direct download: TNS-1820a_Bass_96K_CBR_49m4s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:25pm CDT |
Sun, 28 October 2018
Rev. Sherry Cothran returns to Things Not Seen to talk about a new album, Kiss the Ground, and a new book, Tending Angels
Direct download: TNS_1810_COTHRAN_96K_CBR_47m46s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:18pm CDT |
Sun, 21 October 2018
David Dault speaks to historian John Fea in a live interview at Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Direct download: TNS-1831_FEA_96K_CBR_47m47s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:00am CDT |
Sun, 14 October 2018
We talk with Robert Williamson Jr about his new book, The Forgotten Books of the Bible
Direct download: TNS-1832_WILLIAMSON_96K_CBR_47m45s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:49am CDT |
Sun, 14 October 2018
We discuss Dr. Schmisek's book, The Rome of Peter and Paul, as well as the Institute for Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago.
Direct download: TNS-1805a_Schmisek_96K_CBR_47m20s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:47am CDT |
Sun, 30 September 2018
Our guest Shawn Casselberry talks about his new book, Soul Force: Seven Pivots Towards Courage, Community, and Change, co-authored with Reesheda Graham-Washington
Direct download: TNS-1830_CASSELBERRY_96K_CBR_47m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:25am CDT |
Sun, 23 September 2018
We welcome back Rick Lee James to talk about his new album, Thunder, and his twitter feed that highlights positive quotes from Mister Rogers
Direct download: TNS-1828_LEE-JAMES_96K_CBR_48m46s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:26pm CDT |
Sat, 8 September 2018
In this powerful interview, Loyola University professor timone davis recounts her journey from doubt and anger back to a fiery faith
Direct download: TNS-1807a_davis_96K_CBR_48m50s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:07pm CDT |
Sun, 26 August 2018
Our guest Dr. Jacqueline Bussie has a radical idea about how far love should go to build bridges and mend broken relationships. She talks about her journey, both the joys and the costs, with our host, David Dault.
Direct download: TNS-1829-Bussie-96K_CBR_48m53s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:53pm CDT |
Sun, 19 August 2018
Our guest Steven Milles has written a thorough account of the last hundred years of Catholic political life in America, from the margins to the mainstream to the halls of power.
Direct download: TNS-1827_Millies_96K_CBR_47m47s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:04am CDT |
Sun, 12 August 2018
American culture still suffers from inequality, and academia is deeply affected. Our guest, Dr. Kelly J. Baker, has chronicled these struggles in her recent book, Sexism Ed.
Direct download: TNS-1826_BAKER_96K_CBR_47m47s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:36pm CDT |
Sun, 12 August 2018
The Rev. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana is helping to train leaders in contextual theology for the 21st century. As the director of OMNIA Leadership, he is working around the globe to help ministers make an impact in their communities.
Direct download: TNS-1709a_Premawardhana_96K_CBR_47m56s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 5:04pm CDT |
Sun, 12 August 2018
Amy Lillis is former Acting Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs. In our conversation, we discuss why the State Department took up religion as a diplomatic issue.
Direct download: TNS-1707a_LILLIS_96K_CBR_47m55s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:48am CDT |
Sun, 22 July 2018
We speak to film critic and radio host Josh Larsen about his work and his recent book, Movies are Prayers
Direct download: TNS-1822_Larsen_96K_CBR_47m50s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:46pm CDT |
Wed, 18 July 2018
Zach Mills discusses his biography The Last Blues Preacher, about the life and legacy of civil rights leader and gospel singer Rev. Clay Evans
Direct download: TNS-1825_Mills_96K_CBR_57m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:58pm CDT |
Tue, 10 July 2018
Our guest, Dr. Heidi Russell, pays close attention to the discoveries of contemporary physics. In them, she finds analogies for how we can think about theology.
Direct download: TNS-1818_Russell_96K_CBR_47m53s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:57pm CDT |
Tue, 3 July 2018
We speak with Chicago Tribune religion reporter Manya Brachear Pashman about her career and what she has learned in 15 years on the religion beat.
Direct download: TNS-1823_Brachear-Pashman_96K_CBR_49m0s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:28pm CDT |
Tue, 3 July 2018
We speak with Chicago Tribune religion reporter Manya Brachear Pashman about her career and what she has learned in 15 years on the religion beat.
Direct download: TNS-1823_Brachear-Pashman_96K_CBR_49m0s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:28pm CDT |
Sun, 24 June 2018
For 15 years, theologian Stanley Hauerwas has been writing letters to a young man about essential virtues. Now, he has shared those letters in a new book.
Direct download: TNS-1824_Hauerwas_96K_CBR_47m46s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:00am CDT |
Thu, 21 June 2018
Our guest helped write a book on an ancient Prayer Wheel, a wonderful tool for modern spirituality, hidden for centuries in the pages of a book
Direct download: TNS-1816_Riess_96K_CBR_47m44s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:47pm CDT |
Sun, 10 June 2018
Jessica Mesman Griffith is a spiritual writer and curator of artistic communities for curious and wandering souls. We discuss her recent projects and events, as well as her own journey from brokenness to healing and community.
Direct download: TNS-1806a_Mesman-Griffith_96K_CBR_48m17s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:50pm CDT |
Mon, 4 June 2018
We revisit an interview with Loyola University professor Jean-Pierre Fortin. We discuss his work to uncover moments of hope and grace during the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Direct download: TNS-1809b_Fortin_96K_CBR_47m43s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 1:24pm CDT |
Sun, 27 May 2018
Our guest Jordan Denari Duffner found a rejuvenated connection to her Catholic faith in an unlikely place: praying alongside her Muslim friends. We discuss her new book, Finding Jesus Among Muslims: How Loving Islam Makes Me a Better Catholic
Direct download: TNS-1821_Duffner_96K_CBR_48m17s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:07pm CDT |
Sun, 20 May 2018
Our guest, Diana Butler Bass, returns to the show to discuss her new book, Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
Direct download: TNS-1820_Bass_96K_CBR_49m4s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:50am CDT |
Sun, 13 May 2018
John Fontana has a vision to transform today's retiring executives into tomorrow's nonprofit leaders. He's using Ignatius Loyola's spiritual exercises to do it.
Direct download: TNS-1814_Fontana_96K_CBR_48m20s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:14am CDT |
Sat, 5 May 2018
Host David Dault talks with Merton scholar Robert Hudson about the tumultuous final years of Catholic monk Thomas Merton. The story involves two love affairs - one with a young nurse, and the other with the music of Bob Dylan. Both deeply affected the course of Merton's life and writing.
Direct download: TNS-1813_Hudson_96K_CBR_48m19s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:03pm CDT |
Sun, 22 April 2018
We talk with Jon Sweeney about his long friendship and new biography of the late Phyllis Tickle, who helped chronicle Emergence Christianity and popularize daily prayer practices.
Direct download: TNS-1812_Sweeney_96K_CBR_48m0s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 1:30pm CDT |
Sun, 15 April 2018
We speak to Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana about her new book, God, Improv, and the Art of Living. She discusses the philosophy of improvisation and how it can inform our decisions about life and faith.
Direct download: TNS-1811_Dana_96K_CBR_47m30s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 1:19pm CDT |
Sun, 1 April 2018
Jean-Pierre Fortin studies the most awful moments of human history, to discover the stories of those who become the presence of God's grace in God-forsaken conditions.
Direct download: TNS-1809_Fortin_96K_CBR_47m43s_LUFS.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:08pm CDT |
Sun, 25 March 2018
We talk with world-renowned Bible scholar John Dominic Crossan about a fifteen year detective story to find a missing understanding of Easter. Crossan and his wife, professional photographer Sarah Crossan, take a journey across the near east to discover images that rearrange western understandings of the Christian resurrection.
Direct download: TNS-1808_Crossan_96K_CBR_48m22s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:00am CDT |
Tue, 20 March 2018
In this powerful interview, Loyola University professor timone davis recounts her journey from doubt and anger back to a fiery faith
Direct download: TNS-1807_davis_96K_CBR_48m1s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:58pm CDT |
Sun, 11 March 2018
We revisit a 2016 interview with Bishop Spong to mark the release of his new book, Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today
Direct download: TNS-1612_SPONG_96K_CBR_54m31s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:33pm CDT |
Sun, 4 March 2018
Jessica Mesman Griffith is a spiritual writer and curator of artistic communities for curious and wandering souls. We discuss her recent projects and events, as well as her own journey from brokenness to healing and community.
Direct download: TNS-1806_Mesman-Griffith_96K_CBR_48m17s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 2:39pm CDT |
Sun, 25 February 2018
We discuss Dr. Schmisek's book, The Rome of Peter and Paul, as well as the Institute for Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago
Direct download: TNS-1805_Schmisek_96K_CBR_47m20s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:00am CDT |
Sun, 18 February 2018
Joel Hamernick moved with his family to a poor neighborhood in south Chicago with a lot of big ideas about how he could make things better. Over time, his neighbors taught him how to actually make a difference. This is a frank conversation about race, privilege, and the power of humble faith.
Direct download: TNS-1804_Hamernick_96K_CBR_48m17s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:48am CDT |
Sun, 11 February 2018
Fr. Gregory Boyle, SJ is the founder of Homeboy Industries in L.A. We talk about his three decades of work to heal the trauma of gang violence in the city, and discuss his new book, Barking at the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship.
Direct download: TNS-1803_Boyle_96K_CBR_47m30s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:49am CDT |
Sun, 28 January 2018
Mark Galli, editor in chief of Christianity Today, has written an accessible biography of Karl Barth, as an introduction for Evangelicals and others who might benefit from the work of this great theologian.
Direct download: TNS-1802_GALLI_96K_CBR_47m21s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:00am CDT |
Sun, 14 January 2018
Antonio 'Ton' Sison is a theologian, film critic, and film maker. We talk to him about his new book, The Sacred Foodways of Film
Direct download: TNS-1801_Sison_96K_CBR_48m30s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:45am CDT |
Tue, 9 January 2018
Mahany's new book, Motherprayer, is a meditation on divine love, seen through the lens of mothering love.
Direct download: TNS-1706a_Mahany_96K_CBR_49m24s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:10pm CDT |
Tue, 2 January 2018
We revisit our far-ranging conversation with Diana Butler Bass. Her recent book Grounded: Finding God in the World--A Spiritual Revolution is now out in paperback
Direct download: TNS-1603b_Butler-Bass_16K_CBR_49m15s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:19am CDT |
Mon, 25 December 2017
We speak with Christian Coon, co-founder and co-pastor of Chicago's Urban Village church, about his new book and lessons learned
Direct download: 1712-Coon_96K_CBR_49m16s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:06pm CDT |
Sun, 24 December 2017
We revisit our conversation with Valparaiso University professor of religion, Melanie Trexler, about her book, Evangelizing Lebanon, which looks at the history of Baptist mission work in the Near East
Direct download: TNS-1701b_Trexler_96K_CBR_53m53s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 5:17pm CDT |
Sun, 24 December 2017
We revisit our 2014 interview with Reza Aslan. He has recently released a new book, God: A Human History
Direct download: TNS-1417b_Aslan_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:07am CDT |
Tue, 5 December 2017
Best-selling author and Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber pastors a small church in Denver, at the same time that she has become more of a celebrity and well-known writer. She is fiercely protective of her congregation, House for All Sinners and Saints, in Denver, Colorado. "The are very willing to share me," she says, referring to her rising celebrity status, "but when I am there, I need to be their pastor. Not take selfies." In our conversation, Bolz-Weber discusses her conservative upbringing, her addiction and recovery, and her journey to become a pastor and church planter. We talk about her new book, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People.
Direct download: TNS_1516b_Bolz-Weber_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 6:24am CDT |
Fri, 1 December 2017
Fr. Stephen Katsouros, SJ, talks about Arrupe College, a new dimension of Jesuit education designed to reach the students at the margins
Direct download: TNS-1711_Katsouros_96K_CBR_49m44s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:44pm CDT |
Thu, 9 November 2017
The Christian Gospels, and the holy writings of many religions, focus on the importance of welcome and fellowship. Our guest, Joshua Jipp, speaks to us about the centrality of hospitality to religious traditions, and we discuss his new book, Saved by Faith and Hospitality.
Direct download: TNS-1710_Jipp_96K_CBR_48m49s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:42am CDT |
Thu, 26 October 2017
The Rev. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana is helping to train leaders in contextual theology for the 21st century.
Direct download: TNS-1709_Premawardhana_96k_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:46pm CDT |
Tue, 17 October 2017
Attorney John Mauck has spent decades on the front lines of religious freedom litigation. We discuss his new book, Jesus in the Courtroom: How Believers Can Engage the Legal System for the Good of His World. We discussed Mauck's role in the passage of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) in a previous episode, The Miracle on Capitol Hill.
Direct download: TNS-1708_Mauck_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:43pm CDT |
Sat, 14 October 2017
On Palm Sunday in 1990, attorney Jeanne Bishop received a phone call with the news that three members of her family - including her sister - had been brutally murdered. We take the full hour of our show this week to hear Bishop's account of her twenty-five-year journey towards forgiveness and reconciliation with her sister's killer.
Direct download: TNS_1419c_Bishop_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:09pm CDT |
Sat, 14 October 2017
This hour we revisit our interview with actor and director Curt Cloninger, who has spent 30 years traveling the country performing thoughtful and thought-provoking one-man shows.
Direct download: TNS-1506_Cloninger_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:38pm CDT |
Thu, 12 October 2017
Kenneth Briggs went on a road trip to discover the condition of the Bible in America. What he found may surprise you.
Direct download: TNS-1622c_BRIGGS_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:48pm CDT |
Thu, 12 October 2017
Jason Micheli has cancer, and its not going away. His recent book, Cancer is Funny, is an honest, heartfelt reckoning with the reality of mortality and the Gospel.
Direct download: TNS-1703b_96K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:32pm CDT |
Fri, 29 September 2017
We revisit our award-winning talk with Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet, about new discoveries in cosmology and their profound effect on our understanding of the universe and religion. In 2016 this episode won a national award for excellence in radio and podcasting from the Religion News Association.
Direct download: TNS-1508c_Abrams_64K_CBR_49m45s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:52pm CDT |
Sun, 3 September 2017
Amy Lillis is former Acting Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs. In our conversation, we discuss why the State Department took up religion as a diplomatic issue.
Direct download: TNS-1707-Lillis_96K_CBR_49m44s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:58pm CDT |
Tue, 29 August 2017
Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has turned her attention to the important subject of grief and regret, and has written a practical spiritual guide for getting over the feelings of "woulda, coulda, shoulda" that affect us all.
Direct download: TNS-1501b_Van-Loon_96k_CBR_49m44s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:19pm CDT |
Mon, 28 August 2017
Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, is both a memoir and a call to action for intentional interfaith community. In this rebroadcast from 2014, we talk about how her experiences have shaped her approach to family and religious practice, and the politics of raising interfaith families.
Direct download: TNS-1420_Miller_96K_CBR_49m44s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:43am CDT |
Sun, 27 August 2017
We're rebroadcasting our 2014 interview with the late Phyllis Tickle. In our conversation we explore the idea that our culture has been shaped by roughly 500-year cycles, which have helped define our major religious traditions for the past two millennia. According to Tickle, our present epoch - referred to by some as "The Great Emergence" - has the potential to yield a new Christianity distinct from Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. Dr. Tickle passed away in 2016.
Direct download: TNS-1401a_Tickle_128K_CBR_49m43s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:26pm CDT |
Thu, 10 August 2017
We revisit our 2015 interview with Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners. We discuss his recent book, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Direct download: TNS-1518c_Wallis_128K_CBR_49m24s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:32pm CDT |
Thu, 10 August 2017
We revisit our 2015 interview with Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners. We discuss his recent book, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Direct download: TNS-1518c_Wallis_128K_CBR_49m24s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:32pm CDT |
Sun, 16 July 2017
Mahany's new book, Motherprayer, is a meditation on divine love, seen through the lens of mothering love.
Direct download: TNS-1706_Mahany_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:51am CDT |
Tue, 4 July 2017
We talk with Heather King about her life as a poly-addicted alcoholic, and the central role of her religious faith in her recovery. Her most recent book, Holy Desperation: Praying As If Your Life Depends On It, is a chronicle of her journey.
Direct download: TNS-1705_King_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:27am CDT |
Tue, 4 July 2017
We talk with Heather King about her life as a poly-addicted alcoholic, and the central role of her religious faith in her recovery. Her most recent book, Holy Desperation: Praying As If Your Life Depends On It, is a chronicle of her journey.
Direct download: TNS-1705_King_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:27am CDT |
Thu, 15 June 2017
Michelle Alexander's work examines the hidden structures of control exerted by our criminal justice system, and the effects this control has particularly on minority populations in America. Her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow, set the tone of the conversation for understanding recent events in race relations.
Direct download: TNS-1509a_Alexander_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:19am CDT |
Sun, 4 June 2017
Professor Plate's teachings and writings explore relations between sensual life and spiritual life. He has authored/edited eleven books and writes regularly for the Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, Killing the Buddha, OnFaith, and other sites. He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, co-founder and president of SCRIPT (Society for Comparative Research in Iconic and Performative Texts), president of CrossCurrents/ The Association of Religion and Intellectual Life, and is a board member of the Interfaith Coalition of Greater Utica, NY. His most recent book is A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to its Senses.
Direct download: TNS_1413a_Brent-Plate_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:47pm CDT |
Sun, 28 May 2017
Heidi Neumark spent twenty years as the pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx in New York City, and has spent the past decade at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan. At both posts, she has encountered the same need: people on the margins - cast out and unwanted - who need to hear the Good News that they are wanted, needed, and valued.
Direct download: TNS_1418a_Neumark_128K_CBR_47m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:00am CDT |
Sun, 21 May 2017
Tattoos, foul language, and a heart for the Gospel. pastor and author Nadia Bolz-Weber talks about her new book, Accidental Saints, and the centrality of grace.
Direct download: TNS-1516a_Bolz-Weber_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 11:16am CDT |
Sun, 14 May 2017
In the year 2000, against strong opposition, pasthe Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, passed Congress by unanimous vote. It's supporters proclaimed that "God worked a miracle" that day on Capitol Hill. Our guest, John Mauck, was instrumental in crafting the ideas and language that became the Act. He tells us the story of how it became law.
Direct download: TNS_1414a_John-Mauck_128K_CBR_49m_01s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:19am CDT |
Sun, 7 May 2017
We revisit our 2012 interview with Furman University philosophy professor J. Aaron Simmons, to discuss the relationship of Christianity and postmodern thought. Simmons identifies as a Pentecostal, a traditionally conservative Christian denomination. But his views on social issues complicate this easy label. We talk about the complexities he sees in the life of faith during this hour of conversation.
Direct download: TNS-1222a_Simmons_128K_CBR_48m_59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 2:01pm CDT |
Sun, 30 April 2017
Our host David Dault speaks with award-winning poet, author, and journalist Judith Valente. We discuss her career as a religion reporter, as well as her explorations of modern monasticism.
Direct download: TNS-1505a_Valente_128K_CBR_48m_59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:04pm CDT |
Mon, 24 April 2017
For Earth Day, we welcome back Boston Law Professor Jay Wexler to talk about his recent book, When God Isn't Green, which finds him exploring the points around the globe where religion and environmentalism come into conflict.
Direct download: TNS-1608_Wexler_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 6:34am CDT |
Sun, 23 April 2017
Around the world, Catholic and Protestant Christians are making preparations for Holy Week, a series of worship services leading up Easter, the day that Christians proclaim Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. During the day known as Good Friday,there is a tradition in many Christian communities to reflect on a series of phrases known as the "Seven Last Words" of Jesus as he hung on the cross. We speak with Fr. James Martin about his book, Seven Last Words, a collection of his meditations on the final hours of Jesus, and what it means for believers and nonbelievers alike.
Direct download: TNS-1604a_Martin_128K_CBR_48m_59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:49pm CDT |
Sun, 16 April 2017
Marge Nykaza is the founder and director of Harmony, Hope and Healing - a ministry to homeless and under-resourced families across the Chicago area. The most visible part of the ministry is choral groups composed of the homeless - but as Nykaza points out, their work is much more about the soul repair, which happens through the music.
Direct download: TNS-1601a_Nykaza_128K_CBR_48m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 9:32pm CDT |
Thu, 13 April 2017
On Palm Sunday in 1990, attorney Jeanne Bishop received a phone call with the news that three members of her family - including her sister - had been brutally murdered. We take the full hour of our show this week to hear Bishop's account of her twenty-five-year journey towards forgiveness and reconciliation with her sister's killer.
Direct download: TNS_1419a_Jeanne-Bishop_128K_CBR_49m01s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:24pm CDT |
Sun, 26 March 2017
This hour we revisit our interview with actor and director Curt Cloninger, who has spent 30 years traveling the country performing thoughtful and thought-provoking one-man shows.
Direct download: TNS-1506a_Cloninger_128K_CBR_48m55s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:08pm CDT |
Sat, 18 March 2017
Jason Micheli has cancer, and its not going away. His recent book, Cancer is Funny, is an honest, heartfelt reckoning with the reality of mortality and the Gospel.
Direct download: TNS-1703_Micheli_128K_CBR_49m28s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:00pm CDT |
Wed, 15 March 2017
We revisit our award-winning talk with Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet, about new discoveries in cosmology and their profound effect on our understanding of the universe and religion. In 2016 this episode won a national award for excellence in radio and podcasting from the Religion News Association.
Direct download: TNS-1508_Abrams_128K_CBR_49m28s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:24pm CDT |
Mon, 6 March 2017
Kenneth Briggs went on a road trip to discover the condition of the Bible in America. What he found may surprise you.
Direct download: TNS-1622_Briggs_128K_CBR_49m28s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 4:27pm CDT |
Sun, 26 February 2017
We revisit our 2014 interview with Reza Aslan. In early March, Aslan will premiere "Believer," a new documentary series on CNN
Direct download: TNS-1417a_Aslan_AM_96K_CBR_49m25s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 1:18pm CDT |
Mon, 20 February 2017
We're rebroadcasting our 2014 interview with the late Phyllis Tickle. In our conversation we explore the idea that our culture has been shaped by roughly 500-year cycles, which have helped define our major religious traditions for the past two millennia. According to Tickle, our present epoch - referred to by some as "The Great Emergence" - has the potential to yield a new Christianity distinct from Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. Dr. Tickle passed away in 2016.
Direct download: TNS-1401a_Tickle_128K_CBR_49m25s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:31am CDT |
Sun, 12 February 2017
We revisit our 2015 interview with Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners. We discuss his recent book, America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Direct download: TNS-1518a_Wallis_49m06s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:56pm CDT |
Thu, 9 February 2017
We revisit our far-ranging conversation with Diana Butler Bass. Her recent book Grounded: Finding God in the World--A Spiritual Revolution is now out in paperback
Direct download: TNS-1603a_Butler-Bass_128K_CBR_49m06s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:27pm CDT |
Tue, 31 January 2017
We speak with Melanie Trexler about her new book, which looks at the history of Baptist mission work in the Near East
Direct download: TNS-1701_Trexler_96K_CBR_55m06s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 8:20pm CDT |
Sat, 21 January 2017
Todd Green returns to our show to discuss his new book, The Fear of Islam: an Introduction to Islamophobia in the West.
Direct download: TNS-1512_AM_Green_128K_CBR_45m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:16pm CDT |
Sun, 15 January 2017
We speak to Rita Nakashima Brock, one of the scholars working on the issue of moral injury and co-author of the book Soul Repair
Direct download: TNS-1513am_Brock_128k_CBR_45m_59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:32am CDT |
Sun, 8 January 2017
For our first radio broadcast, we revisit a conversation with Senator John Danforth
Direct download: TNS-1515_Danforth_AMCLOCK-45m59s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 3:23pm CDT |
Wed, 28 December 2016
Faith In Place works across Illinois to empower congregations to care for our common environment. We talk to their Executive Director, Rev. Brian Sauder
Direct download: TNS-1625_Sauder_POD_64K_CBR_52m07s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 7:49pm CDT |
Wed, 7 December 2016
This week, we revisit our FIRST EVER EPISODE, with the Rev. Dr. Stacy Smith. She is the author of Bless Her Heart:Life as a Young Clergy Woman, and she is the former editor of Church Health Reader magazine.
Direct download: TNS_1201b_Stacy-Smith_PODCAST_56KB_CBR.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 10:29pm CDT |
Mon, 5 December 2016
We revisit our 2015 interview with Pakistani-American author Saadia Faruqi The power of narrative to create understanding and empathy is well known. Pakistani-American author Saadia Faruqi has written a new book of short stories, Brick Walls, that brings us seven stories that introduce American readers to the people and the land of her birth.
Direct download: TNS-1514b_Faruqi_POD_64K_CBR_54m05s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 12:25am CDT |
Fri, 25 November 2016
We speak to seminary student Taylor Gould about her recent visit to the Standing Rock site, where hundreds of pastors converged to support the resistance efforts of the Native Americans who call themselves the "Water Protectors" at the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Direct download: TNS-1626_Gould_POD_64K_CBR_55m10s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 6:40pm CDT |
Thu, 17 November 2016
In today's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses a massacre in Luxor |
Wed, 16 November 2016
Chicago attorney Noel W. Sterett fights for religious liberties for those of all faiths, as a way of expressing his Christian witness.
Direct download: TNS-1624_Sterett_POD_64K_CBR_55m07s.mp3
Category:Religion & Spirituality -- posted at: 5:33pm CDT |
Wed, 16 November 2016
In today's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Portuguese poet and novelist José de Sousa Saramago |
Tue, 15 November 2016
In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 6th Dalai Lama. |
Mon, 14 November 2016
In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Shenouda III. |
Sun, 13 November 2016
In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the goddess Feronia. |
Sat, 12 November 2016
In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Second Statute of Repeal. |