Last October, Things Not Seen Radio went on-location to Wheaton College to speak to participants in their conference on the Bible and Democracy in America, co-sponsored by the American Bible Society. Our guest this week is University of Chicago professor, historian Catherine Brekus. Also on the show, Katy Scrogin discusses Martha C. Nussbaum’s book, Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Poe Toaster.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses William Price, who opened the door to legal cremation in Britain.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses France's 1562 Edict of Saint Germain.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Caliphate of Cordoba.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Derveni papyrus, found on this day in 1962.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 1967 Human Be-In in San Francisco.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses St. Knut's Day, the last day of Christmas in some Scandinavian countries.

In part 2 of our interview with Phyllis Tickle, we look at the relationship of science and faith, and why new seminarians might want to have a background in physics rather than theology. 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. Also on the program, Katy Scrogin reviews Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War, the new book by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the field of cryogenics, which began with James Bedford's preservation in 1967.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Kagami Biraki, the breaking of the mochi.

In Friday's Religion Moment, David Dunn discusses Gregory of Nyssa.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Manila's Feast of the Black Nazarene.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Thomas Aikenhead, the last person executed in Britain for blasphemy.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Japan's Festival of Seven Herbs, Nanakusa-no-sekku.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Carnival season.

In part 1 of our interview with Phyllis Tickle, 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 distint from Protestantism, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy. Also on the program, Katy Scrogin reviews a new biography of philosopher Alain Badiou by Hollis Phelps.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Paramahansa Yogananda, born on this day in 1893.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Ogoni Day, observed since 1993.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 1919 Faisal-Weizmann Agreement.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses John II's innovation of taking a new name as Pope.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Mexico's Cristero War.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 17th-century emigration of Huguenots to South Africa.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 1993 accord that established diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Muhammad Iqbal's introduction of the two-nation theory to India in 1930.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Mortimer J. Adler, co-founder of the Great Books Series.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses 1657's Flushing Remonstrance.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the seven-day festival of Kwanzaa.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Puritans' outlawing of Christmas celebrations in the 17th century.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Christmas Truce between soldiers on the Western Front in World War I.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the phenomenon known as Festivus.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Day of Deliverance declared by India's Muslim League in 1939.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the five-day Hindu festival known as Pancha Ganapati.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Persian festival of Yalda.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the ancient Roman festival of Opalia.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses B.B. King's meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1997.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Aztec sun stone, discovered on this day in 1790.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses how a Romanian congregation's support of its pastor helped spark a revolution.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Zamenhof Day, which celebrates Esperanto and its developer.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses astronomer Tycho Brahe, born on this day in 1546.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses St. Lucia's Day.

In Thursday's Relgiion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Paula Ackerman, the first U.S. woman to lead a Jewish congregation.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Llywelyn the Last, Wales' last native prince.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses London's Brown Dog Riots, which reached their height on this day in 1907.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Anna's Day and the traditions that surround it.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Bodhi Day, which celebrates the Buddha's attainment of enlightenment.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 1724 religious riot in Torún, Poland.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the destruction of India's Babri Mosque in 1992.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the papal bull and the book that helped spread a fever for witchhunting in Europe.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Yoruba deity, Shango, whom many practitioners celebrate on this day.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who assumed official power in Iran on this day in 1979.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Newport, Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses World AIDS Day, observed since 1988.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Regina Mundi, Soweto's historic church.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., born on this day in 1908.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Marian apparitions that began on this day in 1981 in Kibeho, Rwanda.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb on this day in 1922.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses writer, actor, and director Yukio Mishima, who committed seppuku on this day in 1970.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Pope Clement V's bull against the Knights Templar.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Pope Clement V's bull against the Knights Templar.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Piltdown Man and the hoax that surrounded him.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Slánský Trial, which opened on this day in 1952 in Prague.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses World Toilet Day.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the lay Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai, founded on this day in 1930.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 14th Dalai Lama, installed on this day in 1950.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Louis Riel, executed on this day in 1885.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Japan's Shichi-Go-San festival.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Jawaharlal Nehru, born on this day in 1889.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses World Kindness Day.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Bahá'í's founder, Bahá'u'lláh, whose birth is celebrated today.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the policy that would lead to the creation of Australia's Stolen Generations.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Miriam Makeba, the singer and civil rights activist nicknamed Mama Africa.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Bolivia's Day of the Skulls.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Gospel Riots that took place in Athens in 1901.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman lawgiver, poet, and patron of the arts.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the ringing of San Salvador's church bells in 1811, which kicked off a movement for independence.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Al-Hijra, the Muslim new year.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Diwali, the festival of lights.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the three-day festival known as Día de los Muertos.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Martin Luther's 95 Theses, nailed to the Castle Church door at Wittenberg on this day in 1517.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Mischief Night, when pranksters abound.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, who died on this day in 1997.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Oxi Day, a celebration of Greek resistance during World War II.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Philip Berrigan and the Baltimore Four.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Baby Fae, the infant who received a baboon's heart in 1984.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the crusade against swing music.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Harry Houdini's escapes, and his attempts to combat supernatural fraud.

Over a decade ago, pastor Lia Claire Scholl began a ministry among women who work in the sex industry. Her experiences with these women challenge our society's expectations about care, morality, and the Gospel. In part two of our interview, we learn about the personal costs of her work as a "harm reduction activist," and the vulnerable edge of caring for those who have passed beyond the range of social acceptance. We discuss her work and her recent book, I Heart Sex Workers: A Christian Response to People in the Sex Trade. Also on the show, Alexander Badenoch discusses writers' block.

In Wednesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, born on this day in 1927.

In Tuesday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Fechner Day, observed by many psychophysicists.

In Monday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Jack Kerouac, who died on this day in 1969.

In Sunday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Paul Kurtz, widely considered to be the father of secular humanism.

In Saturday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Armiliustrium, ancient Rome's purification of weaponry.

In Friday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses the 1685 revocation of France's Edict of Nantes.

In Thursday's Religion Moment, Katy Scrogin discusses Russia's October Manifesto, issued on this day in 1905.