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Social unrest and physical distancing are not making it easy to connect with other people.
Author Eric Motley speaks with Joshua Johnson about his book "Madison Park: A Place of Hope."
How will the frayed relationship between police and citizens be repaired?
In the United States, the number of people attending church is declining. So where are people going to find meaning and community?
Who controls a woman’s body? Herself? Her church? Her community? Her government?
The time we’re living in is unusually tumultuous. The Covid-19 pandemic is causing loss, disruption, illness, grief, anxiety, and uncertainty.
How has extreme individual freedom led to a crisis of isolation?
New York Times columnist David Brooks explores a life well lived. In this episode he examines happiness and commitments.
Shira Stutman is senior rabbi at a historic synagogue that’s doing innovative things.
Kate Bowler and Elaine Pagels both write about religion and have experienced immense hardships.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu asks, what's the real cost of violence? And how do we change it?
In today’s world, we tend to switch jobs more frequently than previous generations, and are more likely to have multiple jobs. Side gigs where we express passions or find meaning are also common, and many juggle additional roles as caregivers and community members, as people always have. In short, many of us are focused on a lot more than just climbing a corporate ladder....
The United States is a more secular society than many, and the percentage of people who don’t identify with organized religion is rising. Some of the impacts from that shift might be obvious, such as declining membership in congregations or decreased support for religious organizations and institutions. But some of the consequences are less obvious. How do we change as peo...
We try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, No Cure for Being Human, religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. Truth is, bad things do happen to good people and if we're going to tell the truth, we need one another. As someone who lives with cancer, B...
We try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, "No Cure for Being Human," religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. Truth is, bad things do happen to good people and if we're going to tell the truth, we need one another. As someone who lives with cancer,...
How is social justice best pursued in a time when America is facing a reckoning on race? In today's cancel culture, many believe making the world a better place means banishing some opinions from the public sphere. John McWhorter, associate professor of English at Columbia University, says this censorious mindset threatens the value of free speech. McWhorter, a linguist an...