Things Not Seen Podcast

Filmmaker Martin Doblmeier returns to Things Not See to discuss his wonderful new documentary, Sabbath, available now from Journey Films Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Daniel J. Denk invites us on a journey to explore the shape and possibility of human flourishing, as he discusses his recent book, An Invitation to Joy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Miguel De La Torre returns to Things Not Seen to discuss his recent book, Resisting Apartheid America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past decades, America and other nations have ceded the mantle of space exploration to private firms and the wealthy buccaneers who run them. Our guest Mary-Jane Rubenstein helps us understand what we have sought to gain from such a Faustian bargain, and what we have lost. We talk about her recent book Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and educator David Dark returns to Things Not Seen to discuss the reframed and expanded edition of his book, Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest, Union Theological Seminary professor Pamela Cooper-White, discusses how to overcome the polarization that has gripped American communities, both politically and religiously Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest, Cole Arthur Riley, talks to us about her brilliant recent book, This Here Flesh, which weaves together four generations of lived experience into a book that is both a theological meditation and a memoir of loss and liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are delighted to welcome back to the show our guest, philosopher J. Aaron Simmons. He talks about his ongoing project, Camping with Kierkegaard, and the ways he is trying to bring philosophical reflection into public conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book, The Aesthetics of Solidarity, our guest, professor Nichole M. Flores, explores how Our Lady of Guadalupe has been used as a symbol in democratic campaigns ranging from the Chicano movement and United Farm Workers' movements to contemporary calls for just immigration reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest, journalist Jon Ward, talks to us about his recent book, Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Barbara Mahany returns to the show to talk about her wonderful recent book, The Book of Nature Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Dawn Eden Goldstein discusses her new book. which tells the story of Father Ed Dowling, SJ, the Jesuit priest who helped to spread the word about Alcoholics Anonymous.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest, Fr. R. Aaron Wessman, invites listeners to consider how to cross over the many barriers our culture puts up between us. He discusses his recent book, The Church's Mission in a Polarized World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak with Eric Bowman, educator and founder of the Revolution Ethics Project, about his 2022 podcast series, The Virtue Field, which explores the life of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Dr. Christina Cleveland talks about her theological and personal journey to re-think her images of God's divinity, particularly the "whitemalegod," to discover a God that could honestly relate to the experience of Black women Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome back to the show philosophers Jacob Goodson and Brad Elliott Stone to talk about their recent book, co-authored with Pastor Philip Rudolph Kuehnert, Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent book, Hearts Ablaze: Parables for the Queer Soul, our guest Rolf Nolasco looks at ten selected parables of Jesus, that expand the scope of interpretation of each story to highlight God's extravagant welcome of all people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent book, Cathonomics, our guest Anthony M. Annett draws on economics, Catholic social thought, philosophy, climate science, and psychology to show how readers of all faiths and backgrounds can work together to create a more just economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest, Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher, talks about her powerful translation of Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence, and how she helped this ancient classic find a new voice for contemporary readers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Andre Henry talks about his journey into "artivism" - a mixture of activism and artistry aimed at revolutionary change and decolonization. We talk about his recent book All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep, and his invitation to work on behalf of the safety and joy of Black lives Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices