Things Not Seen Podcast
437 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings"Things Not Seen" talks with people of faith who are working to make sense of why we are here and how we can all live together despite our deep differences in belief. The show is hosted by Dr. David Dault, and features guests from a broad spectrum of public life, with in-depth conversations about real struggles at the intersection of faith and culture.
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#2418 - What Is the Goal of Human Flourishing?: Chanequa Walker-Barnes [Rebroadcast]
May 05, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourWe are joined by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes to discuss their recent book, Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2416 - We Are Diamond Castles: Julia Feder
April 28, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Julia Feder, discusses her recent book, Incarnating Grace: A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma. The book attempts to save our broken ways of talking about God's grace by unearthing liberating resources buried in the Christian tradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2417 - God's Provision: Anna Broadway
April 28, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Anna Broadway, discusses her recent book, Solo Planet: How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling. Through its deeply researched account, Solo Planet shows how a more biblical approach to singleness can strengthen churches and empower singles to thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2315 - Lean into Fragility and Mystery: Donna Freitas
April 14, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Donna Freitas, talks about her recent book, Wishful Thinking: How I Lost My Faith, and Why I Want to Find It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2414 - We Never Interpret Alone: Rabbi Shai Held
April 07, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Rabbi Shai Held, talks about his recent book: Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life. Held reminds us that love is foundational and constitutive of Jewish faith, animating the singular Jewish perspective on injustice and protest, grace, family life, responsibilities to our neighbors and even our enemies, and chosenness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2415 - We Never Interpret Alone: Rabbi Shai Held
April 07, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Rabbi Shai Held, talks about his recent book: Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life. Held reminds us that love is foundational and constitutive of Jewish faith, animating the singular Jewish perspective on injustice and protest, grace, family life, responsibilities to our neighbors and even our enemies, and chosenness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2413 - A Call to Action for the Marginalized - Miguel De La Torre [Rebroadcast]
March 31, 2024 15:00 - 59 minutesProfessor 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
#2412 - Jesus in His Own Words: Fr. Bill Cain, SJ [Rebroadcast]
March 25, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourBill Cain is a Jesuit who has spent his life writing screenplays for movies and television. In his 2022 book, The Diary of Jesus Christ, he reimagines the stories of the Gospels from the point of view of Jesus himself, with breathtaking results Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2411 - Catechesis Through Commerce: Leah Payne
March 17, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest Leah Payne traces forty years in the formation of American Evangelical identity through a mixture of Christian bookstores, Contemporary Christian Music, charismatic recording artists, and self-reinforcing product placements. We discuss her recent book, God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2410 - Repairing What Race Broke in the World: Lisa Sharon Harper [Rebroadcast]
March 10, 2024 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest Lisa Sharon Harper takes us on a four-century journey through the history of her family, showing us how it entwines with the broken history of race in America. She discusses her recent book, Fortune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2409 - Politics is Penultimate: Michael Wear
March 03, 2024 16:00 - 59 minutesOur guest, Michael Wear, has lived at the intersection of faith and politics at the highest corridors of power. In his recent book, The Spirit of Our Politics, Wear offers a distinctly Christian approach to politics that results in healing rather than division, kindness rather than hatred, and hope rather than despair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2408 - Prophetically Pragmatic: Mark Elsdon
February 25, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutesOur guest Mark Elsdon talks about the coming wave of church property transitions, and what it will mean for communities and faith at large in the United States. We talk about his recent edited volume, Gone for Good? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2407 - The Reshaping of the American Church: Bob Smietana [Rebroadcast]
February 18, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourIn his recent book, Reorganized Religion, our guest, veteran religion reporter Bob Smietana, offers an in-depth and critical look at why people are leaving American churches and what we lose as a society as it continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2406 - Behind the Scenes with Flannery O'Connor: Jessica Hooten Wilson
February 11, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutesWhen celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor died at the age of thirty-nine in 1964, she left behind an unfinished third novel titled Why Do the Heathen Rage? For the past ten-plus years, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson has explored the 378 pages of typed and handwritten material of the novel, compiling everything to provide a glimpse into what O'Connor might have planned to publish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2405 - Taking the Bible Seriously, Not Literally: Love Lazarus Sechrest [Rebroadcast]
February 04, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourIn her recent book Race & Rhyme, our guest Love Lazarus Sechrest invites listeners to explore biblical narratives in ways that enliven and ethically inform our present conditions. She discusses her method of associative hermeneutics in this far-ranging conversation about race, theology, and repairing the broken world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2404 - A Theology of Life with Depression: Jessica Coblentz [Rebroadcast]
January 28, 2024 16:00 - 57 minutesOur guest Jessica Coblentz calls readers and scholars alike to re-imagine our theological accounts of depression and recovery in her recent book, Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2403 - The Great Love: Joyce Rupp
January 21, 2024 16:00 - 57 minutesBestselling author and beloved retreat leader Joyce Rupp speaks to us about her recent book, Jesus, Friend of My Soul: Reflections for the Lenten Journey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2402 - The Priest for the People with Problems: Dawn Eden Goldstein [Rebroadcast]
January 14, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourOur guest Dawn Eden Goldstein discusses her recent book, Father Ed: The Story of Bill W.'s Spiritual Sponsor, 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
#2401 - Give up the God who does not believe in us: Rachel Mann
January 07, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Rachel Mann, calls Jane Austen "the supreme novelist of attention." In her recent book, A Truth Universally Acknowledged, Mann invites us to journey through the 40 days of Lent with the works of Austen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2353 - Radically Curious: Corey Nathan
December 31, 2023 16:00 - 59 minutesOur guest, Corey Nathan, talks about his upbringing and religious journey from Judaism to Christianity. Along the way, he talks about his vision for ways for citizens to be able to talk across their differences and divisions, which he practices in his podcast, Talkin' Religion and Politics without Killin' Each Other Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2352 - Meet the Magi: Eric Vanden Eykel [Rebroadcast]
December 24, 2023 16:00 - 57 minutesIn his 2022 book, The Magi, our guest Eric Vanden Eykel examines the birth of the Magi story; its enrichments, embellishments, and expansions in apocryphal writing and early Christian preaching; its artistic expressions in catacombs, icons, and paintings and its modern legacy in novels, poetry, and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2351 - The Sacred Just Beneath the Surface - Barbara Mahany [Rebroadcast]
December 17, 2023 16:00 - 58 minutesOur 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
#2350 - The Presence of Absence: Ronald J. Greer
December 10, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Rev. Ronald J. Greer, invites us into the realms of grief and mourning as he discusses his powerful recent book, The Quiet House: Reflections on the Loss of a Spouse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2349 - We are Not Alone: Christine Valters Paintner
December 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourIn her recent book, The Love of Thousands, our guest Christine Valters Paintner invites us to consider that angels, saints, and even our departed ancestors support and inspire us throughout our lives, and invite us toward holiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2348 - When Time Is Short: Timothy Beal [Rebroadcast]
November 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourProfessor Timothy Beal returns to Things Not Seen to talk about his recent book, When Time Is Short, which deals with human-made climate catastrophe and the idea of 'palliative hope' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2347 - Hope in Our Bodies: Maryann McKibben Dana [Rebroadcast]
November 19, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourRev. Maryann McKibben Dana returns to our show to talk about her recent book, Hope: A User's Manual. She reflects on the surprising place where hope is often found--in the messiness of our imperfect, flawed, beautiful human bodies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2346 - A Story of a Countercultural Christian Community: Celeste Kennel-Shank
November 12, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Celeste Kennel-Shank, tells the intriguing story of the Community of Christ, a church community based in Washington, DC, and its five decades of ministry. We talk about her recent book, What You Sow is a Bare Seed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2345 - The Virtue Field: Eric Bowman on Harriet Tubman [Rebroadcast]
November 05, 2023 16:00 - 58 minutesWe 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
#2344 - Dignity and Responsibility: Anthony M. Annett [Rebroadcast]
October 29, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourIn 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
#2343 - We Become What We Normalize: David Dark
October 22, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourWe welcome back our guest, philosopher and educator David Dark, to talk about his recent book, We Become What We Normalize: What We Owe Each Other in Worlds that Demand Our Silence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2342 - Life Has to Show at the Seams: J. Aaron Simmons
October 16, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, philosopher J. Aaron Simmons, invites listeners to take "risk with direction" in his recent book, Camping with Kierkegaard. In the book, he asks us to consider "what is worthy of our finitude?" and reads the question through the metaphors of outdoor adventure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2341 - The Victory of Public Broadcasting: Joshua Shepperd
October 08, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Joshua Shepperd, is an expert on the history of radio. His recent book, Shadow of the New Deal, tells the amazing and often surprising story of the rise of public broadcasting in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2340 - An Enfolding Sequence of Miracles: Jennifer Banks
October 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Jennifer Banks, discusses her recent book Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth, The book invites us to attend to birth as a challenging and life-affirming reminder of our shared humanity and our capacity for creative renewal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2339 - The Welcome Table: Greg Garrett on James Baldwin
September 24, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest Greg Garrett joins us to discuss his recent book, The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America's Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2338 - Repentance and Repair: Danya Ruttenberg
September 17, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourWe welcome Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg to talk about the five steps of repentance, set forth by Moses Maimonides, which form the heart of her recent book, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2337 - Bearing Witness: Sarah Stankorb
September 10, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourJournalist Sarah Stankorb joins us to talk about her powerful book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2336 - Revisiting Weird Religion: Leah Payne and Brian Doak
September 03, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourThis week on Things Not Seen we check in with the hosts of one of our favorite podcasts, Weird Religion. Hosts Brian Doak and Leah Payne look back at five years of producing the show, and look ahead to what religion might mean for us in the decades to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2335 - What Is the Goal of Human Flourishing?: Chanequa Walker-Barnes
August 27, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourWe are joined by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes to discuss their recent book, Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves. We explore self-care as both a sacred and a subversive practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2334 - Drawing Lines of Inclusion, Not Exclusion: David Hayward [Rebroadcast]
August 20, 2023 15:00 - 57 minutesArtist and cartoonist David Hayward has been using his simple line drawings to convey messages of love and inclusion to those who have felt left out by the Christian faith. We talk about a new collection of his cartoons, called Flip It Like This. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2333 - The Other Evangelicals: Isaac B. Sharp
August 13, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest Isaac B. Sharp recovers a history of Evangelical Christianity in America, looking at the various populations who were "left behind" in the Evangelical quest for increased influence in American politics. We talk about his book, The Other Evangelicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2332 - Survival is Just the Beginning: Kelly J. Baker [Rebroadcast]
August 06, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourWe welcome back Dr. Kelly J. Baker to talk about her amazing and powerful book Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2331 - A Landscape Loud with Lament and Loss: Kelley Nikondeha [Rebroadcast]
July 30, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest Kelley Nikondeha invites us to re-read the stories of the Old and New Testament through the lens of the so-called "Fifth Gospel": the lands of Israel and Palestine. Nikondeha encourages us to consider the imperial politics behind the Gospel narratives, both when they were first written, and now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2330 - Seeing and Believing: Ellen T. Armour
July 23, 2023 15:00 - 58 minutesOur guest Ellen T. Armour discusses the way the media of photography and video have changed our way of thinking and feeling, and the fundamental nature of our relationships with others. She talks about her recent book, Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2329 - Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon - The Politics of Biblical Interpretation
July 16, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutesOur guests, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon, talk about their recent book, Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The book explores the cultural, ethical, and political aspects of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2328 - The Life of Sojourner Truth - Nancy Koester
July 09, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest Nancy Koester talks about her recent book, We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2327 - Practice of the Presence: Carmen Acevedo Butcher [Rebroadcast]
July 02, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur 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
#2326 - Extravagant Inefficiency: Adam Bucko
June 25, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutesOur guest Adam Bucko talks about his recent book, Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide, and how we can cultivate a spiritual practice of "curious not-knowing" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2325 - Deep Friendships Across Difference: Susan Bigelow Reynolds
June 18, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Professor Susan Bigelow Reynolds, discusses her recent book, People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2324 - The Importance of Hope: John Blake
June 11, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourAward-winning journalist John Blake tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together. He talks with us about his recent book, More Than I Imagined Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#2323 - Parables for the Queer Soul: Rolf R. Nolasco, Jr. [Rebroadcast]
June 04, 2023 05:01 - 1 hourIn 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