Things Not Seen Podcast
"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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#1513 - Soul Repair: Rita Nakashima Brock
We speak to Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock about the healing after moral injury; Producer Katie Klocksin shares a piece with us about a church struggling with public witness
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#1203b - Holy Solitude: Robert Rhodes [REBROADC...
We revisit our 2012 interview with author and poet Robert Rhodes about his life among the Hutterites; our producer-at-large Natasha Alford reflects on the shootings in Charleston
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#1417 - A Zeal for History: Looking for Jesus w...
We revisit our 2014 interview with Reza Aslan, author of Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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#1512 - The Fear of Islam: Todd Green
Todd Green returns to our show to discuss his new book, The Fear of Islam: an Introduction to Islamophobia in the West
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#1309 - My Job is to Love: Carl McColman (REBRO...
We revisit our 2013 interview with Christian contemplative, Carl McColman. We talk about his spiritual journey, and his work writing about the mystical tradition.
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#1205 - The Bible Does Not Exist: Timothy K. Be...
We're revisiting a 2012 interview with Tim Beal, author of The Rise and Fall of the Bible.
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#1216b - Vatican II at Fifty [REBROADCAST]
Fr. Bruce Cinquegrani looks back at the Second Vatican Council and its effects on the life of the Catholic Church
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#1511 - The DNA of America: Rev. Jesse Jackson
A conversation with noted civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, looking back on 50 years since the marches in Selma
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#1510 - Delighting in the Diminished Thing: Mar...
A conversation with noted scholar of religion Martin E. Marty. We discuss religion in America, and look back upon a four-decade career
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#1222b- Pentecostal and Postmodern: J. Aaron Si...
We revisit our 2012 interview with Furman University philosophy professor J. Aaron Simmons, to discuss the relationship of Christianity and postmodern thought
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#1509 - The New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander
We speak with author, law professor, and activist Michelle Alexander about the use of mass incarceration as a new form of Jim Crow in America
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#1508 - Fine-Tuning Our Truth Box: Nancy Ellen ...
We talk with Nancy Ellen Abrams, author of A God That Could Be Real, about new discoveries in cosmology and their profound effect on our understanding of the universe and religion.
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#1401b - Emerging, Emergence, Emergent: Phyllis...
We're rebroadcasting our 2014 interview with Phyllis Tickle, who has been studying "The Great Emergence" - a new epoch affecting both Christianity and the world.
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#1507 - See For Yourself: Jennifer Grace Bird
We speak to biblical scholar Jennifer Grace bird about her new book, Permission Granted: Take the Bible into Your Own Hands
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#1208b - Rama, Sita, and Me: Nina Paley REBROAD...
We revisit our 2012 interview with animator and cartoonist, Nina Paley
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#1506 - Bringing the Word to Life: Curt Cloninger
This hour we speak to actor and director Curt Cloninger, who has spent 30 years traveling the country performing thoughtful and thought-provoking one-man shows.
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#1505 - Poetry and Silence: Judith Valente
We speak 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.
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#1214 - The Dance of Faiths: John Thatamanil - ...
We revisit our 2012 interview with Union Theological Seminary professor John Thatamanil.
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#1223 - American Secularism: Jacques Berlinerblau
This week we revisit a 2012 conversation with Jacques Berlinerblau about his book, How to be Secular; Katie Lynn Murphy files a report from China
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#1504 - Feminism and Religion: Gina Messina-Dysert
A frank conversation about the experience of women in religious communities and in academia with our guest, Dr. Gina Messina-Dysert; Katy Scrogin reviews Ted A Smith's new book, Weird John Brown
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#1503 - Exploring the Roots of Violence: E.L. K...
We talk with Dr. E.L. Kornegay, founder of the Baldwin-Delaney Institute, about programs to address the sources of violence in our communities
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#1202a - Islamophobia: Todd Green - Rebroadcast
This week we go back into the archives to our 2012 interview with Todd Green about the fear of Islam in the west; Hollis Phelps reviews the new book by Mike Huckabee
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#1502 - The Divine on your Doorstep: Barbara Ma...
Long time Chicago Tribune columnist Barbara Mahany has written a "book of common prayer" for everyday living, celebrating the divinity of everyday moments.
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#1501 - Healing from Regret: Michelle Van Loon
David Dault talks to author Michelle Van Loon about her book If Only: Letting Go of Regret; Natasha Alford reflects on the response of white pastors to the crisis in Ferguson
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#1420 - Best of Both: Susan Katz Miller on Inte...
Susan Katz Miller is both a child and a parent in interfaith families, and speaks to us as an advocate for increased interfaith community; Natasha Alford goes behind the scenes with Salvation Army bell ringers.
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