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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#2234 - A Chaplain is a Witness: Rick Lee James
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rick Lee James returns to our show to talk about his recent journey into hospital chaplaincy, and his recent single, "As I Walk These Halls," inspired by that work
55 min
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#2233 - By and For Black Women: Ekimini Uwan an...
Ekimini Uwan joins us to talk about the Truth's Table podcast, which she co-hosts, as well as the new book Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
53 min
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#2232 - A Grown-up Relationship with a Grown-up...
Rev. Jacqui Lewis takes her readers on a journey in her recent book Fierce Love - across the country, across decades, and from trauma to healing to flourishing.
55 min
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#2231 - Lockdown Conversations on Death and Lif...
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, locked down at home and facing an uncertain future, scholars Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world. The result is A Friendship in Twilight.
55 min
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#2230 - Our Journey is Holy, Too: Shannon T. L....
Father Shannon Kearns talks to us about his powerful recent book, In The margins: A Transgender Man's Journey with Scripture
60 min
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#2229 - The Disordered Cosmos: Chanda Prescod-W...
Our guest Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a physicist and astronomer who explores the interactions at stellar and subatomic levels. We discuss her fascinating new book about her work, The Disordered Cosmos
56 min
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#2228 - When Time Is Short: Timothy Beal
Professor 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'
59 min
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#2227 - Open-Source Synodality with Pope Franci...
Dean Peter Jones of Loyola University Chicago's Institute of Pastoral Studies returns to the show to speak with us more about the international event, Building Bridges North and South, and about a recent official meeting he and his fellow organizers had with Pope Francis at the Vatican
58 min
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#2226 - Co-Flourishing in the Kin-dom of the Di...
Dr. Amy Kenny joins us to talk about her powerful new book, My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church. She argues that until those with disabilities can fully flourish in our communities, the church can never be fully the Body of Christ.
58 min
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#2225 - Drawing Lines of Inclusion, Not Exclusi...
Artist 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.
52 min
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#2224 - Spiritual Formation in Local Faith Comm...
Our guests, Neil Pembroke and William S. Schmidt, talk about their recent book that puts tools in the hands of pastors and other faith leaders to help create opportunities for spiritual formation in local faith communities.
53 min
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#2223 - Render Unto Caesar: John Dominic Crossan
The internationally acclaimed New Testament scholar and best-selling author John Dominic Crossan returns to Things Not Seen to discuss his powerful new book, Render Unto Caesar: The Struggle for Christ and Culture in the New Testament
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#2222 - Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Taylor S. ...
In the spring of 2013 our guest Taylor Schumann survived a horrific shooting event that left her traumatized in soul and body. She talks to us about her recent book, When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, and how people of faith must confront the stark realities of gun violence
54 min
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#2221 - Carved and Created in Our Own Ways: Can...
In her recent book, Red Lip Theology, our guest Candice Marie Benbow offers a set of essays rooted in the experience of Black womanhood, and an invitation for readers to rethink the comfortable theological categories they may have inherited.
52 min
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#2220 - Jesus in His Own Words: Fr. Bill Cain, ...
Bill Cain is a Jesuit who has spent his life writing screenplays for movies and television. Now, in his recent book, The Diary of Jesus Christ, he reimagines the stories of the Gospels from the point of view of Jesus himself, with breathtaking results
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#2219 - Flying, Falling, Catching: Carolyn Whit...
One of the last projects of the late spiritual writer Henri Nouwen was an unexpected and enthusiastic appreciation of a family of trapeze artists. Our guest, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, talks about her work to bring this unfinished manuscript to publication, and what it tells us about Nouwen as a believer and as a person
58 min
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#2218 - All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: ...
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
57 min
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#2217 - Ensure the Pages Are Worthy: Cole Arthu...
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.
54 min
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#2216 - The Deep Wisdom of the Body: Robyn Hend...
Our guest, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, draws from their own experience of learning to live in their own body, and offers readers a transformative theology of becoming.
54 min
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#2215 - Building Bridges with Pope Francis: Pet...
In February 2022, Pope Francis held an unprecedented dialogue with university students from across North, South, and Central America. Our guests, Aleja Sastoque Luna and Dean Peter Jones of Loyola University Chicago, take us behind the scenes to understand what it was like to plan and participate in this event.
59 min
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#2214 - God Is a Black Woman: Christina Cleveland
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
58 min
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#2213 - Little Hours: Lil Copan
Our guest Lil Copan talks about the creative process behind her wonderful debut novel, Little Hours
55 min
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#2212 - A White Catholic's Guide to Racism and ...
Our guest, Franciscan Friar and priest, Fr. Daniel Horan, talks to us about ways to address the continued effects of white privilege and racism that exist in the Catholic Church
60 min
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#2211 - Survival is Just the Beginning: Kelly J...
We 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
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#2210 - My Apologetic is Empathy: John Pavlovitz
In his recent book, If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk, our guest John Pavlovitz invites us to find a faith that makes us better neighbors and better humans
55 min