Things Not Seen Podcast

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 questions of public witness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're revisiting our 2012 interview with Robert Rhodes. In 1995, Robert Rhodes and his family sold most of their possessions ans went to live on the Minnesota prairie in religious seclusion.  Rhodes had gone to live among the Hutterites, a 500 year old religious movement centered on communal ownership of property, radical pacifism, and an intense fervor for the Gospel. By 2002, Rhodes and his family had left the Hutterites.  He chronicles his six years there in the book Nightwatch: An Inquiry into Solitude. Also on the broadcast, our producer-at-large Natasha Alford reflects on the shooting in Charleston, and a summer of violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We revisit our 2014 interview with Reza Aslan, author of Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd Green returns to our show to discuss his new book, The Fear of Islam: an Introduction to Islamophobia in the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We revisit our 2013 interview with Christian contemplative, Carl McColman. We talk about his spiritual journey, and his work writing about the mystical tradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're revisiting a 2012 interview with Tim Beal, author of The Rise and Fall of the Bible. At the time, the title of this episode got us into all kinds of trouble with our sponsors. David Dault talks a bit about that in the introduction to the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a rebroadcast of a 2012 interview with Fr. Cinquegrani. October 11, 2012, marked the 50th anniversary of the opening convocation of the Second Vatican Council. Called by Pope John XXIII, the decisions made at the council affected every aspect of theology and worship within the Church. In the wake of Vatican II, the Catholic Church began to worship in native languages, reaffirmed the centrality of the Bible in the life of the faithful, and began to reach out to the modern world and those of other faiths in unprecedented ways. Our guest, Fr. Bruce Cinquegrani, looks back over a lifetime spent in the priesthood. Fr. Bruce's ministry parallels the last half century of the post-Vatican II Church. Deciding to become a priest in the years immediately before the council, he entered the pastorate in a Church profoundly different than what he expected. Yet for Fr. Bruce, and many priest like him, his feelings are not of disappointment, but of hope for what is still to come as the effects of Vatican II continue to unfold. Fr. Bruce Cinquegrani is pastor of St. Brigid Parish, TN, and is Episcopal Vicar for Divine Worship, Spiritual Life, and Catechesis in the Diocese of Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation with noted civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, looking back on 50 years since the marches in Selma, and looking forward to what is yet to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation with noted scholar of religion Martin E. Marty. We discuss religion in America, and look back upon a four-decade career Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We revisit our 2012 interview with Furman University philosophy professor J. Aaron Simmons, to discuss the relationship of Christianity and postmodern thought Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices