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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives.…
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The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlightenment – the period some historians identify as the beginning of …
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A Genealogy of Gun Violence
The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves. According to historian Priya Satia, America’s present epidemic of gun violence has its roots…
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A Medieval Anti-Racist
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of injustice gave rise both to an early form of anti-racism and t…
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Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But for this concept to gain power, its logic had to be spread – an…
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Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family
What is the “traditional American family?” Popular images from the colonial and pioneer past suggest an isolated and self-sufficient nuclear family as…
December 7, 2023
What Is Genealogy?
Genealogy, in Charles Darwin’s terms, is the study of “descent with modification.” Taken as an analogy for the study of history, genealogy can guard a…
December 6, 2023
What Is Modernity?
We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to start at different places, but which always includes us. Yet pe…
December 5, 2023
Climbing the Mountains of Modernity
We all know many stories about how modernity came about. But what does it mean to be “modern”? This episode comes at the question through the test cas…
June 22, 2023
Rituals for a Dying World
Absorbing the full reality of climate change will require more than a scientific approach. Some American Jews are showing how religious ritual can hel…
March 14, 2023
Divine Technology--or, Religion, Technology, and Magic
It’s common to feel that technology removes the magic of the world, but Hindu worshippers in Bangalore have shown that it's all in the approach. Gue…
March 13, 2023
Beyond Belief or, Science, Religion and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Do scientists ever reject science? Research data on the controversial topic of extraterrestrial life has met with resistance from some in the scientif…
March 12, 2023
Experimental Methods or, Robert Hooke, Christianity, and Science
Have faith and science always been enemies? The story of Robert Hooke, a revolutionary working in the Scientific Revolution, exemplifies the ways in w…
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Illuminations Introduction
Illuminations is a limited series that reveals the untold friendship of religion and science. Through interviews and stories drawn from a range of cul…
March 9, 2023
Star Ladder or, How Far Away are the Stars?
Scientists discovered that some stars have heartbeats and that some of them can be used to measure the longest distances that exist. This episode was…
March 8, 2023
Kinsey or, How Do You Measure Sex?
Scientist Alfred Kinsey tried to differentiate human sexualities on a seven-point scale. In so doing, he brought us the basics of bisexuality. But the…
March 7, 2023
IQ or, What if "Intelligence" Were a Matter of Life and Death?
The Intelligence Quotient is a measure of intelligence that has life-or-death consequences. Should we trust it? GUEST: Alan Gouddis is a Partner with…
March 6, 2023
Scoville or, How Do We Measure Taste?
Taste is a subjective experience. We know this because eggs pickled in human urine, cheese with live maggots living in it, fertilized and mostly-devel…
March 5, 2023
Movies or, How do We Rate Films?
We’d rate today’s episode a ten out of ten, five star, certified fresh, two thumbs up. But we can’t speak for its IMdB score. This episode was produc…
March 4, 2023
Mohs or, How Hard Are Rocks?
We’re hitting up against the very nature of measurement: How can we best describe the world around us, in its infinite complexity, with finite measure…