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Religion
Interviews with scholars of religion about their new books.
October 10, 2026
Read This Over Shabbos
What happens when you read the weekly Torah portion alongside the strange, fascinating, and sometimes uncomfortable story of modern Jewish history? In…
October 9, 2026
A Gathering of Leaves
Today I’m speaking with David Bentley Hart about his book, A Gathering of Leaves: Extravagances and Ephemera, from the University of Notre Dame Press.…
October 8, 2026
Resurrection on Trial (with Peter D. Martino, esq.)
Peter Dominic Martino is a trial lawyer, law professor, former CEO, and former nuclear submarine officer. He serves as Assistant Professor at St. Thom…
October 8, 2026
The Examination of Religion (Dharmaparīkṣā)
Repetition, reconfiguration, or adaptation form key characteristics of the Indian literary traditions. Jain literature exemplifies this vividly, espec…
October 7, 2026
The Supernatural Public Square
The old story in the academy was that as science and technology progressed, western society would grow more secular while the supernatural would disap…
October 5, 2026
The Crusader Storm
From their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern worl…
October 5, 2026
Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue
Tune in to this discussion of Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue (Orbis Books, 2025) These moving and eloquent…
October 1, 2026
Born Again
Born Again: Romanticism and Fundamentalism (U Toronto Press, 2025) examines the deep historical roots of fundamentalism in Protestantism and the imagi…
October 1, 2026
Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination
Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu. In his last, profoundly innovative work Alla…
October 1, 2026
Let the Oppressed Go Free
David N. Gellman interviews Nicholas P. Wood on Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America In Let the Oppressed Go …
September 27, 2026
Apocalyptic Abolitionism
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century America In March 1844, Mel…
September 25, 2026
Antisemitism, an American Tradition
Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in Americ…
September 24, 2026
Living with Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an anticolonial activist, lawyer, and politician. Less famously, but no less importantly, he was also a back-to-the-land farmer, a …
September 21, 2026
Golden States
Since the beginning of European colonization, the sun-drenched land of California has always attracted dreamers and schemers. Whether it was Spanish m…
September 20, 2026
Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures
In my conversation with Prof. Emmanuel Y. Lartey about his new book, Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures: Sacred Wisdom for the Care of Perso…
September 17, 2026
What does the Pope have to teach us about AI?
When I heard that Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” was about “Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,”…
September 17, 2026
The Upanisads as They Are
These Upanisads (c. 800-300 BCE) are almost always read from the point of view of the later Vedantins, but they do not share in the neatly tailored ch…
September 15, 2026
Abraham
Abraham: The First Jew (Yale UP, 2025) is the story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradicti…
September 13, 2026
Disbelief
Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging from apologists’ supposed proofs of God’s existence to New Atheist m…
September 12, 2026
Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)
What if Pirkei Avot has a bigger story to tell? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Joseph G. Rosenstein to discuss Pirkei Avot (Ethics of…