Things Not Seen Podcast

Our guest Dr. Natalie Wigg-Stevenson is seeking new vocabularies and structures to understand theology. Her work explores the rich and unsettling depths of performance art as a means to bring us into communication with the divine mystery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome Reverend Tish Harrison Warren to talk to us about her recent book, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Watch, or Work, or Weep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guests Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson discuss the church's responsibility to heal racial brokenness and to lead the way in making concrete restitution and reparations to the descendants of the victims of slavery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest, Professor Miguel De La Torre, challenges us to listen to the vulnerable to find the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We discuss how recent book, Decolonizing Christianity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Lisa Colón DeLay talks to us about being a spiritual companion, her recent book The Wild Land Within, and her podcast Spark My Muse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Meiburg is known for his work with the band Shearwater. He returns to Things Not Seen to talk about a different passion, described in his recent book, A Most Remarkable Creature. This amazing travelogue takes us into the world of the Caracaras, perhaps the world's most socially intelligent bird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Take Back What the Devil Stole, our guest Onaje X.O. Woodbine takes us into the world of Ms. Donna Haskins, a healer and mystic raised in a poor neighborhood in Boston, who claims to battle evils on a cosmic scale.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book, Sealed, our guest Katie Langston tells the story of her journey through grief and doubt into a deeper connection with her Christian faith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Martin Doblmeier has made 35 films about faith, featuring spiritual leaders from many religious traditions. His most recent film is Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel story, which premieres on PBS stations in May 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, our guest Dr. Anthea Butler traces the long history of connections between American Evangelicalism and anti-Black racism. This is a powerful conversation that brings light and truth to a part of American history that needs deep examination Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome back philosophers Brad Elliott Stone and Jacob L. Goodson to discuss their recent edited volume on Richard Rorty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jewish prophetic traditions. The book, Rorty and the Prophetic: Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher, is the culmination of more that twenty years of conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent book, Learning to Pray, Fr. James Martin, SJ, invites readers to a lifelong journey in growing closer to God. In this frank and wide-ranging conversation, Fr. Martin talks about some of the difficulties and strategies of prayer, and how even he feels like he is 'still learning' to do prayer well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome back Diana Butler Bass to discuss her powerful recent book, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence. The project builds on several of her recent books, to offer a connected vision of the many ways that Jesus upsets the tables of our comfortable identities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rev. Emily Scott is a pastor and church planter. She talks to us about her work, and her recent book For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay Wexler returns to talk about his recent book, Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her recent book, The Gravity of Joy, our guest Angela Williams Gorrell invites readers on a hope-filled journey into the heart of unimaginable grief and back again. Her work invites readers to see the complex relationship between despair and joy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rev. Jennifer Butler loved the Bible and her Christian faith, but then was disillusioned when it was used against her as a woman. Instead of leaving religion, she found a fresh approach to faith as liberation, and would go on to become an ordained minister and founder of Faith in Public Life, an advocacy organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rev. Dr. Michael Battle has been a student and friend of Archbishop Desmond Tutu for a good deal of his life. In his recent book, Battle offers what he calls "A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices