Things Not Seen Podcast

We talk with Dr. E.L. Kornegay, founder of the Baldwin-Delaney Institute, about programs to address the sources of violence in our communities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we go back into the archives to our 2012 interview with Todd Green about the fear of Islam in the west, and Hollis Phelps reviews the new book by Mike Huckabee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long time Chicago Tribune columnist Barbara Mahany has written a "book of common prayer" for everyday living, celebrating the divinity of everyday moments. The result is Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred OUtside Your Kitchen Door. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has turned her attention to the important subject of grief and regret, and has written a practical spiritual guide for getting over the feelings of "woulda, coulda, shoulda" that affect us all. Also on the show, our producer-at-large, Natasha Alford, looks at how white pastors have been responding to the recent racial tensions in Ferguson and New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, is both a memoir and a call to action for intentional interfaith community.  We talk about how her experiences have shaped her approach to family and religious practice, and the politics of raising interfaith families. Also on the show, Natasha Alford goes behind the scenes with Salvation Army bell ringers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Palm Sunday in 1990, attorney Jeanne Bishop received a phone call with the news that three members of her family - including her sister - had been brutally murdered. We take the full hour of our show this week to hear Bishop's account of her twenty-five-year journey towards firgiveness and reconciliation with her sister's killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heidi Neumark spent twenty years as the pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx in New York City, and has spent the past decade at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan. At both posts, she has encountered the same need: people on the margins - cast out and unwanted - who need to hear the Good News that they are wanted, needed, and valued.So Reverend Neumark has focused her ministry on immigrants, the homeless, and queer and LGBTQ youth, offering them shelter and welcome in a city that is often harsh and violent.Host David Dault speaks to Reverend Neumark about what motivates her ministry, how she reads the Bible, and what gives her hope.Also on the show, our guest producer, Katie Lynn Murphy, files a report about her experiences of China during the recent protests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 - In this conversation, David Dault speaks with scholar and author Reza Aslan about his recent bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Along the way, the discussion includes the current state of academic teaching, navigating land mines on Fox News, and a pretty awesome Beatles reference. Also on the show, producer Maxwell Grant reviews the 'Magicians' series, a trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this conversation, David Dault speaks with scholar and author Reza Aslan about his recent bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Along the way, the discussion includes the current state of academic teaching, navigating land mines on Fox News, and a pretty awesome Beatles reference. Also on the show, senior producer Katy Scrogin reviews the recent documentary "Punk Prayer," about the supressed Russian feminist art collective, Pussy Riot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the year 2000, against strong opposition, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act passed Congress by unanimous vote. It's supporters proclaimed that "God worked a miracle" that day on Capitol Hill. Our guest, John Mauck, was instrumental in crafting the ideas and language that became the Act. He tells us the story of how it became law.Also on the show, Mary Morrison discusses pop music's body image problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the year 2000, against strong opposition, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act passed Congress by unanimous vote. It's supporters proclaimed that "God worked a miracle" that day on Capitol Hill. Our guest, John Mauck, was instrumental in crafting the ideas and language that became the Act. He tells us the story of how it became law.Also on the show, our producer-at-large, Natasha S. Alford, reviews the Netflix hit series, Orange is the New Black.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The conclusion of our conversation with S. Brent Plate, author of A History or Religion in 5 1/2 Objects. Plate is the founding editor of the journal Material Religion. Also on the show, journalist Natasha Alford reflects on Ferguson, and the death of Martin Luther King. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first of two conversations with S. Brent Plate, author of A History or Religion in 5 1/2 Objects. Plate is the founding editor of the journal Material Religion.Also on the show, we give an audio preview of the new Chicago Sunday Evening Club immigration documentary, "Divided Families" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of our interview with Rev. Kat Banakis, author of Bubble Girl: An Irreverent Journey of Faith. Also on the show, Mary Morrison reviews the BBC sci-fi series Orphan Black Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 of our interview with Rev. Kat Banakis, author of Bubble Girl: An Irreverent Journey of Faith. Also on the show, David Dault reviews True Detective Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our series of conversations recorded last year at the Wheaton College confeence on the Bible and Democracy in America, co-sponsored with the American Bible Society. Rev. Lillian Daniel is the author of When Spiritual but Not Religious is Not Enough. In part 2 of our conversation, we discuss her book, as well as the influence congregationalism had on the formation of American democracy. Also on the show, Katy Scrogin reviews The Still Point of the Turning World, by Emily Rapp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our series of conversations recorded last year at the Wheaton College confeence on the Bible and Democracy in America, co-sponsored with the American Bible Society. Rev. Lillian Daniel is the author of When Spiritual but Not Religious is Not Enough.In part 1 of our conversation, we discuss her book, as well as the influence congregationalism had on the formation of American democracy. Also on the show, Katy Scrogin reviews S. Brent Plate's A History of Religon in 5 1/2 Objects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of a far-ranging interview with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. We discuss misconceptions of Islam, the spirituality at the core of all religion, and the importance of religious identity in the modern world. Also on the program, Katy Scrogin discusses Brad Kallenberg's book, By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part one of a far-ranging interview with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. We discuss misconceptions of Islam, the spirituality at the core of all religion, and the importance of religious identity in the modern world. Also on the program, Katy Scrogin discusses the book, The Man who Gave Up Money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Wheaton College professor Amy Black discusses the Constitution and religious freedoms in America from a historical perspective. Also on the program, we present "Jesus the Muslim," produced by the UK podcasters Things Unseen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices