Interviews about religion and culture with brilliant people who will fan the flames of your curiosity.
âFamily Proclamationsâ is the new podcast by Blair Hodges, host of Fireside. Enjoy this sample episode and be sure to subscribe directly to Family Proclamations now, because this episode will fall out of the Fireside feed next month!
âFamily Proclamationsâ is the current podcast by Blair Hodges, host of Fireside. Enjoy this sample episode and be sure to subscribe directly to Family Proclamations now, because this episode will fall out of the Fireside feed next month!
âFamily Proclamationsâ is the current podcast by Blair Hodges, host of Fireside. Enjoy this sample episode and be sure to subscribe directly to Family Proclamations now, because this episode will fall out of the Fireside feed next month!
âFamily Proclamationsâ is the current podcast by Blair Hodges, host of Fireside. Enjoy this sample episode and be sure to subscribe directly to Family Proclamations now, because this episode will fall out of the Fireside feed next month!
Tara Boyce joins us to reconsider Tom Whymanâs episode about âhope.â Is Tom too hopeful?
Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/boyce.
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Ross Gay is a New York Times bestselling author of essays and poetry. His latest book is âInciting Joy,â which argues that âjoy is something like what we feel like when we help each other carry our sorrows, what we feel like when we sort of realize we're practicing our entanglement, our belonging to one another.â
Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/gay.
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Meghan O'Rourke is a citizen of what she calls the invisible kingdom. Anyone can become a citizen. Even you. All you need is a debilitating chronic illness that doctors can't easily understand or treatâautoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme, fibromyalgia, and a bunch of other conditions at the blurry edges of medical knowledge. As doctors tried to pinpoint Meghanâs diagnoses, she decided to create a record of what she was learning about chronic illness from doctors, scientists, and patients along the way.
Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/orourke.
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When she was born, Susan Strykerâs parents thought they were welcoming a baby boy. She knew they were wrong by the time she was five years old, but it took decades to let them know who she really was. Being trans raised a lot of questions for Susanâpractical questions of course, but also theological, philosophical, and historical questions. So she went searching for answers.
Transcript at our website, firesidepod.org/episodes/stryker.
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Race and religion have been intertwined throughout American history. Christians believed they could detect so-called âheathenâ unbelief by the color of someoneâs skin or the state of a foreign landscape. Over time, the word âheathenâ dropped off, but historian Kathryn Gin Lum says the ideas behind it are alive and well in the United States today, even beyond religion.
Transcript available: firesidepod.org/episodes/ginlum.
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Toni Jensen grew up around guns. As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father. As an adult, sheâs had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. Toni is a MĂ©tis woman, with mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. She's no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies and lands of Indigenous people, especially women, and the ways violence is hidden, ignored, forgotten.
This episode was incidentally recorded on May 24, 2022, the day of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. It is dedicated to the memory of those destroyed by gun violence.
Transcript available: firesidepod.org/episodes/jensen.
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When Tom Whyman started thinking about becoming a father, he worried. Would he and his partner be able to make a living to support a child? What about political upheaval in the UK, or the increasing threat of climate changeânot to mention all the little daily ways having a child could change his life. Then a global pandemic shook things up even more. As a philosopher, he asked: What reason is there for hope?
Transcript available: firesidepod.org/episodes/whyman.
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