Words to Live With
Marilyn McEntyre is a steward of words. She has taught courses on English and medical humanities, and she has written or edited over twenty books, including Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Mari...
21 Des 20201h 23min
Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Other Happenings with Ryan McDermott and Elise Lonich Ryan
Cohosts Ryan McDermott and Elise Lonich Ryan have a conversation about the art that has accompanied them through 2020. They discuss the mysterious ending of Pulitzer-nominated Heroes of the Fourth Tur...
7 Des 20201h 7min
On New Beginnings and Neighbor-Love with Andrew DeCort
Andrew DeCort is founder of the neighbor-love movement and author of the book Bonhoeffer's New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation. Andrew tells John about how witnessing state violence changed his vi...
16 Nov 202058min
Prevailing Spirits: Place, Loss, and Hope with Jessica Mesman
Jessica Mesman is founder of the blog Sick Pilgrim and coauthor of Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters. Her essays have been published in US Catholic, Lit Hub, Elle, Vox, America, and Chr...
2 Nov 202052min
Free Solo, Strong Loves, and the Limits of Critique with Rusty Reno
Rusty Reno is author of several books and editor of First Things, an ecumenical journal of religion and public life. His conversation with Ryan covers his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, t...
19 Okt 202058min
Clubs and the Court with Luke Sheahan
Luke Sheahan is an assistant professor of political science at Duquesne University and non-resident scholar at the program for research on religion and urban civil society at the University of Pennsyl...
5 Okt 20201h
A Revelation of Grief and Wonder
Amy Alznauer is a polymath: she is a writer, arts collaborator, and an instructor of calculus and number theory at Northwestern University. Amy and Elise's conversation touches on all of these things....
21 Sep 20201h 19min
The Catholic Literary Scene and Wyoming Catholic College with Glenn Arbery
Glenn Arbery is a novelist and president of Wyoming Catholic College. He joins Ryan to discuss Catholic literature, past and present. They cover Caroline Gordon, Jacques Maritain, Allen Tate, Flannery...
9 Sep 202055min
