All About Love
Using bell hook's 2000 book, All About Love as a springboard, Eric and Lisa share their personal experiences with grief, love, and spirituality, grappling with the challenges of discussing these topic...
19 Mar 202432min
More on Jim Forest's Crooked Lines
Lisa and Eric go into further detail discussing Jim Forest's book, Writing Straight with Crooked Lines. They talk about some of Jim Forest's influences, his movement from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, and...
13 Mar 202434min
The Wounds of Racism
Eric gives some feedback from our audience, including a personal clarification for his co-worker. Lisa talks about reading James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree, and the conversation revolves a...
5 Mar 202422min
The Mystification of Love: bell hooks
Lisa and Eric discuss bell hooks's 2000 book, All About Love: New Visions with a focus on the mystification of love in a consumer society.
25 Feb 202422min
Spirited Away
Lisa and Eric talk about the 2003 anime, Spirited Away, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli, and the movie's messages about loss, grief, community and divinity.
21 Feb 202427min
From Seashells to Auschwitz
Lisa and Eric begin this conversation about the relationship between grief and seeking peace asking idle questions about seashells and end it with a story about Auschwitz. In between, they mention and...
11 Feb 202427min
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines
Lisa talks about the book she is reading by the late Jim Forest, Writing Straight with Crooked Lines, and Eric reminiscences about how he met Jim, and their almost-thirty-year correspondence. To lear...
4 Feb 202425min
Cultural Messages on Grief and Happiness
Eric and Lisa talk about cultural messages on suffering and grief, such as the notion that all suffering is to be avoided as much as possible, while pleasure should be pursued as the ultimate objectiv...
29 Jan 202431min
