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Conversations with the Artists, Authors, Activists, and Change-Makers Who Are Shaping Our World Today.
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294 episodes
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Frank Schaeffer talks with novelist Stephen O’Connor about We Want So Much to Be Ourselves, a novel exploring psychoanalysis, self-deception, and ordinary life during the rise of Nazi Germany.
Stephen began writing the book in 2016, before Donald Trump’s first election. As he researched Hitler’s ri…
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Caroline Bicks spent a year studying Stephen King’s personal archives, including early drafts of Carrie, The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Night Shift, and Pet Sematary. She was also able to do something rather extraordinary: bring what she found back to King and ask him about it.
We talk about what those …
Shadi Hamid joins Frank to discuss Can Religion Save Democracy?, the book he co-authored with Christian theologian Matthew Kaemingk.
Their friendship doesn’t depend on pretending their religious differences don’t exist. They disagree about some of the biggest questions a person can ask.
That become…
Jennifer Breheny Wallace joins me to talk about her book Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose.
We talk about her father and the way he made people feel seen, what she has learned from raising three children, why achievement alone isn’t enough, and what happens when the rol…
Frank Schaeffer talks with Professor Daisy Fancourt, author of Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives, about something many artists, parents, teachers, and grandparents have understood intuitively for years: art matters to our health.
Daisy Fancourt has spent years studying how music, pai…
Frank talks with novelist and creative writing professor April Reynolds about her novel The Shape of Dreams, set in East Harlem during the crack and AIDS epidemics of the 1980s.
They discuss the changing experience of publishing and reading books, April’s childhood in South Dallas, the role of the …
Gretchen Sisson, author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, joins me for a conversation about what adoption looks like when we begin with the experiences of mothers who relinquished their children.
Many of the women Gretchen interviewed wanted to pare…
Richard Bruxvoort Colligan has spent years living with, studying, singing, and rewriting the Psalms.
What interests me is that he doesn’t turn them into easy answers.
We talk about his book Dangerous Songs, his experience with severe depression, the strange honesty of Psalm 88, grief, gun violence,…
Frank talks with Dr. Craig Yorke, author of Steep: A Black Neurosurgeon’s Journey, about growing up in Boston, the fierce expectations of his parents, Harvard and medical school, race and colorism, his years as a neurosurgeon, and the family and community that eventually gave his life another measu…
Frank talks with sociologists Michael O. Emerson and Glenn Bracey II about their book The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith.
Their research asks why racial division remains so persistent within American Christianity. Their conclusion is unsettling: for many white practicing…
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