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Edinburgh anthropologist Maya Mayblin, who with co-editors Kristin Norget and Valentina Napolitano produced The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader, talks about this first-of-its-kind compilation of essays exploring global Catholicism.
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Miguel De La Torre, Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and a liberal-minded ordained Southern Baptist minister, is the editor of the forthcoming collection of essays, Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump, due out in September from Orbis Books. De La Torre says a silver lining of Trump’s election is that the Church might be saved from irrelevancy.
From the book jacket:
“For many people of faith, the election of Donald Trump represents not just a political crisis—a threat to our republic and a danger for the entire world—but also a confessional crisis, a moment that calls into question the deepest meaning of our religious claims and values.
“Reflections by notable religious scholars, ministers, and activists address this crisis. With chapters treating issues of gender, race, disability, LGBT justice, immigration, the environment, peace, and poverty, the contributors seek to name our situation and to set forth an agenda for faith and resistance.
“Contributors include Susan Thistlethwaite, J. Kameron Carter, Amir Hussain, David Gushee, Miguel Diaz, Kelly Brown Douglas, Christiana Zenner, Sister Simone Campbell, Kwok Pui-lan, George “Tink” Tinker, and Rabbi Steven Greenberg.”
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Playwright Jacques Lamarre and Rossi talk about “Raging Skillet,” Lamarre’s play based on Rossi’s memoir of her youthful rebellion against her strict Jewish mother. The play runs through August 27th at TheaterWorks in Hartford. Details here: http://www.theaterworkshartford.org/event/raging-skillet/
Jacques first appeared on “Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith” on Feb. 18, 2014, to talk about his year and a half as a seminarian in Rome. Find the episode here:
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RI Supreme Court Chief Justice (Ret.) Frank J. WIlliams is a longtime mediator of disputes. With the nation so polarized, he talks about how it might be brought together. Chief Williams is an expert on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War and recently donated to Mississippi State University the Frank J. and Virginia Collection of materials he’s been collecting for more than 50 years.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my begging by donating so generously to WESU’s spring pledge drive! More people gave in support of Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith — raising close to $2,000 — than any other program on the station’s schedule. Good for you for getting how, now more than ever, non-commercial radio makes a difference!
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Today’s episode is a lecture writer/editor Rand Richards Cooper delivered in April at Fairfield University, It’s titled “Confessions of a Catholic Interloper: From Sister Thomasina to Martin Scorsese.” Though Rand writes for the Catholic journal Commonweal, he is not Catholic. From his school days on, he’s had a foot in both the Catholic and Protestant worlds, and he brings the insights he gained, as well as some literary examples, to bear on what it all means.
Rand has written short stories and two novels, one of them produced for television. He also is an award-winning writer for Bon Appetit magazine. His latest project is a regular feature in Hartford Magazine called “In Our Midst,” about people, places and ideas in the Hartford area. “It will range widely — arts, politics, sports, business, culinary life, design, fun things to do, lovely things to see, track-downable curiosities, oddball amusements, challenging projects.” You can find the first of his columns, about a miniature golf course in Canton, here: http://www.courant.com/hartford-magazine/upfront/hc-hm-mini-golf-20170520-story.html
Rand delivering the 11th annual Commonweal lecture at Fairfield University:
The interview with monastery chef Anne Boucart is available now at the previous post! Sorry for the confusion, and thanks, Evelyn, for bringing it to my attention!
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Anne Boucart, who is Jewish, cooks for a small community of elderly priests and brothers at Holy Family Monastery in West Hartford. Two of her grandparents perished in the Holocaust, and her mother was sheltered against the Nazis in a succession of Catholic convents.
I’ll post a photo of her mother, Sara Boucart, dressed for her First Holy Communion, a sacrament she was compelled to receive, ending permission from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
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Three expert pope-watchers do a post-mortem on last week’s meeting at the Vatican between the Trump entourage and Pope Francis. They are: Christopher Hale, executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good; Mat Schmalz, religious studies professor at the College of the Holy Cross; and Jamie Manson, columnist and books editor at National Catholic Reporter.
Awkward!
In happier times.
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Fr. John Baptist Pesce of Holy Family Monastery in West Hartford, CT, takes up various issues — from whether the Church will ordain women to why there’s evil in the world.
Andrew Walsh, associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, and Rosie Dawson, a longtime BBC producer of religion programs, talk about trends in religion.
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