Richard revels in living in Philadelphia - the historical heart of U.S. democracy and home of his son Scott - while waiting anxiously for the votes to be counted in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.

Links:

Joe Biden's Penn graduation address, 2013: https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v59/n33/comm-biden.html

Richard revels in living in Philadelphia - the historical heart of U.S. democracy and home of his son Scott - while waiting anxiously for the votes to be counted in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Links: Joe Biden's Penn graduation address, 2013: https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v59/n33/comm-biden.html

Episode 4 – Counting votes in Philadelphia

Conversations between a dad and his children capture the sheer joy of talking, singing, and laughing with Richard, a man of simple pleasures, expansive intelligence, historical perspective, and progressive politics. In Season 1, Richard is living under lockdown in his senior living residence during the coronavirus pandemic. It tells the story of Richard’s resilience and of the family’s efforts to ease the psychic impact of his isolation. In Season 2, Margaret asks Richard why he talked so much about vocation when she was growing up. Richard offers the wide arc of his theological understanding—from the need to care for working people to the cosmic Spirit that holds the universe together. They decided to devote an entire podcast season to vocation.

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Episode 4 – Counting votes in Philadelphia

Episode 4 – Counting votes in Philadelphia