Closing out March, this episode of the podcast features Megan McCabe! She spoke with Stephen Okey about her path to studying theology, the idea of “cultures of sin” and how it relates to social sin and structures of sin, and the centrality of tradition in Catholic theology. Dr. Megan McCabe is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. She earned her BA in Theology from Fordham University, her MTS in Moral Theology from University of Notre Dame, and her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College. Her current research focuses on the idea of “cultures of sin,” drawing on Fr. Bryan Massingale’s work on racism to talk about sexual violence. She has been published in Sojourners, America Magazine, and Daily Theology. For the America pieces we discuss in this episode, see:  “Why Catholic moral theology is a sign of hope in today’s church” (interview with Bill McCormick, SJ, 2019) “Create in Me A Just Heart: Treating pornography as a structure of sin” (2016)  

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#44 - Megan McCabe

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#52 - Elissa Cutter

For this month’s episode of the Daily Theology Podcast, I spoke with Professor Jessica Coblentz. We talk about the influence of Henri Nouwen’s Life of the Beloved on her path to studying religion, her research on theology and depression, and thinking theologically about suffering. We focus especially on her book, Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression, which I recommend you all go out and get after you listen to the episode (you can order it direct from the publisher here or from the behemoth here). Dr. Jessica Coblentz is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She holds a BA from Santa Clara University, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from Boston College. She is the author of Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression (Liturgical Press, 2022), which won the 2023 award for best book from the College Theology Society. She also co-edited The Human in a Dehumanizing World: Re-Examining Theological Anthropology and Its Implications (Orbis, 2022) with Daniel Horan, OFM. Thanks as always to Matt Hines of the band Eastern Sea for providing the music for the Daily Theology Podcast. 

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#51 - Jessica Coblentz

#50 - Heather Miller Rubens

This episode welcomes Chris Bellitto of Kean University to the podcast. We talk about his first career as a journalist, as well as how that background helped him as a scholar, teacher, and public commentator on church events. We also discuss working with students in the classroom in a way that both provokes reflection while sustaining civil conversation… 

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#49 - Chris Bellitto

In our newest episode of the podcast, I talk with my friend and fellow Boston College alum Nichole Flores. We talk about how working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers during divinity school helped her understand her vocation as a theologian, how she understands the public role of the theologian, including at public universities, and her work on the intersection of theology and democracy. We also talk extensively about her book The Aesthetics of Solidarity (https://amzn.to/3EUcOSk) and the diverse ways that people appropriate significant religious symbols like Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Dr. Nichole Marie Flores (https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/nichole-m-flores) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She earner her AB in Government at Smith College, her MDiv from Yale Divinity School, and her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College. Her research focuses on the intersection of Catholic ethics, theological aesthetics, and democracy. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (https://amzn.to/3EUcOSk) (Georgetown University Press, 2021). 

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#44 - Megan McCabe

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