The Fascinating Podcast

Women have been playing basketball since the week after it was invented (literally). So why did it take a century for women to play professionally? Historian and author Andrew Maraniss takes us to the 1976 Olympics, where the US women's team created whole new possibilities for women's sports.

This month marks 65 years since the famous Little Rock Nine became the first black students to attend an all-white high school. It took the National Guard to ensure the students' safety. Did the Little Rock Nine mark the end of segregation? Unfortunately, schools are nearly as segregated today as they were in the 60s. Why? And what can we do?

Voices of Lament is a powerful collection of essays by women of color, all inspired by Psalm 37. What if there's more to life that the pursuit of happiness? What if it's good to admit we're not okay? Since Kathy has an essay in this collection, she ditches the guys and brings on editor Natasha Sistrunk Robinson and fellow contributor QuaWanna Bannarbie.

Your Fascinating Pals are back, with a new format, bigger interviews and more! We gotta start with a little catch up - what did we miss over the summer?

Your Fascinating pals are all together to wrap up a tumultuous season of podcasting! We reflect on current events and offer a few of our favorite movies, books and tv shows to get us through the summer. See you soon!

What does it mean to be 'woke'? How do we know if we're 'woke'? And why do white men keep using the term as an insult? Rohadi Nagassar joins us to explore what church looks like when it comes from the margins, not the centers.

Churches across the country chase bipartisanship, the elusive 'purple' church. But is that the Church Jesus leads? Pastor Jonny Rashid says no. He insists that Jesus takes a side, that bipartisanship isn't revolutionary at all - it maintains the status quo. Join us for this potent, provocative conversation.

Dan Merchant returns to the show to tell us about his new TV show GOING HOME. How do you make a show about death and dying... hopeful? What's the good news about death? Oh, and did we mention that our own MATT MIKALATOS is one of the writers? Listen in for this exclusive interview!

The episode you've been waiting for: we invite LGBTQ+ Christians to speak for themselves. First, Bridget Eileen Rivera - aka @thetravelingnun - joins us to explore HEAVY BURDENS: her book on how the Church harms queer people (and how we must do better). Next, Marcus Mason-Vivit joins us to talk about growing up black and queer, and what his faith looks like today.

What does a space created by black women, for black women look like? Ekemini Uwan and Dr. Christina Edmondson, 2/3 of the force behind the Truth's Table podcast and book, join us to explore how they're working to resist whiteness and misogyny by creating a space for them to flourish!