Our guests, Neil Pembroke and William S. Schmidt, talk about their recent book that puts tools in the hands of pastors and other faith leaders to help create opportunities for spiritual formation in local faith communities.

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The internationally acclaimed New Testament scholar and best-selling author John Dominic Crossan returns to Things Not Seen to discuss his powerful new book, Render Unto Caesar: The Struggle for Christ and Culture in the New Testament

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In the spring of 2013 our guest Taylor Schumann survived a horrific shooting event that left her traumatized in soul and body. She talks to us about her recent book, When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, and how people of faith must confront the stark realities of gun violence

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In her recent book, Red Lip Theology, our guest Candice Marie Benbow offers a set of essays rooted in the experience of Black womanhood, and an invitation for readers to rethink the comfortable theological categories they may have inherited.

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Bill Cain is a Jesuit who has spent his life writing screenplays for movies and television. Now, in his recent book, The Diary of Jesus Christ, he reimagines the stories of the Gospels from the point of view of Jesus himself, with breathtaking results

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One of the last projects of the late spiritual writer Henri Nouwen was an unexpected and enthusiastic appreciation of a family of trapeze artists. Our guest, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, talks about her work to bring this unfinished manuscript to publication, and what it tells us about Nouwen as a believer and as a person

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Our guest Andre Henry talks about his journey into "artivism" - a mixture of activism and artistry aimed at revolutionary change and decolonization. We talk about his recent book All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep, and his invitation to work on behalf of the safety and joy of Black lives.

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Our guest, Cole Arthur Riley, talks to us about her brilliant recent book, This Here Flesh, which weaves together four generations of lived experience into a book that is both a theological meditation and a memoir of loss and liberation.

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Our guest, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, draws from their own experience of learning to live in their own body, and offers readers a transformative theology of becoming. Their recent book, Body Becoming, is an invitation to understanding, engagement, and human thriving.

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In February 2022, Pope Francis held an unprecedented dialogue with university students from across North, South, and Central America. Our guests, Aleja Sastoque Luna and Dean Peter Jones of Loyola University Chicago, take us behind the scenes to understand what it was like to plan and participate in this event.

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