Scott Erickson is an artist and performer who, with his new book Honest Advent, has created a wonderful set of meditations and images for reflecting on the earthiness and mystery at the heart of the Advent season

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Three decades ago, Clare Stober left behind a successful middle class life to follow Jesus. Now, with a new book, she has helped collect a hundred stories of the world of the Bruderhof

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Dr. Michael Lovell, president of Marquette University, opens up about his own own experience with trauma, and how that, combined with his faith, has led him to work to create resources for trauma recovery for the city of Milwaukee and the Midwest

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Our guest L. Benjamin Rolsky joins us to discuss his recent book, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left, where he looks at the legacy of television mogul Norman Lear on American religious and political culture.

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Pastor Heidi Neumark returns to Things Not Seen to talk about her forthcoming book, Sanctuary: Being Christian in the Wake of Trump, which will be released in late September

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Rev. Emily Scott is a pastor and church planter. She talks to us about her work, and her recent book For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World

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In his recent book, White Lies, pastor Daniel Hill offers nine strategies for addressing both individual and systemic white supremacy in our lives and in our churches

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Essayist, editor, and historian Thomas Frank has been writing about the American experiment, and exploring the twists and turns of our common struggles. His most recent book, The People, No!, looks at the ways we misunderstand Populism, and how its promise might be rehabilitated.

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Our guests are two philosophy professors, who have written a book that presents their ongoing dialogue about Cornel West, and the promise of "prophetic pragmatism" as a distinctly American political and philosophical movement

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Joanna Brooks returns to the show with a n honest look at the history of racism in the LDS church. We talk about her recent book Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence

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