Rev. Esau McCaulley, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the deep work that led him to seeing his father in a new light and how his father’s struggles are echoed in the experiences of many Black Americans.
Read moreThe family who escaped the Nazis and the Gulag
Daniel Finkelstein, a political columnist for The Times of London, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss his family’s history – a mother who fled Nazi Germany only to be sent to a concentration camp and a father whose family was sent to Siberia.
Read moreWhen eulogies are complicated
Rev. Esau McCaulley, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the deep work that led him to seeing his father in a new light and how his father’s struggles are echoed in the experiences of many Black Americans.
Read moreInvestigating Our Ancestors
We’ll talk to the writer and director this hour about how his hometown of Baltimore has influenced his work and about his new book, Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America.With sites like ancestry.com and the digitization of public records, tracing our family trees has become easier than ever. We’ll talk this hour about why we’re so interested in discovering our roots with Maud Newton, who writes about the subject in the June issue of Harper’s.
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