Jessica Wilbanks talks about how her decision to leave her childhood church alienated her from her fundamentalist parents – and about the difficult process of charting her own spiritual path, which she writes about in “When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and its Loss.”
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Playwright Octavio Solis joins us to tell stories of his younger days along the Rio Grande – and how they influenced his life and work.
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Kenyatta D. Berry, host of “Genealogy Roadshow” on PBS, joins us to talk about using online archives to build a story of your family – and about how collecting this data is still challenging for descendants of slaves.
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Dara Horn joins us to talk about the most well-known victim of the Holocaust and what she might have become.
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Harvard Law professor Robert H. Mnookin joins us to talk about how intermarriage, decreased religious observance and varying views on Israel are threatening American Jewish identity.
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Mychal Denzel Smith joins us to talk about how black writers from James Baldwin to Ta-Nehisi Coates consider the race of their readers – and the relationship they have with their publishers.
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Sarah Cortez joins us to talk about her reflections on what it means to protect and serve.
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Kids questioning their sexual identity have more resources than ever. Still, the road to clarity can be arduous.
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Duane R. Bidwell of the Claremont School of Theology joins us to talk about people who find it limiting to practice just one faith.
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Lindsay Wong joins us to talk about how the stigma surrounding mental illness affected her loved ones.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah joins us to explore how we see ourselves in relation to one another.
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Ralina L. Joseph joins us to talk about how black women often find themselves in a no-win situation.
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