Fireside with Blair Hodges

Mar 03 2025 29 ep. 66 mins 90

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Interviews about culture, religion, and more with brilliant people who will fan the flames of your curiosity.

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Relationscapes: “The Bad Dads Who Helped Invent Modern Motherhood,” with Nancy Reddy

Mar 03 2025 64 mins

When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she approached the situation like the overachieving PhD student she was at the time: She went to find the best research on parenting, studied it, and then tried to apply it so that everything would work out perfectly. The problem is, a lot of that research about caregiving and attachment turned out to be based on flawed lab studies, sloppy rese

Relationscapes: “Trans in the Latter Days," with Laurie Lee Hall

Nov 11 2024 125 mins

Laurie Lee Hall was a promising college student studying architecture, and she was known to the world as a man. When she encountered The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she saw a well-defined path that fit the gender she was assigned at birth. So she buried her past to become the perfect Mormon man. Wearing her male disguise, she married, had children, and rose to the

S’mores (Bonus Episode)—Tara Boyce on Hope

Sep 26 2023 53 mins

She dreamed of being a mother. Reality had a wakeup call for her.

Joy, with Ross Gay

Apr 17 2023 70 mins

Not your happy-go-lucky discussion of joy here. Ross Gay brings something different.

Invisible, with Meghan O’Rourke

As a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans, Meghan O’Rourke calls for revolution.

Transitions, with Susan Stryker

Mar 06 2023 95 mins

A trans scholar makes history writing trans history.

Mission, with Kathryn Gin Lum

The word “heathen” has fallen out of use, but the racist ideas behind it persist in the White American imagination.

Shell Play, with Toni Jensen

America's legacy of firearm violence through the eyes of a Métis woman.

Hope, with Tom Whyman

A father wonders if it's ethical to bring children into this world.

The Fire, with Danté Stewart

Jan 09 2023 89 mins

A young Black Christian writer discovers the holiness of rage.