Episodes

A crossover episode in which Zech swaps seats and appears as a guest on Martin Robb’s care ethics podcast, Careful Thinking . Zech shares about his book, The Unthinkable Sacrifice: An Essay on Fatherhood , and discusses his own experience as a father and the ways French phenomenology has helped him ...

In this episode, Zech talks with Colby Dickinson about his many pilgrim journeys in the city of Rome. Together they ask: how does religious identity—or lack thereof—shape one’s experience of places with historically thick spiritual meaning? What might it look like to encounter something beyond ourse...

Dr. Meek on the mother’s smile as a form of philosophical formation and a form of epistemic access to reality, why it’s important to see oneself being seen (as beloved), and how modernity operates as a barrier to such interpersoned philosophy.   BIO: Esther Lightcap Meek is Professor of Philosophy e...

TOPICS: – Sally Gross – intersex embodiment – religious belonging – Foucault – the “medical gaze” – activism   BIO: M. Wolff is Associate Professor of Religion at Augustana College and author of Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging (2025...

KEYWORDS: – Reformation – confessionalization – law-gospel dialectic – doctrine of justification – sacramental theology – preaching – Reformation myths BIO: Corneliu Simuț is Professor of Theology at Aurel Vlaicu University in Arad, Romania. He is the author of numerous books, including Reading Doct...

KEYWORDS: – presence – communion – personhood – cosmos – communitas – politics – eucharist BIO: James Greenaway is the San José-Lonergan Chair in Catholic Philosophy at St. Mary’s University. He is the author of  The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence (2012) and A Philo...

KEYWORDS: - new natural law – moral philosophy – ethics – Aquinas – Aristotle – subsidiarity – political philosophy BIO: Melissa Moschella is a professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life. She is the author of  To Whom Do Children Belon...

THEMES: - religion and horror movies - the feeling of horror –horror vs. terror – the importance of the body in horror films – sociophobics – Dark Transcendent and Divine Transcendent   BIO: Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is an associate professor of theologyat Marquette University. In addition to many articles ...

THEMES: - charges brought against the early Christians – the apologists’ main lines of defense - the apologists and “apologetics” – the historicity and truthfulness of Christian faith – Greek philosophy and Christian faith – the apologists on the Roman Empire BIO: Alvyn Pettersen is Canon Theologian...