Fireside with Blair Hodges

“Relationscapes” is the current podcast by Fireside host Blair Hodges. Enjoy this sample e... more

“Relationscapes” is the current podcast by Fireside host Blair Hodges. Enjoy this sample e... more

“Relationscapes” is the current podcast by Fireside host Blair Hodges. Enjoy this sample e... more

Tara Boyce joins us to reconsider Tom Whyman’s episode about “hope.” Is Tom too hopeful? ... more

Ross Gay is a New York Times bestselling author of essays and poetry. His latest book is ‘... more

Meghan O'Rourke is a citizen of what she calls the invisible kingdom. Anyone can become a ... more

When she was born, Susan Stryker’s parents thought they were welcoming a baby boy. She kne... more

Race and religion have been intertwined throughout American history. Christians believed t... more

Toni Jensen grew up around guns. As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with ... more

When Tom Whyman started thinking about becoming a father, he worried. Would he and his par... more

Coming up out of the waters of baptism at a new white Christian church, Danté Stewart envi... more

Masha Rumer immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union when she was thir... more

David Livingstone Smith has studied dehumanization for decades. He's spent a lot of time r... more

When Rachel Held Evans unexpectedly died in 2019, the thirty-seven-year-old Christian writ... more

It’s been said that, like the Bible, there are few women in the Book of Mormon. And that’s... more

What happens if we approach some of our favorite books with a similar kind of devotion and... more

In his book Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in our Obsession with Civility, Alex Zamal... more

Ultra-Orthodox Jews structure every aspect of their lives around their religion. But those... more

Anna Sale says a loss of faith in social institutions has left people seeking alternative ... more

Is human gender and sexuality fixed and binary, or malleable and multi-various? Taylor Pet... more

Lauren Sandler was a journalist covering homelessness in New York City when she met Camill... more

John Swinton’s path-breaking book, Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefulness, and ... more

Anthea Butler is a top expert on religion, politics, and race in the United States. In her... more

David Dark seems hard to pin down. He's a professor of religion and the arts, he's a Chris... more

Elaine Pagels is a ground-breaking scholar of Christianity. Back in the Sixties she was a ... more

Kiese Laymon is a writer and professor of English who believes time travel is possible. It... more

Things were falling apart in Mary Rakow’s life. Her writing was stagnating, her marriage w... more

If you ask philosopher Adam Miller what he thinks the end of the world will be like, he’d ... more

Family history can be delightful, but it can also be heart-wrenching. Nora Krug was born i... more

Do you think of yourself as spiritual but not religious? Or maybe you feel more religious ... more