Give and Take
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
259 episodes of Give and Take since the first episode, which aired on March 30th, 2017.
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Episode 116: Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age, with Alan Noble
August 9th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
My guest is Alan Noble. His new book "Disruptive Witness" casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.
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Episode 115: Jell-O Girls, with Allie Rowbottom
August 8th, 2018 | 48 mins 46 secs
My guest is Allie Rowbottom. Her debut book is "Jell-O Girls: A Family History." It's a memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.
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Episode 114: Believe Me: The Evangelical Road To Donald Trump, with John Fea
August 6th, 2018 | 47 mins 19 secs
My guest is John Fea. John is professor of American history at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. His previous books include "Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction", and he blogs regularly at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. His newest book "Believe Me: The Evangelical Road To Donald Trump" argues that the embrace of Donald Trump is the logical outcome of a long-standing evangelical approach to public life defined by the politics of fear, the pursuit of worldly power, and a nostalgic longing for an American past.
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Episode 113: Friends Bearing Gifts, with Joseph Cicio
August 3rd, 2018 | 1 hr 9 mins
My guest is Joseph Cicio. Lauren Bacall, Bill Blass, Rose Marie Bravo, Carol Channing, Prince Charles, Brooke Hayward Duchin, Erté, Princess Grace, Audrey Hepburn, Lady Nancy “Slim” Keith, The Kissingers, Kenneth J. Lane, Eleanor Lambert, Dawn Mello, Robert Mondavi, Josie Natori, and Joan Rivers, are just a few of the great friends of Joseph Cicio. His first book, Friends* *Bearing Gifts is about these relationships and his memories through the beautiful objects they gave him.
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Episode 112: The Blessing of Sorrow, with Rabbi Ben Kamin
July 29th, 2018 | 39 mins 54 secs
My guest is Rabbi Ben Kamin. He is a nationally-known clergyman, teacher, counselor, and the prize-winning author of twelve books on human values, civil rights, and spirituality. His most recent book is "The Blessing Of Sorrow: Turning Grief into Healing."
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Episode 111: Kosher Movies
July 27th, 2018 | 39 mins 49 secs
My guest is Rabbi Herbert J. Cohen. His column, “Kosher Movies,” has appeared in newspapers in Atlanta, Toronto, and Denver. Rabbi Cohen also blogs regularly in The Times of Israel and the Religion Section of The Huffington Post on the intersection of film and faith.
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Episode 110: Who Will Speak For America?, with Stephanie Feldman
July 6th, 2018 | 49 mins 32 secs
My guest is Stephanie Feldman. She co-edited "Who Will Speak For America?", with Nathaniel Popkin. The editors and contributors to "Who Will Speak for America?" are passionate and justifiably angry voices providing a literary response to today’s political crisis. Inspired by and drawing from the work of writers who participated in nationwide Writers Resist events in January 2017, this volume provides a collection of poems, stories, essays, and cartoons that wrestle with the meaning of America and American identity.
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Episode 109: God, Improv and the Art of Living, with MaryAnn McKibben Dana
June 27th, 2018 | 42 mins 26 secs
My guest is MaryAnn McKibben Dana. Her newest book is "God, Improv and the Art of Living." In it she blends Scripture, psychology, theology, and pop culture in a wise, funny, down-to-earth guide to improv as a practice for life. Offering concrete spiritual wisdom in the form of seven improvisational principles, this book will help readers become more awake, creative, resilient, and ready to play--even (and perhaps especially) when life doesn't go according to plan.
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Episode 108: Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together, with Andrew Selee
June 22nd, 2018 | 47 mins 47 secs
My guest is Andrew Selee. In his new book, "Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together", he argues that there may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures.
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Episode 107: Vodka Is Vegan: A Vegan Bros Manifesto for Better Living and Not Being an A**hole, with Matt & Phil Letten
June 5th, 2018 | 52 mins 18 secs
My guests are Matt & Phil Letten. Think you could never go vegan? They beg to differ. As this smart, funny and persuasive manifesto makes clear, you're already 90% vegan anyway. That's right--you already love animals and are slowly but surely eating less meat than you used to. With the insider tips and inspiring stories in this book, you'll be ready to go whole hog (see what they did there?) and eat vegan for good.
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Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, with Laura Vanderkam
May 30th, 2018 | 40 mins 59 secs
My guest is Laura Vanderkam. She is the the acclaimed author of "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast." She isn’t like other time-management gurus. She’s not trying to shave off 30 seconds here or there; she’s interested in the emotional and psychological side of the 168 hours everyone has each week. Her newest book is "Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done." Her core message is that you have more time than you think you do, and you can feel less stressed while getting more done.
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Episode 105: Gravity Leadership, with Matt Tebbe
May 24th, 2018 | 47 mins 52 secs
My guest is Matt Tebbe. He co-founded Gravity Leadership, and is planting a church, The Table Indy, in the northeast suburbs of Indianapolis. He also co-hosts the Gravity Leadership podcast.
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Episode 104: My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, with Benyamin Cohen
May 23rd, 2018 | 1 hr 14 mins
My guest is Benyamin Cohen. His book "My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith" is part memoir, part spiritual quest, part anthropologist’s mission. It's a humorous, personal, ultimately inspirational exploration of Christianity by the son of an Orthodox Rabbi on his journey through America's Bible belt.
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Episode 103: Everything Is Borrowed, with Nathaniel Popkin
May 18th, 2018 | 58 mins 27 secs
Nathaniel Popkin is a writer, editor, historian, journalist, and the author of five books, including his most recent novel "Everything is Borrowed." A meditation on cruelty and regret, a mesmerizing tour of a city through time, and an evocative portrait of radical Jewish life of another age.
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Episode 102: To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity, with L.M. Browning
May 5th, 2018 | 41 mins 38 secs
My guest is L.M. Browning. In her career-defining work, "To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity", Browning explores the breaking point every mind has after finding her own limit during a gauntlet of traumatic events.
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Episode 101: Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear, with Matthew Kaemingk
May 4th, 2018 | 47 mins 30 secs
My guest is Matthew Kaemingk. His most recent book is "Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear." In it he offers a thought-provoking Christian perspective on the growing debates over Muslim presence in the West. Rejecting both fearful nationalism and romantic multiculturalism, Kaemingk makes the case for a third way—a Christian pluralism that is committed to both the historic Christian faith and the public rights, dignity, and freedom of Islam.