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 132: White Picket Fences: Turning Toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege, with Amy Julia Becker
October 24th, 2018 | 42 mins 59 secs
My guest is Amy Julia Becker. Her new book "White Picket Fences: Turning Toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege," welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She shows how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects, and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well.
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Episode 131: Why Theory, with Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley
October 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 17 mins
My guests are Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley. They are the co-hosts of "Why Theory," a podcast that brings continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory together to examine cultural phenomenon.
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Episode 130: Whole Again, with Jackson MacKenzie
October 10th, 2018 | 35 mins 46 secs
My guest is Jackson MacKenzie. Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of people in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, "Psychopath Free," explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation. In "Whole Again," he guides readers on what to do next–how to fully heal from abuse in order to find love and acceptance for the self and others.
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Episode 129: Tradition and its ‘use’: the ethics of theological retrieval, with Simeon Zahl
September 29th, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
My guest is Simeon Zahl. He is University Lecturer in Christian Theology at the University of Cambridge. He recently wrote a piece in the Scottish Journal of Theology on the "use" of tradition in theology and what it reveals about the subjective life of the theologian.
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Episode 128: Hitler's American Friends, with Bradley W. Hart
September 28th, 2018 | 47 mins 19 secs
My guest is Bradley W. Hart. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's "Hitler's American Friends" exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime.
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Episode 127: Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, with David Shields
September 27th, 2018 | 53 mins 36 secs
My guest is David Shields. His new book "Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention," is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump.
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Episode 126: Weather Woman, with Cai Emmons
September 21st, 2018 | 42 mins 2 secs
My guest is Cai Emmons, her newest book "Weather Woman," is the story of meteorologist Bronwyn Artair who discovers she has the power to change the weather.
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Episode 125: Faith in the Shadows, with Austin Fischer
September 21st, 2018 | 51 mins 32 secs
My guest is Austin Fischer. Too often, our honest questions about faith are met with cold confidence and easy answers. But false certitude doesn't result in strong faith—it results in disillusionment, or worse, in a dogmatic, overweening faith unable to see itself or its object clearly. Even as a pastor, Austin Fischer has experienced the shadows of doubt and disillusionment. In "Faith in the Shadows," he leans into perennial questions about Christianity with raw and fearless integrity.
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Episode 124: The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, with David Quammen
September 18th, 2018 | 51 mins 20 secs
My guest is David Quammen. In his new book "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life," this nonpareil science writer explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.
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Episode 123: Eating NAFTA, with Alyshia Gálvez
September 14th, 2018 | 47 mins 54 secs
My guest is Alyshia Gálvez. In her gripping new book, "Eating NAFTA: Trade Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico", Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico – sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have sometimes failed, resulting in unintended consequences for people’s everyday lives.
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Episode 122: Idleness, with Brian O'Connor
September 1st, 2018 | 52 mins 16 secs
For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern philosophers have worked hard to develop new reasons to denigrate idleness. In "Idleness", the first book to challenge modern philosophy's portrayal of inactivity, Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work and effort is flawed--and that idle aimlessness may instead allow for the highest form of freedom.
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Episode 121: American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, with Arjun Sethi
August 24th, 2018 | 47 mins 17 secs
My guest is Arjun Sethi. In his new book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, he chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration have intensified bullying, discrimination, and even violence toward them and their communities.
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Episode 120: Talking Tariffs and International Trade, with Steven Wallace
August 21st, 2018 | 50 mins 58 secs
My guest is Steven Wallace.Steven Wallace is the founder and CEO of the Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, the first company to sustain exports of premium chocolate manufactured entirely in Africa, and credited with producing the world's first single-origin chocolate bar in 1994. He shares his experience with tariffs and their impact on international trade and the world economy.
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Episode 119: Learning To Speak God From Scratch, with Jonathan Merritt
August 20th, 2018 | 48 mins 58 secs
My guest is Jonathan Merritt. His newest book is "Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing--and How We Can Revive Them." As America rapidly becomes a pluralistic, postmodern society, many of us struggle to talk about faith. As America rapidly becomes a pluralistic, postmodern society, many of us struggle to talk about faith.
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Episode 118: From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity, with Michele F. Margolis
August 13th, 2018 | 53 mins 19 secs
My guest is Michele Margolis. One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the “God gap.” Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Margolis' new book "From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity" challenges the conventional wisdom that suggests that religious differences between Republicans and Democrats have produced this gap, with voters sorting themselves into the party that best represents their religious views.
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Episode 117: Redeeming Capitalism, with Kenneth J. Barnes
August 10th, 2018 | 49 mins 47 secs
My guest is Kenneth J. Barnes. His new book "Redeeming Capitalism" explores the history and workings of this sometimes-brutal economic system. He investigates the effects of postmodernism and unpacks biblical-theological teachings on work and wealth. Proposing virtuous choices as a way out of such pitfalls as the recent global financial crisis, Barnes envisions a more just and flourishing capitalism for the good of all.