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 67: Net Neutrality, with Jennifer Briney
December 2nd, 2017 | 1 hr 23 mins
My guest is Jennifer Briney. She's the creator and host of the wildly popular "Congressional Dish" podcast. It's like C-Span meets Comedy Central, resisting the corporate takeover of the world. We discuss the upcoming FCC decision concerning Net Neutrality and the impact it could have on consumers.
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Episode 66: Roy Moore and The Rise of Creepy Christianity, with David French
November 15th, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
My guest is David French. David is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, an attorney (concentrating his practice in constitutional law and the law of armed conflict), and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. We discuss a recent piece he wrote entitled "The Enduring Appeal Of Creepy Christianity." It deals with the Roy Moore senate controversy.
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Episode 65: Is That Rhetorical?..., with Johanna Hartelius
November 13th, 2017 | 33 mins 17 secs
My guest is Johanna Hartelius. She is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on rhetorical theory and criticism with an emphasis on expertise, public memory, and digital rhetoric.
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Episode 64: Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America, with David Clary
November 10th, 2017 | 46 mins 1 sec
My guest is David Clary. David is a news editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune and the author of “Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America,” published by Rutgers University Press on Oct. 30, 2017. The book explores how and why states have encouraged and promoted the expansion of legalized gambling in America.
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Episode 63: Babette's Feast, with Julia Beardsley O'Brien and Abigail Killeen
November 8th, 2017 | 1 hr 28 secs
Babette’s Feast tells the story of how a refugee transforms a closed religious community by sacrificing all she has to throw a lavish dinner party. Through her radical hospitality, this mysterious woman converts her guests’ deeply held notions of scarcity and judgment and opens them up to give and receive abundant grace. My guests, Julia Beardsley O'Brien and Abigail Kileen, have adapted the story for the stage. This adaptation re-imagines the story you thought you knew about Babette’s singular feast: deep, funny, dangerous, sensual, and beautiful.
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Episode 62: Philadelphia: Finding The Hidden City, with Nathaniel Popkin
November 4th, 2017 | 58 mins 33 secs
My guest is Nathaniel Popkin. Why is Philadelphia the “Hidden City?” What makes it distinctive in the landscape of American cities? And why does it matter? These are the questions Hidden City Daily co-founders Peter Woodall and Nathaniel Popkin and Hidden City Festival photographer Joseph E.B. Elliott seek to answer in the new book, "Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City."
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Episode 61: When Dust Becomes Mercy, with Tullian Tchividjian
October 30th, 2017 | 1 hr 9 mins
Tullian Tchividjian is the grandson of Billy Graham. He's written several award winning books. He's been a celebrated preacher and pastor. Then his life fell apart. He lost his marriage and his church and he wanted to end it all. Then he found hope. If hope is what you need, this is the conversation for you.
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Episode 60: The Zombie Gospel, with Danielle Strickland
October 20th, 2017 | 42 mins 15 secs
My guest is Danielle Strickland. Her newest book, "The Zombie Gospel", explores the spiritual and existential themes in the wildly popular television series "The Walking Dead."
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Episode 59: Thanks, Obama...My Hopey, Changey White House Years, with David Litt
October 18th, 2017 | 41 mins 48 secs
David Litt entered the White House in 2011 and left in 2016 as a special assistant to the president and senior presidential speechwriter. Described as the “comic muse for the president." Full of hilarious stories and told in a truly original voice, his first book, "Thanks, Obama" is an exciting debut about what it means – personally, professionally, and politically – to grow up.
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Episode 58: Same Kind Of Different As Me, with Darren Moorman
October 11th, 2017 | 36 mins 54 secs
My guest is Darren Moorman. He's produced numerous feature films. His most recent film, "Same Kind Of Difference As Me", premiers on October 20th. It stars Renee Zellweger, Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou and John Voight.
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Episode 57: The American Religious Landscape, with Robert P. Jones
October 10th, 2017 | 40 mins 40 secs
My guest today is Robert P. Jones. He's the CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, and the author of several books, including "The End of White Christian America." The American religious landscape has undergone dramatic changes in the last decade and is more diverse today than at any time since modern sociological measurements began. PRRI’s 2016 American Values Atlas is the single largest survey of American religious and denominational identity ever conducted.
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Episode 56: Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy, with Deborah & Mark Parker
October 5th, 2017 | 46 mins 35 secs
My guests are Deborah and Mark Parker. Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. Mark Parker is Professor of English at James Madison University. They are coauthors of Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown, and most recently, Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy.
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Episode 55: How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds, With Alan Jacobs
October 2nd, 2017 | 1 hr 6 mins
My guest is Alan Jacobs. His most recent book is "How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds." As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking.
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Episode 54: Vintage Saints And Sinners, with Karen Wright Marsh
September 29th, 2017 | 49 mins 7 secs
Karen Wright Marsh is executive director and cofounder of Theological Horizons, a university ministry that has advanced theological scholarship at the intersection of faith, thought, and life since 1991. Her new book is "Vintage Saints And Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith."
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Episode 53: Havana Without Makeup, with Herman Portocarero
September 26th, 2017 | 58 mins 6 secs
My guest is Herman Portocarero. He is a Belgian-born writer and diplomat of Spanish and Portuguese descent. He has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Hercule Poirot Prize-winning crime novel New Yorkse Nachten (New York Nights). He is just finished his term as the European Union ambassador to Cuba. His newest book is "Havana Without Makeup: Inside The Soul Of The City."
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Episode 52: Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, with Kieran Setiya
September 22nd, 2017 | 1 hr 16 mins
My guest is Kieran Setiya. He teaches philosophy at MIT, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. He's the author of "Reasons without Rationalism" and "Knowing Right From Wrong." His most recent book is "Midlife: A Philosophical Guide." It comes out on October 3, 2017.