PODCASTS WORTH EXPLORING
December 2021
Need inspiration to continue your good work? Here is a round-up of some of the podcasts tackling virtue & vocation that we particularly enjoyed this year.
Official description: “Dr. Kimberly Manning and Dr. Ashley McMullen are two dope academic internists who use the power of storytelling to explore the human side of medicine, along with teaching, living, learning, and all things in between.”
Our take:These short (around 25 minutes) episodes not only provide a funny and thoughtful look at medicine, but explore what it means to be human using everyday language and stories.
Official description: “In this podcast from the Center for Humane Technology, co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin confront catastrophic risk with existential hope.”
Our take: These conversations go deep with academics, activists, and cultural & faith-based leaders, exploring big questions while moving the conversation on technology, design, and ethics forward, and wrestling with what this means for policy and practice.
Official description: “Through wide ranging conversations with philosophers, literary critics, artists, and theologians, Professor Jennifer A. Frey explores the nature of love and happiness as depicted in important works of literature, poetry, and film.”
Our take: A couple episodes this fall particularly resonated with us: Episode 43, a conversation with the University of Tulsa President Brad Carson delved into the purpose of higher education. Episode 41, a live conversation with Dr. Cornel West on James Baldwin and paideia is a feast for the ears.
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