Podcasts

How does a society ensure equal and active participation of its members when there is a voice gap between workers and corporations? We start by acknowledging our interdependence and striving to provide mechanisms to amplify workers’ voices. Ensuring collective power...

What does it look like to prioritize friendship in an organizational context? Laity Lodge is an ecumenical retreat center in the Texas hill country that welcomes wayfarers into unique journeys of encounter and revelation—with God, with one another, with themselves,...

How can we nurture relationships across time, political factions, and the ever-evolving opinions we as human beings invariably have? Bible teacher Beth Moore has had to become familiar with the deeper levels of discernment required to navigate turbulent waters with...

How much does cultural and familial history shape our relationships and inflect our vocations? Best friends Otis Pickett and DeSean Dyson reflect on their respective journeys as historians and educators in the American South, sharing insights on civil religion,...

It can feel strange to think about applying the logic of do’s and don’ts to the gift of friendship. But as we are fond of saying at Comment, beauty blooms in framed spaces. Mack McCarter understands this frame’s physics from the ground up, having founded one of the...

Does a healthy marriage have to have friendship at its core? How do rings of relationships, institutions and communities <em>around</em> a marriage support that most intimate of covenants? Humanities greats Mark Schwehn of Valparaiso University and Leon...

Friendship is foundational to the good life. But in a mobile and globalized world, how can we nurture deep relationships across distance? Might our friendships offer the rootedness that our roving hearts long for? On today's episode, guest Joy Clarkson shares the...

Co-founders are a known relationship in the realm of start-ups and institution-building. But less studied is the dynamic of friendship between those who are building something that intends to have cultural impact and last beyond a generation. Today’s episode digs in...

The natural world is one thing we all share. Yet our relationship with creation is as fraught with divisions and political bickering as anything else in our divided times. How might we think through our approach to climate change and other environmental...

It’s been a tough season for experts. Distrusted by the public if not politicized by the craven, those trained to master a specific domain in service of common goods seem all too divested of their authority; every earned discovery is now subject to the culture war....