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Let's take a peek behind the curtain on three things: what happened with Anwen and Sameer from episode #21, what was up with the imaginary Pope in episode #22, and where is Reckonings going? Listen: Facebook || Apple Podcasts || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play || Spotify || SoundCloud || RadioPublic Transcript: Right here Musician + Track: David Sestay's Mountains As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Buckle your seat belts for an uncommon conversation about clergy sex abuse. Enormous gratitude to the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice, and to The Gilead Project — a 501(c)3 devoted to healing and preventing sexual abuse. Short preview: Facebook Listen: Apple Podcasts || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play || SoundCloud || Spotify || RadioPublic || PRX Transcript: Right here Musicians + Tracks:
If the Pope had a reckoning, what would it sound like? And then after you listen.....if you're curious *why* this was made, go to episode #23.5 and scroll to 01:18 for an explanation. Listen: Facebook || Apple Podcasts || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play || Spotify || SoundCloud || RadioPublic || PRX Transcript: Right here Tracks: Outro by Rob Voigt 'I could have been a left-wing guerrilla in Columbia. Whatever would have grabbed me at the right time, I was ready for.' What ended up grabbing Frank was neo-Nazism. What ended up grabbing Jesse was jihadi extremism. What happens when we look beyond ideology? This episode was produced with generous support from the Gen Next Foundation, which leverages a venture philanthropy framework to build paradigm-shifting social ventures with a wide footprint of impact. Their partnership with ISD and Google Jigsaw created the Against Violent Extremism (AVE) network. It is the first and only network of former extremists and survivors of terrorism. Leveraging their powerful and authentic voices, this peer-to-peer solution disrupts radicalization and hate group recruitment. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: Apple Podcasts || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play || SoundCloud || PRX Transcript: Right here Musicians + Tracks:
'You have all these plans, all these dreams, and then it hits you: my daughter's no longer a daughter, she's a son.' In struggling to accept her daughter as a transgender man, Rita DiNicola had to surrender dreams of wedding dress shopping and biological grandchildren. Similarly, in accepting her son as a trans woman, Catherine Hyde had to reckon with the fact that — as a tomboy from a young age — she'd always wanted, and believed she'd gotten, a son as her only child. Together, Rita's and Catherine's stories provide a hopeful window into what might help other parents, and other people more broadly, overcome transphobia and expand our understanding of gender. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: Apple Podcasts || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play || SoundCloud || PRX Musicians + Tracks:
Remember the bombastic black intellectual Glenn Loury from episode #5, and his story of sex, drugs, politics, and religion? Voilà another round with him, in collaboration with the venerable podcast Love + Radio. iTunes || SoundCloud "When my son said, 'dad, I'm gonna vote for you, but you're going to clean up your act on the environment,' it wasn't a threat. It was my son saying, 'dad, I love you, and I want you to be what you can be.'" The force that propelled then-Republican South Carolina Congressman Bob Inglis to shift his position on climate change was, indeed, love. His son and family created a safe environment for him to explore the possibility of changing his views, and loved him unconditionally through what he calls his 'climate metamorphosis.' Which is why Inglis uses this same strategy to mobilize fellow conservatives around climate change: his organization RepublicEn avoids judgment, and leverages love. For his courage on climate, Bob Inglis won the 2015 JFK Profile in Courage award. Today, he stands at the forefront of America's conservative movement on climate change. This episode includes excerpts from Inglis' 2013 TEDxJacksonville talk. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: Apple Podcasts || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play 'I don't know if I can convey how comforting it is to believe that you possess the secret to how everything in the universe works. And as a consequence, we had this amazing bonus: we were going to heaven and everyone else was going to hell.' That's how Chris Ladd describes his upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian home in East Texas. But that sense that he possessed the secret to how everything in the universe worked? Well, it eventually cracked, shifting his views on women's rights, homosexuality, race, and everything else in the delicate mobile we call a "worldview." The cost of ideological transformation has been painfully high, but Chris concedes, it's been worth it. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn ||Google Play 'I realized that my excuses for justifying war had nothing to do with what we were trying to achieve. I justified war because I wanted to believe that the things I’d done were right, and that my fellow soldiers hadn't died in vain.' Those are the sobering words of Afghanistan war veteran and conscientious objector, Brock McIntosh. Through his experiences in Afghanistan, he lost faith in the Afghanistan war, and then in war altogether. Growing up, Brock had taken his ideological cues from the institutions in his life — military, church, and family — and in the process of applying for conscientious objector status, he found himself wrestling with his inherited beliefs and renegotiating his relationships with these institutions. His process of becoming a conscientious objector became a portal through which to challenge and reconstitute his most fundamental beliefs. The overarching shift: from fearful rigidity to peaceful and courageous open-mindedness. Today, Brock is a peace activist pursuing his Master's of Public Policy at NYU. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn ||Google Play 'My mantra back then was I hate my life...My mantra now is I love my life.' Paige Sargent is a singer and song-writer, who once struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction. The destruction of her addiction was vast and damaged every part of her life — especially her relationships, and in particular, her relationship with her mom. It is then, perhaps, little surprise that her recovery process has both been inspired by and yielded deeper, more loving relationships. Hear Paige speak, pray, and sing her healing story, from addiction through recovery and beyond. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn ||Google Play 'What I regret is not being aware of the extent to which what I was pronouncing as right or wrong for the world was motivated by my own personal issues.' So admits Glenn Loury, prominent academic economist and one of the nation's foremost black intellectuals. Loury's story is expansive, involving drugs, sex, politics, and religion. Most distinctly of all, it's an odyssey of worldview transformation, swinging from the staunch neoconservative right to a more nuanced, progressive position on the left. As a public intellectual who influenced US economic policy, Loury is reckoning with the impact of his early views — not only because he now opposes them, but because he endorsed them for strikingly personal reasons. Our conversation is split into two parts: Part 1 dives into Loury's early neoconservative views, cocaine addiction and recovery, adultery, and spiritual rebirth. This is part 2, which explores his worldview transformation and the impact of his former views. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play 'What I regret is not being aware of the extent to which what I was pronouncing as right or wrong for the world was motivated by my own personal issues.' So admits Glenn Loury, prominent academic economist and one of the nation's foremost black intellectuals. Loury's story is expansive, involving drugs, sex, politics, and religion. Most distinctly of all, it's an odyssey of worldview transformation, swinging from the staunch neoconservative right to a more nuanced, progressive position on the left. As a public intellectual who influenced US economic policy, Loury is reckoning with the impact of his early views — not only because he now opposes them, but because he endorsed them for strikingly personal reasons. Our conversation is split into two parts: This is part 1, which dives into Loury's early neoconservative views, cocaine addiction and recovery, adultery, and spiritual rebirth. Part 2 explores his worldview transformation and the impact of his former views. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play 'I went through 4 years of college, 3 years of law school, and a 2-year judicial clerkship without ever really thinking about the way our criminal justice system functions.' That's the admission of Preston Shipp, a former tough-on-crime prosecutor for the state of Tennessee. Tune in to find out what drove him to leave his role as a prosecutor, and shift from 'cog in the wheel' of the criminal justice system to advocate for criminal justice reform. Short preview: Facebook Full episode: iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play "He wanted a purpose." Those are the words of Christianne Boudreau, whose son Damian left Calgary for Syria, to join ISIS. She raised him Christian, but he was convinced by Islamic State recruiters to take up jihadism. Damian kept his activities hidden and Christianne knows there's little she could have done, still she can’t help but ask ‘what if…?’. Damian was eventually killed fighting in Syria. Today, Christianne coordinates Mothers for Life, a global network of mothers working to prevent jihadist radicalization. iTunes || Stitcher || TuneIn || Google Play 'The top executives from Enron, WorldComm, and ADM — we went to jail for narcissism.' Mark Whitacre was the FBI informant in one of the biggest price-fixing cases in US history, against global food conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland. While undercover, he was convicted for embezzlement, lost his whistleblower immunity, and spent almost a decade in federal prison. Mark is played by Matt Damon in the film The Informant!, and today, spreads his story of redemption and second chances. 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