Episodes: 2 Columns

To Affirm Our Humanity with Dave Plisky and Fr. John Gribowich

QUICK SUMMARY What happens when two Catholics spend a season in interfaith dialogue with 30 guests, including monks, rabbis, professors, a Princeton wrestling champion, and a singer-songwriter rewriting the footnotes...

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Seeds of the Word with Fr. Cyprian Consiglio

QUICK SUMMARY What if the entire spiritual life came down to breathing in and breathing out? In our penultimate episode, we sit down with Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, Camaldolese monk, musician,...

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The Scaffolding with Kelly Deutsch

QUICK SUMMARY What happens when the faith container you grew up in no longer fits and you don't want to abandon it? Former nun turned "spiritual wilderness guide" Kelly Deutsch...

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The Wounded Word with Elizabeth Schrader Polczer

QUICK SUMMARY What if one of the most important women in the Gospels was quietly edited out of the story? New Testament scholar Dr. Elizabeth Schrader Polczer (Villanova University)...

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The Way of the Kami with Rev. Ann Evans & Rev. Taishi Kato

QUICK SUMMARY Shinto has no dogma, no scripture, and no conversion, so what is it? In this episode, we sit down with two Shinto priests. Rev. Ann Evans, one...

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Ik Onkar with Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

QUICK SUMMARY What if paradise isn't somewhere else but wherever you slow down enough to taste what's in front of you? In this episode, renowned Sikh studies scholar Dr. Nikky Singh...

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A Ruified Christian with Lauren Pfister

QUICK SUMMARY What does it mean to be a "Ruified Christian"? In this episode of Religion to Reality, hosts Dave Plisky and Fr. John Gribowich sit down with Dr. Lauren...

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Sitting and Forgetting with Michael Rinaldini

QUICK SUMMARY What can a Daoist priest teach Christians about silence? Shifu Michael Rinaldini spent years in Trappist and Carthusian monasteries, had a reconversion to Catholicism inside a Vedanta monastery,...

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No Sacred, No Secular with Deng Ming-Dao

QUICK SUMMARY What if the world isn't divided into sacred and secular because everything is already sacred? In our first Daoism episode, bestselling author and martial artist Deng Ming-Dao (365...

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Everyday Interfaith with Bryan Lorentz & Clay Dockery

QUICK SUMMARY What happens when your spiritual calling doesn't align with the tradition you grew up in or the one your spouse practices? In this double episode, world religions...

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Who’s So Sure? with Kittisaro Weinberg

QUICK SUMMARY What happens when a champion wrestler and Rhodes Scholar has a vision of Christ in an empty English church and then walks straight into a Buddhist monastery? In...

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Both with Eva Natanya

QUICK SUMMARY A former New York City Ballet dancer turned Buddhist scholar and contemplative, Eva Natanya has spent decades holding two traditions, Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism, not as a...

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