Through the funding of three podcasts ("The Whole Person Revolution," hosted by Comment Editor in Chief Anne Snyder; "Zealots at the Gate," hosted by Muslim political thinker Shadi Hamid and Christian theologian Matthew Kaemingk; and "Conversing," hosted by president emeritus of Fuller Seminary, Mark Labberton), this project will answer questions like, Why do institutions matter today? How we can become whole people and agents of repair in our institutions and neighborhoods? How do we disagree with substance and respect? Is it possible for deep difference to be the uncanny glue of a free society, and not the spark for its conflagration? How do we discern the times through a hopeful posture towards the future?
These questions will be explored through the production of 216 episodes (total) of these three podcasts, over the next three years. This project will build out the Comment podcast ecosystem, thereby providing a hospitable space for a unique learning community (of institutional leaders, public intellectuals, cultural influencers and connectors, and young professionals and students) and a space of translation: between theory and praxis, between different cultural and ideological groups, between distinct cognitions and ways of knowing, and between sectors in our civil society.
