In this last installment of my “socially distanced” series, I share an interview with Amy Hall, my guest from episode 14, that I recorded back in April. In the interim since our conversation, things have not exactly gotten less stressful. I found myself recording and rerecording the introduction to this episode with each new wave…
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In Brian Francis Slattery’s novel, Lost Everything, which won the 2012 Philip K. Dick award, two friends, Reverend Bauxite and Sunny Jim, travel on a mission up the Susquehanna River, in an apocalyptic, not-too-distant future, in which climate change and civil war have transformed the Northeast into a tropical wasteland, replete with monkeys climbing over…
Read MoreTwitter and FaceBook are awash with all the strange behaviors this stay-at-home reality is visiting upon us. A good one, it seems to me, is the urge to reach out to people you haven’t talked to in a while. I’m soothed by stories that my best friend from high school (still one of the absolutely…
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I’ve been musing for some time on the apocalyptic, which seems to be everywhere these days. Who better to explain the origins of all these zombie movies than world-renowned theologian Bernard McGinn? McGinn helps me understand the Christian and pre-Christian origins of the apocalyptic. Even more fascinating, he suggests that the apocalyptic may have fundamentally…
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