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Literature & Film in Lockdown – Camus, “The Plague”

Albert Camus’s novel "The Plague" (La peste), published in 1947, tells the story of a group of characters living through an outbreak of contagious disease in the 1940s, in the...

Religion and Philosophy

Religious Pluralism

Under the conditions of globalization, more religious people than ever find themselves in close contact with members of other religious traditions. Our hosts convene in this...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Jun. 12, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C.

“God is not just someone to make intellectual assent to in our minds but someone to encounter into the depths of our heart. And if we are not able to make that migration, then...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Apr. 05, 2024
Religion and Philosophy

The Jewishness of the New Testament

This episode we welcome a distinguished New Testament scholar, Amy Jill Levine, who is the world expert on the Jewishness of the New Testament. She engages questions like, Why are...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Jun. 12, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Deacon Mel & Ann Tardy

“When the Church addresses those things, people feel like they’re welcome, that the Church is relevant. When the Church fails to address those things, people feel like,...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Feb. 07, 2025
Religion and Philosophy

Qur’an Criticism

What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims traditionally understood the Qur’an? What were the...

12:00 PM ET Fri., May. 08, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Gabriel Reynolds

“I pray regularly and seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for my family but also for Notre Dame and for the students. So that’s very important, and it gives one...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Jun. 07, 2024
Religion and Philosophy

Bible Criticism

This month, Minding Scripture, which brings together the life the mind and the life of faith, asks guest speaker Nathan Eubank and one of our hosts, Tzvi Novick, how...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Feb. 20, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Sickness and Healing

This episode of Minding Scripture reflects on sickness, healing, and isolation in the Bible and in the Qur’an, with conversation around the global Coronavirus pandemic. What...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Mar. 27, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Afterlife

Life after death is a central concept in all three Abrahamic religions. What happens to a person after death? How do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam envision heaven and hell? And...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Jan. 02, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Moses

Moses serves as a model to the prophet Muhammad in the Qur’an, represents the tribe of Israel in the Hebrew Bible and prefigures Jesus in the New Testament. With no external,...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Dec. 05, 2025
Religion and Philosophy

The Translation of Scripture

Robert Alter, translator of the Hebrew Bible, and David Bentley Hart, translator of the New Testament, join Notre Dame theology professors Francesca Murphy and Tzvi Novick, where...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Nov. 07, 2025