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Episode 8: Sickness and Healing

In light of the global Coronavirus pandemic, this month’s episode of Minding Scripture reflects on sickness, healing, and isolation in the Bible and in the Qur’an. What...

Episode 7: 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...

Tantur: Hill in the Holy Land Episode 1

From Notre Dame Stories comes “Tantur: Hill in the Holy Land,” a four-part miniseries exploring the University’s presence in and around Jerusalem. Episode One follows the...

Tantur: Hill in the Holy Land Episode 4

In the final episode, we explore Tantur using two interpretations of a commonly used metaphor for the place: an oasis. Many people describe the Tantur grounds in terms of its...

Unearthing the Past

To learn about the past, most students dig into ancient texts. Others dig in ancient lands. At two sites in Israel, Notre Dame students uncovered materials that may enhance common...

Hill in the Holy Land

It began as a place to bring Christians together. It’s grown into a place to impact the region, and the world. This is the story of the University of Notre Dame at Tantur. Read...

Veteran’s Day

Episode 3: Jesus in the Qur’an

Jesus is a figure of great importance in the holy scripture of Islam,  in the Qur’an. The portrait of Jesus in the Qur’an has many common features with that of the New...

Dale Ahlquist on G. K. Chesterton

Dale Ahlquist is an author and president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. We chat about Chesterton’s 1930 visit to Notre Dame, the newly-acquired Chesterton...

Episode 2: The Historical Jesus

What can truly be known about Jesus, and how can we read accounts about him in a reasonable way? Does a critical understanding of the historical Jesus complicate or nourish...

Optics and ‘Natural Magic’ in the Renaissance

Most people know the story of Galileo and the telescope, but his marvelous new instrument was only one of many optical oddities and inventions that delighted and puzzled the...

Arthur Brooks on Loving Your Enemies

In this episode, we sit down with Arthur Brooks, the former president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save...