Mishaps: Stories about unintended mistakes

In this week’s episode, both storytellers discover just how far people will go for the ones they love.Part 1: When Bailey Swilley’s dad goes into cardiac arrest, she watches her mom care for him and starts to reevaluate what love really looks like.Part 2: At rock bottom, Pam Step ...  Show more

In this week’s episode, storytellers share stories about carbs, control, and the unexpected ways bread shapes our lives.Part 1: When everyone in Rich Tackenberg’s family is diagnosed with celiac disease, he’s forced to confront a terrifying possibility: life without his emotional ...  Show more

Jordan Peterson sits down with experimental cosmologist Dr. Brian Keating. They discuss the importance of awe for the human spirit, the fundamental ethos behind all true science, the idea of the useless genius, and the necessity of sacrifice for improvement of the self and the br ...  Show more

What is the universe made of? Where does space dust come from? And how exactly might one go about putting on a one-man-show about Sir Isaac Newton?These are all questions that Mike Edmunds, emeritus professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University and president of the Royal Astron ...  Show more

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with author, lecturer, and podcaster Spencer Klavan. They discuss the fruits and follies of the postmodern worldview, how our conscious and subconscious rank order data and form perceptions, where disparate creation myths and biblical depictions o ...  Show more

Host James Martin, S.J., welcomes Br. Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit brother, astronomer and the former director of the Vatican Observatory, to “The Spiritual Life” podcast. With a Ph.D. in planetary science, Br. Guy has spent his career studying meteorites and asteroids, exploring th ...  Show more