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Happy Pride Month from Chicago Theological Seminary!

This month, we celebrate the dignity, courage, creativity, and sacred worth of LGBTQIA+ lives and communities. Pride invites us not only to celebrate, but also to reflect on the ongoing work of justice, solidarity, and collective flourishing.

We are grateful for all who continue to imagine and build more loving, liberative, and inclusive futures across our religious, spiritual, and ethical traditions.

Season 5 of Our Seven Neighbors continues today with Episode 4.

In this week’s episode, “Rome and the Republic: Catholicism and Questions of Loyalty and Identity,” Dr. John T. McGreevy, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, joins host Reza Aslan for a conversation on Catholicism, public life, and the evolving questions of identity and belonging in the United States.

This is part of a season featuring voices including Dr. Peter Manseau, Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Dr. Pamela Nadell, Dr. Leigh Eric Schmidt, and more, with new episodes released weekly on Tuesdays.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818

Now Available: Episode 3 of Our Seven Neighbors.

This week’s episode, “From Slave Ships to 9/11: Islam and the Long Struggle to Belong in America,” features Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, scholar of Islam and American religious history, in conversation with host Reza Aslan.

As Season 5 explores the contested history of religious diversity in the United States, each episode reflects on struggle, resistance, and the moral questions that continue to shape public life. New episodes are released weekly on Tuesdays.

Listen here:https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818

Now streaming on Our Seven Neighbors:

In this week’s episode, “Soul Wounds: Indigenous Survival and the Limits of Religious Freedom,” Dr. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and Full Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, joins host Reza Aslan.

Part of our Season 5 series on the contested history of religious pluralism in the United States, with new episodes released weekly on Tuesdays.

Listen here:

Our 7 Neighbors: Religion and Resistance in America Podcast · InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary · Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-...