Ministry of Ideas

a small podcast about big ideas // produced at @HarvardDivinity // featured in @GlobeIdeas // host of @sound_edu

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves. America’s present epidemic of gun violence has its roots in the industrial revolution.

New @ministryofideas and @GenofMod episode featuring the great @PriyaSatia and produced by @chris_nygren.

https://t.co/usCKQ2aW2B

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

The story of how Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican missionary to New Spain, came to racial consciousness in the presence of slavery.

Excellent new @ministryofideas episode produced by @TerenceJSweeney and @GenofMod.

https://t.co/Gw7gOFEDb7

[Beatrice Institute @BeatriceInst]

Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But for this concept to gain power, its logic had to be spread—and made visible.

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https://t.co/6x8MUbPZgl

[Christopher Nygren @chris_nygren]

I have come back from a long hiatus to share with you all a labor of love. The @GenofMod podcast Season 2, supported by @NEHgov, has been rolling out. I recorded 2 episodes. The first looks at how Casta paintings constructed and reinforced racial hierarchies in colonial Mexico.

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

Genealogies of Modernity is a new podcast series from @ministryofideas, @BeatriceInst and @Collegium_Penn that illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future.

Lear more:

https://t.co/IPd8h8ZFRH

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Over the past year I've been working with @BeatriceInst and @Collegium_Penn on a podcast series called "Genealogies of Modernity."

It launches this week with the first 3 episodes. You can learn more and listen here or on the @ministryofideas feed:

https://t.co/lnNfgtad05

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

At the dawn of European exploration, the Renaissance polymath Francis Bacon dreamed of resurrecting the Garden of Eden. Driving this vision was a relentless quest to fully understand—and catalog—God's created order.

New @ministryofideas episode!

https://t.co/fBtA07t2Al

[Rabbi Andrue Kahn @rabbiandruekahn]

Another new podcast (@ministryofideas) with me and some wonderful rabbinic colleagues reflecting on how Judaism provides a guide for us to deal with this moment of climate change and the difficulties that come along with it. https://t.co/S7HmJqMfDw

[LiyaR @LiyaRec]

Understanding the reality of climate change requires more than the science. American Jews are using ritual can to metabolize catastrophic grief while also pointing towards a future rebirth.

New @ministryofideas ep out now! https://t.co/kfQAAptokV

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

(We know, we know, this site is on fire, etc, but!)

We’re happy to help our @hubspokeaudio brethren on our unofficial official Audio Independents Campaign — because that’s us, too!

https://t.co/gdu7ZtAVMs

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

The story of Galileo has long been cited as evidence the Catholic Church is inherently opposed to scientific research. But in fact, astronomy has been built into the history of the Catholic Church – sometimes built literally into churches themselves.

https://t.co/sBne0SKKkC

[LiyaR @LiyaRec]

Scientific origin stories promise to tell us who we really are. But that deepest question of human existence can never fully be answered by science.

NEW @ministryofideas episode out here and in your feeds: https://t.co/jFj5jEPVzr

#sciencepodcast #religionpodcast #mirrornuerons

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

How can religion help us address the climate crisis?

Join our @LiyaRec for an Earth Day Brunch in NYC or online on 4/22 @ NOON ET w/ @rabbiandruekahn @kilrwat & @EarthEthicsCtr ED @KarennaGore.

Event is free! Register here: https://t.co/bPC8DTmJNZ

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Illuminations Episode 6: Manifest Mars

A sense of divine destiny drove Americans to expand West. A similar spirit is behind the modern quest to conquer space.

https://t.co/BO5InpdQe9

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

I wrote about the history of Christian pilgrimage, and my own.

https://t.co/s32npQn0Ea

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

Fantastic conversation about theologies of climate change with our extraordinary managing producer Liya Rechtman. Thank you @JoinDayenu!

[Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @JoinDayenu]

Join Dayenu's Founder & CEO @RJennieRosenn, Liya Rechtman of @ministryofideas and @ccarvalhaes of @UnionSeminary for a fascinating convo on the Theologies of Climate Change, in-person in NYC and livestreamed TONIGHT at 7 ET / 4 PT. Register here: https://t.co/hUyA3LL6Il

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

Quantum mechanics is an unsettling set of discoveries about the nature of reality. But for the Dalai Lama, quantum mechanics is much closer to the Buddhist understanding of the world, where appearance and reality never quite converge.

https://t.co/Xrrob3L650

[Harvard Divinity @HarvardDivinity]

#DYK that the @DalaiLama is a lover of scientific investigation? Find out more in the latest Illuminations podcast episode 👇

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

Illuminations, Episode 4: Quantum Buddhism https://t.co/7iJQAPWCSE

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

but most specifically, we <3 30 of you more than everybody else

[Ministry of Ideas @ministryofideas]

we <3 you all