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Guests heard on Volume 124

John Fea, author of Why Study History? Reflecting on the Importance of the Past, on how American individualism fuels indifference to the study of history, and how K-12 education can counter that apathy

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Robert F. Rea, author of Why Church History Matters: An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past, on how engagement with Church history deepens our faith and enriches our capacity as faithful servants

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John C. Pinheiro, author of Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War, on how anti-Catholic prejudice in mid-nineteenth-century America was intertwined with beliefs about the virtues of Republicanism, “Manifest Destiny,” and the Mexican-American War

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R. J. Snell, author of The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode, on how newer ideas about natural law focus less on moral propositions and concepts and more on the thrust for meaning and value

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Duncan G. Stroik, author of The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal, on how architectural styles function as languages that speak to us and enable buildings to speak to each other

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Kate Tamarkin and Fiona Hughes on the healing power of music

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