Best Gretchen Huizinga Podcasts (2024)

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Where Do Bioethics Begin? with Michael Deem 1:01:14

3M ago1:01:14

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As a bioethicist and Catholic deacon-in-training, Dr. Michael Deem has spent years in the medical trenches as well as in theological and philosophical research. Michael Deem joins Grant in this episode to answer questions such as, “Do bioethicists actually change minds?” “Does healthcare flourish under a provider-of-services model?” and “Are bioeth…

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Is Mutualism Possible? with Sara Horowitz 46:37

4M ago46:37

46:37

How can we help locally, but in a way that works economically? This is the challenge that thwarts many solidaristic startups. Luckily, Sara Horowitz has picked up the gauntlet. Sara Horowitz has been both the chair of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the founder of the Freelancers Union and the Freelancers Insurance Company and…

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How Are Numbers Beautiful? with Francis Su 38:45

5M ago38:45

38:45

How is mathematics a liberal art? How can being good at math translate into virtue? Dr. Francis Su, the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, is well aware of mathematics’ place in human flourishing. In this episode, he and Grant converse over these questions. They also discuss the reverence evoked by math and the tran…

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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy? 47:36

5M ago47:36

47:36

Modernity strives to break with the past, especially genealogy. However, is it possible for a society to break a genealogical thread? In this episode, we explore the meaning and value of genealogy, a way of thinking that will shape the rest of this series. We ask how different forms of genealogical thinking can reconnect us to the past without limi…

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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity? with Michael Puett 39:31

6M ago39:31

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We often think of modernity as a time period in history. But people have been claiming to be modern since at least c. 550 AD, when the Roman writer Cassiodorus used the term modernus to mark off everything that had happened since the fall of the Roman Empire. Harvard scholar Michael Puett takes us back much further, to the third century BC in ancie…

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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Mountain Modernity 49:38

6M ago49:38

49:38

For the past three years, Ryan has been working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars to produce a narrative podcast about Genealogies of Modernity. Today’s episode is a sneak preview of the first episode of that series, which will be released in its own feed starting the first week of November. In the thread of the Beatrice Institute podcast…

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What's Wrong with the Modern World? with Ryan McDermott on SpirituallyIncorrect 1:03:48

6M ago1:03:48

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This episode is brought to us by SpirituallyIncorrect: We all love a good story. We watch movies, listen to friends talk about their last vacation, or listen to podcasts (this one included) just to hear an entertaining and provocative tale. But one story trumps them all: the story of how we have arrived at our modern world. With technology evolving…

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Rerun: Race and American Christianity with Anthony Bradley 1:14:51

7M ago1:14:51

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Anthony Bradley is a professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at the King’s College in New York City. He gives a personalist analysis of the criminal justice system (touching on everything from architecture to food) and the Black Lives Matter movement. In this rerun episode, Anthony and Ryan discu…

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Teaching Happiness with Tal Ben-Shahar 36:56

8M ago36:56

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If happiness is to be had, it must be studied. Tal Ben-Shahar acted on this belief when he created the Master’s of Arts in Happiness Studies in partnership with Centenary University, through which students of eighty-five nationalities learn how to achieve well-being and how to impact others’ flourishing. In this episode, Tal joins Grant to discuss …

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AI and Faith with David Brenner 58:08

8M ago58:08

58:08

Can faith leaders, steeped in tradition, contribute anything to the conversation of ever-new artificial intelligence? What if the questions they are asking are the same? When David Brenner realized the metaphysical overlap between the spiritual questions and the questions of AI ethicists, he decided to institute AI and Faith, which engages the fund…

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Progressing toward Apocalypse with Mary Harrington 46:18

8M ago46:18

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If chickens can’t act as chickens and humans can’t act as humans, Western civilization is not making progress. So observes Mary Harrington, contributing editor for Unherd and most recently, author of Feminism Against Progress. While society champions the defying of limits, our natures - as humans, as men, as women - always reemerge. In this episode…

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Rerun: Will There Be Computers in Heaven? with Derek Schuurman 55:22

9M ago55:22

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Although the intersection of faith and artificial intelligence is a modern topic, it can be seen as a new version of an old question famously posed by Tertullian: what does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? Today’s podcast guest, Derek Schuurman—computer scientist, author, and professor at Calvin University—rephrases that question for those living …

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Why Does Atheism Seem Obvious Now? with Joseph Minich 56:07

9M ago56:07

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Where has a manifest God gone? In his recent book, The Bulwarks of Unbelief: Atheism and Divine Absence in a Secular Age, Joseph Minich explores this question. A teaching fellow at the Davenant Institute, Joseph helps provide resources for retrieving an intellectual heritage to build up the contemporary Church. Join Joseph and Ryan in their discuss…

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Scapegoats of an Ill Society with Brent Robbins 1:08:53

10M ago1:08:53

1:08:53

What is the person, and why does it matter in psychiatric care? Brent Robbins, professor of psychology at Point Park University and director of the Psy.D. Clinical Psychology Program, has decided to put this question at the forefront of his research and teaching. Grant and Brent join in conversation to discuss scapegoating, stigma, and reductionism…

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Can Tech Ethics Shape Our Future? with Brian Green 48:33

10M ago48:33

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As technology develops at an ever more rapid pace, it can seem that ethics struggles to keep up with it. While science and technology advance by building on discoveries of the past, virtue and moral knowledge must be cultivated afresh in every individual and each generation. This is where Brian Green comes in. As director of technology ethics at th…

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What Has Beowulf to Do with Christ? with Peter Ramey 1:00:38

11M ago1:00:38

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“Language and values and concepts come packaged together, don't they?” asks Peter Ramey, recent translator of The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Indeed, his opus reflects just this and resolves the distance between culture and language in a uniquely faithful yet readable translation. Join Peter and Ryan as they delve into Beowulf…

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The Once and Future Woman with Abigail Favale 55:09

11M ago55:09

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The modern debate on gender elucidates some apparent contradictions: Is gender essential, something we know within us? Or is gender a social construct? Is sex real or not? Does Christianity affirm or deny the body? Abigail Favale, Professor of the Practice at Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, has traced the evolutions of sex, gender, …

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Can AI Reignite Our Faith? With Shanen Boettcher 59:43

12M ago59:43

59:43

AI gives us information. It furnishes facts. It prompts us with news headlines. But could AI also answer our religious questions? When Shanen Boettcher paused his tech career and completed a master's degree in world religions, he began to ask himself this question. Recently, he conducted a study to put it to the test. In this episode, Shanen and Gr…

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Can Care Jobs Be Good Jobs? with Janette Dill 37:15

1y ago37:15

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Health care workers are essential yet underappreciated. Janette Dill, Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management at the University of Minnesota, is researching why. Her work studies racial and gender disparities, the rewards for professional certification, and the realities of unionization in the health care workforce. Join J…

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Is Tradition Compatible with Critique? with Anne Carpenter 37:28

1y ago37:28

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How do we differentiate between Christian action and the action of the Church? Anne Carpenter and the Genealogy and Tradition Reading Group delve into the relationship of the Church and its people in Part Two of their interview with Anne Carpenter, author of “Nothing Gained is Eternal.” Anne offers a Catholic theology of tradition that is critical …

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How Should We Love Tradition? with Anne Carpenter 47:56

1y ago47:56

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“What is history?” is the opening query of Anne Carpenter’s new book, Nothing Gained is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition. Anne’s answer: history is what humans do. The following chapters consider the consequences of this definition: that tradition must be renewed, not just preserved, and sins, from racism to colonialism, must be dealt with. In this…

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What is the Meaning of Work Today? With Jeffrey Hanson 52:20

1y ago52:20

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Plato said that craft, or techne, “answers to a genuine human need and solves it.” Does our abstract, postindustrial work fulfill this criteria? Dr. Jeffrey Hanson, Anglican priest and senior philosopher at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, has dealt with these questions in his most recent book, Philosophies of Work in the Platonic Tradition: A …

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Being a Christian 2.0 and Web 3.0 with Joanna Ng 52:28

1y ago52:28

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What enables a being to create? Generative AI appears to approach human capabilities; is it only a matter of time until it surpasses them? Joanna Ng, formerly the head of research and the director of the Center for Advanced Studies at IBM Canada, knows these questions from the inside. Joanna is not only a patented inventor and author, but a leader …

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The Image Is Always with Us with Matthew Milliner 41:25

1y ago41:25

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The Genealogies of Modernity project is organizing a reading group around Thomas Pfau’s new book, Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image. By way of advertisement, we are re-running this episode with art historian and theorist Matthew Milliner, where he talks about the book and the wider context of image theory. Millin…

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The Fate of the Post-Industrial Man with Richard Reeves 55:22

1+ y ago55:22

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Do men need equal opportunity? Dr. Richard Reeves answers with an emphatic “yes.” His work as senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative has encouraged him to author the book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It. In this conversation, Gran…

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Gretchen Huizinga Podcasts

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Beatrice Institute Podcast

Ryan McDermott

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Where Do Bioethics Begin? with Michael Deem 1:01:14

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Is Mutualism Possible? with Sara Horowitz 46:37

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How Are Numbers Beautiful? with Francis Su 38:45

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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy? 47:36

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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity? with Michael Puett 39:31

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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Mountain Modernity 49:38

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What's Wrong with the Modern World? with Ryan McDermott on SpirituallyIncorrect 1:03:48

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Rerun: Race and American Christianity with Anthony Bradley 1:14:51

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Teaching Happiness with Tal Ben-Shahar 36:56

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AI and Faith with David Brenner 58:08

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Progressing toward Apocalypse with Mary Harrington 46:18

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Rerun: Will There Be Computers in Heaven? with Derek Schuurman 55:22

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Why Does Atheism Seem Obvious Now? with Joseph Minich 56:07

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Scapegoats of an Ill Society with Brent Robbins 1:08:53

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Can Tech Ethics Shape Our Future? with Brian Green 48:33

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What Has Beowulf to Do with Christ? with Peter Ramey 1:00:38

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The Once and Future Woman with Abigail Favale 55:09

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Can AI Reignite Our Faith? With Shanen Boettcher 59:43

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Can Care Jobs Be Good Jobs? with Janette Dill 37:15

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Is Tradition Compatible with Critique? with Anne Carpenter 37:28

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How Should We Love Tradition? with Anne Carpenter 47:56

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What is the Meaning of Work Today? With Jeffrey Hanson 52:20

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Being a Christian 2.0 and Web 3.0 with Joanna Ng 52:28

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The Image Is Always with Us with Matthew Milliner 41:25

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The Fate of the Post-Industrial Man with Richard Reeves 55:22

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