Best David McCracken Podcasts (2024)

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How Abortion Twisted Up Trump and Evangelicals (with Pete Wehner) 1:05:05

2h ago1:05:05

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Host Curtis Chang and guest Pete Wehner (columnist at The Atlantic and former speechwriter for George W. Bush) share their personal journeys to their pro-life convictions, while also explaining how their views depart from much of the politics and practices of the current pro-life movement. They examine how this issue has distorted evangelicals, Tru…

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SOUNDS LIKE FRANK FIGLIUZZI HAS THE NUMBER OF SERIAL KILLER TRUCKERS 48:22

2h ago48:22

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A task force was formed in the mid 2000's to study highway deaths due to murder. It was found like quite a few of the deaths were murders and that they had signatures that could have related them. Most long haul truckers are hard working, conscientious humans who keep us in food, clothing and so many other things our society would grind to halt wit…

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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits 42:04

38m ago42:04

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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…

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Can the Local Church Heal Political Division? (with Hahrie Han) 55:36

5d ago55:36

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Host Curtis Chang is joined by Dr. Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the Director of the SNF Agora Institute, to explore how evangelical churches relate to racial and political issues. Drawing from her research on a multi-ethnic evangelical church in Cincinnati and insights from Redeeming Babel's "The After Party" pr…

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SOUNDS LIKE WARREN ALEXANDER DID NOT GET CAUGHT SOON ENOUGH 41:49

4d ago41:49

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Warren Alexander grew up in Southern California and who knows when he started his actual killing spree but he left three victim that we know of for now. These victims were linked to him via DNA all of these years later. But he had many years as a long distance truck driver to be the monster that he is. He may be old now and it may be justice delaye…

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Sepsis Detection Made Rapid and Accurate with Dr. Rolland Carlson CEO of Immunexpress 28:34

11d ago28:34

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Join us with guest Dr. Rolland Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress to talk about the transformative work happening in sepsis diagnosis. Dr. Carlson discusses the importance of rapid sepsis diagnosis. The episode covers challenges faced during product development, regulatory achievements, and future plans for sepsis diagnostics. Dr. Carlson also shares adv…

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

8d ago37:35

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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…

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Top Five Craziest Moments of The Summer of 2024 (with David French) 59:04

24m ago59:04

59:04

Host Curtis Chang and "founding friend" David French dive into the five stories that dominated David's summer. From Ukraine's bold advance into Russia and the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump to Joe Biden's unexpected exit from the presidential race and a pair of astronauts lost in space, they cover it all. They even offer a moment of a…

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SOUNDS LIKE DAISY ZICK FOUGHT LIKE HELL 49:10

8d ago49:10

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When a tough,vibrant wife and mother is attacked in her own home and she fights like she has never before and still she loses the battle everyone wants to know who could have done this to her.By JTT

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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions 47:31

13d ago47:31

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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…

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SOUNDS LIKE DR. HAING S. NGOR'S LIFE WAS SO FULL AND TOO SHORT 36:19

11m ago36:19

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When you are born in Cambodia and work hard to get through medical school to be an OB/GYN you cannot imagine the horrors of a despotic dictator taking over your country and putting all intellectuals in work or prison camps. Haing Ngor pretended to be a cab driver to stay alive and had to stand by and not reveal his medical skill just to stay alive.…

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How New Worship Songs Can Help Heal Our Politically Divided Church and Nation (with Matt Maher, Sandra McCracken, Jon Guerra, Dee Wilson, Isaac Wardell, and Kate Bluett) 1:03:42

12h ago1:03:42

1:03:42

Curtis Chang and worship leader Isaac Wardell are joined by renowned musicians Matt Maher, Sandra McCracken, and Jon Guerra, alongside poet Kate Bluett and Grammy-winning songwriter Dee Wilson. These talented artists are pivotal contributors to The Porter's Gate's worship album for the Redeeming Babel project, The After Party. They share their uniq…

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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall 1:00:38

22d ago1:00:38

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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …

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Continuing Early Cancer Detection with David Suhy Co-founder of Earli 29:34

8d ago29:34

29:34

In this episode we bring David Suhy, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Earli back to the podcast. David shares the heartfelt founding story of Earli, the company's mission to make cancer a benign experience by catching it early, and their unique approach utilizing synthetic promoters for early cancer detection and treatment. He discusses c…

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When Is Trauma An Opportunity For Spiritual Growth? (with Rev. Summer Joy Gross) 47:49

28d ago47:49

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Host Curtis Chang welcomes Rev. Summer Joy Gross, author of The Emmanuel Promise, to explore how a broken attachment to God can amplify anxieties stemming from politics, interpersonal relationships, and global events like the crisis in Israel. Rev. Gross, drawing on her expertise as a spiritual director and her study of Attachment Theory, shares in…

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SOUNDS LIKE LORI LYNN'S MURDER IS SOLVED... 44:48

30d ago44:48

44:48

When a vibrant 60 year old very active retiree goes to pick up her mother for an appointment and is never seen alive again by her loved ones we are thankful for security cameras on her mothers property. But they do not show everything. Or do they? Lori's daughter is a vocal force of nature and advocate for her mothers case which is still listed as …

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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin 1:02:53

28d ago1:02:53

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The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the objects stored in them, the neighbours that circle them…and the trauma that has soaked into their walls over years past, and that is now seeping slowly out, poisonin…

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Disarming Christian Nationalism (with Pastor Caleb Campbell) 1:02:31

26d ago1:02:31

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Host Curtis Chang sits down with Pastor Caleb Campbell, author of the new book Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor. Caleb shares his powerful journey from disenfranchised young churchgoer to neo-nazi, and ultimately, his transformation into an evangelical pastor with a desire to reach adherents of Christian Nationalism. …

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SOUNDS LIKE DAVID CLEMISHAW AND DONNA MCCRACKEN WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN 55:57

1M ago55:57

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David Clemishaw, 28 and Donna McCracken 22, of Ashville, NC were hard working, fun loving dreamers who were in love with each other and their lives. What happened on the way to the "Unto These Hills" Festival over the Fourth of July weekend in 1978? After Donna's mother reported her and David missing their bodies were found in a drainage ditch on J…

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FAIR EXTENSION | Deals with the Devil (FULL DARK, NO STARS) 20:00

1M ago20:00

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Morality, Recession, and Faust . . . oh my!! Welcome to the third novella ("FAIR EXTENSION") in Stephen King's 2010 collection FULL DARK, NO STARS, a classic Deal with the Devil story with a Stephen King twist. We'll traverse our way through the history of Deal with the Devil stories, beginning with the story of Faust, all the way to the present, w…

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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips 52:34

25d ago52:34

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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…

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Innovative Approaches to Medication-Assisted Addiction Treatment with Dr. Joshua Lee 32:29

1M ago32:29

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This episode we're joined by Dr. Joshua Lee, a clinician, researcher, and professor specializing in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for alcohol and opioid use disorders. Dr. Lee discusses his extensive research on medications such as naltrexone and buprenorphine, their significance in treating substance use disorders, and the transformative pot…

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From CHANEL Connects: William Kentridge and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 13:02

13d ago13:02

13:02

A special preview of the newest episode from the podcast CHANEL Connects. Similar to Dialogues, CHANEL Connects brings together creatives from art, film, and design to talk about where the culture is now and where it might be tomorrow. Their fourth season is out and it’s all about the Venice Biennale. It features some of the many artists, curators …

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How Deep Reading Forms Our Souls (with Jessica Hooten Wilson) 57:46

17d ago57:46

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How Deep Reading Forms Our Souls (with Jessica Hooten Wilson) Host Curtis Chang and award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson, the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University, discuss the decline of deep reading and how this might impact our lives. Hooten Wilson explains the significant benefits that listeners can experience by th…

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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey 58:12

1M ago58:12

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We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X. Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M. Lucca, to discover more about the life of her late wife—an artist who went by many names, but who she knew only as X—it quickly becomes clear that, in Biography of X, it’s not just one life being ca…

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SOUNDS LIKE MURDERS DON'T OFTEN REOFFEND BUT NEED TO STAY WHERE THEY ARE: ED KEMPER FOR INSTANCE 58:05

2M ago58:05

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Edmund Kemper needs to be denied parole forever. And thank goodness he was again recently. He is a uniquely terrible offender. Research shows the number of reoffenders in the violent crime area was surprisingly low. Join the conversation here.By JTT

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Trump, Biden, and The Power of Self Reflection (with Pete Wehner) 58:47

24d ago58:47

58:47

Host Curtis Chang and Pete Wehner, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, engage in a thought-provoking discussion about tackling inner demons amidst America’s current political upheaval. They delve into topics such as the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden's determination to continue despite …

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Interview with Charles Ardai | Hard Case Crime 18:37

2M ago18:37

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As part of our first episode, "The Magic of Stephen King," we interviewed over 20 people from all manner of professions spread out across the globe who have been impacted in some way by Stephen King. We were only able to use a small clip of each interview in the episode, but we want to share their full stories and explore further why Stephen King i…

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Paul Murray on The Bee Sting 1:05:31

2M ago1:05:31

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Set in small-town, post-crash Ireland, The Bee Sting follows the Barnes family—Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ—as the fabric of their lives first frays at the edges, then begins to unravel completely. The Barnes’ are endearing, and complex, and funny, and infuriating… In short, one of the most realistic and memorable portrayals of a family you’ll find …

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