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Podcast: When protesting is a spiritual practice

JesuiticalApril 23, 2021
A mourner carries signs as she participates in a peace march May 6, 2016, prior to the funeral Mass of Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

This week, Zac and Ashley discuss the spiritual and liturgical elements of protest movements with Nathan Schneider. Nathan wrote a feature article for America marking the 10-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street and Arab Spring protests, entitled, “Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?”

Our Guest: Nathan Schneider, a reporter and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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What’s on Tap: Absinthe

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