The Fascinating Podcast

Women have been playing basketball since the week after it was invented (literally). So why did it take a century for women to play professionally? Historian and author Andrew Maraniss takes us to th…

This month marks 65 years since the famous Little Rock Nine became the first black students to attend an all-white high school. It took the National Guard to ensure the students' safety. Did the Litt…

Voices of Lament is a powerful collection of essays by women of color, all inspired by Psalm 37. What if there's more to life that the pursuit of happiness? What if it's good to admit we're not okay?…

Your Fascinating Pals are back, with a new format, bigger interviews and more! We gotta start with a little catch up - what did we miss over the summer?

Your Fascinating pals are all together to wrap up a tumultuous season of podcasting! We reflect on current events and offer a few of our favorite movies, books and tv shows to get us through the summ…

What does it mean to be 'woke'? How do we know if we're 'woke'? And why do white men keep using the term as an insult? Rohadi Nagassar joins us to explore what church looks like when it comes from th…

Churches across the country chase bipartisanship, the elusive 'purple' church. But is that the Church Jesus leads? Pastor Jonny Rashid says no. He insists that Jesus takes a side, that bipartisanship…

Dan Merchant returns to the show to tell us about his new TV show GOING HOME. How do you make a show about death and dying... hopeful? What's the good news about death? Oh, and did we mention that ou…

The episode you've been waiting for: we invite LGBTQ+ Christians to speak for themselves. First, Bridget Eileen Rivera - aka @thetravelingnun - joins us to explore HEAVY BURDENS: her book on how the …

What does a space created by black women, for black women look like? Ekemini Uwan and Dr. Christina Edmondson, 2/3 of the force behind the Truth's Table podcast and book, join us to explore how they'…

She can't watch horror movies, but wrote one of the best cosmic horror trilogies maybe ever. Oh yeah, and it was only supposed to be one book. Premee Mohamed joins the show to tell us how her Indiana…

A recently leaked Supreme Court opinion indicates the current court wants to overturn Roe v Wade. What exactly does that mean? We dive into the powers of the Supreme Court, the history of the cases a…

Dr. Amy Kenny joins us to explore how persons of faith ought to engage a world built for ability. What's the difference between curing and healing? And how do we receive disability as a witness to Go…

Meet one of the funniest authors we know - Alex Shvartsman. He takes us behind the scenes of his new novel, the Middling Affliction. Ever wonder how Batman would fare in the wizarding world of Hogwar…

What could possibly be so bad about paradise? Catherynne Valente joins us to dish on her terrific new novella COMFORT ME WITH APPLES. Plus: the French Revolution, the Masked Singer and more!

Author Ryan North joins us to explain how we can all fulfill our dreams of being a real-life supervillain. We talk cloning dinosaurs, the price of immortality and even the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl!

The heads of Keeping the Faith Press - Jonathan Walton, Suzie Lahoud and Sy Hoekstra - join us to reflect on American Evangelicalism in the wake of Trump. How are they catalyzing a different kind of …

It's our annual March Madness Pop Culture Bracket episode! What moments from the last year made the cut? And who has what it takes to go all the way? Remember: it's totally arbitrary! But don't let t…

Andre Henry returns to the show to tell us about all the white friends he couldn't keep. We dive deep into the world of activism, as Andre guides us to imagine what a truly just world can look like -…

THE BATMAN is a certified hit... but is it any good? The Fascinating crew heads to Gotham City to investigate Battinson, his allies and his foes. Plus a deep dive into the film's treatment of Asian A…