The ThinkND Podcast

Episode Topic: Christianity and the Re-Emergence of the Non-Dual Mind

View the discussion recorded on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, with Thomas Schreier, Founding Director of the University of Notre Dam…

Episode Topic: When Purpose Calls - Re-Engaging One's Expertise To Address the Ukraine Invasion...and Beyond

George Lopez, Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at Notre Dame and a leading expert on eco…

Episode Topic: In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work

Author and workplace futurist, Kerry Hannon, will join the The Inspired Leadership Initiative for its final Inspiring Conversa…

Episode Topic: The Bus Takes a Purposeful Journey

The Inspired Leadership Initiative at Notre Dame welcomed Jerome Bettis on as he explored pursuing a new purpose following his successful football car…

 Leonard DeLorenzo for Church Life Today welcomes Carolyn Pirtle to explore the sounds of advent, the films of Christmas, and more besides. Carolyn is the Director for the Notre Dame Center for Litur…

Episode Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Power

This week’s discussion will focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and power. What are the social, political, and ethical implications on…

Episode Topic: Bias and Power

While algorithms and artificial intelligence are often touted as neutral and unbiased decision-making tools, research such as Dr. Joy Buolamwini and Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Ge…

Episode Topic: Identity and Power

How do you prove that you are who you say you are? As our world becomes increasingly digitized, automated, and algorithmically operated, digital identity schemes are …

Episode Topic: Privacy and Power

The proliferation of smart devices - not just phones but TVs, home security cameras, and more - has led to the collection of personal data on an unprecedented scale. T…

Episode Topic: Machine Learning and Power

Machine learning purports to make accurate predictions and decisions about everything from prison recidivism rates to cancer diagnoses to mortgage approvals. …

Episode Topic: Corporate Responsibility and Power

Companies—especially those with digital “platform power”—wield an enormous influence over economic, political, and social life in the United States an…

Episode Topic: Workers and Power

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on essential workers: grocery workers who keep shelves stocked with food and cleaning supplies, truckers who transport goods …

Episode Topic: The Reawakening

One of the meanings contained in the title of the novel is the idea of suspension of moral judgment. This is not to say that The Truce is a novel of forgiveness: rather …

Episode Topic: The Journey

The Truce operates on several different levels. It is a richly detailed account of an actual journey of nine months, on trains, on foot, on horse drawn cart, across mountain…

Episode Topic: The Thaw: The Many Meanings of 'Truce'

The Truce, written in 1962, takes up where If This is a Man left off, recounting Primo Levi’s epic journey on trains, on foot, and on horse-and-ca…

Episode Topic: The Church in China Today

This discussion focuses on the Church in China today. Some surveys suggest that Christians are four percent of the Chinese population, perhaps about 50-60 mill…

Episode Topic: The Relationship Between Buddhism and Christianity in China

This discussion of The Church in Asia focused on the relationship between Buddhism and Christianity in China. In China, Buddh…

Episode Topic: Origins and Development of the Christian Church in China, Christian Missions

This discussion traces the beginning of Christianity in China, when missionaries from the Church of East ent…

Episode Topic: (In)civilities

Survival for marginalized folks requires communication skills and understanding power dynamics in ways that often result in polite and/or civil discourse. This final sess…

Episode Topic: The Freedom to Listen

Beyond recognizing the inherent importance of public discourse to democracy, a reckoning must be made that listening itself constitutes discourse as much as does s…