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Resonance (October 18, 2006)
Several years ago I bought a used copy of The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy and was amazed by the freshness and humor of this author who seemed to speak to something inside me. Over the years I read all of his novels, eventually learning that he was a devout Catholic. He became my favorite novelist. Later, a priest friend mentioned that the writings of Thomas Merton was instrumental in his spiritual formation so I read The Seven Storey Mountain and some of his journals. I was impressed by the sincerity of his writing and the depth of his faith. I have always felt a kinship with these authors but it was something that I had difficulty expressing. I once attended a lecture about Dorothy Day and became somewhat intrigued with her life.

As you can imagine, when I happened upon and read Paul Elie's book it was a profound experience for me. Finally someone was able to articulate why these writers seemed to speak to me in such a personal way. Of course I was thrilled to stumble on your radio show and hear Paul Elie expound further on these authors. It is so important for contemporary Catholics to know that there are writers who take their faith very seriously and at the same time are devoted to making the world a better place.

Robert Devereaux
Pembroke, VA (WVTU, 89.7/91.5 FM)

The Life You Save May Be Your Own (October 15, 2006)
The one person I can relate to the most is Dorothy Day. In some ways my sister reminds me of Dorothy Day. No, she is not a saint and yes, she could help others more often. But my sister had a kid when she was 20; she was not married, and had no interest in religion. We were both brought up in a strong Catholic upbringing, and when it came time for confirmation she decided that she was not sure if that was what she really wanted to do or not. So she stepped away from the church and then when she met her now husband (he also was brought up Catholic), she decided that she wanted to get on the right path of life again. So she got confirmed and her daughter (at that time was 6) was baptized (by choice). They now have a son and he was baptized too. She now goes to church, not every Sunday, but as often as she can get there. Since she has decided to rejoin in the Christian family, she has been more helpful, more willing to go out of her way for others, and she makes sure everyone around her is comfortable (food, shelter, warmth.)

As Paul Elie had stated towards that beginning, "it was through the written word, and through literary books especially, that they had their deepest encounter with Catholicism." I myself had more encounters through going to church and religion classes once a week than I had written encounters. Hearing this talk makes me want to go and get Elie's book so maybe I could see more about the Catholic beliefs and have more understanding of the Catholic religion.

Jenny Cionca
Monticello, MN (KNOW, 91.1 FM)

Relevant Literature Leads to Greater Awareness (October 5, 2006)
Thirty years ago, reading "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor shook me hard. I realized that there was a difference between being good and being authentic, and being authentic was far more attractive to me than being good, even if the authenticity was borne by an escaped convict. I learned later that Flannery O'Connor chose deliberately to exaggerate her characters to make her point — otherwise we may not be awakened enough to notice that she is addressing part of ourselves.

Shortly after reading "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," I was teaching Sunday School at a Unitarian Church and posed the question to the youngsters: "Which is better: to be honest or to be good?" I quickly learned from the parents that my question was not appropriate for these youngsters. I learned from that, too. That I was making mistakes out of partial understanding, like much of what Hazel Motes did. Hmm: There I am! Just as going to a museum and seeing great art helps us see better when we leave, reading great, relevant literature helps us live with greater awareness. (But who can predict when what we read becomes relevant?)

Jack Urban
Kalamazoo, MI (WUOM, 91.7 FM)

The Life You Save May Be Your Own (October 4, 2006)
I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its institutions when I was growing up in Chicago in the 60's and 70's. I have often said this out loud, but not until the discussion with Paul Elie about his book did I realize just how wonderful it was to be raised in the faith that spoke out against racism in a terribly racist city, that spoke up for and lived with the poor when everyone was supposed to buy a house in the suburbs, that honored working people always — not just my working class family, but the farm workers whose names sounded strange and whose faces did not look like any I had seen before.

Now I understand better why I was so enthralled by Flannery O'Connor when I was introduced to her in an English class at the Catholic women's college I attended. Now I am glad to be old enough to remember these experiences, to have lived in a time when the Church stood up for justice most of the time. I learn ed to stand up from the nuns mostly, and from Dorothy Day, the Catholic Interracial Council and YCS. Paul Elie reminded me most emphatically of how I learned to live my life — with self-analysis, outrage against oppression and determination to do something to make the world "easier to be good." Thank you for the reminder!

Alice Johnson
Atlanta, GA (WABE, 90.1 FM)

Moments of Contemplation (October 4, 2006)
It was Sunday morning, so as a Mennonite pastor I needed to get ready for church, but I found your program on the lives of contemporary Catholic writers to be so compelling that I was disappointed to have to leave it half way through. I have not been able to fully grasp what it is about the memoirs of Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day — both of which I have in my library — that draws me back to them. There is something that they touched upon — maybe as simple as personal honesty, or perhaps the deep longing for God that we have in our hearts throughout our lives, that these writers journeyed with. I appreciate the depth and gentleness of your program that allows for moments of contemplation in a busy world.

Tim Schultz
Leetonia, OH (WYSU, 88.5 FM)

Only Love Can Save Us (October 2, 2006)
Thank you Krista for the insightful show with Paul Elie. I am Dorothy Day's seventh grandchild and find the ongoing process of examining her life in the world's eyes to always be an exciting challenge. She has afflicted me with this hunger for a deeper meaning of life and how to create a better world. She understood that love was the only thing that could save us. Each day I am grateful to both her and my mother for giving me such a fierce faith in life. We are now in a complex time of chaos and must stay connected to each other despite the constant pressures of greed and loss of morality. How to do that? My own pilgrimage is helped along by this wonderful sense of being part of all humanity. Yes, we are created to love one another and that is where we will find our salvation.

Martha Hennessy
Perkinsville, VT (WVPR, 89.5 FM)

Thanks to Paul and Krista (October 1, 2006)
As a fairly recent convert to Speaking of Faith, I would like to thank Krista Tippett and her team for creating a venue where faith-related dialogue helps my understanding of various faith traditions, and gives me a chance to get acquainted with significant voices in this search to live life from a faith perspective.

I particularly enjoyed this week's interview with Paul Elie because it was a lot about my own faith tradition, Roman Catholicism. Two of the four subjects of his book, Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, are spiritual as well as literary heroes to me. I heard Dorothy Day speak while a student at Boston College. It must have been 1970 or 1971. She was revered by everyone in that rather large gathering that day, and yet she struck me as an angry and frustrated old woman. As I learned later, she had been speaking out for peace (leading a fast in Rome of Catholic women — pleading with the cardinals at Vatican II to condemn war in their encyclical on the topic — they did; getting arrested for protesting bomb shelters in the 50's — she stood on the New York sidewalks with her picket sign while the sirens blared; sponsoring through her Catholic Worker organization Catholic conscientious objectors in the 40's while the institutional Church supported the war machine) long before her opposition to the Vietnam War drew crowds on college campuses.

Her anger left me with a kind of confusion that lingered for over 20 years until I met someone who was starting a Catholic Worker house in Akron, Ohio near where we now live. That's when I really met Dorothy Day, or at least learned what she believed and lived — that caring for the forgotten is a key aspect of life, and faith. The Long Loneliness, her autobiography, and perhaps even more so, an anthology of interviews: Dorothy Day, Portraits by Those Who Knew Her by Rosalie G. Riegle, shed much light on Dorothy whom I deeply admire and respect for what she lived.

I visited the Abbey of Gethsemane with a priest friend within six months of hearing Dorothy Day speak. By then, Thomas Merton had passed. However, I started at that time to become acquainted with his huge legacy of work. His thoughts regarding the interconnectedness of all of us in this disconnected world, the critical postures of non-violent resistance to evil and especially war, and the power of prayer and a contemplative life style in today's global village, have aided me greatly since that visit. My opening exposure to Merton was a little book called Seeds of Contemplation. Like a lot of his efforts, he can be rather challenging to absorb, yet if you hang with him, his thoughts are extremely exciting about the future of our planet. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander and The Inner Experience are personal favorites.

Thanks to Paul Elie, I am looking forward to meeting Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy. I have tried to live and understand this strange and conflicted tradition of Roman Catholicism my whole life. Its mystery, richness and genuineness, thanks to Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day (as well as others such as Henri Nouwen, Sr. Joan Chittister, and John Dear) still eclipse for me its leadership ineptness and institutional hypocrisies.

Dan Toussant
Canton, OH (WKSU, 89.7 FM)

Faith Fueled By Literature (September 29, 2006)
For most of my life (from age 9–24), I was at best an agnostic. At the age of 24, I found faith through Christ and in the process I developed a craving to get as close to God as I could. During this time, I read The Seven Storey Mountain by Merton and fell in love with him and his work. I have pretty much read everything he has written and his words have been such a blessing to my walk in faith. I credit him and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as two people whose writings have opened my eyes to the world, religion, spirituality, and my walk with God. I suppose my faith was also fueled by literature. Great program.

David Nickel, Jr.
Evans, GA (Listens to SOF Podcast)

Following Along (August 5, 2005)
I so enjoyed hearing Paul Elie discuss his book and the serious thought and attention that his subjects gave to their religious and spiritual journeys that I went out and immediately bought his book. What a good idea that was. Truly, I was pretty unaware of the writings and lives of all four of the writers. As Paul laid out the stories, weaving their trails together, I felt I walked along with them. It was a true gift, changing my subway commute from a time of frustration to a time of retreat. Thank you Paul for writing such an engrossing account and thank you Krista for bringing it to me.

Corinna Olson
Jersey City, NJ (WNYC, 93.9 FM)

What About Flannery? (June 29, 2005)
Thanks for your show every week, particular thanks for the show with Paul Elie on The Life You Save May Be Your Own. It is one of my favorite books of the past 12 months. But where was a section on Flannery O'Connor? To me, the most original writer of the four, she was scarcely mentioned on SOF. I wish we could have heard more about this very thoughtful writer. Thanks again.

Dean Kloss
Syracuse, NY (Listens to SOF OnDemand)

I Am Who I Am Because of Them (June 28, 2005)
Let me say first, thank you for Speaking of Faith and especially for streaming since otherwise I would not have this gracious experience week after week. I heard Mr. Elie speak right after his book was published. I read Thomas Merton first when I was in the 5th grade, The Seven Storey Mountain. That is 47 years ago. Merton has been and continues to be the most important person in my life. There is rarely a day that goes by that I do not read from him. It is part of my spiritual discipline to read from him everyday. I continue to do scholarly work on Merton. My contact with Dorothy Day was through Merton when I was a teenager and she has shaped my life of radical politics. And finally Flannery O'Connor's influence came through being an ordained minister and using her writings as sources of sermon material. I knew little of Walker Percy until Mr. Elie.

If I was to say one thing about Merton and Day in their particular influence it would go something like this: Do you love God? Of course I love God. NO! Is God your lover? Yes! God was/is the lover of these folks. This is what I strive to have, God as my lover. Folks on a regular basis ask me about how I keep my spiritual life and political life so intertwined and they seem to not be separated. It is Merton and Day who have done this to me. My politics is driven by the concept coming from Day and Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker concept of making the world a place where it is easier to be good.

While the journals of Merton do give us a more realistic view of Merton they were still nonetheless self edited by Merton when he wrote them. I have discovered that the most real view we get of Merton comes in two distinct ways. First and foremost the tapes made of Merton teaching/lecturing to the monks (which are numerous) at the monastery are the most revealing. He is speaking freely and off the cuff many times. They are wonderful. And if you are lucky some of these tapes were available before some editing was done and there are some that are flat not available now. The second way would be if one manages to immerse oneself into the ethos of Merton. That is, read what he is reading and writing at a particular moment. One begins to get a real sense of his thinking and how he is being influenced. While this is somewhat difficult, less now than before some recent publications, it is very rewarding and insightful.

Merton was/is in my opinion the most influential theologian of the 20th century. I have been told that still 37 years after his death that he still engenders more Ph.D. thesis projects every year than any other 20th century theologian. I am constantly amazed at the wide variety of people that I encounter who know of Merton and hungry to no more. Let me close by saying Merton and Day allow me to be Catholic without being Roman Catholic. That in itself is more than I could ever have expected and hoped for. Peace.

Vincent Ira Ciaramitaro
Memphis, TN (Listens to SOF OnDemand)

Influential in Professional and Private Life (June 27, 2005)
All four of the writers whom Paul Elie chose to focus on have been very influential in my life. As a seminarian and priest, Merton's writings were on the top of my list. I was profoundly moved not only by Flannery O'Connor's stories but by the collection, Habit of Being, put together posthumously by Sally Fitzgerald. The struggle of Walker Percy to find his voice as a moralist (not a moralizer) was very inspiring to me in my own preaching efforts. Though I have come lately to the book, I have been reading Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness as spiritual reading. I found Paul Elie's commentary on these authors very enlightening and I am eager to read his book. This is the second time I have heard Speaking of Faith and I am very impressed as well with Krista Tippett's skills as an informed interviewer. Thanks for the program.

Robert Rivers
Washington, DC (WETA, 90.9 FM)

Merton's Augustinian Restlessness (June 27, 2005)
I was surprised that Mr. Elie did not mention the fact that the restlessness, about which he spoke on the program, apparently had resolved in Merton's mind by the time he died, and in fact in one of his last letters, said that he had come to understand that he belonged at Gethsemani, and that the traveling was, and had been, unnecessary. Of course the post facto view would not invalidate the prior restlessness, (and being cloistered may naturally led to a "confined" view), which once experienced, may lead to an alternate view. I have not read the private diaries, so my view is entirely formed on the basis only of the published material, before the last set of journals.

I also appreciated Krista's honesty in her criticism of some of Merton's writing, besides being self-righteous in the early years, I get the impression there was absolutely no subject about which he felt he could not write, and much of his theological stuff is very superficial, and if you listen to his tapes of the conferences he gave to the scholastics in the monastery, his speaking classes strike me the same way, as he "flits" from one subject to the next. He seems to me to not be a disciplined thinker. I do still enjoy re-reading him however.

Thomas Ross
Minneapolis, MN (KNOW, 91.1 FM)

A Pilgrimage Has a Destination (June 27, 2005)
I really enjoyed Krista Tippett's Speaking of Faith program yesterday, as it featured three of my favorite authors, and the other, while not on the same level in a literary sense, is certainly a saint (which all four would deem far more important). I want to thank Ms. Tippett for featuring Mr. Elie's book and these four greats; hopefully the show will inspire people to pick up some of their books. I truly believe that Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton are the hope of our civilization.

That said, the program was a bit disappointing for two reasons. First, it gave short shrift to Flannery O'Connor, who is probably the most gifted writer of the bunch; and it completely ignored the sacramental character of her writing. Second, in the program's focus on "pilgrimage," it seemed to have forgotten what I am certain that O'Connor, Percy, Merton, and Day would have insisted on — that is, that a pilgrimage has a destination… a very definite destination.

Paul Elie's book is excellent, and does not shy away from that truth. But the program — perhaps in its zeal for a broad appeal among listeners — presented its heroes as something of mushy, jello-like universalists. They were the opposite of that — their Catholicism (particularly Day's, O'Connor's, and Percy's) — in all its sacramentality and insistence upon the Real and True was the very core of their being. Example:

"The reason I am a Catholic is that I believe that what the Catholic Church proposes is true."
     —from Walker Percy's essay, "Why I Am a Catholic"

"Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the most portable person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable."

Kathleen Mara
St. Paul, MN (KNOW, 91.1 FM)

One of My Greatest Teachers (June 26, 2005)
For anyone who hasn't yet read The Seven Storey Mountain, will I put you off reading it if I tell you it's magical? Each time I open it and start on some random page I find something I hadn't gotten before, and more often I can't remember reading it before.

It might help to understand the book if you remember that Merton lost both his mother and his father early in life. His mother died of cancer, but she did not allow either of her sons, Tom and his brother John Paul (who died in World War II), to see her before she died. She was not religious and may have thought that her sons would be permanently scarred by the sight of her wasted body. After her death their father, a painter, traveled widely. Sometimes he took his older son along with him, sometimes not. The boys were raised by their maternal grandparents: two very nice people who did everything they could at their stage of life for two boys who had suffered tremendous losses while they were still children. Merton's father also died out of his sons' sights and without either of them having the chance to say goodbye.

So the monastery certainly represented a permanence and community Merton had never known before in his life. I can forgive him if he unconsciously invested the community of monks at Gethsemani Abbey with a divine radiance that just is not found outside the Communion of Saints in Heaven.

One of the best scenes in The Seven Storey Mountain is the one when John Paul meets Tom again as a monk at Gethsemani. The Second World War had begun and John Paul was in the Army. During John Paul's three-day visit to the Abbey before joining his unit, Merton instructed his brother in the faith, but there was more to it than simply learning the absolute basics of one particular religion, something like the army had done in teaching him to be a soldier. In the book Merton explains that what he was also doing was undoing the effects of his poor example he had been for his brother and repenting all the hundreds of time he had chased his little brother away as a nuisance.

Later, John Paul was reported lost somewhere at sea with the other members of his crew on a bombing mission. The poem Merton wrote to express his grief is included in The Seven Storey Mountain. It begins, "My brother, If I do not sleep, my eyes are flowers for your tomb …"

If I haven't overwhelmed you about The Seven Storey Mountain, I'll finish up by telling you that my current favorite Merton book is Raids on the Unspeakable. One particular essay of interest is on the Eichmann trial where Merton writes that Adolph Eichmann, the man who organized the logistics of the Final Solution for Hitler, was a terrible example of how 20th century man could adapt himself to life in Hell. I don't think I have made an idol of Merton, he has been one of my teachers and his work has pointed me in directions that I might not otherwise have traveled.

Steven John Bosch
Floral Park, NY (WNYC, 820 AM)

Percy's Impact on Me Continues (June 26, 2005)
Walker Percy came into my life in 1978. I was a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I saw a copy of Love in the Ruins in the college bookstore. The cover was a painting of a Howard Johnson with ominous clouds behind it, and the dominant color was purple. I bought the novel and devoured it the next few days in the bunk bed of my dorm room on the third floor of Mary Faust Hall. I've been reading and re-reading Percy ever since, and was fortunate enough to strike up a friendship with his daughter, Mary Pratt Lobdell, through the New York Times literary Web site.

Why is Percy so important to me? Because he was a Southerner, humorist, novelist and existentialist. He was onto something — the mystery of life, what he called the holiness of the ordinary, and he wrote about it with a clarity that is rare. Perhaps that was because he was a novelist. He told stories about concrete characters in concrete places, with the usual human conflicts, most of them internal, and his stories get at the human condition as well as anything I've ever read. He's been gone fifteen years, dying 127 years to the day after Stonewall Jackson, another Southerner, another religious person. But while Jackson fought in a war among a people, Percy fought a very different type of war, one with the self, one with a time in history. Read his last novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, and see if Dr. Percy didn't call what was going to happen in this country. What Percy had was the prophet's vision with the gift of prose making. Thank you, Mr. Elie, for your book, and Speaking of Faith, for this program.

David Bulla
Ames, IA (KWOI, 640 AM)

Day's Relevance to Today (June 26, 2005)
The conversation about Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy was fascinating. Really interesting to see how literature and the spiritual quest intersect. I especially liked learning more about Merton in his later life (and I agree with you Krista: Merton was incredible irritating in the first 2/3 of his famous autobiography). But, what was of most interest was to hear more about Dorothy Day, whose life and work is incredibly relevant for right now! With the gap between wealthy and poor at home and around the world growing daily, what Day saw and felt and acted upon is a message to us all.

I want to urge Speaking of Faith to especially give us women's voices — with the rise and escalation of fundamentalisms of all religions (including Christianity here in the U.S.), which always seem to relegate women to being mere "vessels of temptation and sin," we need to have alternative visions of women as spiritual leaders. We sure can't mismanage any worse than the men have!

Lydia Howell
Minneapolis, MN (KNOW, 91.1 FM)

Streams That Water the Soul (June 26, 2005)
I have been listening to Speaking of Faith for many months, and thoroughly enjoy the program, and always recommend it to others. Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton have each had considerable influence on my life, through their writings and their lives. This program reminded me of that, and although my Catholic upbringing "produced" many of my values, I have completely separated from the church.

I see the present day "official" church as having no place for me. If the "official" church embodied the engaged, realized theology-in-action of Day and Merton, perhaps that would not be so for me — but it does not seem to do that at all. And yet the streams of Day, Merton, and many others still "water my soul" in many ways, and I expect they will always do that.

At age 58, my own spirituality is still re-forming, and I cannot give it a name. Since the church I grew up in still has not fully "included" women, native people, the poor, gays and lesbians, and other groups, I only know it does not and cannot "include" me either. But this does not mean I am not seeking a path to God — on the contrary — my seeking is richer and deeper now than it has ever been. Speaking of Faith is always "a place to rest" on this road, so I express my gratitude for that.

William P. Mueller
Milwaukee, WI (WUWM, 89.7 FM)

Refocusing the Core of the Catholic Faith (June 26, 2005)
Catholics such as those we're discussing today do speak to the heart of Catholicism. I feel like the Catholic church today is in the middle of an identity crisis, being swept along by various contradictory political waves, forgetting what is most important, serving the poor, and loving others. Do you have any thoughts on how we can work through where we are as a faith community right now and refocus on the core of our faith? I know that Merton was a strong influence on Ernesto Cardinal in Nicaragua, one of the leaders of the liberation theology movement. Can you speak to the international influence of these spiritual leaders?

Ann Goodwin
Grand Forks, ND (KNTN, 102.7 FM)

Resonated with My Life Experience (June 26, 2005)
In 1952 or 1953, when I was fourteen or fifteen, I found around the house Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain; it changed my life! (In 1956, I became a religious sister and have served in the ministry of education for 45+ years.) About 10-15 years ago I took part in a discussion group with Thomas Mott on "The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton" and that helped me to figure out my fascination — Thomas Merton wasn't "perfect" as it seemed other heroes were. Each week I look forward to the end of week e-mail about the topic on the coming Sunday's Speaking of Faith and an important part of my Sunday mornings is listening to it. I especially enjoyed this morning's broadcast as it resonated with my life experience. Walker Percy is unfamiliar to me but I will try to find out and read more.

Carol Larkin
Philadelphia, PA (WHYY, 91.0 FM)

My Own Spiritual Ancestry (June 26, 2005)
I am a spiritual grandson of Dorothy Day and I very much enjoyed learning more about grandma. My descent is through her student Ammon Hennacy. He set up the Joe Hill House in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was what we would now call a homeless shelter, though its location near the railroad yards drew hobos especially. My first experience on a picket line was with Ammon. He was one of two mentors in religious pacifism which I affirmed in 1968 and became a conscientious objector in the military draft. I have also loved Merton's works as well. Your program pulled together some interesting points of view that touched my own spiritual ancestry.

Paul Larson
Chicago, IL (WBEZ, 91.5 FM)

Literature Binds Us (June 24, 2005)
I look forward to hearing this program. Literature, I once heard a college president say, can most deeply bind us or alienate us in regards to faith. My favorite author, Frederick Buechner, also put together a biographical anthology of writers/believers/skeptics he considered influential called Speak What We Feel. He challenges the reader to reflect on the quintessential meanings underlying the body of work of four of his personal favorites, only two of whom were outwardly "Christian" and one of whom was a well-known skeptic and cynic. He ties this into the little we know of their lives.

As edifying as the believers are, there is something about his portrait of Mark Twain, who always struggled with faith, that left the most poignant emptiness, leaving me to conclude that the God in Whom he longed to have faith must exist, despite the numerous losses that seemed to plague Twain's life from childhood until the untimely death of most of his offspring before him. His denunciations of faith and hypocritical churchgoers seemed to me to designed to elicit some clear sign from God, which perhaps he never had, but which speak to the little voice in all of us who challenges the legitimacy of our faith in a world of uncertainties. I truly enjoy Speaking of Faith and believe it goes a long way towards enriching people's viewpoints of faith into a larger context.

David Cunat
Chicago, IL (WBEZ, 91.5 FM)