Patricia Heaton - Faith in (and out of) the Spotlight & Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God, But Keeping the Punchlines
Patricia Heaton, two-time-Emmy winner for Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, is a cradle Catholic whose sister is a nun. She talks with Scott about her spiritual and personal discovery developed after she her time on those series ended, and how it helped her through addiction.Julia Sweeney is best known for her androgynous alter ego Pat on SNL and her one woman shows God Said Ha! and Letting Go of God. Her latest show Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider deals with religion but also parenting and feminism.
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Jelani Cobb - Journalism as a Calling, Faith as a Compass
Scott talks to Columbia Journalism School Dean and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb. His articles on race, the police and injustice won him the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. And in 2018 he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in for Commentary. Jelani has also received fellowships from the Fullbright and Ford foundations.When he became Journalism Dean in 2022, Jelani had been teaching at Columbia since 2016. And when he was made a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2015, Jelani had been contributing articles on race, politics, history and culture, since 2012. In 2022, with New Yorker Editor-In-Chief David Remnick, he helped edit The Matter of Black Lives, an anthology of the magazine’s writing on race in America.
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Rainn Wilson - Soul Boom & Starships, Why the Future Needs Faith
Rainn Wilson, best known for playing Dwight Schrute on The Office, has leveraged that fame and wealth that came to him in his forties to better himself and, perhaps, the world. Rainn talks with Scott about his 2023 book SOUL BOOM: WHY WE NEED A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION, in which Rain makes a case for the radical re-conceiving of humanity. Rainn also recounts his leaving and return to the Baháʼí faith.
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Claire Hoffman - Preachers, pretenders, and the price of belief
Claire Hoffman is a journalist, author, and a journalism professor at the University of California, Riverside. Her new book, Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson was hailed by The New Yorker’s Casey Cep as “magnificent,” “gripping”, and “wonderfully thorough, the type of biography in which you learn just the right amount of everything.” In her book, Claire dives into the story of how, for two months in 1926, Pentecostal superstar Sister Aimee’s disappearance from a Southern California beach dominated headlines across the world.Claire also grew up in the 1980’s and ‘90’s in Fairfield, Iowa - ground zero for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Transcendental Meditation movement in America. Since her parents were devout practitioners, Claire and her brother were raised also as meditators. She recounts her childhood experiences in her 2016 book, Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
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Bob Costas - From Pews to Press Boxes, and the meaning behind the mic
Renowned American sportscaster, Bob Costas talks about growing up on Long Island, how his introduction to the world of sports was inextricably linked to his father’s addiction to gambling, how his Catholic upbringing shaped his world view, how he pursued his dream of becoming a sports broadcaster, the people he most admired and how he decided to retire from being the best play-by-play baseball announcer of his generation.
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Host Scott Carter, an award-winning executive producer and writer, known for his work on Real Time with Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, explores codes of religious, cultural and secular conduct. Among Carter's diverse celebrity guests are Martin Short, Bob Costas, Ken Burns, Patricia Heaton, Killer Mike, Sam Harris, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Larry Wilmore, Moon Zappa, Rainn Wilson, Yvonne Orji, Rabbi Steve Leder and Tim Gunn.
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