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| Evolving Faith: Remembering Anne Rice and a Season of Carolling |
| December 20, 2021 |
We remember Interview with a Vampire author, Anne Rice, and we dive into the sounds of the season with the podcast Hark! |
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| Anne Rice: Called Out of Darkness |
December 20, 2021 |
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On December 11th, 2021, best-selling vampire novelist Anne Rice passed away suffering complications from a stroke. The 80-year old writer and public figure was a pioneer in bringing the undead to life with her 1976 debut novel Interview with a Vampire. The central character Louis became a proxy for her own struggles with faith and existential questions. Raised in a traditional Roman Catholic home, Rice spoke openly about her disagreements with the church and growing doubts, and her own evolution. We begin this week’s episode with guest interviewer Mark Oppenheimer talking to Rice.
In 2009, Interfaith Voices founding host Sr. Maureen Fiedler interviewed Anne Rice about her spiritual memoir and public return to the faith of her childhood. In this conversation, Fiedler explores how the vampire author was now focused on a new narrative adventure – writing a fictional series chronicling the life of Jesus. While this period of religious affiliation was short-lived for Rice, this conversation offers unique insight into how her lived experience of being in community with people of faith evolved over time.
Mark Oppenheimer. Co-host of the podcast Unorthodox from Tablet Magazine, lecturer at Yale University, and author, most recently of Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood.
Maureen Fiedler. Host of Interfaith Voices until February 2018. Maureen is also the editor of two books: Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words, and co-editor of Rome Has Spoken: A Guide to Forgotten Papal Statements, and How They Have Changed Through the Centuries.
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| More than a Song? Hark! Podcast Explores the History and Evolution of Carolling |
December 20, 2021 |
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If you have ever wondered about the backstory of holiday carols and Christmas hymns - you are not alone. America Media podcast producer Maggie Van Dorn joins the program to talk about what she learned hosting Hark!, a five-part limited-run series that explores the context and music backstory of some of the season’s most popular songs. From the pagan era, pre-Christian roots singing at Winter Solstice festivals to the 1644 English Puritan ban on “wasteful” festivities like caroling – Van Dorn describes why the sounds of the season are an entry point to exploring culture and art with curiosity.
Maggi Van Dorn. Audio producer for America Media, and host of Hark!
Our theme music is by MC Yogi
Libera me, composed by Giuseppe Verdi and performed by Arne-Christian Pelz, Margarethe Niebuhr Claudio Corbach, Georg Roither, and Stephan Buchmiller is used under a Creative Commons By Attribution license granted by the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Angels We Have Heard on High and Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy by Kevin MacLeod
All additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
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