Exploring Intersections
On this podcast we explore a specific social issue and how it intersects with racism, migration and climate. Catholic Sisters, friends, and experts in their field, offer unique perspectives and invaluable insights on a particular topic through the lens of their spirituality.
Episodes
14 episodes
Navigating the Road Ahead
We've learned a lot over the last 13 months about how racism, migration, and climate intersect. So what now?This month, our panelists, Sister Sherri Coleman, FSM, Sister LaDonna Manternach, BVM, and Sister Anna Marie Re...
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Episode 13
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1:03:55
Exploring Equitable Access to Healthcare
Education not only shapes values and beliefs, but it also helps people grow and develop physically, The crippling effects of a successful and sustainable national healthcare system in the United States has long been a swinging pendulum of high ...
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Episode 12
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1:07:17
Exploring Education Justice
Education not only shapes values and beliefs, but it also helps people grow and develop physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Education empowers people to address the urgency of our time and to act. Lack of access to quality educat...
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Episode 11
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1:05:18
Exploring Affordable Housing
For those who gaze at the sky at night instead of a ceiling or sleep on a pavement instead of a bed, housing, much less affordable housing, holds little meaning. Affordable housing seeks to address—by means, medians and projections—how to deter...
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Episode 10
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1:03:09
Exploring Restorative Justice
Victims of crime often find forgiveness too raw to reach; the sense of injustice outweighing the act of turning one’s cheek. For the perpetrator, the sense of injustice is equally strong; living in a world beyond one’s control, where societal s...
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Episode 9
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55:56
Exploring Food Security
Food security means having physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food at all times to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. How does food insecurity lead to migration? What is the impact of climate chang...
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Episode 8
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1:01:26
Exploring Economic Justice
What does economic justice mean to you – as a woman in the workforce, as an immigrant without health care, as a mother with many mouths to feed. For those in our society whose avenues of opportunity in seeking economic justice are limited by th...
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Episode 7
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1:05:46
Exploring Eliminating Gun Violence
Exploring Intersections discusses gun violence and how it has become a global human rights and public health issue that threatens the basic right to life. Gun violence disproportionately impacts communities of color, women and other marg...
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Episode 6
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1:05:10
Exploring Ending Human Trafficking
This month, we're discussing human trafficking--specifically, how we can end it. Our panelists address how we can help those who are being trafficked, even though it can be hard to identify, and how we can empower survivors to live their...
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Episode 5
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56:23
Exploring Racial Justice
In this episode of Exploring Intersections, our panelists discuss racial justice. The panelists discuss how to deal with our country’s racist history and the long-term consequences as well as how racial justice intersects with the issues...
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Episode 4
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1:05:55
Exploring Migration
In this episode of Exploring Intersections, our panelists discuss migration. We dive into how we can show compassion without borders, what it takes to navigate legal systems to become a citizen of a different country, and some of t...
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Episode 3
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1:02:49
Exploring Care of Creation
With Earth Day approaching, our topic for April is care of creation. We examine the massive environmental challenges we face and our responsibilities to address them, what it means to care for creation, and how the impacts of clima...
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Episode 2
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