In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer
Conversations with the Artists, Authors, Activists, and Change-Makers Who Are Shaping Our World Today.
In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer
Latest Episodes
Daisy Fancourt: How Art Can Change Our Health and Our Lives
Frank Schaeffer talks with Professor Daisy Fancourt, author of Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives, about something many artists, parents, teachers, and grandparents...
April Reynolds on The Shape of Dreams, Grief, and Community
Frank talks with novelist and creative writing professor April Reynolds about her novel The Shape of Dreams, set in East Harlem during the crack and AIDS epidemics of the 1980s.They discuss the changing experience of publishing ...
Gretchen Sisson: Adoption, Reproductive Justice, and Supporting Families
Gretchen Sisson, author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, joins me for a conversation about what adoption looks like when we beg...
The Psalms Don’t Ask You to Get Over It with Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Richard Bruxvoort Colligan has spent years living with, studying, singing, and rewriting the Psalms.What interests me is that he doesn’t turn them into easy answers.We talk about his book Dangerous Songs, his experience w...
What Do We Do With the Past? Dr. Craig Yorke on Race, Memory and Medicine
Frank talks with Dr. Craig Yorke, author of Steep: A Black Neurosurgeon’s Journey, about growing up in Boston, the fierce expectations of his parents, Harvard and medical school, race and colorism, his years as a neurosurgeon, and the ...
