Vintage Saints and Sinners
Who's a saint? Who's a sinner? Who decides? Through storytelling and conversation, host Karen Wright Marsh traces the tales of the broken, beautiful people we sometimes call "saints” but who were always sinners, as well. Each episode features a special guest, who joins Karen to explore the ancient Christian wisdom that illuminates today’s complex world.
Episodes
44 episodes
Keep on Walking: The Camino de Santiago with Nan Marsh
Karen Wright Marsh explores one of the lessons from her new book, Wake Up To Wonder: 22 Invitations to Amazement in the Everyday, with her daughter, Nan Marsh. They relive their 165 km pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. Of the tho...
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17:47
Women Who Set the World on Fire
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” These ancient words hold a challenge: a promise of a life that matters, a future of purpose and influence. But first, the question: Who does God mean m...
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28:32
Saints of Charlottesville
In this special Saints of Charlottesville episode, Karen Wright Marsh tells the stories of “saints” who lived, worked and witnessed in the Virginia city they called home.Isabella and William Gibbons (c. 1836-1890 & 1825-1886)E...
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28:58
Saints of Washington
In this special Saints of Washington episode, Karen Wright Marsh tells the stories of four “saints” who lived, worked and witnessed in the city they called home: George Washington, Carter G. Woodson, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and Marie H. Reed....
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Saints of Atlanta
In this special Saints of Atlanta episode, Karen Wright Marsh tells the stories of four “saints” who lived, worked and witnessed in the city they called home: Each, in their own way, expressed God’s love and mercy to Atlanta.MEDIATOR: Th...
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26:07
Toni Morrison
Alton B. Pollard III joins Karen Wright Marsh to explore the religious and spiritual imagination of Toni Morrison.You won’t find her name at the top of the roster of Christian saints. She’s not often thought of as a religious writer. But...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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29:10
The Saints We Need Right Now
How is a leader made? The child of immigrants, Rev. Dr. Walter Kim tells stories of his faith journey and the spiritual mentors who have shaped him along the way. Meet host Karen Wright Marsh, and learn more about the s...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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28:30
Stories of Embodied Witness
What is “embodied solidarity”? Larycia Hawkins illuminates the power of a risky Christian witness made incarnate in the world.Meet host Karen Wright Marsh, and learn more about the show here:
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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20:56
Sophie Scholl
Larycia Hawkins and Karen Wright Marsh recount the story of luminous Sophie Scholl, a university student who dared to stand up to Hitler.Young Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were raised to stand up for righteousness. In the end, thei...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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33:55
Tell the Truth, Live Redeemed
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is a visionary leader, a woman who has learned profound truths on her journey as a child in South Carolina to the U.S. Naval Academy and on to a career in service, ministry and mentoring.In this special co...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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29:48
Aelred of Rievaulx
Lauren Winner joins host Karen Wright Marsh to consider relationship advice from 12th century abbot Aelred of Rievaulx.Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) guided monks living a cloistered communal life, far back in the misty medieval past. Hi...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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27:07
Stories of Hope & Connection
Alton B. Pollard III joins Karen Wright Marsh for a conversation on building bridges, casting visions and finding the way forward.Who are the little known saints who’ve altered the trajectory of your life? A junior high teacher?&nb...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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22:11
Martin Luther
Walter Kim and host Karen Wright Marsh wrestle with the complex legacy of Martin Luther, the singular man who changed for the world forever.Who was Martin Luther -- really? Grace-filled theologian? Confrontational reformer? Tend...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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34:38
Paul Brand
Philip Yancey joins host Karen Wright Marsh to tell the story of his friend, Dr. Paul Brand, the compassionate, innovative healer esteemed the world over.Bestselling writer Philip Yancey spent years following and working with renowned l...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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20:14
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alton B. Pollard III and Karen Wright Marsh discuss the story and complex thought of W.E.B Dubois, that towering figure in American social, political and intellectual life. In 1903, W.E.B. Dubois famously said, "The problem of the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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26:40
Brother Lawrence
Lauren Winner joins host Karen Wright Marsh to tell the story of Brother Lawrence (1614-1691) and his mindful practice of the presence of God. He spent decades down in the steaming monastery kitchen, scrubbing pots and pans, a “serv...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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26:44
John Wesley
Larycia Hawkins and host Karen Wright Marsh recount the story of John Wesley, founder of Methodism.As a young man, pious John Wesley declared the “absolute impossibility of being half a Christian.” Crushing failures humbled his gra...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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29:15
Flannery O'Connor
Writer Carlene Bauer and Karen Wright Marsh explore the many sides of Flannery O’Connor.The American author, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) insisted that she was not a mystic and did not lead a holy life---yet faith infuses her fiction, l...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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29:41
Pandemic Christianity
Lauren Winner joins host Karen Wright Marsh for a special conversation on “pandemic Christianity.”We’re well into the coronavirus pandemic and still struggling to make sense of it all. What have we lost? What have we gained? ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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22:55
A.W. Tozer
Philip Yancey and host Karen Wright Marsh tell the story of A.W. Tozer, the American Bible teacher whose gravestone read simply: “A Man of God.”Thirsting after God, he literally burned the midnight oil to know the Holy One. Yet A.W. Toze...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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28:09
Sojourner Truth
Meet American legend Sojourner Truth through the eyes of Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, an African American woman who journeyed from South Carolina to the U.S. Naval Academy, and then to her calling as an international speaker, mentor, and thought ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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20:10
Howard Thurman
Alton B. Pollard III joins Karen Wright Marsh to recount the story of Howard Thurman and to consider Thurman’s urgent question, “How can I believe that life has meaning if I do not believe that my own life has meaning?”Howard Thurman (18...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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23:29
Fannie Lou Hamer
Larycia Hawkins and host Karen Wright Marsh recount the story of the indomitable American civil rights leader Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer.Fannie Lou Hamer was a native of the Mississippi Delta, one of twenty children, the girl who was forced t...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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