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Friends, We’re trying a new experiment. Every Monday-Thursday morning we’ll release a brief, 5-minute podcast episode to start your day off with prayer and a brief recap of the ne…

If you’ve thought about becoming a paid subscriber before, now is the time! Wear is the Love, Episode 21 This week we discuss the primaries on May 17th — who won, who didn’t, what…

Wear is the Love, Episode 20 In this week’s episode, recorded in San Francisco, we lament the mass shooting by a white supremacist in our beloved hometown, Buffalo. We discuss the…

Wear is the Love, Episode 19 In Episode 19, we discuss Michael’s writing from last week. It’s a good episode if you need to catch-up on the Dobbs Supreme Court opinion leak. Plus,…

Wear is the Love Episode 18 Should student loans be forgiven? By how much? At what income level? Just undergraduate loans, or should graduate loans be included? How might the poli…

Wear is the Love, Episode 17 The pod is back! This week, we received a request from a listener, Hannah, asking that we cover Jonathan Haidt’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why…

Wear is the Love, Episode #16 In episode 16, we cover a lot of interesting current events. First — we cover the new and popular article from Elisabeth Dias and Ruth Graham on the…

Wear is the Love, Episode 15 In this week’s episode, we felt our listeners might want to know a bit more about us, Melissa and Michael, as a couple. How did we meet? How did we st…

Wear is the Love, Episode #14 In this episode, we provide an update on Ukraine: what’s been happening these last few weeks, President Biden’s Europe visit, and what we’re looking…

Wear is the Love, Episode #13 We have a special guest join us this week on Wear is the Love — Washington Post Columnist Christine Emba. Christine’s excellent new book, “Rethinking…

Wear is the Love, Episode #12 This week, we’re back to chatting about some of our Top 5 articles, specifically George Packer’s piece in The Atlantic on the school culture wars and…

11 episodes in, we have our first guest on Wear We Are. Rev. Dr. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, a dear friend and priest and nuclear abolitionist who is kind enough to talk to us about one…

Wear is the Love Episode #10 It’s a heavy week. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is all we can think about. We chat about my Substack piece on foreign policy and the Russian invasion…

Wear is the Love, Episode #9 This week, we chat about the recent polling commissioned by the DCCC and reported by Politico (article here) that shows how Democrats, especially in v…

Wear is the Love, Episode 8 This week’s episode is chill (pun intended, which will make sense when you listen to the episode) because Michael just got back from a lot of travel. We…

Wear is the Love, Episode #7 This week’s episode was recorded early due to Michael’s travel, and so instead of talking Top 5, we caught up on politics, including the latest scanda…

Wear is the Love Podcast #6 This week, we take on Thomas B. Edsall’s article, “America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory.’” The articles, which is listed in the…

Wear is the Love, Episode #5 We chat about Alissa Wilkinson’s “A Syllabus for a new world” and Yair Rosenberg’s “Your Bubble is Not the Culture” in this week’s episode. We also ta…

This week, we discuss 3 out of 5 of our Top 5 articles, this time on the future of food. We really enjoyed recording this episode because we get to talk about Italy and Italian cui…

The Top 5 articles for your week: “Routine Maintenance” (Harper’s) Because - are habits and routines “machine-like” or are they closer to what Benedictine monks discovered in med…