This is the tenth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Anika Prather. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christian EngagementGive

Tracey Salisbury on Wakanda Forever and Black and Brown Solidarity

Dec 2nd, 2022 2h 7m

This is the ninth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Tracey Salisbury. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christian EngagementGi

Jenn Morson on Antisemitism and Journalism in and out of Catholicism

Oct 28th, 2022 1h 10m

This is the eight episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Jenn Morson. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christian EngagementGive Us

Nichole Flores on Guadalupe, Democracy, and Projects of Solidarity

Oct 7th, 2022 1h 25m

This is the seventh episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Nichole Flores. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christian EngagementGi

On Education

Sep 23rd, 2022 1h 9m

This is the sixth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, on education. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christian EngagementGive Us This Day

Helen de Cruz on Music, Public Philosophy, and the Common Projects of the Good Life

Sep 9th, 2022 1h 11m

This is the fifth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Helen de Cruz. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christia

Melissa Cedillo on Progressive Politics, Catholicisms, and Another Kind of Convert

Aug 26th, 2022 1h 12m

This is the fourth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Melissa Cedillo. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Chris

Kirby Hoberg on Indigeneity, Residential Schools, and a Trauma-Informed People

Aug 12th, 2022 2h

This is the third episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Kirby Hoberg. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s College Centre for Christian

"Juana" on Guitar Mass, the Parish, and the Culture

Jul 29th, 2022 2h 11m

This is the second episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest "Juana." Check out her comic, The Parish!Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt. Mark’s

Barbara Stengel on American Philosophy, Schools, and Safety

Jul 15th, 2022 1h 13m

This is the first episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Barbara Stengel. (See her podcast, Chasing Bailey.)Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by: Wipf and Stock PublishersSt

Miles and Trane

Nov 16th, 2021 1h 38m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a biographical meditation on Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a way to understand two fundamental claims of Folk Phenomenology: "art precedes metaphysics" and "love is the only

Music with Jaya Lakshminarayanan

Nov 9th, 2021 1h 38m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with vocalist and musician Jaya Lakshminarayanan on music, artists, love, and the unconscious.This episode's featured sponsor is Revelation Cable Company, an excep

Debating Capitalism with Trent Horn

Nov 2nd, 2021 2h 3m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a debate with Catholic apologist and author, Trent Horn, on capitalism. You can also listen to this debate on his podcast, The Counsel of Trent.This week's featured sponsor is

The Gift of Blackness with Gloria Purvis

Oct 26th, 2021 1h 17m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features the raw, unedited audio from the July 2020 interview with Gloria Purvis that resulted in the published version at Church Life Journal. Rocha and Purvis returned to the McGrath

Black Catholics and Story with Alessandra Harris

Oct 19th, 2021 1h 28m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Alessandra Harris on her work as an author of fiction and co-founder of The Black Catholic Messenger.This week's featured sponsor is Black Catholic Messenger;

Augustine and Historical Fiction with Suzanne Wolfe

Oct 12th, 2021 1h 18m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with author Suzanne Wolfe on her book, The Confessions of X, Augustine, and historical fiction.FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to

Critical Race Theory or Catholic Social Teaching?

Oct 5th, 2021 2h 22m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a critique of the false dichotomy of Critical Race Theory and Catholic Social Teaching and gives an extended historical overview of abolitionism.FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE

Debating Critical Race Theory with David Gray

Sep 28th, 2021 2h 21m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a debate with David L. Gray on Critical Race Theory.This week's featured sponsor is Solidarity Hall. Be sure to read their recent translation, Reflections, and "No One Matters

Debate and Delight

Sep 21st, 2021 1h 15m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a meditation of debate and its role in teaching Sam to love and delight in the world, a lesson the show's motto proclaims as dilexit mundum.This week's featured sponsor is the

Racism and Black Joy with Gloria Purvis

Sep 14th, 2021 1h 49m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Gloria Purvis on their previous interview published as "The Gift of Blackness to the Church" and the present state of affairs in the USA and the Catholic Chur

Black Lives with Rebecca Christian

Sep 7th, 2021 1h 33m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Rebecca Christian on Black lives in the context of her own life, a trip to Ghana, and her vocation as a Black doula, a mother of mothers. This week's featured

Powerlifting with Ogechi Akalegebere

Aug 31st, 2021 1h 13m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Ogechi Akalegebere on powerlifting, the art of sport, and perseverance. This week's featured sponsor is Black Catholic Messenger, be sure to read their "Histo

El Ser y la Persona con Rodrigo Guerra

Aug 24th, 2021 1h 35m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a Spanish-language interview with Mexican philosopher Rodrigo Guerra Lopez, the recently appointed Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and founder of the C

Translation with Catherine Addington

Aug 17th, 2021 1h 12m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Catherine Addington on the craft and concept of translation, Spanglish and third languages, and the invisibility of sanctity in the life of the saint. Her tra

Liberation Theology with Vanesa Zuleta Goldberg

Aug 10th, 2021 1h 32m

FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with theologian Vanesa Zuleta Goldberg on St. Oscar Romero, liberation theology, and a diminutive Divine love.Commonweal Magazine, this episode's featured sponsor,