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The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber
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“I knew that I had to do something, I was going to have to let him know, but I didn't let him know. I became paralyzed with fear of telling him.”Meg lives in a conservation community in the Chicago suburbs with her wife, daughter, and menager
In 1998, fans across the country fell in love with the home run race as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased baseball immortality. Sportswriter Joan Niesen recounts her memories of that summer, examines the history and mythology of the home run a
“I was dressed up looking the part, but deep inside, I was just vacant. I just was not someone I was proud of anymore.”Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. is Co-Founder of Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc., the one of the world’s first ministries serv
“We would also be very conscious of preaching anti-communism because people were saying that the African National Congress, you know, former President Mandela's political party, they were really not liberation fighters, they were terrorists.”
“I spent the entire time praying, and cursing, and praying and cursing.”Enjoy this bonus episode featuring a story Nadia Bolz-Weber told live at a Moth storytelling event in New York City in 2015.The Confessional is produced in conjunction
"And that was the moment ... where I was like, 'Girl, you can be a good mother and a happy, embodied woman, but you can't be a good mother and a liar.'" Elizabeth Lesser is a bestselling author and the co-founder of Omega Institute, the renow
"I got the super squad, the dirty dozen. Nobody needs to know what's going on here; I'm handling everything."Dr. Raymond Christian is a retired US Army paratrooper who grew up on the poverty-ridden streets of Richmond, VA. He has taught Afric
"If you can call people to a higher standard and tap into that fear, that ‘I'm not trying hard enough. I'm not really loving God enough. I'm not sacrificing enough,’ there is always going to be another person coming along with a book or a confe
“I just remember the feeling of having his arms around me, and I just felt so sickened that I had chosen this instead of my mother.”Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist specializing in grief and the author of three books about grief and loss.
“I essentially told her to override that very important internal compass called your gut instinct. And I told her that that wasn't accurate. She was just scared and that this is normal, that you hit up against fears that are going to stop you f
“You know, it comes down to a human error, but one of massive proportions because you're dealing with humanity and people's lives.”Maria is the host of Latino USA and one of the most respected journalists in the country. She also has a new me
“My attachment to success prevented me from doing the one thing that I value the most in my life, which is showing up for other black women.”Amber is a storyteller, creative content strategist, and reproductive justice activist whose work ima
“So what I ended up doing was being an incredible dick to my father. That's what I ended up doing.”Jonathan Williams is the Lead Pastor of Forefront Church in Brooklyn, New York. He co-wrote his first book She’s My Dad: A Father’s Transition
“But like being a father, I have to excel at that because a lot of people were expecting me not to.”Joel was born and raised in the Bronx. He is the author of A Book About Things I Will Tell My Daughter and God Wears Durags Too. His recent TE
“I truly believed that we had gotten Bruce Springsteen to commit to this benefit compilation. And so when I went to present that to the group, I went back through my emails and there was no such communication.”Kasey currently serves as a prog
“I didn't feel like, oh, I need to call my lawyer or anything like that. I felt like I was totally with it. And then I did the breathalyzer and I can't remember exactly what number I blew, but it was like, I think, two times the legal limit. An
“And then all the emotions sort of flowed and I started crying in a way I don't think I have since or probably didn't before. I was just sort of heaving and then I thought, wow, this is going to ruin me. This is the end of my life. You know?”
“We would also be very conscious of preaching anti-communism because people were saying that the African National Congress, you know, former President Mandela's political party, they were really not liberation fighters, they were terrorists.”
“So it's not necessarily an overnight thing. And the only person, the only person or people who get to decide if a person should be forgiven, are the ones harmed.”Season two of The Confessional is coming very, very soon. In the meantime, I in
“You know, it was like very hot - with that particular hotness of a terrible, terrible thing driven by desperation beyond the immediate situation.”Melissa is a literary phenom who has won a gazillion awards for her incisive, honest, colorful
“I held Nate's face as far away from me as I could so that he couldn't hit me. And then with my right hand I tried to destroy him”Mishka has an MFA in writing, but prefers to live out of his van while touring as a musician. He is a storytelle
“I just was super hungry sexually. I was super out there. I just didn't want to be the victim. You know, I wanted to run the show. And I did.”Amy has a degree in comparative religion from Harvard, but most folks know her as a famous actress.
"So I just googled, 'how to tell if your boyfriend is a Satan worshiper.'"Eric lives in Baltimore with his husband. He’s a playwright, a columnist for Elle, and the author of Here For It, a book of essays about how to save your soul in Americ
“On the playground, people would be singing this song, Yo Mama's on Crack Rock. … And I love that song because I love chanting it and everything. And I also loathe that song because it was my truth. I grew up in the height of crack cocaine in p
“I came into software development relatively late in life. You know, I'm in my mid 40s and my training actually started in 2014 inside the walls of San Quentin.”Chris is the founder and developer of Fitness Monkey, an app that encourages the
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