In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer

This is a conversation with writer Matthew Davis about Mount Rushmore and the story beneath it. What begins as a discussion of a monument turns into something more personal and more complicated. We talk about the Black Hills, the Lakota, broken treaties, and the way history keeps showing up in the present whether we’re comfortable with it or not. Matthew isn’t trying to argue a point. He’s trying to tell the story as fully as he can. And in doing that, a harder question comes up.
Why do some of us resist hearing parts of our own history at all?
LINKS
Matthew Davis on Substack
https://www.matthewdaviswriter.com
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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

Leah Libresco Sargeant and I talk about something simple that we spend a lot of time avoiding.
We are not autonomous.
We talk about women’s bodies, pregnancy, and the way those realities don’t fit a culture built around control and choice.
We talk about the idea that a good life is one where everything is chosen, and why that breaks down the moment someone depends on you.
And we come back, again and again, to this:
The parts of life we treat as interruptions are often the point.
LINKS
https://www.otherfeminisms.com/
The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto
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I sat down with filmmaker Mike Sheridan to talk about his documentary Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars. It looks at something we don’t often stop to think about.
Not just what’s happening in America. But what America is doing to the rest of the world.
Mike traces how our culture wars, our politics, our media habits, even our tone, are showing up in places like Ireland. And what that looks like when it lands.
We talk about the Dublin riots.
We talk about Trump and the permission structure he created.
We talk about tech platforms, misinformation, and the slow normalization of anger.
How this spreads. Why it works. And what it costs.
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LINKS
Watch on Apple TV: Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars
https://www.immikesheridan.com/about
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This conversation with Dr. Terence Lester begins with his journey from dropout to doctorate, but it quickly becomes something deeper.
We talk about growing up with fear, living through trauma, and making the choice not to pass that pain on to your children.
Terence shares what it means to sit on a refrigerator in protest of hunger, and why food is about more than survival.
We also talk about faith, the Black church, and what it means to follow a path rooted in compassion rather than power.
This is a conversation about becoming a different kind of parent, and a different kind of person.
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LINKS
From Dropout to Doctorate
https://terencelester.com
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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast

In the first hour we get into spiritual narcissism, not as an abstract idea but as something that shapes real communities and does real damage. We talk about MAGA as a kind of cult identity, Trump as a case study in personality-driven power, and how prosperity gospel culture helped prepare the ground for all of it. We also get into religious trauma and why, at least for me, institutional Christianity isn’t something that can be fixed from the inside. And we don’t let progressive spaces off the hook either. The same patterns show up there too, just with different language.
In the second hour we stop diagnosing and start asking what now. Becky talks about why she’s still hopeful in spite of everything, and we get into the limits of satire in a culture that already feels like parody. We talk about the collapse of celebrity-driven leadership, the exhaustion people feel with national politics, and why real change may be happening in smaller, local, less visible ways. It’s less about movements and more about relationships. Less about influence and more about staying human.
LINKS
https://www.beckygarrison.com
Gaslighting For God
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In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer Podcast