On Shifting Ground Podcast
1) Shoshana Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism: How Silicon Valley Profits from Tracking Us
In the modern age of Facebook, Google, and smart devices, most of us are under 24-hour surveillance. These data points are collected by large tech companies and are in turn sold to and used by governm...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) EP4. Stigma
A church in decline tries to reinvent itself, and its young members struggle with how to talk about Christianity. The Final Service is written and produced by Mateo Schimpf with additional writing...Show More
3) EP3. Chicago
Julian Deshazier is a rapper and a pastor. That sounds like it would be appealing to kids from his old neighborhood on the South Side. But getting them to show up to church on Sundays isn't easy. T...Show More
4) EP2. Little Lithuania
Christian Allyn is proud to be Lithuanian. So when he found out that the archbishop was going to close his Lithuanian church in Waterbury, Connecticut, he decided to step in. Can his appeal save St. J...Show More
5) EP1. The Mayordomos
This is the first chapter in a four-part series about church closures in America. Lorraine Pacheco is the caretaker for a tiny church in an even tinier town in the eastern plains of New Mexico. As ...Show More
6) Trailer
Notice anything about churches in America? In a lot of place they're boarded up. Converted to some other use. Or just abandoned. Reporters Mateo Schimpf and Ray Suarez go on a journey to find out why...Show More
7) Jonathan Rauch on the Limits of MAGA and Trump
One theme was consistent throughout this election year: the assertion that democracy was under threat. Throughout the year, Jonathan Rauch weighed in on whether democracy is waning, and how the Republ...Show More
8) Ambassador Michael McFaul: Ukrainians May Fight On, Even with a Trump/Putin Deal
In less than three weeks, Donald Trump will be back in the White House, and we’re waiting to see what he will tackle on Day One. On the campaign trail, Trump promised he’d end the fighting in Ukraine ...Show More
Ambassador Michael McFaul: Ukrainians May Fight On, Even with a Trump/Putin Deal
27:06 | Dec 30th, 2024
9) Why You’re Probably Not Going to Church this Christmas
100,000, that’s the estimated number of Protestant churches that will close in the U.S… not by 2050, but five years from now. What some scholars are calling “The Great De-churching” is already well un...Show More
10) Overuse of Antibiotics and the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance
When bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, it makes infections harder to treat. This increases the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and de...Show More