152 episodes
Vernacular Creedal
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- Society & Culture
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5.0 • 33 Ratings
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Vernacular explores what it means to fully embrace our humanity. It's not a philosophy podcast. Nor is it simply a lifestyle podcast. It's a little bit of both, but not really either. It's music reviews and movie previews, sports forecasts and food recipes, philosophizing on the nature of knowledge and prognosticating on the future of science.
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THE FINAL EPISODE + A Big Announcement and Read/Watch/Listen!
THE FINAL EPISODE + A Big Announcement and our Read/Watch/Listen!
Thank you so much for listening to Vernacular for these past six (!) years! It's been a really fun ride and we've learned so much along the way.
Our big news today is that we are drawing this podcast to a close, BUT we'll be doing future content over at Creedal: Theology & Culture. You can subscribe to Creedal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Some of our recommendations:
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Island of the World by Michael D. O'Brien
City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Fulfillment by Alec MacGillis
A Time to Die by Nicholas Diat
No Country for Old Men (The Coen Brothers)
A Serious Man (The Coen Brothers)
Lupin (Netflix)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
What God is Not (Podcast)
The Realignment (Podcast)
The Pillar (Podcast)
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Fall Read/Watch/Listen Recommendations w/Elena Forsythe
Fall Read/Watch/Listen Recommendations!
Some of the recommendations we discuss in today's episode:
The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion by Julia Ioffe (GQ)
The Heart of Perfection by Colleen Carol Campbell
The Searcher by Tana French
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
A Subversive Gospel by Michael Mears Bruner
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
"Out of Body" (album by NEEDTOBREATHE)
The Dispatch Podcast
Didn't I Just Feed You Podcast
Lovecraft Country
Get Out
The Dispatch
Money Heist (Netflix)
The Trial of the Chicago Seven (Aaron Sorkin film)
The Big Picture Podcast
The Rewatchables Podcast
What God is Not Podcast
Maple Tree Inn
Max Richter's recomposition of The Four Seasons
We'd love to hear what you think of this episode!
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The American Solidarity Party w/Amar Patel (CC Crossover)
The American Solidarity Party w/Amar Patel
Today on the show I welcome fellow Catholic Amar Patel, who is running for Vice President of the United States on the American Solidarity Party ticket. Amar and I talk about the principles of solidarity, subsidiarity, personalism, and sphere sovereignty, why it's important to have third parties, what "success" looks like for his ticket, finding a way out of our toxic two-party culture, and a platform that upholds the dignity of every human life.
For more information on the American Solidarity Party, please visit https://solidarity-party.org/.
We'd love to hear what you think of this episode!
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The False Promise of Safetyism w/Maria Berggren
The False Promise of Safetyism w/Maria Berggren
Today on the show Sally's sister Maria joins us to talk us about a recent article (see below) from philosopher-mechanic Matthew Crawford that critiques the prevailing bureaucratic attitude towards COVID as one of safetyism rather than safety. Crawford thinks that safety isn't the highest good, which obviously raises the question: what is?
Crawford's Article: https://unherd.com/2020/05/the-hypocrisy-of-safetyism/
We'd love to hear what you think of this episode!
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The Meaning of Words w/Nick Clairmont
The Meaning of Words w/Nick Clairmont
Today on the podcast, Arc Digital's Nick Clairmont (@NickClairmont1) joined us to talk about the power of words, the changing meaning of words over time, the social construction of language (and what that does and doesn't mean), and more. It's a great conversation that's definitely worth your time!
To read Nick's latest piece in Tablet Mag, head to www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/woke-language-privilege.
To read more of Nick's work at Arc Digital, head to arcdigital.media.
We'd love to hear what you think of this episode!
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The Plight of the Uighurs
The Plight of the Uighurs
In today's episode, we talk about the Uighurs in northwestern China, who face unprecedented state surveillance, restrictions on religious practice, state-sponsored spies in their houses, and in many cases (1-2 millon!) forced internment in "re-education" camps.
If you're interested, check out Zac's new weekly newsletter, The Vernaculist (vernaculist.substack.com), in which he recently dove into this topic in detail.
We'd love to hear what you think of this episode!
Reach out to us: Email | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon
Customer Reviews
Great show!
Not just your average show or weekly food for thought. Vernacular is always diverse and lighthearted yet thought provoking, one of the best podcasts around! Would like to hear more about daily life advice and things to read or listen to. Either way, I’ll keep listening!
Strong start, but...
I discovered this podcast when Zach and Sally were halfway through the second season. Their episodes are mostly enjoyable and interesting, but I'm getting very tired of hearing from some of their contributors. Elena and Miriel have been on the show far too many times and I don't find them particularly interesting. I rolled my eyes and turned off the podcast a couple of episodes ago when they said Miriel would be on. Would give it 5 stars if you didn't have the same guests so often.
Love this podcast!
I can't stop listening! I started when they were three seasons in and in just a few weeks have almost caught up entirely. Zac and Sally have great radio voices and are also really cute together. They always bring on really interesting guests too. I've learned so much!