Chicago Theological Seminary

06/01/2026

Happy Pride Month from Chicago Theological Seminary!

This month, we celebrate the dignity, courage, creativity, and sacred worth of LGBTQIA+ lives and communities. Pride invites us not only to celebrate, but also to reflect on the ongoing work of justice, solidarity, and collective flourishing.

We are grateful for all who continue to imagine and build more loving, liberative, and inclusive futures across our religious, spiritual, and ethical traditions.

06/01/2026

Don’t miss tomorrow’s episode of Our Seven Neighbors: “Strangers at Home: The American Tradition of Antisemitism.”

Dr. Pamela Nadell joins host Reza Aslan for a conversation on antisemitism, belonging, and religious identity in American public life.

Here’s a preview. Full episodes are available at https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818 and wherever you get your podcasts.

05/27/2026

Eid al-Adha Mubarak. As we celebrate with Muslim communities around the world, we reflect on the meaning of faith, sacrifice, compassion, and care for one another that this sacred season invites.

This year, we also hold grief alongside celebration, mourning with the Islamic Center of San Diego and Muslim communities impacted by recent hateful violence. In the face of fear and loss, we reaffirm our commitment to solidarity, dignity, and the shared work of resisting hatred in all its forms.

May this season deepen our care for one another and strengthen our pursuit of justice and peace.

05/26/2026

Season 5 of Our Seven Neighbors continues today with Episode 4.

In this week’s episode, “Rome and the Republic: Catholicism and Questions of Loyalty and Identity,” Dr. John T. McGreevy, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, joins host Reza Aslan for a conversation on Catholicism, public life, and the evolving questions of identity and belonging in the United States.

This is part of a season featuring voices including Dr. Peter Manseau, Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Dr. Pamela Nadell, Dr. Leigh Eric Schmidt, and more, with new episodes released weekly on Tuesdays.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818

05/19/2026

Now Available: Episode 3 of Our Seven Neighbors.

This week’s episode, “From Slave Ships to 9/11: Islam and the Long Struggle to Belong in America,” features Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, scholar of Islam and American religious history, in conversation with host Reza Aslan.

As Season 5 explores the contested history of religious diversity in the United States, each episode reflects on struggle, resistance, and the moral questions that continue to shape public life. New episodes are released weekly on Tuesdays.

Listen here:https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818

05/18/2026

Don’t miss tomorrow’s episode of Our Seven Neighbors: “From Slave Ships to 9/11: Islam and the Long Struggle to Belong in America.”

Dr. Kambiz Ghanea Bassiri joins host Reza Aslan for a conversation on Islam and American religious history.

Here’s a preview.

Full episodes are available at https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818 and wherever you get your podcasts.

05/18/2026

Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri joins host Reza Aslan for a conversation on Islam and American religious history.

Here’s a preview.

Full episodes are available at https://open.spotify.com/show/42HmLkMWqPPKx5uAF1JeFO?si=301dd86afda54818 and wherever you get your podcasts.

05/12/2026

07N season 5 Ep: 2 "Soul Wounds: Indigenous Survival and the Limits of Religious Freedom" with Dr. Farina King in converation with host Reza Aslan.

05/12/2026

Now streaming on Our Seven Neighbors:

In this week’s episode, “Soul Wounds: Indigenous Survival and the Limits of Religious Freedom,” Dr. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and Full Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, joins host Reza Aslan.

Part of our Season 5 series on the contested history of religious pluralism in the United States, with new episodes released weekly on Tuesdays.

Listen here:

Podcast · InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary · Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-...