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Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia Becker
A podcast about reimagining the good life through the lens of disability, faith, and culture. Host Amy Julia Becker interviews guests in conversations that challenge assumptions about the good life, proclaim the inherent belovedness of every human being, and help us envision a world of belonging.
Podcasting since 2019 • 160 episodes
Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia Becker
Latest Episodes
A Life Worth Living? Reimagining Life, Choice, and Disability with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD
How do we decide who has a life worth living? Author and professor emerita Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD, joins Amy Julia Becker to discuss what it means to:be humanlive in communitycare for one an...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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How to Be Christian During Election Season with Corey Widmer, Ph.D.
Political divides don't just disappear after elections. If you long for a hopeful way forward, this conversation is for you. Pastor Corey Widmer talks with Amy Julia Becker about how to navigate political polarization with humility, love, and a...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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48:19
The Measure of Intelligence with Pepper Stetler, Ph.D.
What freedom could we offer one another as humans if we weren’t so stuck on the "treadmill of achievements and quantified learning"? Pepper Stetler, PhD, is the author of A Measure of Intelligence: One Mothe...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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50:43
How Stories of Hope Empower Justice with Jemar Tisby, Ph.D.
The way we tell the stories of our past plays a crucial role in shaping our imagination for the future. Author and historian Jemar Tisby, Ph.D., insists in his work that we tell a fuller story of our past, especially when it comes to the histor...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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50:14
What’s Normal? The Anthropology of Disability with Tom Pearson, Ph.D.
What does it mean to be human? Who counts as a human being and why? Anthropologist Tom Pearson has been asking these questions for a living for a long time, and then his daughter was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, prompting him to ask t...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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