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Wear is the Love, Episode 22It’s been a rough week. Michael recaps the May 24th primaries, and then we discuss the aftermath of all these shootings. We don’t have answers, and we can’t put a bow on things, but maybe the episode is a place for grief? We’re not sure. Take care, dear friends. Michael & MelissaP.S. Don’t forget that this past week we launched The Morning Five. Our hope is that it migh...

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Friends,We’re trying a new experiment. Every Monday-Thursday morning we’ll release a brief, 5-minute podcast episode to start your day off with prayer and a brief recap of the news of the day. Our intent is to provide you with another easy way to pray and learn about the news without provoking unnecessary anxiety, anger or antagonism. We won’t email you every day with the new episode, so be sure t...

If you’ve thought about becoming a paid subscriber before, now is the time! Wear is the Love, Episode 21 This week we discuss the primaries on May 17th — who won, who didn’t, what surprised us and what didn’t. We also discuss Lis Smith’s op-ed in WaPo on the Dobbs abortion case, “This is not the time to change how we talk about abortion.” And finally, we discuss Matthew B Crawford’s article on lib...

Wear is the Love, Episode 20In this week’s episode, recorded in San Francisco, we lament the mass shooting by a white supremacist in our beloved hometown, Buffalo. We discuss the heinous shooting in Buffalo, and how it’s a bit different when you’re reacting to the place you grew up. Then, Michael discusses political homelessness, a topic he’s spoken on and written about for years, and rebuts a com...

Wear is the Love, Episode 19In Episode 19, we discuss Michael’s writing from last week. It’s a good episode if you need to catch-up on the Dobbs Supreme Court opinion leak. Plus, we talk Italy. Our favorite! Apocalypse Now: How the Left and Right Get Danger Wrong (CT)Quick Thoughts on Alito’s Draft Opinion and the FalloutDobbs, Accountability and the Shifting Ground Under RoeFood and the Life of t...

Wear is the Love Episode 18Should student loans be forgiven? By how much? At what income level? Just undergraduate loans, or should graduate loans be included? How might the politics of this issue affect the midterms? We discuss each of these questions in this latest episode. Student loan debt forgiveness is all over the news, and it’s a potential midterm football. Our stances on the matter differ...

Wear is the Love, Episode 17The pod is back! This week, we received a request from a listener, Hannah, asking that we cover Jonathan Haidt’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid.” Haidt focuses on the changing nature of social media and how it’s led to a Tower of Babel-esque problem for society. Complementary to this essay is President B...

Wear is the Love, Episode #16In episode 16, we cover a lot of interesting current events. First — we cover the new and popular article from Elisabeth Dias and Ruth Graham on the Right’s use of worship in politics. Michael has a caution for us as consumers of this type of article. Next, we head over to Top 5 #1, President Clinton’s new essay for The Atlantic, which seeks to explain why he expanded...

Wear is the Love, Episode 15In this week’s episode, we felt our listeners might want to know a bit more about us, Melissa and Michael, as a couple. How did we meet? How did we start dating? I (Melissa) love telling this story because it’s all a bit cute, sweet, and hilarious. In the second part of the episode, we discuss the op-ed from Yuval Levin titled, “Why Do Our Politicians Keep Pursuing a Lo...

Wear is the Love, Episode #14In this episode, we provide an update on Ukraine: what’s been happening these last few weeks, President Biden’s Europe visit, and what we’re looking at in the near future. After our recap, we discuss a fascinating 12-teen focus group the NYT conducted recently to understand how 16-17 year olds are seeing their world. If anything, the focus group and our conversation ex...

Wear is the Love, Episode #13We have a special guest join us this week on Wear is the Love — Washington Post Columnist Christine Emba. Christine’s excellent new book, “Rethinking Sex: A Provocation” releases on Tuesday, March 22, and Michael and I wanted to make sure you had the opportunity to hear about this vital work from its author. Rethinking Sex looks at cultural assumptions about sex and ho...

Wear is the Love, Episode #12This week, we’re back to chatting about some of our Top 5 articles, specifically George Packer’s piece in The Atlantic on the school culture wars and Vinson Cunningham’s interview of Dr. Cornel West in the New Yorker. We’re still praying for Ukraine and hope you’ll tune into episodes 10 and 11 if you’re interested. Also, don’t miss Michael’s posts from this last week,...

11 episodes in, we have our first guest on Wear We Are. Rev. Dr. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, a dear friend and priest and nuclear abolitionist who is kind enough to talk to us about one of the most distressing things in the news right now: nuclear war. As an activist, Tyler has a lot of experience working towards the US’s reduction of nuclear arms, but he also knows how to talk about this subject in an...

Wear is the Love Episode #10It’s a heavy week. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is all we can think about. We chat about my Substack piece on foreign policy and the Russian invasion and the issues of valor, public diplomacy, and masculinity that we’re seeing playing out in the news and on social media. We are actively praying for Ukraine. Episode notes:The photo of the children and the Ukrainian tankT...

Wear is the Love, Episode #9This week, we chat about the recent polling commissioned by the DCCC and reported by Politico (article here) that shows how Democrats, especially in vulnerable districts, are faring against Republican culture war attacks (spoiler: not well!). After, we discuss the NYT Magazine piece in the first Top 5 on what might be driving “anti-ambition” across American workplaces....

Wear is the Love, Episode 8 This week’s episode is chill (pun intended, which will make sense when you listen to the episode) because Michael just got back from a lot of travel. We enjoyed discussing The Atlantic article featured below about parenting and perfectionism. Episode notes: Get your tickets to the That Sounds Fun Tour here. February 17th in Philadelphia, 730pm As always, if you like thi...

Wear is the Love, Episode #7This week’s episode was recorded early due to Michael’s travel, and so instead of talking Top 5, we caught up on politics, including the latest scandal for UK PM Boris Johnson and how COVID has changed some conventional political wisdom on scandals. We also chatted about Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s statements that he might run in 2024, and how leaders can still chan...

Wear is the Love Podcast #6This week, we take on Thomas B. Edsall’s article, “America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory.’” The articles, which is listed in the Top 5 below, covers “pernicious polarization” and some really fascinating studies about the level of polarization in the US. At the end, we also discuss the provocative question of the day: “Will there be a civil war in t...

Wear is the Love, Episode #5We chat about Alissa Wilkinson’s “A Syllabus for a new world” and Yair Rosenberg’s “Your Bubble is Not the Culture” in this week’s episode. We also talk about the Buffalo Bills’ divisional game tonight against the Chiefs. Go Bills!!The Top 5 articles for your week:“Your Bubble is Not the Culture” (The Atlantic)Because “The deep-seated need to justify one’s own relevance...

This week, we discuss 3 out of 5 of our Top 5 articles, this time on the future of food. We really enjoyed recording this episode because we get to talk about Italy and Italian cuisine. Enjoy! The Top 5 articles for your week:“Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food” (TIME)Because there’s something incredibly special about using food and space and place to transform the notion of a typ...