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A conversation with the Nigerian Jesuit Uwem Akpan, whose collection Say You’re One of Them recently won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region).

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The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Sr. Prejean discusses her “memo to the president on the death penalty.”

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Brian Stiltner, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, BA, John Carroll University; MA, Ph.D., Yale University. Dr. Stiltner’s research interests focus on Catholic social ethics, the ethics of war and peace, and role of religion in democratic public life. His teaching responsibilities include bioethics, war and peace, historical and contemporary Christian ethics, and Catholic social thought.  In 2007, Stiltner published Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War with David L. Clough (Georgetown University Press; more information at www.faithandforce.com). He previously directed the Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics (1998-2003) and the Center for Catholic Thought, Ethics, and Culture (2003-2006), which he helped establish. Dr. Stiltner has been a member of the Religious Studies Program at Sacred Heart University since 1998; he has served as chair of the department since 2006.

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Father Dean Brackley is a professor of theology at the Universidad Centroamericana (University of Central America—UCA) in El Salvador. In the 1970s and ’80s, Fr. Brackley worked in social ministry and popular education on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in the South Bronx. He taught briefly at Fordham University (1989-90) before joining the staff of the Universidad Centroamericana in 1990 when he succeeded one of the six Jesuits martyred in the UCA massacre the previous year. He has also administered the university’s School for Religious Education and collaborated in schools for pastoral formation sponsored by the UCA. He does pastoral work in an urban community.Fr. Brackley’s published works include The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times: New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius Loyola (Crossroad, 2004); and Divine Revolution: Salvation and Liberation in Catholic Thought (Orbis Books, 1996). Born in upstate New York in 1946, Fr. Brackley entered the Jesuit order in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1976. He received his doctorate in theological ethics at the University of Chicago in 1980.

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On the latest Commonweal podcast, Paul Lauritzen interviews William B. Hurlbut, physician and consulting professor at Stanford’s Neuroscience Institute. Hurlbut’s main area of interest involves the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies of the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics since 2002, and is the author of “Altered Nuclear Transfer,” a proposed technological solution to the moral controversy over embryonic stem-cell research.

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On the latest Commonweal podcast, Paul Lauritzen interviews Howard Gray, SJ. Gray is one of the leading interpreters of Ignation spirituality. For the past decade, Gray has worked on mission and identity issues at Jesuit campuses across the country. He was the first director of the Center for Ignation Spiriuality at Boston College. And he currently serves as special assistant to the president of Georgetown University.

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In his third Commonweal podcast, Paul Lauritzen talks to Sidney Callahan about her new book, Created for Joy.

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In the second Commonweal podcast, Commonweal contributor Paul Lauritzen interviews Karen Long, book review editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, about the Commonweal summer reading list and other notable books, especially Be Near Me and The Gravedigger’s Daughter.

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Commonweal contributor and dotCommonweal blogger Paul Lauritzen interviews Donald Cozzens, author of Freeing Celibacy.

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