God and War Stories. Ep. 15

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America Media

News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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“I had at least thought there would be nobility in war. I know it exists. There are so many stories, and some of them have to be true. But I see mostly normal men, trying to do good, beaten down by horror, by their inability to quell their own rages, by their masculine posturing and their so-called hardness, their desire to be tougher, and therefore crueler, than their circumstance. And yet, I have this sense that this place is holier than back home. Gluttonous, fat, oversexed, overconsuming, materialist home, where we’re too lazy to see our own faults.” That’s just a sample of the stinging and raw prose found in Phil Klay’s collection of short stories, Redeployment. Klay, a veteran of the Iraq war and recipient of the National Book Award, sat down with us to talk about Memorial Day, why we find it diffi [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I felt like as she was doing some like weird robot dance as she was talking.
0:04.0	Oh, maybe. I can't help but move when I'm in podcasting mode.
0:09.2	Okay, anyway.
0:11.2	Anyway.
0:11.3	Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle, a new podcast from the Anyway, That lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them.
0:23.3	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take
0:25.6	on faith culture and the news, often over drinks.
0:29.4	I am Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis. You know I'm wondering if we want to also ask for adjectives.
0:36.5	I wasn't asking you a question. I was just introducing you.
0:40.5	Guys we still have to write the script every week. We can't just force our listeners to do it.
0:45.4	So we'll keep those adjectives.
0:47.0	And that's Olga Segura.
0:48.0	Hi guys.
0:49.0	All right. I will say adverbs this week provided by the fourth grade class of Miss McKee, St Mary's,
0:58.3	and Alexandria Virginia, she was my sister and she actually brought before the class she showed them all the
1:04.6	different adverbs we had used in the intro and then asked them to write their
1:08.1	owns and she's teaching adverbs too right so no this is like integrated in her lesson. So shout out to the kid the fourth graders at
1:16.6	St Mary's. But also you're welcome for teaching you helping teach you.
1:19.6	You're welcome. How older fourth graders now?
1:22.5	They're like 9 and 10.
1:24.5	Yeah.
1:25.5	Shout it to them.
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