So here's some exciting news from on being studios.

Our podcast, This Movie Changed Me, is Back.

Each episode is hosted by our very own movie-obsessed executive producer, Lily Percy,

and is like a love letter to movies and their power to teach, connect, and transform us.

You don't have to have watched the movies in advance,

but if you love Groundhog Day or the Wizard of Oz or Black Panther or Coco

or even the exorcist, you're already ahead.

This is also a fabulous audio experience. Great thoughts, laughter, a few tears,

and immersive movie music and moments. This season features conversations with Seth Goden,

Naomi Alderman, and A.O. Scott. New episodes are out every Tuesday. If you haven't listened yet,

it's time. Learn more as always at onbearing.org.

Support for Onbearing with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the

Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding

principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred

relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

A Monopary writes this in her book called Breathe. In the Catholic tradition, there is a form of grace,

the sanctifying one, that is the stuff of your soul. It is not defined by moments of mercy or

opportunity. It is not good things happening to you. Rather, it is the good thing that is in you,

regardless of what happens. You carry this down through generations, same as the epigenetic

trauma of a violent slave master society. But the grace is the bigger part. It is what made the

ancestors hold on so that we could become. For the past few years, a Monopary has been pondering

this as she writes about what it means to raise her two black sons and as a thinker and writer at

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