One on One with Robert Ellsberg

One on One with Robert Ellsberg

Join a One-on-One with Orbis publisher Robert Ellsberg and featured author as they discuss their latest work.

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June 12, 2025 30 mins
Join Robert Ellsberg , publisher of Orbis Books, in this One on One interview with author Kerra Becker English, as they discuss True Awakening.

Very few books on spirituality reveal the reality of awakening and address our deep fear of change. In True Awakening, spiritual director, and teacher Kerra Becker English does both while offering guidance and encouragement for the process—no matter how messy it might get.
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Join Robert Ellsberg , publisher of Orbis Books, in this One on One interview with author Diarmuid O’Murchu, as they discuss Divine Radiance in Human Evolution.

What if our true human story began with original blessing rather than original sin? What if our true nature is one that thrives in healthy relationships with one another and all of creation? Drawing on groundbreaking insights from paleontology and paleoanthropology, Diarmuid...
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Join Robert Ellsberg , publisher of Orbis Books, in this One on One interview with author Kelly Brown Douglas as they discuss publication of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of her groundbreaking book, Sexuality and the Black Church.

“If a diagnosis is indispensable for a cure then the Black church and the Black community, as well as the church in general and White society, should take seriously this searingly honest yet sympath...
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Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Kathleen Deignan, as they discuss "Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours".
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In her latest book with Orbis, Kathleen Deignan offers readers a unique encounter with the spirituality of Thomas Berry, a Passionist priest, ecological prophet, and self-described “geologian.” Berry recounted the “universe story,” describing our place in the earth community, ...
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Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Wes Howard-Brook, as they discuss "Come Out My People!" and "Empire Baptized".

Wes Howard-Brook has taught at Seattle University. He is the author of several Orbis books, including "Come Out, My People," Unveiling Empire, The Church Before Christianity, Becoming Children of God, and co-editor of The New Testament: Introducing the Way of Discipleship

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Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Amy Frykholm, as they discuss "Journey to the Wild Heart: Four Invitations to Contemplative Living".
 
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Award-winning American writer, podcaster, and journalist Amy Frykholm discusses her latest book, an all-in-one guide for contemplative living which offers a rich array of spiritual practices, applications and insights, ...
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Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Stephanie C. Edwards, as they discuss "Enfleshed Counter - Memory: A Christian Social Ethic of Trauma". 
 
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In a world saturated with trauma, where do we turn for healing and hope? Neither downplaying trauma’s devastation nor rushing toward easy redemption, Stephanie Edwards crafts a Christian ethic of “enfleshed counter...
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Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Daniel Horan, as they discuss "A White Catholic's Guide to Racism and Priviledge".
 
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This book is conceived as a resource for Catholics—white Catholics, in particular—to begin the work of relearning what racism in the US context is all about. This includes addressing hard realities that white people have typically been ...
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Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, as they discuss "Critical Race Theology: White Supremacy, American Christianity, and the Culture Wars". 
 
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In this episode, they discuss the timely and challenging framework of "critical race theology" which draws on insights from critical race theory, Black liberation theology, and prophetic Christian...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Melanie Jones Quarles, as they discuss "Up Against A Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption". 
 
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Drawing upon her grandmother's personal struggles with physical "bendedness" and the narrative of the bent woman in Luke 13:10-17, Melanie Jones Quarles engages Black religious thought and cu...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, James T. Keane, as they discuss "Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes: 50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands Who Challenge and Change Us". 
 
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America columnist and Catholic cultural and literary critic, James T. Keane, brings together fifty varied voices--including some underappreciated ones--and reflects on the...
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Join Robert Ellsberg in the latest One On One episode, as he discusses "Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings".  
Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, worked with Dorothy Day for the last five years of her life, including two years as managing editor of The Catholic Worker. He has edited five previous volumes of her writings, including Selected Writings (Christopher Award Winner), her diaries (The Duty of Delight), and her selected ...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Robert Wicks, as they discuss "Let's Look Together: Henri Nouwen as Spiritual Mentor".

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Get 25% off  Let's Look Together by Robert Wicks through 30 November 2024

Robert J. Wicks received his doctorate in psychology (PsyD) from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. Dr. Wicks is professor emeritus at Loyola University...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and authors, Brian Swimme & Monica DeRaspe-Bolls, as they discuss "The Story of the Noosphere".

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Get 25% off  The Story of the Noosphere through 30 November 2024

Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a public benefit non-profit that focuses on scientific and interdisciplinary rese...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Libby Osgood, as they discuss "Green Saints for a Green Generation".

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In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis established care for creation as one of the central themes of Catholic social teaching. Yet that ecological consciousness has yet to take root en masse among the Catholic faithful. In Green Saints for a Green Generati...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Joyce Rupp, as they discuss "Vessels of Love: Prayers and Poems for the Later Years of Life".

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Joyce Rupp is well known for her work as a writer, international retreat leader, and conference speaker. She is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Praying Our Goodbyes, Open the Door, and Fragments of Your ...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Megan McKenna, as they discuss "A Bowl of Perfect Light: Stories of Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Repairing the World".

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A native of New York City, Megan McKenna is an internationally known theologian, storyteller, and lecturer. She leads retreats, workshops and parish missions, around the world, and counsels c...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Mitri Raheb, as they discuss "Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible".

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Decolonizing Palestine challenges the weaponization of biblical texts to support the current settler-colonial state of Israel. Raheb argues that some of the most important theological concepts –Israel, the land, election, and cho...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Bill Cain, SJ, as they discuss "The Book of Cain: On Adding a New Book to the Family Bible".

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The Bible, as Bill Cain reminds us, is largely made up of family stories—stories of birth and death, of generations and legacies, joys and losses—with the astonishing claim that in these stories God is telling us a sacred st...
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Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, James Martin, SJ, as they discuss "This Our Exile".

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Seamlessly combining spiritual writing, reportage, travel narrative, humor, and recent history, bestselling author James Martin recalls his time as a young Jesuit working with the refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Drawing on his previous experience in the business world, he ima...
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