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Just Stories
Just Stories invites faith and justice into the same room.
Through honest and wide-ranging conversations, we bring lived religion and spirituality into contact with the justice system, its promises and its failures. We define justice broadly, as Cornel West put it, "justice is what love looks like in public," but most of our guests speak from the criminal justice system in particular: some working to humanize it, others who've felt its blunt end, whether formerly incarcerated or denied justice…
Episodes
Just StoriesRepair in the Middle of Everything
Derek Miodownik works for Vermont’s Department of Corrections as the Community and Restorative Justice Executive. He joins Just Stories to trace how improv…
Just StoriesDoing Justice, Doing Life: A Conversation with Howard Zehr
What if justice meant sitting in a room with the person who harmed you? Howard Zehr has spent five decades asking that question. Howard Zehr has been called…
Just StoriesJustice Meets Grace at the Bench
We live in a messy world where relationships go south, and people hurt each other, sometimes violently. The criminal justice system is meant to answer that…
Just StoriesWhy Just Stories? Why Now?
What does justice really mean, and how does faith shape our response to injustice? In this debut episode of Just Stories, hosts Rob Brenneman and Regina Shands…
Just StoriesJust Stories Season 1 Trailer
Just Stories is a podcast about the places where justice and faith intersect, and sometimes collide. Season 1 launches September 24th, with new episodes every…