Face to Faith with Bob Herguth

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What role does religion play in the lives of entertainers, politicians and others in the public eye? What’s shaped their faith? Every week Chicago Sun-Times reporter Robert Herguth explores those questions in “Face to Faith.”

A Chicago Sun-Times podcast


    • Nov 30, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 36m AVG DURATION
    • 32 EPISODES


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    Face to Faith Episode 33 - Radio personality Kevin Matthews: Rosary a ‘weapon’ for hopelessness

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2017 25:52


    Kevin Matthews, long-time Chicago radio host, known for his humor and ability to conjure and juggle a “cast” of fictional characters on-air, tells the Chicago Sun-Times Face to Faith podcast about his new mission of spreading the word about Jesus’ mother Mary, and “power” of the rosary.

    Face to Faith Episode 32 - Oak Park mom honors future saint over childbirth ‘miracle’

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2017 33:27


    Camela Daley believes a miracle – through the “intercession” of late friar Solanus Casey, who recently took an important step toward sainthood – saved the life of her newborn son a decade ago. The boy, named for Casey and now in 4th grade, attended the friar’s “beatification” ceremony with Daley this month. She spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times for the Face to Faith podcast and column.

    Face to Faith Episode 31 - Palliative care doctor Martha Twaddle: ‘I do see miracles’

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2017 44:43


    Dr. Martha Twaddle, for decades has worked with seriously ill patients, including many at end of life, in a way is a “midwife for the end,” believes “we got to take good care of the chassis” – our bodies – but life also is about “growing and developing our spiritual self.” She talks to the Chicago Sun-Times for the Face to Faith podcast and column.

    Face to Faith Episode 30 - Smokie Norful: God gives us ‘endless’ chances to get it right

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2017 33:39


    Smokie Norful, Grammy-winning gospel artist, grew up in Arkansas and Oklahoma, now senior pastor of non-denominational Christian church with branches on South Side and in far southwest suburbs, interviewed for the Chicago Sun-Times "Face to Faith" podcast and column, doesn’t believe bible “to be a metaphorical book,” just became author himself.

    Face to Faith Episode 29 - Assyrian Christians suffered ‘so much’ but ‘still have hope’

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2017 26:36


    Atoor Merkail, Assyrian Christian whose immediate family – seeking stability and better life – left native Iraq last year to settle in Chicago area, part of Middle East minority with rich history, targeted by ISIS in recent years. She speaks to the Chicago Sun-Times' Face to Faith podcast about her experiences.

    Face to Faith Episode 28 - Decade after dust-up, nun steadfast on abortion: ‘Choice is the woman’s’

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2017 46:28


    Donna Quinn, Catholic nun, feminist, once caused controversy for volunteering at clinic offering abortions, talks to the Chicago Sun-Times for the Face to Faith podcast, calls ordination of priests – only available to men – a “hoax,” sees Eucharist as “part of our everyday life . . . a grandparent who embraces his little grandchild . . . is Eucharist to me.”

    Face to Faith Episode 27 - Chicago Satanist: There’s no devil, humans ‘are our own God’

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017 29:57


    G. Edwin Taylor, “warlock” in Church of Satan, first read Satanic Bible as a teen and thought, “Damn, this is me,” tells the Chicago Sun-Times Face to Faith podcast his group doesn’t worship the devil, members are atheists but use Satan as a symbol because he represents “pride . . . liberty . . . individuality.”

    Face to Faith Episode 26 - WXRT DJ Lin Brehmer: Finds inspiration ‘in the beauties of the world’

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2017 44:46


    Lin Brehmer, morning host at rock station WXRT, New York native, raised in Congregational church, now “sort of a creative agnostic,” tells Chicago Sun-Times for Face to Faith podcast he can “get as blissed out walking through the Louvre as I can imagine somebody kneeling in prayer in a church pew would be.”

    Face to Faith Episode 25 - 4th Presbyterian's Shannon Kershner: ‘God’s not a Christian ... we are’

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017 43:43


    Shannon Johnson Kershner, pastor of historic Fourth Presbyterian Church on Chicago’s Mag Mile, native of Texas, speaks to the Chicago Sun-Times for the Face to Faith podcast, says about faith, “I think complacency is deadly . . . I’m always going to be on this journey of discovery.”

    Face to Faith Episode 24 - Ex-tennis star Andrea Jaeger’s faith ‘way better than my tennis’

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017 48:06


    Andrea Jaeger, grew up in Skokie and Lincolnshire, tennis prodigy in 1980s, told the Chicago Sun-Times for the Face to Faith podcast that when injuries ended pro career she knew “what I was really called to do” on a full-time basis “was starting,” helping kids with cancer, still runs charity, was Episcopalian nun for several years.

    Face to Faith Episode 23 - Chicago Fire actress Miranda Rae Mayo: ‘My thoughts create my reality’

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2017 34:42


    Miranda Rae Mayo, actress on Chicago Fire, raised Baptist and Mormon before being introduced to “New Thought” at aunt’s church, tells the Chicago Sun-Times "Face to Faith" podcast that she embraces meditation and “mindfulness,” believes “God is pure love . . . pure light, abundance.”

    Face to Faith Episode 22 - Chicago Bear Sam Acho: ‘I want to be a light to my teammates’

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2017 18:31


    Sam Acho, Chicago Bears outside linebacker, son of Christian minister, does missionary work with family in Nigeria, tells the Chicago Sun-Times for Face to Faith podcast “my faith” in Jesus “is a part of who I am,” also believes “the world needs less religion” and “more relationships.”

    Episode 20: Author Scott Turow, out with new novel, talks about his beliefs, faith upbringing

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2017 49:24


    Scott Turow, best-selling author of 13 books, out with new novel set against Balkan conflicts, raised Jewish in West Rogers Park, former federal prosecutor, tells the Chicago Sun-Times in "Face to Faith" podcast that he understands “the spiritual elements that move so many other people and, of course, I feel them too, but I don’t put the same name on it.”

    Face to Faith Episode 19 - Cardinal: Some of ‘greatest Christians I know’ don’t have ‘faith system’

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2017 33:47


    Cardinal Blase Cupich, one of Pope Francis’ first big appointments in the U.S., leader of Catholic Church in Chicago, raised in Nebraska, regularly encounters people on the street who “ask me to pray for them” – tells the Chicago Sun-Times for the Face to Faith podcast that some of the "greatest Christians I know" don’t have a "faith system."

    Face to Faith Episode 18 - Gov candidate Daniel Biss, on his style of Judaism, and public service

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2017 25:29


    Daniel Biss, state senator, Democrat running for governor, “modest observance” to Judaism as child and now, tells Chicago Sun-Times for Face to Faith podcast/column that “it’s important to live as if there isn’t” an afterlife.

    Face to Faith Episode 17 - Lutheran scholar Martin Marty: New 'Reformation' needed - to reclaim love

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2017 41:05


    Martin Marty, Lutheran pastor, retired U of C professor, wrote book on Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” as 500th anniversary approaches, believes new “Reformation,” spanning denominations, would have to focus on “a recovery of love and justice.” Spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times for "Face to Faith" podcast and column.

    Face to Faith Episode 16 - Chicago Sky coach Amber Stocks: God looks ‘like everything’ and ‘nothing’

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2017 37:31


    Amber Stocks, head coach at WNBA's Chicago Sky, grew up in non-denominational Christian congregation where mom was a choir director, dad a church administrator. Says in Chicago Sun-Times 'Face to Faith' podcast, “I don’t think you can open up a science book and see the wonders and have doubt of the existence of a magnificent loving creator.”

    Face to Faith Episode 15 Rev. Marilyn Pagan-Banks

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2017 36:26


    "Face to Faith" podcast, from Chicago Sun-Times, on Marilyn Pagan-Banks, United Church of Christ minister, pastor in Humboldt Park, activist in Rogers Park, runs anti-hunger group, counsels gang members, believes “it’s not too late for anybody.”

    Face to Faith Episode 14 Author Patrick T. Reardon: "Embrace the pain of life as well as joys

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2017 35:20


    Patrick T. Reardon, a longtime Chicago writer, is out with a new book of poems on faith, family and the death of his brother Reardon was raised Catholic in Austin and believes not running “away from the hard stuff” is a “kind of prayer.”

    Face to Faith Episode 13 Baha’i follower and entrepreneur Steve Sarowitz

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2017 38:57


    Steve Sarowitz, 51, a Chicago tech entrepreneur and Paylocity founder, is a philanthropist. He was raised Jewish but is now Baha’i, which teaches there’s “essentially one faith being revealed over the history of humanity.”

    Face to Faith Episode 12 Democratic candidates for gov. Chris Kennedy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2017 35:15


    Chris Kennedy, a Democrat running for governor and the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, embraces “social justice” Catholicism, admires “hero priests” and describes Illinois’ state budget crisis in moral terms.

    Face to Faith Episode 11 Cook County Jail warden Nneka Jones Tapia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 45:02


    Nneka Jones Tapia, the Cook County Jail warden, was raised Catholic and then Baptist but now finds God at home, through her Bible and among the cell blocks. Her dad was once arrested for drugs and sent to prison. “I developed this desire to just want to help people who were incarcerated and their families because I knew what that felt like.”

    Face to Faith Episode 10 White Sox outfielder Melky Cabrera

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2017 19:41


    Melky Cabrera, the White Sox outfielder from the Dominican Republic and a Christian, says God “has given me everything that I’ve asked for" "Let it be God’s will if we lose or win," Cabrera says.

    Face to Faith Episode 9 — The Mekons' Sally Timms

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2017 33:32


    Sally Timms, a member of the band the Mekons, lives in Chicago but was raised Protestant in the Church of England in Britain. She doesn’t believe in God but likes “visiting places of worship.”

    Face to Faith Episode 8 Democratic candidate for gov. J.B. Pritzker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2017 33:48


    J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to Hyatt hotels fortune and a Democrat running for governor, talks about his Jewish faith and losing both his parents when he was young. “There’s always that question that exists I think when you contemplate the world: ‘If God exists, then why all the suffering?’ . . . That question is almost the basis for faith. And if you can get past that question, then I think you retain your faith.”

    Face to Faith Episode 7 American Islamic College President Daoud Casewit

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2017 65:05


    Daoud Casewit, the president of American Islamic College in Chicago, Muslim convert, believes Islam will grow steadily in Illinois in coming years. Casewit’s school is among only a handful of Muslim colleges in the United States. “We’re as American as we are Islamic.”

    Face to Faith Episode 6 Public Defender Amy Campanelli

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2017 38:29


    Raised Catholic, Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli, represents criminal suspects and always finds “something redeeming" in them. In a system ripe with the potential for abuse, she says a “moral compass” is critical for cops and prosecutors.

    Face to Faith Episode 5 Jim Lovell

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2017 28:11


    Famed astronaut Jim Lovell, who lives in the Chicago area, was part of the Apollo 8 moon mission in 1968. A Presbyterian, he's soared into the sky but believes in heaven — on Earth.

    Face to Faith Episode 4 Michael Magnafichi

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2017 20:27


    Nearly 20 years ago, an FBI document described Michael Magnafichi as a “rising star” in Chicago’s underworld. How would he describe himself today at age 55? “Well, not up and coming in the mob, that’s for sure. I describe myself as first just enjoying life I guess . . . I still play a lot of golf.”

    Face to Faith Episode 3 Ald. Ameya Pawar

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 28:34


    Ameya Pawar is a Chicago alderman and Democratic candidate for governor. A Hindu and a child of immigrants from India, he rejects the “worship” of wealth as he faces of against several wealthy candidates.

    Face to Faith Episode 2 Sir the Baptist

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2017 54:08


    Hip-hop artist Sir the Baptist grew up in a church, the son of a preacher, and he has an interesting take on organized religion: “Till this day, I don’t like it.” And he has set some lofty goals for himself:“I just want to be an example, I’m not worried about the rapper money . . . I want to be the first hip-hop chaplain.”

    Face to Faith Episode 1 Shemekia Copeland

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2017 35:15


    Grammy-nominated blues singer Shemekia Copeland tells the Sun-Times' Bob Herguth how faith is a part of her life and her art. Does God like the blues? "Hell, yeah," she says.

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