Episodes
Published 12/16/22
This is the tenth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Anika Prather. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 12/16/22
This is the ninth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Tracey Salisbury. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 12/02/22
This is the eight episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Jenn Morson. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 10/28/22
This is the seventh episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, featuring Nichole Flores. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 10/07/22
This is the sixth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha, on education. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 09/23/22
This is the fifth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Helen de Cruz. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 09/09/22
This is the fourth episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Melissa Cedillo. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 08/26/22
This is the third episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Kirby Hoberg. Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up for their mailing list...
Published 08/12/22
This is the second episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest "Juana." Check out her comic, The Parish! Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or signing up...
Published 07/29/22
This is the first episode of the second season of Folk Phenomenology, hosted by Sam Rocha and featuring special guest Barbara Stengel. (See her podcast, Chasing Bailey.) Folk Phenomenology is generously sponsored by:  Wipf and Stock Publishers St. Mark’s College Centre for Christian Engagement Give Us This Day Solidarity Hall Black Catholic Messenger U.S. Catholic: See everything U.S. Catholic has to offer—including podcasts, videos, reporting, and commentary—by visiting uscatholic.org or...
Published 07/15/22
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a biographical meditation on Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a way to understand two fundamental claims of Folk Phenomenology: "art precedes metaphysics" and "love is the only transcendental." FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on social media; here is the universal link. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: Wipf and...
Published 11/16/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with vocalist and musician Jaya Lakshminarayanan on music, artists, love, and the unconscious. This episode's featured sponsor is Revelation Cable Company, an exceptional custom cable, PA, and pedalboard solutions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on...
Published 11/09/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a debate with Catholic apologist and author, Trent Horn, on capitalism. You can also listen to this debate on his podcast, The Counsel of Trent. This week's featured sponsor is the Institute for Christian Socialism. Be sure to read their membership page. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on social media;...
Published 11/02/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features the raw, unedited audio from the July 2020 interview with Gloria Purvis that resulted in the published version at Church Life Journal. Rocha and Purvis returned to the McGrath Institute for Church Life in April 2021, in "Conversations That Matter: The Intersection of Racial Justice and Life Issues." FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your...
Published 10/26/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Alessandra Harris on her work as an author of fiction and co-founder of The Black Catholic Messenger. This week's featured sponsor is Black Catholic Messenger; be sure to read a recent report by Nate Tinner-Williams, "In conference address, Pope Francis praises George Floyd protesters as 'collective Samaritans'." FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please...
Published 10/19/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with author Suzanne Wolfe on her book, The Confessions of X, Augustine, and historical fiction. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on social media; here is the universal link. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: Wipf and Stock Publishers Juan Diego Network Give Us This Day Commonweal Magazine Institute...
Published 10/12/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a critique of the false dichotomy of Critical Race Theory and Catholic Social Teaching and gives an extended historical overview of abolitionism. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on social media; here is the universal link. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: Wipf and Stock Publishers Juan Diego Network Give Us...
Published 10/05/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a debate with David L. Gray on Critical Race Theory. This week's featured sponsor is Solidarity Hall. Be sure to read their recent translation, Reflections, and "No One Matters Until Black Lives Matter." FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on social media; here is the universal link. THANKS TO OUR...
Published 09/28/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a meditation of debate and its role in teaching Sam to love and delight in the world, a lesson the show's motto proclaims as dilexit mundum. This week's featured sponsor is the Institute for Christian Socialism; be sure to read a recent their publication, The Bias Magazine: The Voice of the Christian Left, which includes this autobiographical essay by Sam Rocha: "Lines of Tensions, Rays of Light." FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON...
Published 09/21/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Gloria Purvis on their previous interview published as "The Gift of Blackness to the Church" and the present state of affairs in the USA and the Catholic Church. This week's featured sponsor is Black Catholic Messenger; be sure to read a recent reflection by Gunnar Gundersen, "What to the Slave is George Washington's Mount Vernon?" FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to...
Published 09/14/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Rebecca Christian on Black lives in the context of her own life, a trip to Ghana, and her vocation as a Black doula, a mother of mothers. This week's featured sponsor is Black Catholic Messenger, be sure to listen to their podcast, "The Black Catholic Messenger Show," and support them in their important work. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please...
Published 09/07/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with Ogechi Akalegebere on powerlifting, the art of sport, and perseverance. This week's featured sponsor is Black Catholic Messenger, be sure to read their "History and Vision" and support them in their important work. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to November 16, 2021. Please follow the show on your favorite app or platform and share it on social media; here is the...
Published 08/31/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features a Spanish-language interview with Mexican philosopher http://www.rodrigoguerra.net/ (Rodrigo Guerra Lopez), the https://wherepeteris.com/rodrigo-guerra-the-highest-ranking-layman-in-the-church/ (recently appointed) Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and founder of the Center for Advanced Social Research, on being and the person. FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY: SEASON ONE will air every Tuesday from July 6 to...
Published 08/24/21
FOLK PHENOMENOLOGY is a podcast by Sam Rocha. This episode features an interview with https://catherineaddington.com/ (Catherine Addington) on the craft and concept of translation, Spanglish and third languages, and the invisibility of sanctity in the life of the saint. Her https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/antics-turnips (translation) of St. Rafael Arániz in Commonweal is an ideal companion for this episode. Her https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/unmagical-realism (review) of an anthology...
Published 08/17/21