Jesse Thorn, the host of BULLSEYE and a co-founder of the Maximum Fun podcast network. Both projects grew out of Jesse’s college radio program, THE SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA, and they’ve become a completely worker-owned network, producing over 40 podcasts.

We talk about growing up in San Francisco and how he came to love his father’s commitment to Christ’s principles, though choosing the path of atheism for himself

Rabbi Susan Goldberg has served on the Los Angeles Unified School District's Faith Advisory Council and the L.A. District Attorney's Interfaith Advisory Board. And Susan was the consulting rabbi for the Emmy-winning Amazon Prime series TRANSPARENT.

She's also founder of Nefesh, which calls itself “an open-hearted Jewish community, welcoming all identities, and cultivating empathy, love and justice.” Nefesh calls its members “kin” and practices implementing their shared values through social action.

Susan is a 5th generation Angelino, and the eldest of three children, born to activist parents. Her mother, an early childhood educator and advocate, founded the Echo Park Silver Lake People's Childcare Center, also known as The Play Group. Susan’s attorney father started the Working People's Law Center, which is still operating 50 years later.

Bill Cain, writer and Jesuit priest, discusses his two most recent books: THE DIARY OF JESUS CHRIST, which re-imagines the carpenter from Nazareth, and THE BOOK OF CAIN: ON ADDING A NEW BOOK TO THE FAMILY BIBLE, which tells of Bill being the primary caregiver for his dying mother.

You can check out some of his writing on Showtime’s YOUR HONOR, starring Bryan Cranston, as well as HOUSE OF CARDS and BLOODLINES on Netflix. A deeper dig would be his 1996 series, NOTHING SACRED, about a young priest trying to be true to his church in an evolving cultural landscape. Bill tackled, with a clear-eyed humanity, tough issues like abortion, domestic abuse and even the politics of the Catholic Church.