About this Podcast:
On this episode, Natasha is joined by Bill Hambleton, author of The Sacred and Profane: A Memoir of Faith and Reckoning. Natasha and Bill talk about his memoir and its exploration of faith, memory, institutional life, and the complexities of belonging within the Catholic Church.
About the Guests:
Bill grew up in Utah and spent nearly a decade as a seminarian for the Diocese of Salt Lake City, studying at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Ohio and later at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. After discerning a different vocation, he went on to earn a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco, where his dissertation explored the formation of Catholic identity. Over a thirty-year career in Catholic education, Bill has served as President and Head of School at several Catholic independent schools and as a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Loyola University Maryland. He now serves as Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in La Cañada Flintridge, California. His writing is shaped by the contemplative tradition that first drew him as a teenager to a Trappist monastery above his childhood home in Ogden, Utah, and by years of Ignatian spiritual direction.
Learn more about Bill and his book at thesacredandprofane.org.
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Intro ("Fisher's Hornpipe") and outro music by Otter Creek.
Podcast edited by: Ashley Pacini
