Jason DeRose

YouTube video by slavprussiaottomanfinlandUSUK Tom Lehrer – That Was the Year That Was

was inappropriately young when he discovered Tom Lehrer, and since then few days have gone by when he isn't singing one of Lehrer's deliciously dark songs. RIP. He's spending the afternoon listening to _That Was The Year That Was_.

Dumpling and Smashed Cucumber Salad With Peanut Sauce  Recipe Serving as a luscious, umami sauce for pan-fried potstickers, peanut sauce yet again proves itself to be the hero of weeknight cooking The sauce needs no cooking, just some hot water to soften the pea...

What I made for supper tonight.... Highly recommend.

How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era "It will test every single shred of creativity we have to continue to try to serve our mission," says one public media executive, as Congress ends federal funding for public broadcasting.

I began working in public radio when I was a teenager. I picked my college and grad school because of the public radio stations I could work at nearby. I believe in the Great Society principles embodied in public media.

really misses hearing the Declaration of Independence on Morning Edition on the 4th of July.

The Small, Tight-Knit Religious Order That Molded Pope Leo XIV

This piece is so good. Best quote: “They [these challenging times] demand that each one of us, in our different roles and services, never give in to mediocrity,” he said. “St. Augustine reminds of this when he said: ‘Let us live well and the times will be good. We are the times.’”

NPR Papal Transition Team, Part 2

NPR team Papal Transition 2025.

Poggioli and DeRose at The Vatican.

is off to Rome.

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is enjoying beyond the telling today's Metropolitan Opera broadcast. It's Rossini's L'Assedio de Corinto, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Beverly Sills’s Met debut with a performance from April 19, 1975.

wishes the show Mid-Century Modern were better.

I love Book of Kells.

🔊 Listen Now: Revisiting our favorite (and not so favorite) religious films All Things Considered on NPR One | 8:36

What I did for this afternoon… Revisiting our favorite (and not so favorite) religious films…

That’s a huge teaching load.

notes how many plots on The Bionic Woman are similar to the plots on Wonder Woman.

After 15 months of displacement, a Palestinian reporter finally returns home : Up First from NPR Anas Baba is NPR's eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. He's also one of the only Palestinian journalists working full time for an American news organization in Gaza. Israel has banned international j...

This story is worth your time: A reporter returns home to Gaza following Israel-Hamas ceasefire : Up First from NPR

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finds this whole cottage industry of febrile anti-Joan Didion essays tedious. The mediocre ought not attempt takedowns of the iconic.

Upside-Down Blood Orange Cake (Published 2013)

made this most delicious dessert. Highly recommend.

This was a really good piece.

'God walks with us through the ashes.' A poignant Ash Wednesday after LA wildfires On Ash Wednesday, Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many whose churches and homes burned in the Los Angeles fires.

What I did for today...

These are desperate times.

has seen exactly one film nominated in any Oscar category, and it was terrible. Except for Isabella Rossellini.

made chili for his congregation’s annual chili cook off.

Martin Marty, leading scholar of American religion, dies at 97 Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

What I did for today…

Christianity declines among U.S. adults while 'religiously unaffiliated' grows, study says The percentage of Christians in the U.S. has dropped dramatically, though that loss may have leveled off in recent years.

What I did for today...

kind of aspires to be the Parker Posey character on The White Lotus. Or maybe he just aspires to be whatever character Parker Posey is playing in whatever she's in.

always finds it both amusing and troubling when someone refers to him as a "religious reporter" or "the religious correspondent."

🔊 Listen Now: Here's how Trump's Faith Office and task force against 'anti-Christian bias' may work All Things Considered on NPR One | 3:51

What I did for today…

“Nothing New,” by Robert Frost A recently discovered poem, written in 1918 and published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Completely worth your notice…