Lost Prophets

A podcast about the the lost prophets of solidarity — the voices we need to hear again. www.lostprophets.org

Lost Prophets is a society podcast hosted by Elias Crim & Pete Davis, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Elias Crim & Pete Davis hosts Lost Prophets, a society show with 24 episodes published.

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  #21. Thomas Merton (ft. Nick Scrimenti)

  Apr 26, 20262h 55mS0

  <p>[ First, some exciting podcast news. We now have a LOST PROPHETS voicemail line. If you call the number (703) 662-3046, you can leave us a short question, a reflection, an idea — and we may play it on the show!]</p><p>Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the valu...

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  #20. bell hooks (ft. Nadra Nittle)

  Jan 19, 20261h 53mS0

  <p>“If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.”</p><p>Gloria Jean Watkins, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1952, once said she chose her public name—bell hooks—as a way of honori...

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  #19. William H. Whyte (ft. Alexandra Whyte)

  Nov 25, 20251h 49mS0

  <p>Who was Holly Whyte? Richard K. Rein’s excellent 2022 biography, American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life, attempts to list his many personae: “magazine editor, author, urbanist, urban anthropologist, filmmaker, pundit, public intellectual, politician (unelected and behind the scenes), consultant, teacher, mentor (to, seemingly, hundreds), as well as husband and father.”</p><p>Born in 1917, he served in the Second World War at Guadalcanal. After the war, he joined Fortune magazine, where he coined the term “groupthink,” a fitting phrase for his big assignment of 1955-6: writing a book-length profile of American corporate culture in hopes of...

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  #18. Daniel Berrigan (ft. Fr. John Dear)

  Oct 10, 20252h 7mS0

  <p>“Devout and Dangerous” is the title—irony intended—of an excellent documentary film about the life and times of Fr. Daniel Berrigan, his brother Philip, and their circle of Catholic activists for peace. </p><p>The priest brothers were indeed publicly devout in their antiwar actions but “dangerous”? Certainly FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was convinced of the great harm the group posed to his reputation and to that of his unaccountable agency. </p><p>In reality, during the years of the Vietnam War and afterward for two decades, what these militantly nonviolent activists “endangered” was the continuing, mostly unquestioned ope...

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  #17. Daniel Wortel-London on Alternative Visions of Urban Prosperity

  Aug 15, 202553 minS0

  <p>“If we could get every billionaire in the world to move here, that would be a godsend.” —former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg</p><p>Somewhat short of the former mayor’s hopes, it seems that exactly 123 billionaires—the most in the country—now make New York City their home, according to the 2025 Forbes list. Perhaps they have been a political godsend for the campaign of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, whose meteoric rise has been partly fueled by street-level policy proposals aimed at restoring affordability for the city’s non-billionaires. </p><p>It’s enough to make you think Zohran had...

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