When R.R. Reno—then a practicing Episcopalian and a student of theology—was told by his Jewish wife that she fully intended to raise their children as Jews, his first reaction was surprise. Eventually, his exposure to the lived experience of Judaism, from separating meat and milk to witnessing his son’s circumcision, impressed him deeply. Reno, who subsequently converted to Catholicism and is now one of America’s foremost Catholic intellectuals, reflected on his encounter with the Jewish religion in his 2007 essay “Faith in the Flesh,” which he revisits here in conversation with Jonathan Silver. (Audio, 43 minutes.)
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