We’re cooking up a super-sized serving of Ill Conceived goodness for next week, so in the meantime we decided to dig back into the World Famous Mailbag to read and answer the stuff you’ve been wondering about but we haven’t found space to cover on the main show or the B-sides, including:

• Personal experiences with Aporia’s Noah Carl
• Parsing the hypocrisy of female right-wing talking heads
• The conservative Catholic propaganda mill known as Franciscan University of Steubenville
• How conservative Christian communities tend to privilege parents over non-parents
• The effects of being forced to be a caretaker in your family
• The exclusion of queer families from natalist communities

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EPISODE ART: It's the pig.

SOURCES:

• "Northwestern’s African Studies Program Loses Research Status but Will Continue" by Olivia Sanchez (Inside Higher Ed, August 18, 2026)
• Franciscan University page about the Portiuncula
• Franciscan University page about the Tomb of the Unborn Child

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