Rabbi Eitan Webb co-founded the Chabad House of Princeton in 2002 with his wife Gitty, and has served as a Jewish Chaplain at Princeton University since 2007. In addition to his service to university students, Rabbi Webb serves on the board of directors of the Chabad on Campus International Foundation and of the Sinai Scholars Society. Today, we're going to talk about young people today, and if it's true that they've "checked out of" religion, as some news reports have indicated. Being so close to the source, Rabbi Webb will no doubt have some great insight to share.

SHOW NOTES:

• Chabat House at Princeton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WliRx-uxZio.

• "Gen Z and Fidelity: An Interfaith Dialogue" with Rabbi Webb and friends, June 5, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTTlikiDHx8

Nichole Haugen is a wife, mom to six daughters, nurse, and grief coach. She spent over 10 years as a hospice nurse helping families through hard times, so she has dealt with grief both personally and professionally. Through losing her parents close together in 2019, and marriage struggles, Nichole eventually found a path to healing, forgiveness, and learning to live with grief. Today, she will help us understand what it takes to move through grief, which we all experience in some form, in a healthy way.

SHOW NOTES:

• Nichole's website to connect about grief coaching: https://catholicgriefcoach.com/

• The Retrouvaille Marriage Program Nichole mentioned for struggling marriages: https://helpourmarriage.org/

Rob Port is a reporter and a columnist for the Forum Communications Company, as well as host of the Plain Talk podcast. But beyond that, he's a husband and father who tilts conservative politically, and yet not so much that he'd always identify as a Republican. While he grew up in a Christian home, Rob doesn't practice any faith, nor does he believe in God. Today, Rob and I will share the mic to toss each other a host of questions relating to faith, or lack thereof, to probe each other's minds a bit, and, hopefully, along with our different perspectives, reveal a few places of convergence.

SHOW NOTES:

• Rob Port's "Plain Talk" podcast: https://www.inforum.com/podcasts/plain-talk

• Plain Talk, Episode #273 with Rob, Roxane and Devlyn Brooks (Dec. 2021): "Is America's Religious Decline Good or Bad?" https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KO0mX0VTHxU1J1VaCuo3j

• Roxane's "Living Faith" Forum column that followed: https://www.inforum.com/opinion/columns/salonen-does-faith-mean-loss-of-freedom

• "Who is Jesus? An atheist, a Lutheran and a Catholic answer," Dec. 20, 2024, "Matters of Soul Importance" podcast with Rob and Devlyn Brooks: https://www.inforum.com/lifestyle/who-is-jesus-an-atheist-a-lutheran-and-a-catholic-answer