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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: âHe showed us what simplicity could offer:â Pico Iyer and Paul Elie remember Pope Francis
Description: Pico Iyer, essayist and author of numerous books including âThe Half Known Life:In Search of Paradise â and most recently âAflame: Learning from Silence,â reflects on the death of Pope Francis and highlights the extraordinary impact Pope Francisâs life had, despite Iyerâs non-Christian faith. Pope Francisâs humility, simplicity, and actions, Iyer says, which exemplified his teachings had and continue to have a great impacted over Iyerâs spiritual life. Paul Elie, religion scholar with the Berkley Center at Georgetown University, and author of âThe Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy in the 1980sâ  shares his first hand impressions o...