From The New York Times:
Sister Miriam Holzman’s white habit was crisp and clean as she settled in beside her microphone on a Wednesday morning in late March, her wire frame glasses tucked into her black veil. A silver pendant depicting the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus gleamed around her neck under the bright lights of a recording studio in Michigan.
Across the table, Sister John Dominic Rasmussen sat ready to record an upcoming episode of “Dominican Sisters Open Mic,” a new podcast produced by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor. (The women are referred to as sisters, not nuns, who are cloistered.) In each episode, a host, typically Sister Miriam, 44, interviews a guest, usually another sister, about her life, covering subjects like her education — several of the women have Ph.D.s — or her conversion journey. While the topics themselves might sound weighty, the conversations are often quite wide-ranging, like a dialogue between two, well, sisters.