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Dwell in the Darkness: John's Passion Narrative, Good Friday, and the Education of Desire / David Ford
50 mins; April 02, 2026
How to Read Ecclesiastes: Absurdity, Futility, and the Simple Value of Life / Jesse Peterson
61 hours 37 mins; March 25, 2026
Loyalty Without Idolatry: Religious Vibe Shift and a Theology of Democratic Life / Luke Bretherton
55 mins; March 18, 2026
The Wound and the Gaze: Trauma Theology, Contemplative Healing, and Becoming Beloved / Bo Karen Lee
36 mins; March 11, 2026
The Accessorized Bible: Interpretation, Responsibility, and the Ethics of Reading / David Dault
62 hours 40 mins; March 04, 2026
Season of Rebellion / Esau McCaulley on Lent [From the Archives]
49 mins; February 25, 2026
Your Whole Self at Work: The Sociology of Religion in the Workplace / Elaine Ecklund
50 mins; February 18, 2026
Faith and Character in a Polarized Society / John Kasich
31 mins; January 21, 2026
Forgiving Our Fathers: Time, Mortality, and Finding Peace / Stan Grant
58 mins; January 14, 2026
Religion and Modern Slavery: Moral Blindness, Religious Responsibility, and the Psychology of Power / Kevin Bales and Michael Rota
52 mins; January 07, 2026
The Nail in the Tree: Sandy Hook School Shooting, Violence, Childhood, Poetry / Carol Ann Davis
58 mins; December 14, 2025
How to Read Blaise Pascal: Grace, Modern Longing, and Wagering with Fire / Graham Tomlin
55 mins; December 03, 2025
Creaturely Loneliness: Desire, Grief, and the Hope of Encounter / Macie Bridge & Ryan McAnnally-Linz (SOLO Part 6)
29 mins; November 19, 2025
Dying Alone: Terminal Loneliness, Modern Medicine, and Contemplative Solitude / Lydia Dugdale (SOLO Part 5)
47 mins; November 12, 2025
Women Alone with God: Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women / Hetta Howes (SOLO Part 4)
50 mins; November 05, 2025
Lonely Tech: AI, Isolation, Solitude, and Grace / Felicia Wu Song (SOLO Part 3)
51 mins; October 29, 2025
Notice the Absence: Ecological Loneliness, Local Attention, and Interspecies Connection / Laura Marris (SOLO Part 2)
39 mins; October 22, 2025
Flourishing Alone / Miroslav Volf (SOLO Part 1)
42 mins; October 15, 2025
Christian Faith and Public Service / Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
32 mins; October 08, 2025
Irrevocable Covenant: Against Supersessionism / R. Kendall Soulen
71 hours 50 mins; October 02, 2025
Burnout and Sabbath / Alexis Abernethy
48 mins; September 10, 2025
How to Read the Gospel of John / David Ford
48 mins; September 04, 2025
Amor Mundi Part 5: Humility and Glory of Love / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
62 hours 10 mins; August 27, 2025
Amor Mundi Part 4: The Earth Embraced / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
63 hours 42 mins; August 20, 2025
Amor Mundi Part 3: Loving Our Fate? / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
63 hours 48 mins; August 13, 2025
Amor Mundi Part 2: Hating the World, Unquenchable Thirst / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
66 hours 4 mins; August 06, 2025
Amor Mundi Part 1: Unchained from Our Sun / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
60 hours 36 mins; July 30, 2025
How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse / Miroslav Volf
33 mins; July 23, 2025
The Body as Sacred Offering: Ballet and Embodied Faith / New York City Ballet Dancer Silas Farley
62 hours 42 mins; April 30, 2025
Remembering Pope Francis / Nichole Flores and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
34 mins; April 23, 2025
Art and Sacred Resistance: Art as Prayer, Love, Resistance and Relationship / Bruce Herman
61 hours 48 mins; April 17, 2025
The Fear to Hope: Ukrainian Pastor on Democracy, Fear, and Abundant Life in the Midst of War / Fyodor Raychynets
54 mins; March 13, 2025
What the Devil: Christian Imagination, Morality, and Two-Step Devil / Jamie Quatro
59 mins; March 05, 2025
The Scandal of Giving and Forgiving / Miroslav Volf
32 mins; February 26, 2025
Kendrick Lamar's Political Theology / Femi Olutade
64 hours 33 mins; February 20, 2025
The Psychology of Disaster: The Impact of Calamity on Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health / Jamie Aten and Pam King
58 mins; February 12, 2025
Our One and Only Earth: Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Consumption / Ryan Darr & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
46 mins; February 06, 2025
Divine Hiddenness / Deborah Casewell
36 mins; January 23, 2025
We the (Chosen) People: Christian Nationalism Now / Eliyahu Stern & Philip Gorski
58 mins; January 08, 2025
How to Read Simone Weil, Part 3: The Existentialist / Deborah Casewell
65 hours 43 mins; December 26, 2024
How to Read Simone Weil, Part 2: The Activist / Cynthia Wallace
71 hours 26 mins; December 18, 2024
How to Read Simone Weil, Part 1: The Mystic / Eric O. Springsted
59 mins; December 12, 2024
Open the Gates: Immigration & the Book of Revelation / Yii-Jan Lin
43 mins; December 04, 2024
Letters to a Future Saint / Brad East & Drew Collins
54 mins; November 21, 2024
How to Read Henry David Thoreau / Lawrence Buell
60 hours 19 mins; November 13, 2024
Cosmic Connections: Resonating with the World / Charles Taylor & Miroslav Volf
54 mins; November 06, 2024
How to Read Teresa of Ávila / Carlos Eire
52 mins; October 30, 2024
History Speaks the Spirit of Justice / Jemar Tisby
46 mins; October 23, 2024
Unity in Diversity, Empathic Wisdom / Christy Vines
56 mins; October 16, 2024
Baseball as a Road to God / John Sexton
77 hours 20 mins; October 11, 2024
Love and Judaism / Rabbi Shai Held with Miroslav Volf
61 hours 54 mins; October 02, 2024
Love's Braided Dance / Norman Wirzba
64 hours 53 mins; September 20, 2024
Music & Joy / Daniel Chua
56 mins; September 11, 2024
How to Read Genesis / Marilynne Robinson & Miroslav Volf
53 mins; August 28, 2024
Poverty / Rev. William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
40 mins; August 21, 2024
How to Read Julian of Norwich / Ryan McAnnally-Linz
54 mins; August 14, 2024
How to Read Dallas Willard / Steve Porter
68 hours 56 mins; August 07, 2024
Fully Alive: Modern Monasticism & the Topography of the Soul / Elizabeth Oldfield
51 mins; July 31, 2024
Political Rage & America's Threat from Within / Elizabeth Neumann
58 mins; July 11, 2024
Learning to Disagree / John Inazu
35 mins; July 03, 2024
Disillusioned with Faith: Finding Hope in Our Scars / Aimee Byrd
58 mins; June 26, 2024
Black Motherhood: Love & Resistance / Kelly Brown Douglas
27 mins; June 19, 2024
Theologian of Hope: Remembering Jürgen Moltmann (1926 – 2024) / Miroslav Volf
42 mins; June 05, 2024
Mobilizing Hope in Women’s Prison: Discovering Agency, Community, and Creative Resilience / Sarah Farmer
41 mins; May 09, 2024
Peaceable Assembly: Protests, Collective Belonging, and Refuge in a Forgotten Right / John Inazu
35 mins; May 01, 2024
Desire: How Avarice and Acquisition Distort Our Longing for the Sacred / Micheal O'Siadhail
53 mins; April 17, 2024
How to Read Flannery O'Connor / Jessica Hooten Wilson
57 mins; April 10, 2024
A World Out of Joint: Pilgrimage and the Possibilities of Homemaking / Ryan McAnnally-Linz
48 mins; April 04, 2024
You Are A Tree: Metaphor & the Poetry of Our Humanity / Joy Marie Clarkson
48 mins; March 27, 2024
Chinese Political Theology: Protests in Blood Letters, Freedom, and Religion in China Today / Peng Yin
37 mins; March 20, 2024
The Transforming Fire of Theological Education: Learning to See the World / Mark Jordan
52 mins; March 14, 2024
The Heart of Theology: Emotions, Christian Experience, & the Holy Spirit / Simeon Zahl
57 mins; March 06, 2024
A Voice Crying Out: Brown Church & Critical Race Theory / Robert Chao Romero
52 mins; February 28, 2024
Christianity as a Way of Life: Practice & Belief / Kevin Hector
50 mins; February 21, 2024
Renovating the Heart of Our Politics / Michael Wear
46 mins; February 14, 2024
Asian Americans, Racism, and Capitalism / Jonathan Tran
63 hours 58 mins; February 07, 2024
Becoming Whole in a Fragmented Age / Anne Snyder
37 mins; January 31, 2024
Listeners Dare: Courage and the Act of Sermon-Listening / Will Willimon
48 mins; January 24, 2024
Power & American Evangelicalism: Sword or Cross? / Tim Alberta
54 mins; January 08, 2024
Advent Love: Prayer, Trauma, & the Loving Gaze of Christ / Bo Karen Lee
22 mins; December 23, 2023
How the Light Gets In: Restlessness, Christ, & Belonging / Graham Ward
51 mins; December 23, 2023
Advent Joy: Resistance Against Despair, Celebrating the Beauty of Black Joy / Stacey Floyd-Thomas & Willie James Jennings
34 mins; December 18, 2023
Speaking to the Unspeakable: Catastrophe, Silence, and Respect in Aboriginal Australian Life / Stan Grant
88 hours 15 mins; December 17, 2023
Advent Peace / Non-Violent Resistance & the Uninvited Christ / David Dark
26 mins; December 11, 2023
How to Read as a Spiritual Practice: Books, Shared Meaning, and the Love of God in the Text / Jessica Hooten Wilson & Matthew Smith
59 mins; December 09, 2023
Advent Hope: Darkness, Endurance, and No-Exit Situations / Miroslav Volf
24 mins; December 04, 2023
N.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / Violence in God's Name: Monotheism, Nationalism, Violence, and Our Ultimate Allegiance
46 mins; December 03, 2023
Interchange of Love: Gratitude, Gift, and Joyful Recognition / Miroslav Volf
40 mins; November 19, 2023
Thanks A Lot: The Complicated Emotional World of Gratitude / Jo-Ann Tsang
44 mins; November 11, 2023
Fearing Rightly: Horror Films, Theology, and Living with the Terror of Life / Kutter Callaway
68 hours 48 mins; October 30, 2023
How to Lead with Peace, Humility, Compassion, and Faith / Christian Faith & Democratic Leadership / Evan Mawarire
46 mins; October 14, 2023
How Disability Reframes Humanity: Three Bible Stories to See Disability as the Site of Divine Revelation / Calli Micale
45 mins; October 07, 2023
How to Eat, Drink, and Be Human (Lessons from Revolutionary Women) / Alissa Wilkinson
55 mins; September 18, 2023
Reframing Disability: Agency, Possibility, and Radical Dependency / Calli Micale
52 mins; August 19, 2023
What Boredom Means: Cultivating Attention & Leisure for a Life Connected to Time & Place / Kevin Gary & Drew Collins
35 mins; August 01, 2023
Kelly Corrigan, Claire Danes, & Kate Bowler / The Practice of Flourishing / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 5 of 5
53 mins; July 22, 2023
Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Consumption, Responsibility, Failure, Repair, & Forgiveness / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 4 of 5
54 mins; July 15, 2023
Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Envy, Desire, and Struggling with Belief / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 3 of 5
55 mins; July 01, 2023
Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Values, Vocation, Curiosity & Dealing with Circumstance / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 2 of 5
54 mins; June 25, 2023
Life Worth Living Book Club Part 1 of 5 / Kelly Corrigan with Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
54 mins; June 17, 2023
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