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For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

Seeking and living a life worthy of our humanity. Theological insight, cultural analysis, and practical guidance for personal and communal flourishing. Brought to you by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.

Human Uniqueness & the Imago Dei: Clues for Flourishing in Our Biological Niche / Justin Barrett on Bringing Psychology to Theology

50 mins; June 10, 2023

Made for Relationships: The Sacred Responsibilities of Marriage and Parenting / Mari Clements on Bringing Psychology to Theology

35 mins; May 30, 2023

Tapestry of Knowledge: Theology and Psychology as Truth-Seeking Partners / Oliver Crisp on Bringing Psychology to Theology

34 mins; May 23, 2023

Tolerating Doubt & Ambiguity: Psychological Tools to Deal with Uncertainty and Deconversion / Elizabeth Hall on Bringing Psychology to Theology

45 mins; May 15, 2023

Angry at God: The Psychology of Spiritual Struggle, Coping with Challenges to Faith, Handling Conflicts with God / Julie Exline

43 mins; May 08, 2023

From Surviving to Thriving: Human Purpose, Relational Intimacy, and Spiritual Connection via Developmental Psychology / Pamela Ebstyne King

65 hours 24 mins; April 30, 2023

Bringing Psychology to Theology / Justin Barrett & Miroslav Volf

39 mins; April 22, 2023

Micheal O'Siadhail / Testament: Through You I Gaze at All I Love

56 mins; April 07, 2023

Ukrainian Pastor Speaks Out: Resist Evil, Be Present, and Remember How Little You Control / Fyodor Raychynets & Miroslav Volf

36 mins; March 17, 2023

Esau McCaulley / Lent: Season of Repentance, Renewal... and Rebellion

51 mins; February 22, 2023

Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination and the Expression of True Freedom / Vincent Lloyd

44 mins; February 03, 2023

The Complicated World of Christmas / Drew Collins, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Jeff Reimer, & Matt Croasmun

32 mins; December 24, 2022

The Story of a Global Icon: The Virgin of the Passion / Matthew Milliner on the Theological Aesthetics of Suffering Love, Powerless Compassion, and Mournful Silence

64 hours 47 mins; December 17, 2022

William Cross on Winslow Homer / Looking Long, Finding Grace in Crisis, and Painting Truth to Power

65 hours 29 mins; December 03, 2022

A Message from Miroslav: Help Us Reach Our 2022 Goal

1 min; November 26, 2022

Miroslav Volf / Beautiful, Humane, & Hospitable: Dwelling in the Home of God (In Memoriam, Phil Love)

22 mins; October 22, 2022

Fostering the Knowledge and Love of God / Yale Divinity School Bicentennial

43 mins; October 15, 2022

Kelly Corrigan & Miroslav Volf / Experts at Means, Amateurs at Ends: Talking About Success & Flourishing at College

58 mins; October 03, 2022

Adam Eitel / Character As Authority: Theology as a Lived, Embodied Experience

26 mins; September 19, 2022

Graham Tomlin / Words About God: Theology as Worship, Reform, and Witness

22 mins; September 10, 2022

Matt Croasmun / Nourishing Mutual Encounter: Food, Meals, and the Hunger for Home in the Gospel of Luke

52 mins; September 03, 2022

George Marsden / The Outrageous Idea of Theological Education: How Deep Teaching in Theology Might Work in and for the Church and the World

19 mins; August 27, 2022

Katie Grimes / Theology's Human Context: Jesus, Exemplarity, and Theologizing Through the Lens of Flourishing

19 mins; August 20, 2022

Casey Strine / Informed Empathy: Approaching Religion through Theology, Understanding, and a Commitment to Diversity

24 mins; August 13, 2022

Willie Jennings / Against Despair and Death: Cultivating and Gathering Joy in an Embodied Act of Resistance

32 mins; August 06, 2022

Jamie Tworkowski / To Be Known & Loved: Surprise, Hope, Resilience, and Identity

36 mins; July 30, 2022

Bo Karen Lee / Trauma and Spirituality: From Bystander to Beloved, From Alarmed Aloneness to Gazing Upon the God Who Gazes Upon Me With Love

38 mins; June 29, 2022

Lisa Sharon Harper / Fortune: How Race Broke My Family & the World—and How to Repair It All

48 mins; June 20, 2022

Amy Brown Hughes / Hospitable Theology: Space for Questions, Diversity, and Reflection

17 mins; June 11, 2022

Eric Gregory / Theology as a Way of Life

18 mins; June 04, 2022

Unimaginable: A Reflection after Uvalde

10 mins; May 29, 2022

Keri Day / Targeting Normative Theology: Lived Experience, Practice, and Confessional Theology

16 mins; May 28, 2022

Luke Bretherton / (Un)Common Life: Secularity, Religiosity, and the Tension Between Faith and Culture

30 mins; May 21, 2022

Tyler Roberts / Taking Theology Seriously: A Perspective from Outside Christian Theology

22 mins; April 09, 2022

Aristotle Papanikolaou / Russian Christian Nationalism and Eastern Orthodoxy (and How Culture Wars Contributed to the War in Ukraine)

38 mins; April 04, 2022

Katherine Sonderegger / God, the Great Hope of Theology

22 mins; March 26, 2022

Miroslav Volf / War in Ukraine: Theological and Moral Reflections

31 mins; March 19, 2022

A Voice from Kyiv: Fyodor Raychynets / Faithful Presence in the War on Ukraine

43 mins; March 15, 2022

Willie Jennings / The Christian Imagination: Theological Complexity, Communication, Cultivation, and Community

28 mins; March 12, 2022

Fernando Segovia / Global Crisis and the Hope for Global Flourishing

28 mins; March 05, 2022

Julian Reid / How Black History Made Jazz: Suffering, Joy, and Longing for Our True Home

54 mins; February 26, 2022

Lisa Sharon Harper & Miroslav Volf / The Case for Reparations, Historical Restorative Justice, Ancestry, and Christian Power

54 mins; February 19, 2022

Jemar Tisby / Holistic and Historical Racial Justice: Awareness, Relationships, Commitment

20 mins; February 12, 2022

Black Joy / Howard Thurman's Civil Rights Theology, Stacey Floyd-Thomas on Vicious Humility and Black Joy, and David Walker's Christian Abolitionism

18 mins; February 05, 2022

N.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / The Politics of Joy & Suffering in the Now and Not Yet

23 mins; January 22, 2022

MLK, Willie Jennings, Keri Day / Dangerous Theology

36 mins; January 15, 2022

Marilynne Robinson, Charles Taylor, et al / Making or Breaking Democracy

27 mins; January 08, 2022

Miroslav Volf / Where the Light Gets In: Primordial Goodness, Excluding the Middle, and Searching for Hope in 2022

50 mins; January 01, 2022

Matthew Milliner / A Womb More Spacious Than Stars: How Mary's Beauty and Presence Upends the Patriarchy and Stabilizes Christian Spirituality

62 hours 53 mins; December 25, 2021

Frederica Mathewes-Green / Mary Theotokos: Her Bright Sorrow, Her Suffering Faith, and Her Compassion

62 hours 17 mins; December 18, 2021

Jeff Reimer / W.H. Auden's For the Time Being: Post-Christmas Blues, the Darkness of Modernity, and the Human Response to Incarnation

47 mins; December 11, 2021

David Dark / Non-Violent Resistance, Robot Soft Exorcism, and the Blurry Binaries Between Christianity and Culture

64 hours 32 mins; December 05, 2021

Christian Wiman / Finding Home Through Exiles' Eyes

43 mins; November 27, 2021

Sameer Yadav / Gratitude Is Not a Debt: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing Thanks

36 mins; November 20, 2021

Francisco Lozada / Theology of Immigration: Crossing Porous Borders, Welcoming Strangers, and the Faith of the Migrant

53 mins; November 13, 2021

Janine Di Giovanni / The Vanishing: War Correspondence, Humanitarian Journalism, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

44 mins; November 06, 2021

Will Willimon / Gospel Oddity: The Purpose of Pastors and the Problem with Self-Care

44 mins; October 30, 2021

Julian Reid / Musical Spiritual Hotel: Rest, Hospitality, and Sacred Music

46 mins; October 23, 2021

Alysia Harris / Attention, Wonder, Permeability, & the Space Between Activity & Passivity

42 mins; October 16, 2021

Charles Taylor & Miroslav Volf / Finding a Shared Moral Understanding: Progress, Evil, Freedom, and Solidarity (Part 2)

37 mins; October 09, 2021

Charles Taylor & Miroslav Volf / What's Wrong with Our Democracies?: Fear of Replacement, Post-Truth, and Entrenched Tribal Factions (Part 1)

40 mins; October 02, 2021

David Brooks & Miroslav Volf / The Road to Character

38 mins; September 25, 2021

David Brooks & Miroslav Volf / What Is Human Flourishing?

42 mins; September 18, 2021

Miroslav Volf on 9/11 / A Grave in the Air: The Lasting Impact of 9/11 on Faith & Culture

30 mins; September 11, 2021

Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Evan Rosa / Courage, Control, Kairos Time, and Roasting S'mores as an Exercise in Patience / Patience Coda

51 mins; September 04, 2021

Adam Eitel / Taste and See / Patience Bonus

9 mins; September 02, 2021

Tish Harrison Warren / Control, Creatureliness, and the Practice of Patience / Patience Part 6

41 mins; August 28, 2021

Sarah Schnitker / The Psychology of Patience / Patience Part 5

47 mins; August 21, 2021

Adam Eitel / Constraining Sorrow, Contemplating Joy / Patience Part 4

30 mins; August 14, 2021

Paul Dafydd Jones / God's Patience, Human Action, and Complex Faith / Patience Part 3

39 mins; August 07, 2021

Kathryn Tanner / Money, Markets, and the Economy of Grace / Patience Part 2

29 mins; July 31, 2021

Andrew Root / Time, Acceleration, and Waiting / Patience Part 1

36 mins; July 24, 2021

Life Riffs: Improvisation in Poetry, Theology, and Flourishing / Micheal O'Siadhail & David Ford

48 mins; July 17, 2021

Are You Not Entertained?: Art, Attention, and Watching Culture / Alissa Wilkinson & Drew Collins

45 mins; July 10, 2021

Think Again: Changing Your Mind, Political-Religious Conversion, and the Emotional Life / Nichole Flores & Matt Croasmun

43 mins; July 03, 2021

Juneteenth: Looking Back to Step Forward / Charles B. Copher and Anne Streaty Wimberly

21 mins; June 19, 2021

Collapse and Rebuild: How Spirituality Informs Social Action in Hong Kong / Kevin Lau & Andrew Kwok

50 mins; June 07, 2021

Gilded Wounds, Co-Mingled Tears: The Gratuity of God in Art and Faith / Makoto Fujimura & Miroslav Volf

41 mins; May 30, 2021

How to Respond to Other Peoples' Pain: Silent Presence in the Wild Inexplicability of Evil and Grace / David Kelsey

43 mins; May 22, 2021

Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right: Racial History, Reparations, and Belonging / Lisa Sharon Harper & Miroslav Volf

52 mins; May 15, 2021

The Freedom of Forgiveness: Ancient Christian Wisdom on The Happiness Lab / Laurie Santos & Miroslav Volf

34 mins; May 08, 2021

Beyond Invisible | American 한 (Han): An Artistic Response to Anti-Asian Violence / Sarah Shin & Shin Maeng

7 mins; May 06, 2021

Active Mystic: How Wonder Unifies Justice and Spirituality / Sameer Yadav

48 mins; May 01, 2021

Have You Eaten Yet?: Hospitality, Solidarity, and the Great Banquet of Justice / David de Leon & Matt Croasmun

36 mins; April 24, 2021

Passionate God, Crucified God, Joyful God / Jürgen Moltmann & Miroslav Volf

36 mins; April 10, 2021

Dead Quiet: The Death Penalty in Theological, Moral, and Political Context / Elizabeth Bruenig & Ryan McAnnally-Linz

44 mins; April 03, 2021

You Do You: Ethics of Authenticity in Disney's Frozen and Moana / Matt Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz

47 mins; March 29, 2021

When Hospitals Become Battlefields: The Impact of Spiritual Abuse on Faith & Flourishing / Dan Koch

51 mins; March 20, 2021

The Gravity of Joy / Angela Gorrell

34 mins; March 13, 2021

Befriending Reality: Engaging Otherness with Hospitality, Artfulness, and Particularity at Depth / Krista Tippett & Miroslav Volf

42 mins; March 06, 2021

Joy and the Act of Resistance Against Despair / Willie Jennings and Miroslav Volf

24 mins; February 28, 2021

Willie Jennings's After Whiteness: Belonging, Intimacy, and Resisting White Masculinity / Matt Croasmun

9 mins; February 24, 2021

The Dignity of Work: Poverty, Property, and Fraternity in Pope Francis's Fratelli Tutti (Brothers & Sisters All) / Martin Schlag

37 mins; February 20, 2021

Howard Thurman's Mystical Activism: Connection, Alienation, and Black Vitality / Sameer Yadav

10 mins; February 19, 2021

David Walker's Dangerous Appeal: Black Abolitionism and Belonging to God / Ryan McAnnally-Linz

7 mins; February 15, 2021

This Economy Kills: Healing the Human Environment in Pope Francis's Fratelli Tutti (Brothers & Sisters All) / Sister Helen Alford

37 mins; February 13, 2021

Dreaming of a Different World: Friendship, Dignity, and Solidarity in Pope Francis's Fratelli Tutti (Brothers & Sisters All) / Nichole Flores

34 mins; February 06, 2021

Radical Humility: Forgetting Oneself as a Path to Flourishing

41 mins; January 31, 2021

God’s Love Made Delicious: Food, Hospitality, and the Gift of Eating Together / Norman Wirzba & Matt Croasmun

49 mins; January 23, 2021

Patience with Yourself: Resisting the Temptation to Curate Yourself and Finding the Courage to Embrace Imperfection

37 mins; January 16, 2021

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