Podcast Episodes

Burnout and Sabbath / Alexis Abernethy

Episode 225

Clinical psychologist Alexis Abernethy explores burnout, Sabbath rest, and resilience—reframing rest as spiritual practice for individuals and communities.

“For me, it’s knowing that the Lord has made…

Published on 12 hours ago

How to Read the Gospel of John / David Ford

Episode 224

The Gospel of John is a gospel of superabundance. The cosmic Christ made incarnate would of course yield an absolute superabundance of grace, love, and unity.

What makes John’s Gospel so distinct from…

Published on 6 days, 16 hours ago

Amor Mundi Part 5: Humility and Glory of Love / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures

Episode 223

Miroslav Volf critiques ambition, love of status, and superiority, offering a Christ-shaped vision of agapic love and humble glory.

“’And if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Amor Mundi Part 4: The Earth Embraced / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures

Episode 222

Miroslav Volf explores agapic love, creation’s goodness, and God’s grief—an alternative to despair, power, and world rejection.

“When a wanted child is born, the immense joy of many parents often rend…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Amor Mundi Part 3: Loving Our Fate? / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures

Episode 221

Miroslav Volf critiques Nietzsche’s vision of power, love, and suffering—and offers Jesus’s unconditional love as a more excellent way.

The idea that competitive and goalless striving to increase one'…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Amor Mundi Part 2: Hating the World, Unquenchable Thirst / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures

Episode 220

Miroslav Volf confronts Schopenhauer’s pessimism and unquenchable thirst with a vision of love that affirms the world.

“Unquenchable thirst makes for ceaseless pain. This befits our nature as objectif…

Published on 1 month ago

Amor Mundi Part 1: Unchained from Our Sun / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures

Episode 219

Miroslav Volf on how to rightly love a radically ambivalent world.

“The world, our planetary home, certainly needs to be changed, improved. But what it needs even more is to be rightly loved.”

Miroslav…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse / Miroslav Volf

Episode 218

What if our relentless drive to be better than others is quietly breaking us?

Miroslav Volf unpacks the core themes of his 2025 book, The Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Body as Sacred Offering: Ballet and Embodied Faith / New York City Ballet Dancer Silas Farley

Episode 217

Silas Farley, former New York City Ballet dancer and current Dean of the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, explores the profound connections between classical ballet, Christian worship, …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Remembering Pope Francis / Nichole Flores and Ryan McAnnally-Linz

Pope Francis died on Monday April 21, 2025. And to remember and celebrate his life, we’re bringing out an episode from our archives featuring social ethicist and Associate Professor of Religious Stud…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago