Podcast Episodes

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 2 months, 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 2 months, 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 3 months 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 3 months, 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 3 months, 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 6 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 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Art and Sacred Resistance: Art as Prayer, Love, Resistance and Relationship / Bruce Herman

Episode 216

“Art is a form of prayer … a way to enter into relationship.”

Artist and theologian Bruce Herman reflects on the sacred vocation of making, resisting consumerism, and the divine invitation to become c…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Fear to Hope: Ukrainian Pastor on Democracy, Fear, and Abundant Life in the Midst of War / Fyodor Raychynets

Episode 215

"Do not be afraid of your fears, but cope with them—learn how to deal with them—because unless you do, you cannot live your life abundantly and fully." (Fyodor Raychynets)

Evoking courage, resilience,…

Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago

What the Devil: Christian Imagination, Morality, and Two-Step Devil / Jamie Quatro

Episode 214

Mystics and prophets have reported receiving visions from the Divine for centuries—”Thus saith the Lord…”—Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Catherine of Siena, or Julian of No…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago