Podcast Episodes

The Scandal of Giving and Forgiving / Miroslav Volf

Episode 213

It’s easy to forget how utterly scandalous the concepts of grace and forgiveness are. Grace is an absolutely unmerited, undeserved benevolence. Forgiveness is an intentional miscarriage of retributiv…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Kendrick Lamar's Political Theology / Femi Olutade

Episode 212

Super Bowl LIX was amazing, but not because of the football, or the commercials. It was the 13-minute half-time tour de force of political theology and protest art, brought to you by Kendrick Lamar. …

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

The Psychology of Disaster: The Impact of Calamity on Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health / Jamie Aten and Pam King

Episode 211

Disaster preparedness is sort of an oxymoron. Disaster is the kind of indiscriminate calamity that only ever finds us ill-equipped to manage. And if you are truly prepared, you’ve probably averted di…

Published on 9 months ago

Our One and Only Earth: Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Consumption / Ryan Darr & Ryan McAnnally-Linz

Episode 210

How should we treat our one and only home, Earth? What obligations do we have to other living or non-living things? How should we think about climate change and its denial? How does biodiversity and …

Published on 9 months ago

Divine Hiddenness / Deborah Casewell

Episode 209

Are you there God? It’s me…

Why is God hidden? Why is God silent? And why does that matter in light of faith, hope, and love?

In this episode, philosopher Deborah Casewell joins Evan Rosa for a discuss…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

We the (Chosen) People: Christian Nationalism Now / Eliyahu Stern & Philip Gorski

Episode 208

Is America a nation Chosen by God? A New Jerusalem and Shining City on a Hill? What is the shape of Christian Nationalism today?

Now 4 years past Jan 6, 2021 and anticipating the next term of presiden…

Published on 10 months ago

How to Read Simone Weil, Part 3: The Existentialist / Deborah Casewell

Episode 207

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.” … “It is necessary to uproot oneself. To cut down the tree and make…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

How to Read Simone Weil, Part 2: The Activist / Cynthia Wallace

Episode 206

“What are you going through?” 

This was one of the central animating questions in Simone Weil’s thought that pushed her beyond philosophy into action. Weil believed that genuinely asking this question…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

How to Read Simone Weil, Part 1: The Mystic / Eric O. Springsted

Episode 205

This episode is the first of a short series exploring How to Read Simone Weil. The author of Gravity and Grace, The Need for Roots, and Waiting for God—among many other essays, letters, and notes, We…

Published on 11 months ago

Open the Gates: Immigration & the Book of Revelation / Yii-Jan Lin

Episode 204

Why do we have countries? Why do we mark this land and these people as distinct from that land and those people? What are countries for? Yii-Jan Lin (Associate Professor of New Testament, Yale Divini…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago