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Modern life presents a crisis of time, bringing the value of patience into question. Andrew Root joins Ryan McAnnally-Linz to provide some context for...

"Be with me, Madam Jazz, I urge you now, / Riff in me so I can conjure how / You breathe in us more than we dare allow." (Micheal O'Siadhail, The Five...

"The artist has the ability to direct the attention of the audience. If you agree to engage with their work, then they will show you something. And yo...

Is it possible for anyone to change their mind anymore?  Matt Croasmun welcomes theologian and ethicist Nichole Flores (University of Virginia) onto ...

In celebration of Juneteenth, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins and Angela Gorrell offer appreciation Old Testament scholar Charles B. Copher and Christian Educ...

"It's not just internal peace. It's internal healing. Healing of your memory."  (Kevin Lau) After suffering a brutal knife attack that nearly killed ...

"Jesus is the great kintsugi master."  "Something that's broken is already more valuable than when it's whole."  "The imagination creates, through t...

How should we respond to the pain of others? We are too often quick to justify God's permitting horrendous evils, answering why, and talking too much....

"I am because they were." Lisa Sharon Harper joins Miroslav Volf to discuss the significance of narrative history for understanding ourselves and our ...

A conversation on the ancient wisdom of Christian forgiveness, between Yale psychologist Laurie Santos (host, The Happiness Lab) and Miroslav Volf. Re...

"The tears were always there. / You just didn’t recognize my face." Author, artist, and theologian Sarah Shin reads her poem "Beyond Invisible"—a resp...

Which is greater: action or contemplation? Which is more excellent and therefore more central and determinative in human flourishing? A life of action...

"Kumain ka na ba?”—Have you eaten yet? (Tagalog) This beautiful phrase of welcome and care and intimacy evokes and offers more than just the pleasure ...

"Without living theologically, there can be no theology." (Jürgen Moltmann)  Miroslav Volf interviews his mentor, German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, ...

"Once a person has done evil, they have destroyed a significant part of themselves. They have made that turn towards non-being, non-existence, chaos, ...

Enroll now for our 7-week Life Worth Living Course through Grace Farms: http://gracefarms.org/life-worth-living. The course runs from May 4 to June 15...

Thinking of the Christian church as a field hospital is a wonderful thought, but what happens when the very place you go to for healing becomes the lo...

Theologian Angela Gorrell discusses her book The Gravity of Joy, a theological memoir that lays bare the experience of finding the bright sorrow of jo...

“For me, the spiritual task is to befriend reality in all its mess and complexity—to do that with grace." Krista Tippett joins Miroslav Volf for a con...

"I look at joy as an act of resistance against despair and its forces. ... Joy in that regard is a work, that can become a state, that can become a wa...

Matt Croasmun honors theologian Willie Jennings and his work in After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging. Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of ...

"There is no poverty worse than that which takes away work and the dignity of work. In a genuinely developed society, work is an essential dimension o...

"A strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal...

David Walker was an early 19th-century black abolitionist and activist, who wrote An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Ryan McAnnally-Linz ...

Support For the Life of the World, give to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture:  faith.yale.edu/give Shortly after Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope ...

“Here we have a splendid secret that shows us how to dream and to turn our life into a wonderful adventure. No one can face life in isolation… We need...

Philosopher Kent Dunnington exposes the radical roots of Christian humility, exploring the centrality of humility to Christian ethics, the goal of hum...

"Cooking is a declaration of love ... food is God’s love made delicious." Theologian Norman Wirzba reflects on the threats of our faulty logic of food...

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What is the state of Christianity and Democracy in America? We mined the past 6 months of episodes for the most timely, relevant, and even strangely p...