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Advent Joy: Resistance Against Despair, Celebrating the Beauty of Black Joy / Stacey Floyd-Thomas & Willie James Jennings
18. dec. 2023 34m

Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; click here to donate today. Part 3 of 4 in our 202...

Speaking to the Unspeakable: Catastrophe, Silence, and Respect in Aboriginal Australian Life / Stan Grant
18. dec. 2023 1t 28m

Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; click here to donate today. How do you speak to th...

Advent Peace / Non-Violent Resistance & the Uninvited Christ / David Dark
11. dec. 2023 26m

Part 2 of 4 in our 2023 Advent Series. David Dark introduces a new way of thinking about non-violent resistance, which he dubs "Robot Soft Exorcism," ...

How to Read as a Spiritual Practice: Books, Shared Meaning, and the Love of God in the Text / Jessica Hooten Wilson & Matthew Smith
9. dec. 2023 59m

To read is human. Even as literacy rates or the quality of that literacy make us nervous for the future, the act of reading looks like it’s somewhere ...

Advent Hope: Darkness, Endurance, and No-Exit Situations / Miroslav Volf
4. dec. 2023 24m

Help the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; visit faith.yale.edu/give to donate today. A speci...

N.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / Violence in God's Name: Monotheism, Nationalism, Violence, and Our Ultimate Allegiance
3. dec. 2023 46m

As you listen today, would you consider helping the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for  2024 podcast production? vi...

Interchange of Love: Gratitude, Gift, and Joyful Recognition / Miroslav Volf
19. nov. 2023 40m

“Gratitude enlivens the world.”  Gratitude is the emotional expression of the interchange of love between giver and receiver. So of course we’re look...

Thanks A Lot: The Complicated Emotional World of Gratitude / Jo-Ann Tsang
11. nov. 2023 44m

Recent psychological studies find that gratitude can help us create, cultivate, and maintain the kinds of relationships that make life worth living. O...

Fearing Rightly: Horror Films, Theology, and Living with the Terror of Life / Kutter Callaway
30. okt. 2023 1t 8m

Why do we like horror films? Why do we gravitate to the theatre for a collective catharsis—living out our nightmares vicariously through the unwitting...

How to Lead with Peace, Humility, Compassion, and Faith / Christian Faith & Democratic Leadership / Evan Mawarire
14. okt. 2023 46m

Activist, Pastor, and Global Leader Evan Mawarire reflects on the role of Christian faith in democratic leadership, specifically looking at three sign...

How Disability Reframes Humanity: Three Bible Stories to See Disability as the Site of Divine Revelation / Calli Micale
7. okt. 2023 45m

“Wrestling with oneself, with one’s past, with one’s relationships, with God … These stories push us to use disability to think about the human condit...

How to Eat, Drink, and Be Human (Lessons from Revolutionary Women) / Alissa Wilkinson
18. sep. 2023 55m

Show Notes Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women Creative non-fiction and “essays” as a genre “I guess what I was t...

Reframing Disability: Agency, Possibility, and Radical Dependency / Calli Micale
19. aug. 2023 52m

Show Notes Instructive irony: Evan’s disabling experience of setting up a microphone for a podcast interview Three ways to think about disability: Mi...

What Boredom Means: Cultivating Attention & Leisure for a Life Connected to Time & Place / Kevin Gary & Drew Collins
1. aug. 2023 35m

Where does boredom come from? Have humans always experienced boredom, or has it only come on in the entertainment age, having more time than we know w...

Kelly Corrigan, Claire Danes, & Kate Bowler / The Practice of Flourishing / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 5 of 5
22. jul. 2023 53m

The final installment of our 5-part book club series on Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, produced and hosted by Kelly Corrigan, and fe...

Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Consumption, Responsibility, Failure, Repair, & Forgiveness / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 4 of 5
15. jul. 2023 54m

Show Notes https://katebowler.com/about/ https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/kate-bowler https://www.kellycorrigan.com/podcast About Kelly Corrigan Ke...

Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Envy, Desire, and Struggling with Belief / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 3 of 5
1. jul. 2023 55m

Today’s episode is part 3 of a 5-part book club series produced and hosted by Kelly Corrigan. The PBS host and author of four New York Times bestselli...

Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Values, Vocation, Curiosity & Dealing with Circumstance / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 2 of 5
25. jun. 2023 54m

Today’s episode is part 2 of a 5-part book club series produced and hosted by Kelly Corrigan. The PBS host and author of four New York Times bestselli...

Life Worth Living Book Club Part 1 of 5 / Kelly Corrigan with Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
17. jun. 2023 54m

"Your life is too important to be guided by anything less than what matters most." Part 1 of a 5-part book club series on Life Worth Living: A Guide ...

Human Uniqueness & the Imago Dei: Clues for Flourishing in Our Biological Niche / Justin Barrett on Bringing Psychology to Theology
10. jun. 2023 50m

We homo sapiens sapiens are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” but why? What’s so special about being human? What makes us unique? And can we equate ou...

Made for Relationships: The Sacred Responsibilities of Marriage and Parenting / Mari Clements on Bringing Psychology to Theology
30. maj 2023 35m

We tend to take these claims for granted: “Human beings are essentially relational.” “No man is an island.” “We’re created for connection.” “We’re mad...

Tapestry of Knowledge: Theology and Psychology as Truth-Seeking Partners / Oliver Crisp on Bringing Psychology to Theology
23. maj 2023 34m

"Theology is truth-apt and truth-aimed." Too often the faith-science debate ends up a zero-sum game where either science or theology overstep their bo...

Tolerating Doubt & Ambiguity: Psychological Tools to Deal with Uncertainty and Deconversion / Elizabeth Hall on Bringing Psychology to Theology
15. maj 2023 45m

Is your faith a house of cards? If you were wrong about one belief would the whole structure just collapse? If even one injury came to you, one instan...

Angry at God: The Psychology of Spiritual Struggle, Coping with Challenges to Faith, Handling Conflicts with God / Julie Exline
8. maj 2023 43m

Sometimes things go wrong. Your British premiere league football club loses a game; maybe your dog eats the birthday party cupcakes; maybe someone cut...

From Surviving to Thriving: Human Purpose, Relational Intimacy, and Spiritual Connection via Developmental Psychology / Pamela Ebstyne King
30. apr. 2023 1t 5m

"Usually people think of a telos as an endpoint, but what if we think of telos as a dynamic process that sustains a thriving trajectory for the indivi...

Bringing Psychology to Theology / Justin Barrett & Miroslav Volf
22. apr. 2023 39m

Imagine building a cathedral with just a hammer and nails. How might theologians today continue to build the grand cathedral where human knowledge mee...

Micheal O'Siadhail / Testament: Through You I Gaze at All I Love
7. apr. 2023 56m

Micheal O'Siadhail reflects on his latest collection of poetry, Testament. A confession of faith through Psalms refracted through his experience, and ...

Ukrainian Pastor Speaks Out: Resist Evil, Be Present, and Remember How Little You Control / Fyodor Raychynets & Miroslav Volf
17. mar. 2023 36m

Imagine war becoming your new normal. Imagine getting used to things like airstrike sirens. Imagine sleeping through the distant bombs. Imagine passin...

Esau McCaulley / Lent: Season of Repentance, Renewal... and Rebellion
22. feb. 2023 51m

It’s not a popular idea, but secular America is pretty damn religious. Pretty damn liturgical. Pumpkin spice lattes and apple cider donuts are the euc...

Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination and the Expression of True Freedom / Vincent Lloyd
3. feb. 2023 44m

The primal scene of domination and slavery inevitably produces struggle. It must. Because domination is the idolatrous effort of one to exert control ...