Episodes
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Paul Elie
Paul Elie is the author of two big books; The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach. The Life You Save May Be Your Own focuses on the lives of, and relationships between, four mid-twentieth century Catholic writers, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy....
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John Mark Reynolds
In 1996, Dr. John Mark Reynolds founded the Torrey Honors College, the Great Books program at Biola University. After many years there, he went on to serve as provost at Houston Baptist University, and later to help start The Saint Constantine School, an Orthodox Classical Christian school in...
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Laura Jansson
Laura Jansson is a practicing doula, Orthodox Christian, and the author of Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy, a creative work of theology that examines a broad range of Christian imagery and scripture through the lens of pregnancy and childbirth. From Jesus' exhortation to Nicodemus...
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Fred Bahnson
Fred Bahnson's essays and journalism have appeared in Harper's, Orion, Oxford American, Image, and The Sun, among other publications, and he has been the recipient of a Pulitzer Center grant. He is also the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith. Fred's work in recent...
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Ken Myers
Ken Myers is the founder of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, a quarterly audio periodical that features his interviews with a wide-ranging slate of writers and thinkers, from the well-known and popular to the relatively obscure. Whether discussing medications with a clinical psychiatrist or the music...
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Peter Wehner
Peter Wehner served in three Republican presidential administrations, including as an advisor to President George W. Bush. His essays and opinion pieces on politics and religion appear regularly in the pages of both The Atlantic and The New York Times. He is also the author of several books,...
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John Darnielle
John Darnielle is the lead vocalist and primary member of the Mountain Goats, an American indie rock band, and the author of three novels. His debut, "Wolf in White Van," was nominated for the National Book Award. His most recent novel is "Devil House."
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Season One Finale with Dan Koch
To cap off this first season of Faith + Letters, I invite my good friend Dan Koch, host of the You Have Permission podcast, to have a conversation with me about how I make the show, what I've learned about myself in the process, and where I'm going from here. If you're interested in podcasts...
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Adam Lewis Greene
Adam Lewis Greene is the creator of Bibliotheca, a painstakingly designed Reader's Bible without chapter or verse notations. Both a beautiful physical object and a return to more ancient forms, Bibliotheca was funded through an explosively viral Kickstarter that became the single-highest grossing...
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Sara Billups
Sara Billups is the author of "The Irresistible Peril of Publishing," an essay on the challenges writers seeking publication often contend with. I found the piece resonant on many levels — my own publishing travails were certainly fodder for our conversation — but I hope any working artist will...
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Tim Mackie
Tim Mackie is the theological brain behind BibleProject, an animation studio focused on creating videos to explain the context, themes, and overarching story of the Bible. Tim is an enigma; he holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but prior to...
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D. L. Mayfield
Danielle Mayfield is the author of The Myth of the American Dream: Notes on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power. Her essays and features have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Christianity Today, The Washington Post, and Image. Much of Danielle's work centers on what she…
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Macy Halford
Macy Halford is the author of My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir, which details her lifelong relationship with the classic Christian devotional text, My Utmost For His Highest, by the Scottish preacher Oswald Chambers. She is the former editor of the online book review at The New Yorker, and now…
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Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor was a professor of English at Bethel University for over thirty years, and is the author of numerous works, including The Myth of Certainty, a book that framed our discussion on faith, doubt, certainty, modernism, and the lived experience of those he describes as "reflective...
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Chris Hoke
Chris Hoke is a gang pastor, jail chaplain, and founder of Underground Ministries. His memoir, Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jails, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders, renders the stories of his work with current and former gang members in Washington's Skagit Valley in vivid detail....