All Episodes

Episode 405: Todd Hixenbaugh on the Honor/Shame Culture in Rap, What's Behind Our Desire for Aliens, Is It a Sin to Be Cremated?, and the Connection Between Samurai, Ninja, and the X-Men

Episode 404: Steve Carter on Learning to Grieve, What to Do When Other People Are Upset with You, and Returning Home

Episode 403: Jay Kim on How to Have Better Conversations, What's Made Us Worse at Listening, and Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking

Episode 402: Win Corduan with a Christian Introduction to World Religions

Episode 401: Lisa-Jo Baker on Learning from Our Family History Without Repeating It

Episode 400: Nancy French on Living Out Your Values, Loneliness, Shame, and Finding Healing

Episode 399: Preston Sprinkle on Why Christians Should See Themselves as Exiles and Choosing to Follow the Kingdom Over the Empire

Episode 398: The Library: Dune 2, Your Personal Best, Three Body Problem, Beautiful Things, and How God. Builds People

Episode 397: Justin Brierley on Moderating Conversations Between Skeptics, Atheists and Christians, Why New Atheism Grew Old and the Rebirth of Belief in God

Episode 396: J. Dana Trent on Mental Health, Critical Thinking, World Religions, Accepting Yourself, and Home

Episode 395: David Fitch on What We Don't Know About Power, How Power Impacts Your Imagination, and the Difference Between Worldly Power and Godly Power

Episode 394: Clay Routledge on How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful Life

Episode 393: Nijay Gupta on How Christianity Differed from Roman Religion and How the Impact of the Roman Empire Shows Up Today

Episode 392: Sarah Bessey on When Faithfulness Leads to Questioning, Holding Onto What You Were Going to Throw Away, and the Most Important Uncelebrated Work

Episode 391: Brian Zahnd on the Tension Between Modernity and Mysticism, How Art Awakens Us, and the Power of the Cross

Episode 390: Michael Wear on Spiritual Formation in Politics, the Disappearance of Moral Knowledge, and Why Facing Reality is Our Greatest Challenge

Episode 389: Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos on How to Lovingly Disagree, How to Lower Our Defensiveness, and the Importance of Honesty in Disagreements

Episode 388: Mark Yarhouse on How to Prepare for Conversations Around Gender Identity

Episode 387: David Dark on the Holy Work of Situational Awareness, Overcoming Defensiveness, and Loving People in Process

Episode 386: Michael Bungay Stanier on How to Work with (Almost) Anyone and Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships

Episode 385: Brandon Flanery on Coming Out as Gay, Finding Opportunity Through Pain, and the Importance of Choosing the Journey Over the Destination

Episode 384: Brenda Young on Her Life Lessons Part 3: Why Lowering Your Expectations Isn't Necessarily a Bad Thing, Refusing to Let Life Harden You, and Filtering Everything Through Jesus

Episode 383: Brenda Young on Her Life Lessons Part 2: Giving More Weight to Your Dreams Than Your Fears, the Benefits of Writing, and How Forgiveness Frees You

Episode 382: Brenda Young On Her Life Lessons Part 1: Choosing to Reenlist Instead of Retire, Becoming More Comfortable with Who God Made You to Be and Being a Vision and Voice for Others

Episode 381: Ingrid Faro on Demystifying Evil

Episode 380: Sarah Anderson and Darren Kizer on What They Learned' About Deconstructing and Reconstructing Their Christian Faith

Episode 379: Daniel Reinhardt on His Experience as a Police Officer and His Thoughts on Police Reform

Episode 378: Miles Lagoze and Justin Loya on Their Time Behind the Camera in Afghanistan

Episode 377: John Burke on What We Can Learn About the God of Heaven from Near Death Experiences

Episode 376: Kaitlyn Schiess on How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics

Episode 375: David Gushee on How Democracy is Threatened and What We Can Do to Protect Democracy

Episode 374: Crystal Chiang, Stuart Hall and Candice Wynn on Deconstructing and Reconstructing Their Christian Faith

Episode 373: Ike Miller on How Your Difficult Childhood Prepared You for Healthy Relationships

Episode 372: Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer on How to Build a Church Culture That Resists Abuse and Cultivates Goodness

Episode 371: Esau McCaulley on an Honest and Hopeful Look at His Complicated Family Legacy

Episode 370: Jack Carson on Facing the Hard Questions of Christianity, Exploring the Alternatives, and Attentional Blindness

Episode 369: Andrew Whitehead on How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

Episode 368: Samuel James on How to Cultivate Christian Character in an Online Age

Episode 367: Karen Swallow Prior on How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Influenced Evangelicalism and the Role of Imagination in Faith

Episode 366: Erin Jean Warde on How to Have a More Mindful Relationship with Alcohol

Episode 365: Jim Wilder and Ray Woolridge on How to Escape Enemy Mode

Episode 364: Preston Sprinkle on How to Have More Fruitful Conversations and the Historic Christian View of Marriage

Episode 363: Russell Moore on How to Live Through a Spiritual Crisis, How to Know When It's Time to Speak Up, and How to Spark Change

Episode 362: Carmen Imes on Why Creation Still Matters and What It Means to Be God's Image

Episode 361: Joseph Minich on How Atheism Became a Possibility and How Divine Absence Has Affected Us

Episode 360: Sheila Gregoire on Harmful Messages About Sex and How the Church Can Have Better Conversations About Sex

Episode 359: Tasha Jun with Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging

Episode 358: Terence Lester on His Journey with Disability and How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity

Episode 357: Scott Allender on How Emotional Intelligence and the Enneagram Work Together

Episode 356: Curtis Chang on What Causes Anxiety, How to Respond to It, and the Opportunity Found In It

Episode 355: Adam Alter on How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

Episode 354: Seth Godin on What's Wrong with Work, the Characteristics of People's Best Jobs, and Building the Life You Want

Episode 353: Jon Ward on Being a Boarder-Stalker, Strengthening Our Discernment, and Having Public and Private Character

Episode 352: Lyndsey Medford on Lessons for Healing in a World That is Sick

Episode 351: Zachary Wagner on Non-Toxic Masculinity and Pursuing Healthy Male Sexuality

Episode 350: Monica Parker on the Five Elements of Wonder, How to Hone Your Curiousity, and the Difference Between Wow and Whoa

Episode 349: Peter Enns on How Our Faith Must Evolve as Our Understanding of the World Deepens

Episode 348: Nijay Gupta on How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

Episode 347: Collin Hansen on Lessons Learned from the Spiritual and Intellectual Formation of Timothy Keller

Episode 346: Scot McKnight on Understanding the Mystery of the Book of Revelation

Episode 345: John Starke on Performative Individualism and How to Overcome Our Need to Be Noticed

Episode 344: Mark Lau Branson and Juan Martinez on How to Identify and Work With What God is Doing in Your Church and Community

Episode 343: Shane Claiborne on Rethinking What It Means to Be Pro-Life

Episode 342: Kyle Meyaard-Schaap on a Christian Call to Climate Change

Episode 341: Marilyn Vancil on Moving Beyond the Enneagram

Episode 340: Jesse Eubanks on Using the Enneagram to Understand the Sacrifices Each Type Makes and the Spiritual Practices That Give Life to Each Type

Episode 339: Benno van den Toren on a Model for Interfaith Apologetics and Learning About the Major World Religions

Episode 338: Richard Lints on How to Gain Wisdom in an Age of Division and How What Happened in the 1960s Affects Us Today

Episode 337: Glenn Packiam on How to Establish Rhythms For All Seasons of Life

Episode 336: Carlos Whittaker on How to Human and Learning 50 New Things Before Turning 50

Episode 335: Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn on the Journey to Learning Humility

Episode 334: Mark Yaconelli on Why Stories Are So Powerful and How They Can Save Us

Episode 333: Chris Spitale on How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality

Episode 332: Patrick Miller on Why We Need to Choose Truth Over Tribe

Episode 331: Tim Elmore on How to Make the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage

Episode 330: Julie Bogart on How to Become a Better Learner

Episode 329: Todd Hixenbaugh and Caleb Mason on What They've Learned in 2022

Episode 328: Alison Cook on How to Break Free from Painful Patterns, Mend Your Past, and Discover Your True Self in God

Episode 327: Jessica Nordell on How to Eliminate Unconscious Bias and Create a More Just World

Episode 326: Bonnie Kristian on the Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community

Episode 325: Ruth Haley Barton on Embracing the Rhythms of Work and Rest

Episode 324: Tyler Staton on Embracing the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

Episode 323: Beth and Jeff McCord on How to Use the Enneagram to Become More Aware of Your Internal World

Episode 322: Sharon Hodde Miller on the Cost of Control: Why We Crave It, the Anxiety It Gives Us, and the Real Power God Promises

Episode 321: David Livermore on How to Overcome Polarization in a Digital, Diverse and Divided World

Episode 320: Jay Kim on Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age

Episode 319: Paul Miller on What's Wrong with Christian Nationalism

Episode 318: Laura Vanderkam on How to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters

Episode 317: Sabrina Chan and Linson Daniel on the Similarities and Differences Between Asian American Christians

Episode 316: Marianne Lewis On Using Both/And Thinking to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Episode 315: Skye Jethani on How the Church Can Become the Community Jesus Intended

Episode 314: Nathan and Susannah Furr on Strategies for Dealing with Uncertainty and the Unknown

Episode 313: Shannon Kearns on His Journey as a Transgender Man with Scripture

Episode 312: Rich Villodas on Becoming Whole in a Fractured World

Episode 311: Claude Atcho on Reading Black Books

Episode 310: Mark Noll on How the Bible Decisively Shaped American History and How History Has Influenced How Scripture Was Used

Episode 309: Bo Seo on How Debate Teaches Us to Disagree, Listen, and Be Heard

Episode 308: Jeff Henderson on Navigating Transitions, How to Leave Well, and Building a Life You Enjoy

Episode 307: Steve Magness on What We Get Wrong About Resilience and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

Episode 306: AJ Harper on How to Write a Must-Read Book