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The Veritas Forum — 258 episodes

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1

Are We Living in the Best of All Possible Worlds? | Lennox & Lowenstein

2

Questioning Christianity: A Professor's Journey from Skepticism to Faith | Molly Worthen

3

Why the Resurrection Changes Everything (If It's True) | N. T. Wright & Shelly Kagan

4

The Messiness of Meaning | Satyan Devadoss & Stuart Firestein

5

Do Christians Have a Stronger Claim on Morality than Atheists? | John Hare & Peter Singer

6

Lewis, Tolkien, & Friendship | John Hendrix

7

Can Faith Make Sense of Suffering? | Meghan Sullivan & John Stuhr

8

Becoming Alive in a Dehumanizing World | Rowan Williams & Chigozie Obioma

9

Is Religion for Everyone? | Ross Douthat & Damon Linker

10

God Might Be Real—But Is He Personal? | Tim Keller & Anthony Kronman

11

That's a Wrap! Best Episodes from 2025 + Sneak Peek at 2026

12

Beyond Prescriptions: How Physicians Can Help Suffering Patients | Lydia Dugdale & Michael Menchine

13

Success, Silicon Valley, & Fulfillment | Pat Gelsinger & John Hennessy

14

Miracles: How Skeptical Should We Be? | Sean McDowell & Paul Rinzler

15

Why Education is About More Than Grades | Angel Adams Parham & Roosevelt Montás

16

What Makes Humans Unique? | Praveen Sethupathy & Scott Aikin

17

How a Philosopher Found Christianity, and Why She Still Believes | Meghan Sullivan

18

Christianity and the Basic Assumptions All Scientists Make | John Lennox

19

Politics, Faith, & Hope: Two Perspectives | Michael Wear & Hahrie Han

20

Is Hope Naïve in a World Like Ours? | Esau McCaulley & Gary Saul Morson

21

Suffering, Belief, & the Search for Meaning | Ross Douthat & Frank Bruni

22

An MIT Professor's Unconventional View of Success | Cullen Buie

23

Identity, Evil, and Hope: Two Perspectives on Big Questions | Wright & Maibom

24

Is Justice Possible in a World Like Ours? | David Skeel

25

Beethoven, Faith, & Suffering: A Musical Journey | Mia Chung-Yee

26

Two Scientists Share Stories of Awe & Wonder | Sethupathy & Hecht

27

Can We Pick and Choose Our Beliefs? | Muehlhoff & Barrett

28

What to Do With Limited Time | Lydia Dugdale & Timothy Bono

29

Looking for More: Two Professors on Religion & Transcendence | Smith & Fischer

30

Christian & Atheist Views on Human Uniqueness | Swamidass & Langland-Hassan

31

That's a Wrap! Best Episodes of 2024

32

A Case for Believing in Miracles | John Lennox

33

Literature, Meaning, & Faith | Lori Branch

34

Why You Should Embrace Being Wrong | Buie & Gleiser

35

Hey Siri, How Do I Find Myself? A Conversation on Spirituality & Technology | Haidt & Crouch

36

What's the Point of Pluralism? | Tim Keller

37

Physics, Beauty, and God | Ard Louis

38

Changing My Mind: A Skeptical Professor Meets a Surprising God | Molly Worthen

39

How Your Worldview Affects Your Life | Dallas Willard

40

Is Science the Only or Best Path to Knowledge? | Sethupathy & Rudge

41

What Technology Can (And Can't) Do | Rosalind Picard & Joshua Knobe

42

More Than Just Okay? Religion, Purpose & Human Flourishing | Thompson & Strecher

43

Can Truth and Tolerance Coexist? | Volf & Pendakur

44

Is the Grindset Mindset Working? | Dugdale & Fontaine

45

The Opposite of Depression Is More Than Just Mental Health w/ David Carreon | Beyond the Forum

46

Three Skills for Disagreeing Better in 2024 w/John Inazu | Beyond the Forum

47

What Mother Teresa Taught Me | Mary Poplin

48

Happier Doctor—Healthier Patient? | Arthur Brooks & Bernard Chang

49

Are We Living in the Best of All Possible Worlds? | Lennox & Lowenstein

50

The Messiness of Meaning | Devadoss & Firestein

51

Mental Health Takes a Village | Curt Thompson & Jill Stratton

52

Has Science Made Spirituality Irrelevant? An Interfaith Discussion | Sethupathy & Shamoo

53

That's A Wrap! Top Episodes of 2023

54

Can Truth Be Found Through Fantasy? | Madeleine L'Engle

55

Does Belief Need a Reality Check? | Sean McDowell & Matthew Vess

56

Is Faith More Than Fiction? | Meghan Sullivan & Sam Mitchell

57

Can we engineer a perfect world? | Tyler VanderWeele & Steven Pinker

58

What Gods Do We Believe in Now? | N.T. Wright

59

Should You Be a Know-It-All? | Jonathan Feng

60

I Could Be Happy, If Only... w/ Arthur Brooks | Beyond the Forum

61

Do You Ever Think About Dying? | Lydia Dugale & Susanna Siegel

62

Where Is God in Places of Pain? | John Lennox

63

Searching for Proof, Finding Faith w/ Tom Rudelius | Beyond the Forum

64

What Our Genes Can (and Can't) Tell Us | Praveen Sethupathy

65

What Can We Know about the Soul? | Miller & Byrne

66

It's Brain Science: Ethics, Purpose, and Our Complex Minds | Picard & Khosbin

67

It's Time to Think More Deeply about A.I. | Swamidass & Wolf

68

Everything Sad Is Untrue w/ Daniel Nayeri | Beyond the Forum

69

Where Is God in Suffering? | John Lennox

70

How Much Faith Is Enough? | Satyan Devadoss

71

Encore | Hope for Our Loneliness Epidemic | Curt Thompson

72

Beyond the Forum | Three Questions That Change Every Teenager w/ Kara Powell

73

How to become failure-resilient | Charles Lee at Vanderbilt

74

Is College Worth It? | Nancy Hill & Rakesh Khurana at Harvard

75

A decision-making tool that’s flexible, not fixed | Dave Evans & Bill Burnett

76

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77

What's the value of truth? | Meghan Sullivan & Katja Vogt

78

Is Science Enough? | Troy Van Voorhis

79

Beyond the Forum | Do I have to have God to have meaning? | Ard Louis

80

Encore | Meaning, Evidence, and Truth | Ard Louis

81

Spring 2023 Trailer: Meaning & Purpose

82

Winterlude | Can doctors "do no harm"? w/ Dr. Lydia Dugdale

83

Winterlude | An Insider's Guide to the University w/ John Inazu

84

Beyond the Forum | You Are Not Your Own w/ Alan Noble

85

Can anyone know your authentic self? | University of Chicago

86

Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Humanity | John Lennox & Paul Davies

87

How to Disagree | Harvard Law School

88

Beyond the Forum | What makes a good friend? w/ Jennifer Frey

89

What Good is Happiness? | Jennifer Frey & Jonathan Masur

90

Healing the Whole Person | Praveen Sethupathy & Lori Alvord

91

Time, Eternity, & Finding Value in Our Lives | Meghan Sullivan & Alan Lightman

92

Beyond the Forum | How to Inhabit Time w/ James K. A. Smith

93

Encore | You Are What You Love | James K. A. Smith

94

What Does it Mean to Be Human? | Joshua Swamidass & Scott Lilienfeld

95

Fall 2022 Trailer: What does it mean to be human?

96

Beyond the Forum | What do we do when things break? | Makoto Fujimura

97

Beyond the Forum | Can we change our brains for good? | Nii Addy

98

Beyond the Forum | What’s up with kids these days? | Nancy Hill

99

Beyond the Forum | Is "what's my passion" the right question? | Dave Evans

100

Beyond the Forum | Why should you care about philosophy? | Meghan Sullivan

101

Beyond the Forum | I’m a good person…right? | Christian Miller

102

AI, Religion, & Humanity: How Might (or Should?) We Shape the Future?

103

The Closing of the Modern Mind | Tim Keller & Jonathan Haidt

104

Living with Uncertainty in Science and Religion | John Lennox & George Church

105

Is Christianity Good for the Scientific University? | Veritas Weekend 2022

106

Imagination & What It Means to Be Human

107

Can science and God mix? | John Lennox & Pascal Wallisch

108

Living Well in Light of Death | N.T. Wright & Shelly Kagan

109

Does Science Point To Atheism? | Satyan Devadoss & Conor Mayo-Wilson

110

Can Science & Spirituality Coexist? | Beyond the Forum Edition

111

Scientific Inquiry and Faith | Ted Davis & Michael Ruse

112

Can a Scientist Believe in God? | Cullen Buie

113

Cosmic Chemistry: Do Science and God Mix? | Beyond the Forum edition

114

Math for Everyone | Francis Su

115

Can Robots Become Human? | Rosalind Picard

116

Breaking the Stigma: An Interfaith Conversation on Medicine and Mental Health | Kinghorn & Awaad

117

God = ? | NYU Questions World-class Philosopher Alvin Plantinga on Science & Religion

118

On Bones and Genomes: What Can Science Tell Us About Being Human?

119

AI and the Soul of Medicine

120

The Role of the Arts in a Post-Pandemic World | Christina Soriano & David Hagy

121

Mental Health, Pandemic, and Faith | Dr. Kinghorn & Dr. Choukas-Bradley

122

Resisting Bias & Reshaping Institutions | David French & Justin Giboney

123

Can We Be Scientific and Spiritual? | Michael Hecht & Praveen Sethupathy

124

Finding a Common Story? An Anthropologist and a Biologist Discuss

125

Is Beauty A Guide to Truth? A Physicist and a Philosopher discuss some Big Questions

126

Liberal Arts Education: What’s The Point? | Dr. Robert George and Dr. Cornel West

127

God, Math, and the Multiverse | Satyan Devadoss

128

Should Science & Religion Mix? | Harvard Medical School

129

Audacious Love: How Daryl Davis Convinced 200 Racists to Leave the KKK

130

Can Truth and Tolerance Coexist? | Miroslav Volf

131

Mental Health, Human Flourishing, and Religion | Beyond the Forum Edition

132

What Big Questions Can We Be Asking? | Beyond the Forum Edition

133

Living and Dying in the Time of Covid | Lydia Dugdale

134

God's Undertaker: Has Science and Philosophy Buried God | John Lennox

135

Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values that Move Us Beyond Fear | Elaine Ecklund

136

Cancelled: Redeeming Public Virtue in a Cancel Culture Age

137

Science, Ignorance, and the Pursuit of Meaning | Satyan Devadoss & Stuart Firestein

138

Wholeness Beyond What Fractures: Inner Wholeness Beyond Isolation, Shame, and Despair

139

Should Some Books Not Be Read? | Dhananjay Jagannathan & Tara Isabella Burton

140

Mathematics for Human Flourishing | Francis Su & Mia Chung-Yee

141

The Pursuit of Wholeness: Perspectives on God, Self, and Mental Health

142

Are We Better Off Divided? | David French & Angela Simms

143

Music Making as a Picture of Human Flourishing | Mia Chung-Yee

144

Shame & Spirituality: Living as a Whole Person in a Disembodied World | Curt Thompson

145

Human Identity and the Meaning of Artificial Intelligence | Joshua Swamidass

146

The Origin of Humanity: Adam, Eve, and Evolution | Josh Swamidass & Nathan Lents

147

Truth and Science | A Christian, Muslim, and Atheist Discuss

148

Losing Hope? A Discussion on God & the Reality of Suffering | Alister McGrath & Alan Lightman

149

The Lost Art of Dying | Dr. Lydia Dugdale

150

Politics, Science (&) Faith in the Era of Covid-19

151

Cosmic Chemistry: Do Science and God Mix? | Dr. John Lennox

152

Why Tolerance is Not Enough: Myths About Pluralism | Diana Eck & Vinoth Ramachandra

153

Designing Your Life Worth Living | Dave Evans

154

Disenchanted? A Pastor & a Born-Again Pagan Discuss | Tim Keller & Anthony Kronman

155

The Accidental Academic | Dr. Cullen Buie

156

Beauty of Mathematics | Satyan Devadoss & Lauren Spohn

157

Did Science Kill God? | John Lennox

158

Is Belief In God Irrational? | Meghan Sullivan

159

What is the Hope for Humanity? | N.T. Wright & Peter Thiel

160

Is Christianity Divisive? | Tim Keller

161

Should We Love Our Enemies? | Arthur Brooks

162

Under God: The Role of Religion in Public Life | Beth Elshtain & Michael Sandel

163

Our Culture of Distrust: How to Bridge the Left/Right & Religious/ Secular Divides

164

Political Visions and Illusions | David Koyzis & Erin Dienst

165

Pluralism in a Polarized Age: Navigating Our Deepest Differences Together | John Inazu & Eboo Patel

166

Are We As Honest As We Think We Are? | Christian Miller

167

The Language of God | Francis Collins

168

Lost Art Of Dying | Lydia Dugdale

169

Audacious Love: How Daryl Davis Convinced 200 Racists to Leave the KKK

170

Considering Career in COVID-19 | Andy Chan & Michael Sloan

171

Resilience And Grit During COVID-19 | Lt. Gen. Larry D. James & Dr. Carol Geffner

172

Why We Need Christians in Science | David Lahti

173

Why the Public Square Needs Christian Voices | Ross Douthat

174

What is the Good Life? What is Happiness? | Satyan Devadoss & Varun Soni

175

Coronavirus & Quarantine: Lament, Hope, and Creativity Edition

176

Coronavirus & Quarantine: The Economy, Career, and Jobs Edition

177

God And/Or Evolution? | Joshua Swamidass & Michael Behe

178

Coronavirus & Quarantine: What Big Questions Can We Be Asking?

179

Living & Dying Well | Lydia Dugdale & Alua Arthur

180

What Good Is Happiness? | Jennifer Frey & Jonathan Masur

181

We Evolved. What About Faith? | David Lahti & Andy Norman

182

Engineering The Good Life | Joseph Clair

183

Meaning, Evidence, and Truth | Dr. Ard Louis

184

Spiderwebs, Symmetry, and Spirituality | Satyan Devadoss & Greta Binford

185

Mental Health, Human Flourishing, and Religion | Dr. Curt Thompson

186

Faith Is Not a Sideshow: Why You - and the U - Need To Get Religion | Ross Douthat

187

Can Science Explain Everything? | Ard Louis & Pascal Wallisch

188

Gene Editing and the Future of Personhood | William Hurlbut & George Church

189

Designing Your Life Worth Living | Dave Evans & Bill Burnett

190

Good God? | N.T. Wright

191

Our Culture of Distrust | John Inazu & Jonathan Haidt

192

What is Happiness? | An Exploration of Science, Faith, and Mental Health

193

Does Faith Divide Us? | Tahera Ahmad & Russell Moore

194

Meaning-Making Methodologies | Francis Su & Paul Asimow

195

The Bible: Gospel, Guide, or Garbage? | Dr. NT Wright & Dr. Sean Kelly

196

525,600 Minutes: Time, Eternity and Finding Value in Our Lives | Alan Lightman & Meghan Sullivan

197

Can You Hear Me? | Dr. Curt Thompson & Dr. Kathryn Lofton

198

How Can Religion Heal Rather Than Divide? | Dr. Miroslav Volf

199

Liberal Arts Education: What’s The Point? | Dr. Robert George and Dr. Cornel West

200

God & The Universe | Dr. Stephen Barr

201

Is Science Enough? Faith, Reason, & the Human Need for Certainty | Dr. Troy Van Voorhis

202

Can Faith & Science Coexist? | Dr. Ian Hutchinson

203

What Makes Humans Special? | Dr. David Lahti & Dr. Andrew Berry

204

Drawing The Line: The Ethics of Gene Editing | William Hurlbut & Rudolf Jaenisch

205

Boundaries for Your Soul | Kimberly Miller

206

Muslim Immigration & Christian Hospitality | Matt Kaemingk

207

Christianity and the Tooth Fairy | John Lennox

208

Is Belief in God irrational? | Meghan Sullivan

209

Can Faith Reconcile Justice and Forgiveness? | Rachael Denhollander

210

Happiness Is Not Self-help | Jennifer Frey

211

Who is Christ for Us Today? Bonhoeffer's Final Questions | Charles Marsh

212

The Doctor's Gaze | Dr. Bob Cutillo

213

The Nature and Necessity of Worldviews | Dallas Willard

214

Is Perception Reality? | William Newsome & David Eagleman

215

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? | Ian Hutchinson

216

Faith is Not a Sideshow | Ross Douthat

217

Religion at the Cineplex | Alissa Wilkinson

218

Living Well in the Light of Death | N.T. Wright & Shelly Kagan

219

Why Alvin Plantinga Still Matters with Meghan Sullivan

220

Our Longings Find a Home in Jesus | Greg Ganssle

221

What Does Human Progress Mean? | Alana Ackerson & Christopher Hitchcock

222

Where is God in Suffering? | John Lennox

223

The Bible: Gospel, Guide, or Garbage? | N.T. Wright & Sean Kelly

224

Can We Reconcile Justice and Forgiveness? | Rachael Denhollander

225

Time for Truth | Os Guinness

226

How to Love Your Enemies | Miroslav Volf

227

Are You as Good as You Think You Are? | Christian Miller

228

Is Christianity Divisive? | Tim Keller

229

Genes, Atoms, or Something Else? | Praveen Sethupathy & Roald Hoffmann

230

It Is About Race | Andra Gillespie & Sumun Pendakur

231

Finding Jesus in Calcutta | Mary Poplin

232

Myths About Pluralism | Diana Eck & Vinoth Ramachandra

233

Faith, Hope, Love, & Climate Change | Dorothy Boorse & John Nolt

234

Beethoven, Suffering & Faith | Mia Chung

235

Why We Need Skepticism | Dallas Willard

236

Can Robots Become Human? | Rosalind Picard & Michael Littman

237

The Language of God | Francis Collins

238

You Are What You Love | James K.A. Smith

239

Is There Truth Beyond Science? | John Lennox & Larry Shapiro

240

God, Math, and the Multiverse | Satyan Devadoss

241

Live the Questions | N.T. Wright & Heidi Maibom

242

Searching for Truth Through Fantasy | Madeleine L'Engle

243

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? | Ian Hutchinson & Robert Lue

244

Overcoming Echo Chambers | Robert George & Hamza Yusuf

245

Designing Your Life Worth Living | Dave Evans & Bill Burnett

246

Emotional Machines | Rosalind Picard

247

Cold Fusion and the End of Scientism? | Ian Hutchinson

248

The Psychology of Finding Yourself | Ross Douthat & Nancy Hill

249

Faith, Race, and (Non)Violence | Andra Gillespie, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Claudia May

250

The Multiverse, the Polygraph, and the Resurrection | Tom Rudelius

251

Is Belief in God irrational? | Meghan Sullivan

252

Christianity and the Tooth Fairy | John Lennox at UCLA

253

Faith, Race, and Hip-Hop at Harvard | An Interview with Obasi Shaw

254

The Bible: Gospel, Guide, or Garbage? | N.T. Wright & Sean Kelly at Harvard

255

Under God? | Michael Sandel & Jean Bethke Elshtain

256

Connecting Passion and Purpose | charity: water Founder Scott Harrison

257

Disenchanted? | Tim Keller & Anthony Kronman at Yale

258

The Closing of the Modern Mind | Tim Keller & Jonathan Haidt at NYU