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Discover how anxiety can become a space for spiritual growth, inviting us to depend more deeply on God and be formed into people of peace and courage.
Join David and Nancy French for conversations that bring honesty, humor, and hope to the toughest issues of faith, culture, and community.
Explore how faith can shape our politics through conversations rooted in hope, humility, and a shared pursuit of the common good.
From marriage to dementia to dying well, explore how friends who follow Jesus can navigate life’s hardest realities with courage, compassion, and a steady faith in what’s yet to come.
From AI to social media, Andy Crouch helps us discover how followers of Jesus can navigate technology with wisdom, discernment, and a vision for human flourishing.
Discover how we can nurture a resilient, thoughtful faith in the next generation—helping young people live with courage, curiosity, and conviction in a changing world.
From our fall 2025 immigration series to conversations in Minnesota and Chicago, Good Faith explores the theology, policies, and human stories behind immigration—helping followers of Jesus love their neighbor with clarity, courage, and hope.
From theology to science to everyday Christian practice, Good Faith explores how followers of Jesus can engage climate change with hope, humility, and meaningful action.
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What if the anxiety you`re carrying isn`t a problem to make go away, but a doorway to growth? In this week`s episode—a conversation between Curtis and Lee C. Camp on the No Small Endeavor podcast—Curtis and Lee trace this fear of future loss through so many corners of our lives: our leadership, our relationships, our distrust of institutions, and especially our politics, where Curtis argues you can`t understand this divided moment without understanding anxiety on the right, the left, and everywhere in between.
It`s the heart of Curtis`s book The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self—the idea that naming the fear beneath our anxiety lets us face it with compassion instead of avoidance.
And we can`t say enough good things about No Small Endeavor. Hosted by theologian and professor Lee C. Camp, it`s a Signal Award-winning, 2026 Ambie-nominated show exploring what it means to live a good life — thoughtful, generous conversation at its very best. Such a great episode. Listen to the full thing wherever you get your podcasts, and check out The Anxiety Opportunity to go deeper.
This week on Good Faith, we`re doing something a little different: we`re sharing a conversation between our own Curtis Chang and Lee C. Camp from the Signal Award-winning, 2026 Ambie Award-nominated podcast No Small Endeavor. Hosted by theologian and professor Lee C. Camp, No Small Endeavor explores what it means to live a good life, and this conversation was such a great one that we wanted to bring it to you.
Curtis reflects on his story as a Chinese American immigrant, former pastor, and public theologian—and makes the case that anxiety sits at the root of America`s political crisis. He unpacks how anxiety is really a fear of future loss, and offers practical ways to name it, face it, and move through it with compassion instead of avoidance.
From there, Curtis and Lee dig into why institutions are made of people rather than systems—which means they can be healed and repaired rather than torn down — and why focusing on the how of politics, not just the what, is essential to getting beyond our moment of division.
It`s a striking claim: the prophets had an instinct most of us don`t. When they saw a widening gap between the comfortable and the crushed, they didn`t reach first for a system to blame or a side to accuse. They asked a harder question:what are we loving?
Amos is a case study in exactly that. He looked at a prosperous, religious nation and saw people who could sing on Sunday and step on the poor by Monday, never noticing the contradiction. The prophets kept refusing to let devotion to God and indifference to a neighbor sit comfortably side by side.
Over on The After Party social accounts, we’re spent this week with Amos, and the uncomfortable possibility that our worship and our justice can drift apart without us ever noticing.
The prophetic move was never to aim that question outward. It was to let it land at home, on us, first.
Head to @theafterparty2024 for the full series on the prophets.
Loving the place you come from can quietly become one of the hardest obstacles to seeing it honestly.
In the latest episode of The Good Faith Podcast, David French is back to discuss how that has played out for him as a white southerner thinking about the legacy of the Confederacy.
What makes the conversation worth sitting with is the way David and Curtis move toward a fuller kind of love for home, one that has room for both the goodness a place has given you and the harm it has caused others, and one that stays close enough to tell the truth so that reckoning can open the door to redemption. Listen in to the full episode.
In our latest conversation, David French offers a simple picture that carries a lot of weight, describing a faith shaped like the cross itself, where our love for God reaches upward and, in the same motion, sends us outward toward the people around us. He goes on to name the two ways that shape can break down when we value one over the other. Where are you tempted to do this? Don’t miss this week’s episode.
There is one power that defeats the powers and principalities: the cross. As Curtis and David French discuss this week, the humility of the cross, God laying down his own life among the least of these, is what overturns and rebukes every culture and every institutional legacy built on pride. No stronghold is beyond its reach.
Have hope in his sovereignty this week, friends.
You know the feeling of walking away from a conversation and realizing the other person never asked you a single thing about yourself?
David Brooks says only about 30% of people are question-askers. The rest are perfectly lovely—they just never learned how to make someone feel truly seen. And his big claim in this episode is the hopeful part: seeing people well isn`t a personality trait you`re born with. It`s a skill. A craft you can actually practice and get better at.
We sat with that for a while. So we pulled six of the most practical things Curtis and David unpacked in this conversation—swipe through for the whole list. Some of them are gentle. A couple of them sting a little (looking at you, slide 3).
The whole episode is one of those quietly convicting listens that changes how you show up at the next dinner table.
Which of the six do you most need to work on? We`ll go first: not being a topper.
Listen back to "How to Know a Person" with David Brooks. Link in bio.
A word of hope for anyone weary in the work: the results are not all on us. When the pursuit of justice feels slow or discouraging, David French reminds us that no step toward righteousness is wasted as long as the Spirit is still moving.
Don`t miss David`s reflections in yesterdays episode of The Good Faith Podcast.
What does the Confederacy`s legacy still mean for the modern South and Christian America?
In this episode, Curtis sits down again withNew York Times columnist and Good Faith "founding friend" David French to confront the enduring power of the Confederate myth. David reflects on growing up as a white Southerner in a culture shaped by Confederate symbols, revisionist history, racial injustice, and a deeply rooted shame-and-honor code. Curtis, a Chinese American immigrant, brings an outsider`s perspective that challenges familiar assumptions about heritage, memory, and belonging.
Together they dig into Confederate monuments, the theological defenses of slavery, the real meaning of "heritage, not hate," the resurgence of explicit racism, and whether honest historical reckoning can actually lead to redemption and reconciliation. Listen in.
The number of people who say they have no close friends has gone up four times since the year 2000. Four times.
That stat stopped us in our tracks when David Brooks shared it—and it`s why we keep coming back to this older episode of Good Faith. David sat down with Curtis to talk about his book How to Know a Person, and the whole conversation is about the thing we`re quietly starving for: being truly seen.
If you missed this one the first time around, it`s worth a listen back. And if you heard it already—trust us, it hits differently now.
Listen back to "How to Know a Person" with David Brooks. Link in bio.
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us absorbed the idea that thinking too hard was a threat to faith.
"Protestants have to embrace the notion that the life of the mind is not in opposition to the life of faith." — Pete Wehner
Pete joined us to trace how that false choice took hold, and what it`s cost the church. Hard questions, real study, honest doubt: none of it is the enemy of belief. It might be one of the truest ways we love God. New episode out now. Listen in.
Five hundred years ago, the whole Protestant project started with a line in the sand: we don`t need Catholic theology. Pete Wehner thinks we might need it now more than ever.
Not the doctrines that divided the church—the things underneath them: intellectual rigor, an anchor against the cultural current, a moral vocabulary thousands of years deep, and the maturity to say "we were wrong."
Swipe for six things Pete says Protestants can learn from the Catholic tradition, then listen to the full conversation.
