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As the year comes to a close, we’re grateful for the conversations that stayed with us.
These are our Top 10 Good Faith episodes of the year—stories, questions, and insights that helped friends who follow Jesus make sense of the world, one conversation at a time.
Whether you listened on the day they dropped or you’re finding them for the first time, we hope they continue to offer clarity, courage, and hope for the journey ahead.
Thanks for gathering around the campfire with us this year.
It’s been a big year around here.
We gathered in rooms and conference halls, shared conversations on stages and in quiet corners, and welcomed some truly wise and generous podcast guests along the way. We met more of you out in the real world—faces that had long felt familiar through headphones and screens. We told stories, asked better questions, and kept gathering around the campfire.
We also stepped into a new name. What began as Redeeming Babel is now simply Good Faith—a name that better reflects who we’ve become and what we’re trying to offer: a posture of humility, curiosity, and hope as we help friends who follow Jesus make sense of the world.
We’re grateful for every mile traveled, every conversation shared, and every one of you who joined us this year. Faithful presence still matters—and we’re thankful to keep walking it out together.
Christmas day may be behind us, but the light remains.
“In him was life, and that life was the light of all people.” (John 1:4)
As we step back into ordinary days, we do so carrying this hope: the life of Jesus still shines—steady, present, and unafraid of the darkness. Faithful presence still matters.
The tree is still up, but the glow is quieter now. The news keeps scrolling, the tensions haven’t eased. Many of us are stepping into the new year already tired.
And yet. This past year, we’ve seen it: moments of high beauty. A hard but healing conversation. A small church trying something new. Old friends reconciling. A kind word offered in a tense room.
As we move past Christmas and into whatever comes next, we carry this with us — not naïve optimism, but stubborn hope.
Because light does break in.
And because we follow a King who came quietly, unexpectedly, into a weary world — and still does.
If you missed yesterday’s special Christmas episode with Sandra McCracken, consider this your invitation to listen.
And because Christmas is meant to be shared, we’re giving a little something away: a Good Faith campfire mug + the vinyl of Sandra’s Christmas record.
Enter at the link in our bio.
Merry Christmas from Good Faith!
Today, we invite you to slow down and step into the space between—the place where grief and joy meet, where hope is practiced, and where God draws near in quiet ways.
On this special Christmas Day episode of the Good Faith Podcast, Curtis is joined by singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken for a reflective conversation on the nativity, waiting, and what it means to bless the in-between moments of our lives. Featuring Madeleine L’Engle’s poem “First Coming” and music from Sandra’s Christmas EP `I Heard the Bells`, this episode is a gentle reminder that Jesus comes to a world that doesn’t quite mesh—and loves it still.
Wherever this Christmas finds you, may this be a pause that helps you notice the small things, hold hope with honesty, and remember you’re not alone.
On the longest nights, we remember this: God does not shout from the darkness— he enters it.
For friends who follow Jesus, this is our hope: the Light of the world is coming.
Merry Christmas from all of us at Good Faith.
“When people who are trying to imitate Jesus respond to darkness with love, they disrupt the entire narrative. They remind us that light can still break through.”
Advent is not about pretending the darkness isn’t real. It’s about waiting with confidence that light is already on its way. In this week’s Good Faith conversation, David French reminds us that hope often arrives not through grand plans or decisive victories, but through ordinary people choosing love in hard moments.
This is how the story keeps getting rewritten. This is how the light still comes.
Happy Christmas week, friends. Hope and light are on the way.
Advent as resistance.
In today’s Stacked feature, we’re grateful to share a word from Deep Down Things on Substack—one of our favorite places for thoughtful, faithful writing.
Let this serve as a reminder for us that Advent calls us into a joyful resistance—not through outrage or withdrawal, but through small, embodied practices that form us. Light against darkness. Presence against distraction. Joy against despair. These ordinary acts shape our loves and train us to wait with hope.
Read more from Deep Down Things, ‘Advent as Resistance’ on Substack.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:5)
In this week’s Good Faith conversation, David French reminds us that hope isn’t grounded in a five-point plan or a guarantee that everything will turn out fine. It’s grounded in the character of God—and in the quiet, persistent truth that light keeps breaking through.
Even in grim seasons, there are moments of “light and high beauty.” We may not know when or how they’ll come, but they do. And the darkness never gets the final word.
Advent is a season that makes room for both joy and sorrow.
In a recent Good Faith bonus episode, Sandra McCracken reflects on “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”—from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s grief to Johnny Cash’s aching hope—and how this song holds peace and pain together without resolving the tension too quickly.
If you’re looking for music to finish out the season, our Advent Around the Campfire playlist on Spotify gathers songs that do the same. It includes music from Sandra’s latest EP—gentle, honest companions for waiting, remembering, and hoping.
For those carrying both light and heaviness, this season is for you. Listen in. Link in bio.
Christmas music does something rare: it gathers us.
In our latest bonus drop, Sandra McCracken reflects on the stories these songs carry—and how they invite us to remember and sing together, season after season. You don`t want to miss these thoughts from one of our favorite artists and friends, and you definetly don`t want to miss her Christmas EP.
