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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.
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Why does America feel so different depending on where you stand?
For some, daily life feels mostly normal—rules work, systems function, protections hold.
For others, fear, arbitrary power, or injustice are part of everyday reality.
In this clip, David French introduces the idea of the dual state—a simple but powerful framework for understanding how both experiences can exist at the same time. One nation. Two lived realities.
When we don’t name this, we don’t just talk past each other—we lose our capacity for empathy.
This is an 8-minute clip, and it’s worth the full watch.
And if this framework helps something click for you, the full episode of the Good Faith Podcast is worth your full listen.
Sometimes making sense of the world starts with better language for what we’re already feeling.
This line from David French reframes the conversation.
Democracy isn’t about believing people are good enough to rule without limits. It’s about acknowledging that all of us are fallen—and that power needs restraint.
That’s why Christians should care about democracy. And why protecting it isn’t a political reflex, but a moral responsibility rooted in humility.
When power becomes the point, it doesn’t just reshape institutions—it reshapes people.
History reminds us how easily flattery replaces truth, how quickly conscience grows calloused, and how often the good grow quiet just to survive. Scripture doesn’t let us look away. It invites us to discern, to test the spirits, and to resist placing our hope in human power.
This carousel draws from David Brooks’ recent Atlantic column, which is worth reading in full. Link in our bio.
Faithful presence still matters. Not blind loyalty. Not louder outrage. But wisdom from above—peaceful, gentle, open to reason.
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Jesus doesn’t say the world will know us by our certainty, our influence, or our ability to win arguments. He says it will know us by love.
In a time marked by division, this remains our calling —to stay, to listen, and to love one another well.
David French names a crossroads America is facing.
Either we restore limits on presidential power and recommit to checks and balances—or we normalize a system where each election becomes a fight to install the next enforcer.
When power goes unchecked, democracy doesn’t disappear overnight. It slowly becomes harder to sustain.
We often want clear answers for what exactly to do in moments like this.
But the truth is, faithfulness won’t look the same for everyone.
In our conversation, David French doesn’t offer a checklist. Instead, he offers a framework—by asking a single, clarifying question:
What can you do now that your descendants will be able to point to and say, “This is where they stood—and I’m proud”?
Not because it was guaranteed to work.
Not because it was safe.
But because it was faithful.
That answer will vary for each of us—shaped by our context, our callings, and our courage. But history is made when ordinary people choose not to look away.
What if democracy doesn’t collapse all at once—but lives on just enough to feel normal… until it doesn’t?
In this episode, Curtis sits down with founding friend David French to name what many are sensing but struggling to articulate: “Dual State America.” A reality where most people live under ordinary rules—until the Trump administration’s lawless prerogative power suddenly snaps into place.
From the Renee Good case to Orwellian language, from “gradually, then suddenly” collapse to the quiet courage required of ordinary people, this conversation asks a haunting question for friends who follow Jesus: What does faithfulness look like when outcomes aren’t guaranteed?
David’s challenge is simple—and unsettling: stop waiting for someone else to save the country. Do something your grandchildren will recognize as courage. Listen in.
When churches become echo chambers, political tolerance shrinks.
Sociologist Ryan Burge explains how surrounding ourselves only with people who think and vote like us makes it easier to fear — and caricature — the “other side.”
Don`t miss this episode from The Good Faith Podcast.
The story of the church in America is more complicated than decline —and more consequential than we often realize.
Ryan Burge’s research helps us see how the church didn’t just respond to political polarization, but in many ways helped shape it — as shared spaces gave way to sorted ones.
The numbers are striking. But the story behind them matters even more.
In this episode of the Good Faith podcast, Ryan goes beyond the data to help us make sense of how we got here — and what faithful presence might still look like.
🎧 Listen to our conversation with Ryan Burge, author of The Vanishing Church.
Faith doesn’t just shape what we believe. It shapes who we’re willing to stay in the room with.
In a world that sorts us by tribe and preference, the church can still be a place where difference becomes formation.
🎧 Hear Ryan Burge unpack this on the latest episode of the Good Faith podcast.
A worthy walk doesn’t begin with certainty or strength—but with humility, patience, and love. In a fractured world, faithful presence still looks like gentleness, forbearance, and a shared commitment to peace. This is how the Spirit forms unity among friends who follow Jesus. May it be true of us this week.
When a church isn’t growing, many pastors assume they’ve done something wrong.
Ryan Burge reminds us that the larger story of American religion includes powerful headwinds no single leader can overcome — and that faithfulness isn’t the same as numerical success. Don`t miss this episode.
