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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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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.
The church helped shape this moment.
Which means it still has a role to play in what comes next.
But to move forward, we have to understand how we got here.
In our conversation with Ryan Burge — the researcher behind The Great Dechurching and author of The Vanishing Church — we go beyond the headlines and statistics to tell the story beneath them: how the church changed, how it shaped our politics, and why presence and belonging still matter.
This is a conversation worth sitting with.
🎧 Listen to the full episode now on the Good Faith podcast.
You know the numbers.
You’ve heard the terms.
You just may not know the name behind them.
Ryan Burge is the social scientist whose research shaped The Great Dechurching and gave us language we now take for granted — including the rise of the “nones.” His data has been cited everywhere, shared endlessly, and debated often.
But in this conversation, Ryan does more than “spit the numbers.”
He tells the story behind them.
Why politically we’re in the situation we’re in because of the church.
The numbers prove it.
The story behind them says even more.
From evangelicals and mainline Protestants to American Catholics and the nones, Ryan helps us see how the sorting of the church reshaped American politics — and what we lost when shared spaces disappeared.
This episode isn’t just about religious decline. It’s about belonging, polarization, and why faithful presence still matters. Don’t miss it, listen in.
Rarely does anyone wake up and decide to abandon their values in one dramatic moment. More often, change happens quietly—through a long series of small accommodations that feel reasonable at the time, but slowly reshape what we accept as normal. In this episode, Pete Wehner explores how moral erosion works, why it’s so hard to notice while it’s happening, and what faithfulness looks like in moments of drift. Listen to the full conversation on the Good Faith Podcast.
Pete Wehner reminds us that demagogues don’t only threaten societies through dramatic acts. Their real power often lies in repetition—controlling the microphone day after day, shaping reality, and slowly eroding a nation’s moral sensibilities. The danger isn’t just political. It’s formative. Don’t miss this episode.
Jesus said the truth sets us free—but only if we’re willing to live in it.
In a moment when power, loyalty, and fear compete with moral clarity, Pete Wehner reminds us that resistance begins here: refusing to live within the lie, even when the lie is loud, popular, or convenient. Truth isn’t just personal—it’s political, public, and costly.
