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Through thoughtful conversations on the issues and experiences that shape our lives, the Good Faith Podcast invites listeners to think clearly and live faithfully in an uncertain world.
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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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Struggling to see God in ordinary life? In our latest episode, N.T. Wright reminds us: meaning isn’t found by escaping real life, but by entering into it more deeply.
Love.
Grief.
Music.
Art.
Friendship.
Brokenness.
Beauty.
All of it matters.
All of it is where God meets us. Listen in and join us in asking “Is there something sacred about my ordinary?”
Not louder. Not angrier. Not more anxious. But different.
In its earliest years, Christianity didn’t spread through power. It spread because ordinary believers loved their neighbors in extraordinary ways.
What if the most compelling witness today wasn’t winning arguments, but embodying a winsome alternative?
A steadier presence. A deeper hope. A truer humanity. That’s the kind of difference the world can’t ignore. Tune into our latest episode with NT Wright and join us in asking “Would Jesus recognize my witness?”.
What happens when your country begins to slip beneath the sea?
In this Good Faith bonus drop, we hear directly from Taualo Penivao of the Christian Church of Tuvalu — a shepherd walking with his people through rising waters, disappearing land, and difficult decisions about migration and survival.
Often called “ground zero” of the global climate crisis, Tuvalu’s story reminds us: this is not just about the environment. It’s about neighbors, culture, and hope.
Listen to this short, powerful story — and consider what faithful presence looks like in a changing world.
This verse comes at the end of Paul’s great chapter on resurrection. Not escape.Resurrection.
Because Jesus is raised — and because new creation is coming — what we do now matters.
Your work. Your faithfulness. Your quiet obedience. Your love for your neighbor. None of it is wasted.
The Christian hope isn’t about leaving earth behind. It’s about trusting that what is done in the Lord carries forward into God’s renewed world. That’s good news worth living into.
Many of us inherited a version of the Christian story that sounded like this:
Believe. Go to heaven. Leave earth behind. But what if that’s not the full story the Bible tells?
From Genesis 1 to Revelation 21–22, Scripture traces a single, unified vision: creation and new creation. Not escape, renewal. Not abandoning earth, but heaven and earth made one.
As N.T. Wright reminds us, “The new heavens and new earth are a single reality.”
The Christian hope isn’t less than heaven. It’s bigger than we imagined.
Listen to N.T. Wright on The Good Faith Podcast as we explore resurrection, renewal, and the real Christian hope.
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible tells one story. Not a moral exam so we can escape to heaven. But heaven and earth — overlapping, interlocking realities.
Humans stand right at the intersection. If you’ve ever sensed the Christian story is bigger than “go to heaven someday”… this conversation with N.T. Wright is for you.
What if the Christian hope isn’t about escaping this world… but about God renewing it?
We are thrilled to have N.T. Wright back on Good Faith! He joins Curtis to explore a vision of the gospel that is bigger, deeper, and more demanding than many of us were taught. Instead of a story about “going to heaven,” Wright invites us into the biblical story of new creation: where heaven and earth overlap, where Jesus stands at the center, and where the church is called to live as a sign of what’s coming.
What does it mean that God is coming home?
What does it mean to be a “royal priesthood”?
And how should that reshape the way we live right now?
Don`t miss this episode.
Not for our party.
Not for our church.
Not for our team.
Faithfulness means telling the truth — even when it costs us. Don`t miss our latest episode with Sara Groves.
When fear enters a community, how should Christians respond? In our bonus episode with Sara Groves, she doesn’t speak as a pundit or a politician. She speaks as a neighbor in the twin cities.
She talks about paying attention to what’s actually happening locally.
About resisting dehumanization.
About refusing to defend the indefensible — even when it’s your “team.”
About using your gifts — even if it costs you something.
About cultivating goodness instead of escalating tension.
And about what she calls “borrowed courage.”
Sara has used her platform to bear witness — and she has lost fans for it. Meaningful faithfulness often costs something. But she reminds us: this isn’t partisan. It’s about neighbors.
What does faithful presence look like where you live? Listen to the full conversation with Sara Groves in this bonus episode.
What happens when the headlines fade—but your neighbors are still afraid?
In this bonus episode, Curtis sits down with singer-songwriter and Twin Cities resident Sara Groves to talk about heightened ICE activity in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and what it means to bear witness as a Christian when constitutional norms feel strained and neighbors feel vulnerable.
Sara names what she’s seeing on the ground. She challenges easy narratives. And she shares what she calls “borrowed courage”—the kind that comes from listening to those who have carried suffering longer than you have.
They explore the cost of public witness. The temptation to defend the indefensible. And the call of Jesus to resist dehumanization. Not with outrage, but with neighbor-love. Don`t miss this episode. Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)
In our recent conversation with Dr. Lee Warren, we explored how faith, neuroscience, and intentional practices can reshape the way we think—and, over time, the way we live.
Renewal doesn’t happen by accident. It’s formed through attention, courage, and trust that God can meet us even in the patterns we need to unlearn.
It can be easy to forget, especially in hard seasons, but this conversation with Dr. Lee Warren is a reminder: there is real hope.
“How things have been for you does not have to be how things will be for you.”
Dr. Warren explores the beauty of the brain and the remarkable ways God has wired us for healing, renewal, and change. Our stories are not fixed. Our pain is not the end of the story.
If you need a reminder that growth is possible — and that God meets us even in our suffering — don’t miss this episode.



















