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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 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.
Tradition tends to get treated as the thing we`re supposed to outgrow. Jeremiah treats it as the way home.
"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." — Jeremiah 6:16
That`s the move Pete Wehner keeps returning to in our latest conversation. When the cultural currents are pulling this hard, the wisdom isn`t to invent something new. It`s to stand at the crossroads and ask for the older, deeper path we may have walked right past.
Thousands of denominations. One Bible. That gap is the whole conversation.
"The trouble with sola scriptura is that it often assumes, implicitly if not explicitly, that the Bible is self-evident and easy to interpret. And I would say it`s not."
— Pete Wehner
We sat down with Pete to talk about what Protestants may have lost along the way, and why so many are quietly looking across the aisle to the Catholic tradition to find it again. This one stretched us.
New episode out now. Listen in.
Five hundred years ago, Protestants broke from the Catholic Church with a clear message: we don`t need your theology. Curtis sat down with Pete Wehner to ask whether that`s still true.
Pete, a writer at The Atlantic and a former White House staffer, makes a generous case that some of what the church needs most right now has been carefully kept alive in the Catholic tradition. Intellectual rigor. A moral framework with centuries behind it. A high view of every single human being.
This isn`t about who`s right and who`s wrong. It`s about what these two streams of the faith can still learn from each other.
Along the way they get into the limits of sola scriptura, the gift of Catholic social teaching, what Christian humanism actually means, and how faithful public witness should shape our response to everything from AI to our politics. Tune in.
Every Greek god drew a hard line at becoming human. They thought it would be beneath them. Ours did it anyway.
We talked with Jessica Hooton Wilson about what pagan mythology can actually teach Christians: Zeus, Athena, and the rest as pale reflections of one God, history quietly building toward the incarnation long before anyone understood what it meant.
Great stories can still point us to something true. Ours is greater than anything we could have invented. Don’t miss the full episode.
Russell’s recent words in Christianity Today on the importance of character have stuck with us.
We rarely trade character for policy in a single decision. It happens gradually, through a series of small justifications that each feel reasonable in the moment—the stakes are too high, the other side is worse, this is just how things work now. And underneath every one of those justifications is usually something we want badly enough that we`ve stopped asking questions about the person promising it to us.
That`s what makes the question of "does character matter in public office?" worth sitting with. Because the honest version of that question isn`t whether character matters—most of us would answer yes without hesitation. The honest version is whether there are places where we`ve already begun making quiet compromises around character, and haven`t yet let ourselves see them.
Christopher Nolan`s Odyssey hits theaters this week, and we couldn`t let it happen without going deeper into the book first.
We sat down with Jessica Hooton Wilson, a literature professor who`s taught this poem for years, and ended up somewhere we didn`t expect: a narrator you can`t fully trust, a wife with her own twenty-year odyssey, and what it means to reread a character until he grows up alongside you.
Swipe through, then listen to the full conversation on The Good Faith Podcast.
The week after the Fourth, you might be feeling it—the fear about what comes next, about the state of the country, about whether we can actually get along, and fear makes you defensive, tribal, reactive. But you weren`t made for that. You were made for power, love, and a clear head. So which spirit are you actually operating from right now? Not which spirit you wish you had, but which one is actually driving your choices today—your words, your votes, your heart?
The fireworks have faded, and you`re left with the harder question: what comes next?
Lincoln answered it when he could have demanded revenge but chose to heal instead, with malice toward none, with charity for all, let us bind up the nation`s wounds. This is the work of the week after the Fourth, the work of deciding who you`re actually going to be when the celebration ends and the real work begins. It`s not the easy patriotism. It`s the one that costs something.
