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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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Andy Crouch`s first memory of education is lying under a piano while his mother played — and what struck him wasn`t her intellectual achievement, it was that she could make something beautiful with her hands.
In this week`s episode with Curtis, he makes the case for a whole category of education elite schools skip: "There`s another thing you can be educated in: how to carry your body through the world and interact with it in such a way that a beautiful, useful result will come out." Woodworking, plumbing, learning an instrument — the kind of skill a diagnostic test could never measure.
Where did you learn something that never showed up on a transcript? Listen in.
When AI can write code, solve technical problems, and increasingly “get the right answer,” what should people study? In, what even is the purpose of school these days? And should we all become plumbers?!
In the latest from Good Faith, Curtis Chang talks with author and technology thinker Andy Crouch about what education is actually for and how we can prepare young people for a world changing faster than our institutions can keep up.
Their conversation moves from college majors and the surprising economic promise of the trades to a deeper question: How do we form people who can exercise judgment, create beauty, care for others, and explore the questions that have no easy answer?
If you have children or grandchildren approaching college—or if you care about the future of education—this episode is for you. Listen to the new episode of The Good Faith Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and share it with someone navigating these questions right now.
This episode of the Good Faith podcast features a discussion about artificial intelligence and is created with support from DELTA at the University of Notre Dame`s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, focused on human formation in the age of AI.
25 years ago today, two words entered the American vocabulary and never left.
Homeland security. We built a department around it, reorganized a government around it, went to war under it twice. This week Curtis sat down with Elizabeth Neumann, who helped build that apparatus from inside DHS, and Russell Moore, who spent those same 25 years watching what fear does to a church, to ask the question the anniversary keeps raising: are we actually safer, or just more afraid?
The line we keep coming back to is Russell`s. "Fear and apathy are not opposite extremes. They lead to one another." You can only stay on high alert so long before you go numb, and numb can feel a lot like peace until you notice what it cost you.
Listen in now. https://goodfaith.org/podcasts/the-homeland-security-trap-with-russell-moore-elizabeth-neumann/
Every church has a discipleship curriculum, whether it picked one or not.
Gary Haugen has spent thirty years watching what happens when sincere people never get help thinking through hard things, and his worry about the American church isn`t that people believe the wrong things, it`s that so many pastors have quietly left the hard conversations to cable news and the feed, and something is always willing to take that job.
Catch our conversation with Gary before a new episode drops tomorrow.
The most dangerous thing you can do with a gift is protect it.
In the parable of the talents, the servant who buries what he was given is the only one the master gets angry with, and Gary Haugen points out that his reason was not laziness, it was fear of getting it wrong. Thirty years into fighting modern slavery, Gary told us the thing he hears God saying most often is don`t be afraid of this, because you can`t be brave and safe at the same time. This is an episode you don’t want to miss.
They targeted 50 children. They got 38 out. Gary Haugen never saw the other 15 again.
He`s been doing this work for 30 years, and what we didn`t expect was how much of our conversation ended up being about the ones they didn`t reach. Not strategy. Grief, and what you do with it so it doesn`t take the fight out of you.
Swipe for the 6 practices that keep him in it, including the one his whole organization stops working to do twice a day.
Has the Modern Slave Trade Met Its Match? with Gary Haugen is out now. If you`re tired in your own corner of this work, start with this one.
God never actually answers the question. Moses asks who he is to go to Pharaoh, and it`s a fair question. One man, an empire, no leverage. And God doesn`t come back with a list of reasons he`s qualified. He just says, "I will be with you."
Gary Haugen pointed us to this in our conversation about 30 years of fighting modern slavery. You don`t get an answer to "who am I to take this on." You get a promise that you won`t be doing it alone. He says that`s what carries his team through the cases that go wrong and the kids they don`t reach in time. Don`t miss our latest episode.
Gary Haugen`s hero was Desmond Tutu. He watched him wade into a mob that was about to burn a man alive and put his own body between them.
But the thing that formed him most was smaller. He also got to see Tutu discouraged. Frustrated. Ordinary. And he came to believe that the praying women in those same South African churches, the ones nobody ever recognized, are the most highly regarded people in the kingdom of heaven.
"God can do really marvelous things in the world through very, very common people."
Gary`s conversation with Curtis about slavery, miracles, and prayers that don`t get answered the way you want is out now. Don`t miss it.
We often ask what AI is doing to our brains. But what is it doing to our hearts, souls, and minds?
To be able to cognitively offload may feel nice now, but Andy Crouch encourages us to consider what this new tool could be doing to us as time goes on. Our next episode in our AI series is coming soon, so be sure to catch up on our last episode with Andy Crouch!
Nearly 50 million people are living in slavery right now. Gary Haugen thinks it could end in our lifetime.
He`s spent 30 years at International Justice Mission (@ijm) proving that isn`t naive. When local justice systems actually enforce the law and take care of survivors, slavery drops 70–85%. But the part that stayed with us was what he said about everything strategy can`t cover: "What does it mean to lead the pursuit of a miracle? Because if it`s a miracle, it means you can`t do it on your own."
We`re huge fans of Gary and the rest of our friends at IJM, and were thrilled to sit down for a conversation. This episode is one you don`t want to miss!
It works like a doom loop. The reasonable people get tired and step away, which hands more ground to the loudest voices, which makes the next reasonable person want to leave too. Nobody decides to hand over the room. It just empties, one exhausted person at a time.
In this week`s episode, David French makes the case that staying in is its own kind of faithfulness—even when checking out would be so much easier. If you`ve been tempted to walk lately, what`s kept you in?
Everyone`s talking about democratic socialism like it`s about to take over America. David French did the math, and the panic doesn`t add up.
In three minutes, he breaks down what the DSA actually is, how small it really is, and why the version you`re being fear-mongered about on cable news barely resembles the real thing. Turns out the thing worth watching isn`t the policy at all.
Watch, then tell us: did this change how you`ve been thinking about it?
