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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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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.
Christopher Nolan`s Odyssey is about to put an ancient story in every theater in the country. This line from our latest episode with Jessica Hooten Wilson about the classic tale is the one that`s stuck with us most.
"The reality is that all of us, either intentionally or unintentionally, are telling stories constantly about what has happened, who we are, and whether we`re good people."
Jessica said that about Odysseus, but it`s not really about Odysseus. Listen in for more.
The Odyssey hits theaters next week. We had to talk about the book before Hollywood got there first.
Will Christopher Nolan`s movie do justice to 3,000 years of storytelling? Is there anything you get from actually reading it that three hours and Matt Damon can`t give you?
We brought Jessica Hooton Wilson back on the show—Curtis`s go-to for anything involving great books—and ended up somewhere we didn`t expect: an unreliable narrator hiding in plain sight, a wife with her own odyssey nobody talks about, and what it means that God let a myth like this exist before he ever revealed himself.
Don`t miss it. Listen in before you hit the theatre.
Politics is downstream from culture, and that`s the whole game right there because it changes where the real work actually is. Most of us think the battle is in Washington, in elections, in policy, but the real battle is in how you live, how you treat people, what you believe about power and love and belonging. That`s the soil. So what kind of soil are you actually tending right now?
Ask a Christian whether America is a Christian nation and you`ll get a confident answer. Ask two Christians and you might get two different ones, because the question itself is more complicated than it first appears.
Russell Moore and David French dig into what people actually mean when they ask it, whether Christian ideas shaped the founding, and what it would change about how you live as a Christian right now. They`re not here to give you an easy answer, they`re here to help you think.
So what do you think? Listen to the full conversation in our latest episode.
We just spent a week asking how faithful Christians should hold the fourth of July, and maybe you`re still sitting in that question.
Here`s what might help: Hebrews 11:16. Abraham and the patriarchs desired a better country, a heavenly one. They knew what they were looking for, and it wasn`t the kingdoms of this world. That clarity—that longing for what`s actually eternal—is what made them faithful to God while they lived as foreigners and exiles in the present one.
You can love the country you live in. You can celebrate its good gifts and grieve its failures. But if your citizenship in heaven isn`t more real to you than your citizenship here, the other one will slowly reshape you into its image without you noticing.
That`s not anti-American. It`s just post-partisan. It`s just what happens when we know where we`re actually from. What did this past week teach you about where your deepest allegiance lies?
Happy Fourth of July.
We recorded a conversation that`s been living in our heads ever since—Curtis with Russell Moore and David French on what this country is, what it promised, and what we`re actually called to do about it. They move through Christian nationalism, the real gifts America`s given the world, what patriotism actually means (spoiler: it`s gratitude), and why the 250th feels different from the Bicentennial.
This one`s worth listening to even if—or especially if—you`re not feeling very patriotic this morning. Listen in.
