Silence and Solitude We start our special Lenten podcast series with author and spiritual director, Ruth Haley Barton, and this brief introduction to the spiritual disciplines of silence and solitude. Ruth considers the unique gift these practices offer us, why they can be so challenging, and the way that these practices look different depending on
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How Christianity Remade the World In the context of the pagan classical world, the Christian faith was a shocking, even unfathomable inversion of the values systems and structures of the time. In that embattled context, its explosive growth was unimaginable. Today, however, Christianity is often considered boring or backwards. How might we better discern and
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Christian faith is often seen as a move away from reason and an embrace of the otherworldly, irrational, and unreasonable. But what if believing is the most reasonable, rational thing a human being can do? Amid mounting evidence that America’s long religious decline has leveled off, and growing dissatisfaction with “do it yourself” approaches to
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Suffering, Wayfaring & Hope: A Conversation on Faith and Mental Health Anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges are surging among both young and old. By some estimates, more than one in five American adults struggle with some form of mental illness each year. There are few untouched – either directly or through loved ones
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In the context of the pagan classical world, the Christian faith was a shocking, even unfathomable inversion of the values systems and structures of the time, and its explosive growth unimaginable. Yet in today’s world, Christianity is often considered boring or backwards. How might we better discern and understand the radicalism of Christianity’s origins, its
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The Strangest Story in the World: G.K. Chesterton & the Incarnation C.S. Lewis famously credited G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man as a key step in his turn from atheism to Christian faith. The book audaciously surveyed the broad sweep of human history, then zeroed in on the Incarnation of Christ. How, Chesterton asked, could such
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Anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges are surging among both young and old. By some estimates, more than one in five American adults struggle with some form of mental illness each year. There are few untouched – either directly or through loved ones – with the suffering that attends such struggles. What does faith
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Perfectly Human with Amy Julia Becker We live in a time when our value is often assessed and affirmed largely in terms of our productivity. Entire industries are built around pushing us to optimize our output, maximize our results, unlock our potential, break barriers and records, and perform perpetually at peak. Often drowned out by
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Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer If we are not intentionally modeling our life after Jesus, we are likely, unintentionally, being formed by something or someone else. Left to drift in the cultural current, we're likely to be carried to places we never consciously chose and wonder how we got there. Whether or not
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This Advent, we’re joined once again on our podcast by poet, priest, and songwriter Malcolm Guite. With grace and insight, Malcolm has written beautifully of the mystery of the incarnation: "We recognize that in this rich darkness, God is already at work and something is stirring." - Malcolm Guite Learn more about Malcolm Guite. Watch the
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