The Cost of Ambition In this episode we’re joined by theologian and bestselling author Miroslav Volf of Yale Divinity School. His latest book is The Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better Than Others is Making Us Worse. The question he explores is one that relates to all of us: how can we find
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As we seek to lead, how do we move from information overload to calm application of wisdom? How do we exert the power entrusted to us with humility? How do we grow in character and vision even as we make hard decisions? Writer, teacher, and tech entrepreneur Uli Chi is our guide as we discuss
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Living Well and Dying Well This conversation is on the practical wisdom the Christian tradition offers for something that affects all of us: matters of life and death. Dr. Lydia Dugdale will be our guide. Lydia has applied practices from this faith tradition in her daily work with patients and families as a physician, professor
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The impulse to be better than others runs so deep in us that we’re seldom aware of it. Even if we understand that it contradicts our Christian convictions, the societal pressure to be superior – not to mention our innate longing – is powerful. Can we find a better way? Miroslav Volf guided us in
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Reason and Belief In this conversation, author Ross Douthat draws from the tradition to tackle a foundational question: Why believe? Amid evidence that America’s long trend of secularization has leveled off, a perception of the limits of a strictly materialist worldview, and growing dissatisfaction with “do it yourself” approaches to spirituality, what does traditional faith
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What does redemptive leadership mean? In modern society, we are inundated with constant messaging, rules and tips for influencing others and rising to the top of our companies and at our careers—and rarely encouraged to act selflessly on our way up. As Christians, we have a unique calling: not just to lead, but to serve.
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Our Souls on Technology We were made for relationship — to be seen, loved, known, and committed to others. And yet we increasingly find ourselves, in the words of sociologist Jonathan Haidt, “disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.”
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When the people we love face the reality that their time on earth is growing short, what do we have to offer them? We find that our modern culture turns away from realities of life and death; it cannot give us the help, comfort and practical wisdom needed for these moments. Where can we turn?
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Faith and Foreign Aid US foreign aid is unexpectedly in the news in 2025 as never before. What do Christians need to know, to help us be part of the dialogue? America's history of foreign aid dates back at least to the Marshall Plan that followed World War II. Many Christians have been involved. How
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On Good Friday, we explored J. S. Bach’s oratorio St. Matthew Passion in a special online event. Our guides were concert pianist Mia Chung, a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum, and maestro Richard Westerfield. Good Friday is a day for Christians to ponder the magnitude of Christ’s sacrifice, when the Son of God hung
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