For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

By Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Drew Collins, Evan Rosa

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Seeking and living a life worthy of our humanity. Theological insight, cultural analysis, and practical guidance for personal and communal flourishing. Brought to you by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.

Episode Date
You Are A Tree: Metaphor & the Poetry of Our Humanity / Joy Marie Clarkson
Mar 28, 2024
Chinese Political Theology: Protests in Blood Letters, Freedom, and Religion in China Today / Peng Yin
Mar 20, 2024
The Transforming Fire of Theological Education: Learning to See the World / Mark Jordan
Mar 14, 2024
The Heart of Theology: Emotions, Christian Experience, & the Holy Spirit / Simeon Zahl
Mar 06, 2024
A Voice Crying Out: Brown Church & Critical Race Theory / Robert Chao Romero
Feb 29, 2024
Christianity as a Way of Life: Practice & Belief / Kevin Hector
Feb 22, 2024
Renovating the Heart of Our Politics / Michael Wear
Feb 14, 2024
Asian Americans, Racism, and Capitalism / Jonathan Tran
Feb 07, 2024
Becoming Whole in a Fragmented Age / Anne Snyder
Jan 31, 2024
Listeners Dare: Courage and the Act of Sermon-Listening / Will Willimon
Jan 24, 2024
Power & American Evangelicalism: Sword or Cross? / Tim Alberta
Jan 08, 2024
How the Light Gets In: Restlessness, Christ, & Belonging / Graham Ward
Dec 23, 2023
Advent Love: Prayer, Trauma, & the Loving Gaze of Christ / Bo Karen Lee
Dec 23, 2023
Advent Joy: Resistance Against Despair, Celebrating the Beauty of Black Joy / Stacey Floyd-Thomas & Willie James Jennings
Dec 18, 2023
Speaking to the Unspeakable: Catastrophe, Silence, and Respect in Aboriginal Australian Life / Stan Grant
Dec 18, 2023
Advent Peace / Non-Violent Resistance & the Uninvited Christ / David Dark
Dec 11, 2023
How to Read as a Spiritual Practice: Books, Shared Meaning, and the Love of God in the Text / Jessica Hooten Wilson & Matthew Smith
Dec 09, 2023
Advent Hope: Darkness, Endurance, and No-Exit Situations / Miroslav Volf
Dec 04, 2023
N.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / Violence in God's Name: Monotheism, Nationalism, Violence, and Our Ultimate Allegiance
Dec 03, 2023
Interchange of Love: Gratitude, Gift, and Joyful Recognition / Miroslav Volf
Nov 19, 2023
Thanks A Lot: The Complicated Emotional World of Gratitude / Jo-Ann Tsang
Nov 11, 2023
Fearing Rightly: Horror Films, Theology, and Living with the Terror of Life / Kutter Callaway
Oct 30, 2023
How to Lead with Peace, Humility, Compassion, and Faith / Christian Faith & Democratic Leadership / Evan Mawarire
Oct 14, 2023
How Disability Reframes Humanity: Three Bible Stories to See Disability as the Site of Divine Revelation / Calli Micale
Oct 07, 2023
How to Eat, Drink, and Be Human (Lessons from Revolutionary Women) / Alissa Wilkinson
Sep 18, 2023
Reframing Disability: Agency, Possibility, and Radical Dependency / Calli Micale
Aug 19, 2023
What Boredom Means: Cultivating Attention & Leisure for a Life Connected to Time & Place / Kevin Gary & Drew Collins
Aug 01, 2023
Kelly Corrigan, Claire Danes, & Kate Bowler / The Practice of Flourishing / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 5 of 5
Jul 22, 2023
Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Consumption, Responsibility, Failure, Repair, & Forgiveness / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 4 of 5
Jul 15, 2023
Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Envy, Desire, and Struggling with Belief / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 3 of 5
Jul 01, 2023
Claire Danes, Kate Bowler, & Kelly Corrigan / Values, Vocation, Curiosity & Dealing with Circumstance / Life Worth Living Book Club, Part 2 of 5
Jun 25, 2023
Life Worth Living Book Club Part 1 of 5 / Kelly Corrigan with Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Jun 17, 2023
Human Uniqueness & the Imago Dei: Clues for Flourishing in Our Biological Niche / Justin Barrett on Bringing Psychology to Theology
Jun 10, 2023
Made for Relationships: The Sacred Responsibilities of Marriage and Parenting / Mari Clements on Bringing Psychology to Theology
May 30, 2023
Tapestry of Knowledge: Theology and Psychology as Truth-Seeking Partners / Oliver Crisp on Bringing Psychology to Theology
May 23, 2023
Tolerating Doubt & Ambiguity: Psychological Tools to Deal with Uncertainty and Deconversion / Elizabeth Hall on Bringing Psychology to Theology
May 15, 2023
Angry at God: The Psychology of Spiritual Struggle, Coping with Challenges to Faith, Handling Conflicts with God / Julie Exline
May 08, 2023
From Surviving to Thriving: Human Purpose, Relational Intimacy, and Spiritual Connection via Developmental Psychology / Pamela Ebstyne King
Apr 30, 2023
Bringing Psychology to Theology / Justin Barrett & Miroslav Volf
Apr 22, 2023
Micheal O'Siadhail / Testament: Through You I Gaze at All I Love
Apr 07, 2023
Ukrainian Pastor Speaks Out: Resist Evil, Be Present, and Remember How Little You Control / Fyodor Raychynets & Miroslav Volf
Mar 17, 2023
Esau McCaulley / Lent: Season of Repentance, Renewal... and Rebellion
Feb 22, 2023
Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination and the Expression of True Freedom / Vincent Lloyd
Feb 03, 2023
The Complicated World of Christmas / Drew Collins, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Jeff Reimer, & Matt Croasmun
Dec 24, 2022
The Story of a Global Icon: The Virgin of the Passion / Matthew Milliner on the Theological Aesthetics of Suffering Love, Powerless Compassion, and Mournful Silence
Dec 17, 2022
William Cross on Winslow Homer / Looking Long, Finding Grace in Crisis, and Painting Truth to Power
Dec 03, 2022
A Message from Miroslav: Help Us Reach Our 2022 Goal
Nov 26, 2022
Miroslav Volf / Beautiful, Humane, & Hospitable: Dwelling in the Home of God (In Memoriam, Phil Love)
Oct 22, 2022
Fostering the Knowledge and Love of God / Yale Divinity School Bicentennial
Oct 15, 2022
Kelly Corrigan & Miroslav Volf / Experts at Means, Amateurs at Ends: Talking About Success & Flourishing at College
Oct 03, 2022
Adam Eitel / Character As Authority: Theology as a Lived, Embodied Experience
Sep 19, 2022
Graham Tomlin / Words About God: Theology as Worship, Reform, and Witness
Sep 10, 2022
Matt Croasmun / Nourishing Mutual Encounter: Food, Meals, and the Hunger for Home in the Gospel of Luke
Sep 03, 2022
George Marsden / The Outrageous Idea of Theological Education: How Deep Teaching in Theology Might Work in and for the Church and the World
Aug 27, 2022
Katie Grimes / Theology's Human Context: Jesus, Exemplarity, and Theologizing Through the Lens of Flourishing
Aug 20, 2022
Casey Strine / Informed Empathy: Approaching Religion through Theology, Understanding, and a Commitment to Diversity
Aug 13, 2022
Willie Jennings / Against Despair and Death: Cultivating and Gathering Joy in an Embodied Act of Resistance
Aug 06, 2022
Jamie Tworkowski / To Be Known & Loved: Surprise, Hope, Resilience, and Identity
Jul 30, 2022
Bo Karen Lee / Trauma and Spirituality: From Bystander to Beloved, From Alarmed Aloneness to Gazing Upon the God Who Gazes Upon Me With Love
Jun 29, 2022
Lisa Sharon Harper / Fortune: How Race Broke My Family & the World—and How to Repair It All
Jun 21, 2022
Amy Brown Hughes / Hospitable Theology: Space for Questions, Diversity, and Reflection
Jun 11, 2022
Eric Gregory / Theology as a Way of Life
Jun 04, 2022
Unimaginable: A Reflection after Uvalde
May 30, 2022
Keri Day / Targeting Normative Theology: Lived Experience, Practice, and Confessional Theology
May 28, 2022
Luke Bretherton / (Un)Common Life: Secularity, Religiosity, and the Tension Between Faith and Culture
May 21, 2022
Tyler Roberts / Taking Theology Seriously: A Perspective from Outside Christian Theology
Apr 09, 2022
Aristotle Papanikolaou / Russian Christian Nationalism and Eastern Orthodoxy (and How Culture Wars Contributed to the War in Ukraine)
Apr 04, 2022
Katherine Sonderegger / God, the Great Hope of Theology
Mar 27, 2022
Miroslav Volf / War in Ukraine: Theological and Moral Reflections
Mar 19, 2022
A Voice from Kyiv: Fyodor Raychynets / Faithful Presence in the War on Ukraine
Mar 15, 2022
Willie Jennings / The Christian Imagination: Theological Complexity, Communication, Cultivation, and Community
Mar 12, 2022
Fernando Segovia / Global Crisis and the Hope for Global Flourishing
Mar 05, 2022
Julian Reid / How Black History Made Jazz: Suffering, Joy, and Longing for Our True Home
Feb 26, 2022
Lisa Sharon Harper & Miroslav Volf / The Case for Reparations, Historical Restorative Justice, Ancestry, and Christian Power
Feb 19, 2022
Jemar Tisby / Holistic and Historical Racial Justice: Awareness, Relationships, Commitment
Feb 12, 2022
Black Joy / Howard Thurman's Civil Rights Theology, Stacey Floyd-Thomas on Vicious Humility and Black Joy, and David Walker's Christian Abolitionism
Feb 05, 2022
N.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / The Politics of Joy & Suffering in the Now and Not Yet
Jan 22, 2022
MLK, Willie Jennings, Keri Day / Dangerous Theology
Jan 15, 2022
Marilynne Robinson, Charles Taylor, et al / Making or Breaking Democracy
Jan 08, 2022
Miroslav Volf / Where the Light Gets In: Primordial Goodness, Excluding the Middle, and Searching for Hope in 2022
Jan 01, 2022
Matthew Milliner / A Womb More Spacious Than Stars: How Mary's Beauty and Presence Upends the Patriarchy and Stabilizes Christian Spirituality
Dec 25, 2021
Frederica Mathewes-Green / Mary Theotokos: Her Bright Sorrow, Her Suffering Faith, and Her Compassion
Dec 18, 2021
Jeff Reimer / W.H. Auden's For the Time Being: Post-Christmas Blues, the Darkness of Modernity, and the Human Response to Incarnation
Dec 11, 2021
David Dark / Non-Violent Resistance, Robot Soft Exorcism, and the Blurry Binaries Between Christianity and Culture
Dec 05, 2021
Christian Wiman / Finding Home Through Exiles' Eyes
Nov 27, 2021
Sameer Yadav / Gratitude Is Not a Debt: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing Thanks
Nov 20, 2021
Francisco Lozada / Theology of Immigration: Crossing Porous Borders, Welcoming Strangers, and the Faith of the Migrant
Nov 13, 2021
Janine Di Giovanni / The Vanishing: War Correspondence, Humanitarian Journalism, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East
Nov 06, 2021
Will Willimon / Gospel Oddity: The Purpose of Pastors and the Problem with Self-Care
Oct 30, 2021
Julian Reid / Musical Spiritual Hotel: Rest, Hospitality, and Sacred Music
Oct 23, 2021
Alysia Harris / Attention, Wonder, Permeability, & the Space Between Activity & Passivity
Oct 16, 2021
Charles Taylor & Miroslav Volf / Finding a Shared Moral Understanding: Progress, Evil, Freedom, and Solidarity (Part 2)
Oct 09, 2021
Charles Taylor & Miroslav Volf / What's Wrong with Our Democracies?: Fear of Replacement, Post-Truth, and Entrenched Tribal Factions (Part 1)
Oct 02, 2021
David Brooks & Miroslav Volf / The Road to Character
Sep 25, 2021
David Brooks & Miroslav Volf / What Is Human Flourishing?
Sep 18, 2021
Miroslav Volf on 9/11 / A Grave in the Air: The Lasting Impact of 9/11 on Faith & Culture
Sep 11, 2021
Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Evan Rosa / Courage, Control, Kairos Time, and Roasting S'mores as an Exercise in Patience / Patience Coda
Sep 04, 2021
Adam Eitel / Taste and See / Patience Bonus
Sep 02, 2021
Tish Harrison Warren / Control, Creatureliness, and the Practice of Patience / Patience Part 6
Aug 28, 2021
Sarah Schnitker / The Psychology of Patience / Patience Part 5
Aug 21, 2021
Adam Eitel / Constraining Sorrow, Contemplating Joy / Patience Part 4
Aug 14, 2021
Paul Dafydd Jones / God's Patience, Human Action, and Complex Faith / Patience Part 3
Aug 07, 2021
Kathryn Tanner / Money, Markets, and the Economy of Grace / Patience Part 2
Jul 31, 2021
Andrew Root / Time, Acceleration, and Waiting / Patience Part 1
Jul 24, 2021
Life Riffs: Improvisation in Poetry, Theology, and Flourishing / Micheal O'Siadhail & David Ford
Jul 17, 2021
Are You Not Entertained?: Art, Attention, and Watching Culture / Alissa Wilkinson & Drew Collins
Jul 10, 2021
Think Again: Changing Your Mind, Political-Religious Conversion, and the Emotional Life / Nichole Flores & Matt Croasmun
Jul 03, 2021
Juneteenth: Looking Back to Step Forward / Charles B. Copher and Anne Streaty Wimberly
Jun 19, 2021
Collapse and Rebuild: How Spirituality Informs Social Action in Hong Kong / Kevin Lau & Andrew Kwok
Jun 07, 2021
Gilded Wounds, Co-Mingled Tears: The Gratuity of God in Art and Faith / Makoto Fujimura & Miroslav Volf
May 30, 2021
How to Respond to Other Peoples' Pain: Silent Presence in the Wild Inexplicability of Evil and Grace / David Kelsey
May 22, 2021
Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right: Racial History, Reparations, and Belonging / Lisa Sharon Harper & Miroslav Volf
May 15, 2021
The Freedom of Forgiveness: Ancient Christian Wisdom on The Happiness Lab / Laurie Santos & Miroslav Volf
May 08, 2021
Beyond Invisible | American 한 (Han): An Artistic Response to Anti-Asian Violence / Sarah Shin & Shin Maeng
May 07, 2021
Active Mystic: How Wonder Unifies Justice and Spirituality / Sameer Yadav
May 01, 2021
Have You Eaten Yet?: Hospitality, Solidarity, and the Great Banquet of Justice / David de Leon & Matt Croasmun
Apr 24, 2021
Passionate God, Crucified God, Joyful God / Jürgen Moltmann & Miroslav Volf
Apr 10, 2021
Dead Quiet: The Death Penalty in Theological, Moral, and Political Context / Elizabeth Bruenig & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Apr 03, 2021
You Do You: Ethics of Authenticity in Disney's Frozen and Moana / Matt Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Mar 29, 2021
When Hospitals Become Battlefields: The Impact of Spiritual Abuse on Faith & Flourishing / Dan Koch
Mar 20, 2021
The Gravity of Joy / Angela Gorrell
Mar 13, 2021
Befriending Reality: Engaging Otherness with Hospitality, Artfulness, and Particularity at Depth / Krista Tippett & Miroslav Volf
Mar 06, 2021
Joy and the Act of Resistance Against Despair / Willie Jennings and Miroslav Volf
Feb 28, 2021
Willie Jennings's After Whiteness: Belonging, Intimacy, and Resisting White Masculinity / Matt Croasmun
Feb 25, 2021
The Dignity of Work: Poverty, Property, and Fraternity in Pope Francis's Fratelli Tutti (Brothers & Sisters All) / Martin Schlag
Feb 20, 2021
Howard Thurman's Mystical Activism: Connection, Alienation, and Black Vitality / Sameer Yadav
Feb 19, 2021
David Walker's Dangerous Appeal: Black Abolitionism and Belonging to God / Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Feb 15, 2021
This Economy Kills: Healing the Human Environment in Pope Francis's Fratelli Tutti (Brothers & Sisters All) / Sister Helen Alford
Feb 13, 2021
Dreaming of a Different World: Friendship, Dignity, and Solidarity in Pope Francis's Fratelli Tutti (Brothers & Sisters All) / Nichole Flores
Feb 06, 2021
Radical Humility: Forgetting Oneself as a Path to Flourishing
Jan 31, 2021
God’s Love Made Delicious: Food, Hospitality, and the Gift of Eating Together / Norman Wirzba & Matt Croasmun
Jan 23, 2021
Patience with Yourself: Resisting the Temptation to Curate Yourself and Finding the Courage to Embrace Imperfection
Jan 17, 2021
Violence, Shame, Fear, Anger, and Lost Civic Friendship / Willie Jennings, David French, Marilynne Robinson, Robert George, and more
Jan 09, 2021
Sedition in the Capitol: Wounded Pride, Lies that Incite Violence, Losing Connection to Reality, and Longing for Peace / Miroslav Volf & Colleagues
Jan 07, 2021
Christian Witness in Turbulent Places / Miroslav Volf with Mike Cosper
Jan 02, 2021
Santa, God, and the Obligation to Rejoice / Matt Croasmun
Dec 26, 2020
The Reason We Follow the Star: Learning from the Magi How to Give, How to Receive, and How to Be Human / Drew Collins
Dec 26, 2020
Ignore These Walls: Faith that Leads to Freedom in Zimbabwe / Evan Mawarire & Miroslav Volf
Dec 20, 2020
Black Joy and Oppressive Humility / Stacey Floyd-Thomas
Dec 12, 2020
Strangers in Our Own Land: Empathy Walls, Deep Stories, and Shelters from Shame / Arlie Hochschild
Dec 05, 2020
Joyful Recognition, All Is Gift: Four Perspectives on Gratitude in 2020 / Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Sarah Schnitker, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Miroslav Volf
Nov 28, 2020
Civic Friendship, Courageous Humility, and Seeking Truth Together / Robert P. George
Nov 21, 2020
Rabbi Sacks on Etching Everyday Existence with the Charisma of Holiness / Jonathan Sacks & Miroslav Volf
Nov 14, 2020
Mixed Feelings: Poetry and Faith for Our Time / Christian Wiman & Miroslav Volf
Nov 07, 2020
Marilynne Robinson on This Political Moment / Interview with Miroslav Volf
Oct 31, 2020
Understanding Black Politics: Faith, Representation, and Black Political Voices
Oct 24, 2020
Faith 2020: Seeing Christianity in Political Context / Michael Wear & Miroslav Volf
Oct 17, 2020
Always, Always On: Technology, Digital Life, and New Media / Angela Gorrell
Oct 11, 2020
How to Destroy a Debate: Winning, Democracy, and the Very Possibility of Public Discourse / Matt Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Miroslav Volf
Oct 03, 2020
How Political Division Impacts Christian Unity / Miroslav Volf #AskMiroslav
Sep 26, 2020
What is really worth wanting? / Matt Croasmun
Sep 20, 2020
The Home and Homelessness of God / Miroslav Volf and Drew Collins
Sep 12, 2020
Supporting Sacrificial Love: Learning How to Fight a Pandemic from the Army's Chief of Chaplains / Major General Thomas Solhjem
Sep 06, 2020
How Jazz Teaches Faith & Justice / Julian Reid & The JuJu Exchange
Aug 30, 2020
Capitalism, Christianity, and Morality / David French and Miroslav Volf
Aug 22, 2020
We Are Home for Each Other / Natalia Marandiuc
Aug 15, 2020
Violence, Fascism, and Christian Nationalism / Miroslav Volf, Andrew Whitehead, and Samuel Perry
Aug 08, 2020
Elizabeth Bruenig: Chronicler of the Human Condition / Interview with Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Aug 01, 2020
Public Faith Across the Divide / David French and Miroslav Volf
Jul 25, 2020
N.T. Wright on Weeping, Waiting, and Working with God in the Pandemic / Miroslav Volf and N.T. Wright
Jul 18, 2020
Christian Racist Complicity: American History, Monuments, and the Arc of Justice / Jemar Tisby & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Jul 11, 2020
Taking America Back for God / Miroslav Volf w/ Andrew Whitehead & Samuel Perry
Jul 04, 2020
People or Economy? / Miroslav Volf & John Hare
Jun 27, 2020
Law of Love, Order of Peace / Miroslav Volf & Lauren Green
Jun 20, 2020
Justice Somewhere: Local Lament and Joyful Protest in New Haven, CT / Josh Williams & Matthew Croasmun
Jun 13, 2020
Redeeming Dangerous Memories: Black Women and Racial Injustice / Keri Day and Miroslav Volf
Jun 06, 2020
My Anger, God's Righteous Indignation / Willie Jennings (Response to the Death of George Floyd)
Jun 02, 2020
The Need to Listen / Miroslav Volf
Jun 01, 2020
Racism, Exclusion, & Embrace / Miroslav Volf
May 30, 2020
Hope Pt. 2, Hope Against Hope / Miroslav Volf
May 23, 2020
What Is a Human Life Worth? / John Hare & Miroslav Volf
May 16, 2020
Hope Pt. 1, The Thing With Feathers / Miroslav Volf
May 09, 2020
The Crowd Needs Faith: Control, Care, Economy, and Race / Willie Jennings and Miroslav Volf
May 02, 2020
The Art of Living and Dying During COVID-19 / Lydia Dugdale, MD
Apr 25, 2020
The Promise and Peril of Home / Miroslav Volf & Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Apr 18, 2020
How to Be Afraid: Easter in the Time of COVID-19 / Miroslav Volf
Apr 11, 2020
The Wrong Kind of Social Distance / Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Apr 09, 2020
The Culture of Fear / Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, Drew Collins
Apr 04, 2020
Trailer / A Message from Miroslav Volf: Faith in a Time of Pandemic
Mar 28, 2020