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The Understory

In May 2026, more than a thousand people gathered at Washington National Cathedral to ask what it means to be human in the light of Christ. This podcast carries the festival outward.
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November 11, 202613M

Covenantal Community

“Friendship,” says Elizabeth Oldfield, “is our theory of change.” For si...
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    Krish Kandiah
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    Lee Camp
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    Elizabeth Oldfield
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November 4, 20261h 23m

Assistance in Living, Assistance in Dying

Modern medicine has spent a century training its practitioners to see patients a...
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    Rebecca Vachon
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  • Dr. Lydia Dugdale
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Conversing

Conversing with Mark Labberton invites listeners into transformative encounters with leaders and creators shaping our world at the intersection of Christian faith, culture, and public life.
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November 10, 20261h

Honesty, Cheating, and Performativity

Dishonesty is becoming more and more incentivized. The rise of AI has made it ea...
  • Christian Miller
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November 3, 202652m

Change, Prophets, and Power

Political scientists once theorized that roughly every 30 years, a major electio...
  • Andra Gillespie
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The Sacred

The Sacred is a podcast interested in the real people behind their public personas. Elizabeth Oldfield hosts unhurried conversations that go deeper, in search of what might heal our fractured world.
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November 4, 20261h 5m

Rachel Parris on Comedy, Anxiety and Finding Peace

What happens when the person behind the punchlines isn’t quite who youR...
  • Rachel Parris
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October 21, 20261h 23m

What AI Reveals About Human Nature

What happens when the AI tools we use to make life easier start to change the wa...
  • Jamie Bartlett
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Zealots at the Gate

Muslim political thinker Shadi Hamid and Christian theologian Matthew Kaemingk explore the future of democracy and religion, charting a new paradigm for navigating difference.
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November 11, 202657M

Reflections on the Blue Wave

America’s first Muslim senator, competing ideas of what it means to run for of...
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October 29, 202655m

Have Progressives Found Faith Again?

When Michael Wear briefed senior political leaders, he always included a simple ...
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Proverbs & Policy

Ray Pennings and Andreae Sennyah bring Christian social thought to today’s defining cultural and policy questions, in conversation with thinkers and leaders shaping our future.
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November 12, 20261H 3M

Election Month in Canada — Ian Brodie

Is there one coherent story to tell about this fall’s provincial elections in ...
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October 29, 20261h

Why Aren’t Young People Dating or Having Kids?

Fertility rates are falling across the world, regardless of the policies that di...
  • Christine Emba
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MATERIAL MYSTICISM

Matthew J. Milliner

Giving the Whitney Biennial a Chance

America does have cultural confidence (if one knows where to look).

Matthew J. Milliner

At the Field Museum with Father Teilhard

Minding my own business in Chicago, I once more encounter the dead.

Amanda Iglesias

The Architecture of Prayer

An interview with architect Amanda Iglesias.

Matthew J. Milliner

Picturing Aphou, a Lost African Mystic

Do Christian icons and artificial intelligence mix?

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POPULAR ESSAYS

Laura Fabrycky

Motherhood and the Intellectual Life

What kind of knowing is maternal knowing?

Matthew J. Milliner

Merton’s Nurse

How Mary helped rescue America’s most famous monk.

Anastasia Berg

Why Have Children?

Thinking with patience, rigour, and generosity about a contentious topic.

Philip D. Bunn

Devices and Desires

Addressing the link between smartphones and mental illness among our children.

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