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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 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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    Leonie Herx
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    Sara Hendren
  • Louis Kim
  • Dr. Lydia Dugdale
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October 28, 20261h 5m

Power’s Shifting Machinery

In our current economic reality, capital outruns governance. Networks displace i...
  • Michael Van Pelt
  • Romanita Hairston
  • Kristine Braden
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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 3, 202652m

Change, Prophets, and Power

Political scientists once theorized that roughly every 30 years, a major electio...
  • Andra Gillespie
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October 27, 202654m

Be Afraid or Fear Not?

What would it mean to fear rightly—to both fear God and “fear not,” to bot...
  • Kutter Callaway
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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...
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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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October 29, 202655m

Have Progressives Found Faith Again?

When Michael Wear briefed senior political leaders, he always included a simple ...
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October 26, 20261h 11m

Evangelicals and Their Cultured Despisers

Join us as we talk with journalist and author Bonnie Kristian about her new book...
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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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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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October 29, 20261H 9M

How Christian Social Thought Shapes Canadian Policy Debates

What is the link between proverbs and policy? For Brian Dijkema, the Canadian pr...
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MATERIAL MYSTICISM

Matthew J. Milliner

Boundary Waters

Exploring a great northern “monastery,” and a metaphor for mysticism.

Matthew J. Milliner

Evangelicalism: A Love Story

A salacious tell-all of quiet, unflashy faithfulness.

Matthew J. Milliner

On Christ and Coral

A prayer 500 million years in the making.

Matthew J. Milliner

Salvation by Dread Alone

Reckoning at Chaco Canyon.

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POPULAR ESSAYS

Skyler Adleta

The Providence of Poverty

Finding grace in the midst of addiction and homelessness.

Laura Fabrycky

Motherhood and the Intellectual Life

What kind of knowing is maternal knowing?

David Brooks

The Feminine Way to Wisdom

Learning from Etty Hillesum, Edith Stein, and Simone Weil.

Jeff Reimer

How Not to Be a Schismatic

Wayfaring through a broken ecclesial landscape.

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