Transformation happens at the speed of relationships. A familiar adage, maybe, but one we find inconvenient. Perceptive students of movements like Murdock Trust CEO Romanita Hairston live and lead with this truth as baseline. In this episode, Romanita reflects on the...
Western democracies are sloughing through the twilight of movement-building strategies built primarily from masculine emphases on quantification and scale, visibility and punchlines. Such impulses should not be cancelled. But it is worth opening our eyes to the role...
A stressed and divided people tends to live at the surface, responding to reality’s symptoms, not its nature. It’s understandable: we feel forced to move quickly, to act in the face of felt urgencies, to survive. But what if regenerative social change cannot happen...
How does one begin to think about regenerative culture change? Is there hope for a fractured society to mend? Anne opens this season with an invitation to eavesdrop on her family dinner table. Her husband and New York Times columnist, David Brooks, has been a witness...
The caliphate is the traditional form of Islamic governance. Ever since the abolition of the last caliphate in 1924, Muslim thinkers have debated the revival of an Islamic state. In this episode we talk with one such thinker. Ovamir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Endowed...
Is there such a thing as “religious” power or violence? Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk examine how terminology like this is wielded in the modern West.
Can “muscular” faiths be reconciled with a pluralistic ethic? Are they actually invested in Christianity’s revival, or something else disguised as such?
If Muslims are committed to shariah and liberals are committed to individual freedom, can these two worldviews really coexist? Our guest, the Islamic legal theorist Mohammad Fadel, argues that Muslim citizens can accept, live in, and even flourish in a liberal...
We have ourselves a disagreement. A debate breaks out as our hosts discuss Shadi’s new book, The Problem of Democracy. Shadi argues that we should see democracy as a mere form of governance, a systemic way to resolve ideological conflicts peacefully. Matthew argues...
Around the world, democracy is in crisis. Should Christians and Muslims work to protect and revive it? Neither the Bible nor the Qur’an mentions the word “democracy.” At no point did the early followers of Jesus or Muhammad advocate for a democratic form of...
From ancient Greece to TikTok, we have debated whether stories are worth all the fuss.
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