Mark Labberton discusses matters of the heart with his close friend Dr. David Anderson, a cardiologist of four decades who trained at Johns Hopkins and helped launch one of the first interventional cardiology programs in San Francisco. Anderson reflects on the medical...
The artist Makoto Fujimura has spent decades exploring what he calls ”broken beauty”—the observation that beauty is often born not despite the fractures each one of us experiences in this life but through them. On the opening night of the 2026 Understory festival,...
The Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann said, is an old text that simply refuses to stay old. “It reads like it was written yesterday.” For him, God offers no artificial closure, but is active in the meantime, and at peace with the “unfinished.” Walter Brueggemann died...
Join us as we talk with David Brooks, author and staff writer at The Atlantic. Brooks explores the tensions between political resentment and spiritual longing, diversity and cohesion, extremism and moderatism, and achievement and equality, inviting us to think about...
There’s a needle many pastors have spent the last decade trying to thread. Speak to the moment and you’re called partisan. Stay above it and you’re called silent. Speak prophetically and you’re accused of politics; refuse politics and you’re accused of abandoning the...
What do you do when you feel like an outsider? We spoke to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who turned her experience of being a cultural and religious outsider into a source of strength. Raised in a biracial, mixed-faith Korean American family, her identity was both welcomed...
Why are we still “kicking the hornet’s nest”? The last time Mark Labberton interviewed Daniel Zoughbie (UC Berkeley/UCSF) for his expertise on international diplomacy in the Middle East, there was not yet an Iran war. Regardless of your geographical distance, this war...
Philanthropic leader Romanita Hairston suggests that what is struggling to be born in our time is not one thing but two … and that neither can survive without the other. Beginning with artificial intelligence and ending with one of the most personal stories of the...
What is it that actually forms our inner reality? Our values, our perspective, our judgment, our understanding of wisdom about the issues that really matter? What difference does that make in Christian character formation? The American church consistently produces...
Why do stories matter? Why have human beings always told stories—and what if the oldest stories still have something vital to teach us? In this episode, Elizabeth Oldfield sits down with psychologist, mythologist and bestselling author Dr Sharon Blackie to explore why...
A fugue in five voices.
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