Shifting Culture

In this episode, Chuck DeGroat joins me to talk about how people actually change. We talk about how therapy language and spiritual practices can become performance, and why so much of our formation sits on top of...

In this episode, Kayla Craig joins me again to talk about her new devotional, Our Daily Breath , a year of breath prayers, Scripture, and short reflections for anxious people living in anxious times. We talk about...

In this episode, Kutter Callaway joins me to talk about his new book, Be Afraid , and why horror might be one of the most spiritual genres in film. We explore the difference between managing fear and fearing rightly...

In this episode, Jen Pollock Michel and I talk about A Rule for the Rest of Us and what Saint Benedict might offer people who will never live in a monastery. We start with the anxiety of optimization and the strange...

In this episode, Wes Crawford joins me to talk about his new book, One Nation Over God , and why faith and patriotism have become so tangled in American life. We explore Robert Bellah's idea of American civil religion...

In this episode, Kenneth Tanner and I contemplate the human face of God. We talk about why we split Jesus into a divine half and a human half, and what we lose when we do. We get into the story we've been told about...

In this episode, Dave Nienhuis joins me to talk about his memoir, And the Sea Was No More . We explore the deep, the chaos waters that run through Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, and what happens to faith when...

This is The Good, The True, and The Cinema , a film podcast in pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Join Joshua Johnson, cultural critic and host of Shifting Culture, Craig Detweiler, filmmaker, author, and...

In this episode Annie F. Downs joins me to take John 10:10 apart. Steal, kill, destroy — we tend to read them as one sentence, but Annie treats them as three different losses asking three different things of us...

In this episode Sarah Stankorb joins me to talk about Damned If She Does and the sixteen million American women who have walked away from the church in the last decade. Sarah is a journalist who covers religion, and...

In this episode Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces how holiness theology and New Thought merged into a faith that promised women power right where they stood, and taught them that naming what was wrong was itself the sin. We...

In this episode, Jeff Woodke tells me what six and a half years as a hostage in the Malian desert stripped away. We talk about the day he was taken, the years of false promises that killed hope first, the months in a...

Jesus and... Everything is a space for those of us who want a faith that is deeply spiritually alive, but also rooted in the big framing issues of the world. Every week, Pete Portal sits down with a guest, and has an...

In this episode, W. David O. Taylor joins me to talk about To Set the World Aflame and the artist's calling to bear witness to the fullness of God's creation. Artists work with the sensory, the imaginative, the...

In this episode Sandra Glahn helps us read Scripture the way we already know how to read a story. We talk about the women we've skipped as bunny trails, handed only to women, flattened into ideals, or made into sinners...