214. Luke Bretherton | Scaling Up Love of Neighbor
In a time marked by rapid technological change, social fragmentation, political polarization, and declining trust in institutions, what does...
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20 of 264 episodes213. A Journey into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
After spending five days camping above the Arctic Circle in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Jim Stump reflects on an experience th...
212. Alister McGrath | C.S. Lewis & Science
C.S. Lewis is remembered by many as a novelist, apologist, and literary scholar, but his reflections on science remain surprisingly relevant...
143. The Ocean Declares | Horseshoe Crabs, Hospitality & Creatureliness
When the wind is just right, on a small beach in Titusville, Florida, horseshoe crabs crawl out of the water and onto the beach to lay their...
OCEANS MONTH! 183. Cool Creatures | Giant Pacific Octopus
Octopuses and humans have been evolving separately for more than 500 million years, but still, we have a few things in common. We explore wh...
OCEANS MONTH! 145. Dawn Wright | A Divine Abyss
In the summer of 2022 Dawn Wright became only the 27th person ever, the fifth woman, and the first Black person to descend into the deepest...
OCEANS MONTH! 211. Cool Creatures | Coral
Coral reefs are easy to mistake for rock or plant life. But corals are animals—colonies of tiny polyps living in partnership with algae, bui...
210. Charles Foster | The Significance of Edges
In this episode of Language of God, Colin Hoogerwerf and Jim Stump sit down in Oxford, England with writer, veterinarian, barrister, and phi...
209. Tish Harrison Warren | A Grammar for Weariness
In a world that often feels relentlessly exhausting, weariness can seem like something to fix, escape, or push through. But what if it’s als...
208. NT Wright | New Creation Breaking In
New Testament scholar N.T. Wright sits down with Jim Stump to explore how Christians should think about the past, the future, and the story...
207. Ayaan Hirsi Ali | The Shape of Belief
What happens when one of the world’s most prominent former atheists becomes a Christian—and claims that faith actually strengthens reason an...
206. Jessica Malaty Rivera | Making Sense from the Noise
In this episode, infectious disease epidemiologist and science communicator Jessica Malaty Rivera reflects on what it means to help people m...
205. Cool Creatures | Lemurs
What if one of our closest relatives had taken a completely different evolutionary path? In this episode of Language of God, we continue our...
204. Marilynne Robinson | Something Vast and Inexplicable Happened
Genesis has long been a flashpoint in conversations about science and faith. Is it history? Poetry? Theology? Some combination of all three?...
203. Sabrina Little | Run in Such A Way
Elite ultra-runner Sabrina Little has logged national titles and set the American record for the greatest distance run in 24 hours. But for...
202. Becoming the Answer | Something is Stirring (Part Two)
The second episode turns toward resilience—without pretending that the climate crisis is solved. At COP30, amid formal speeches and stalled...
201. Becoming the Answer | Why Climate Facts Aren’t Enough (Part One)
The story begins in Brazil at COP30, the United Nations climate summit, where global leaders gather to address climate change. From there, i...
200. Seeking Wholeness in a Fractured World
A season of reflection led us back into years of past conversations, where unexpected threads began to intertwine. In this episode, we bring...
BONUS | Live from COP30
Jim and Colin report from Belém, Brazil and the halls of COP30.
199. Spiritual Yearning in Science
In a world that has sometimes been called “disenchanted,” we have to ask, does science really strip the world of mystery—or might science ac...