The Case for Hope in a Year of Despair
There’s not a lot making Americans hopeful these days. More than half of the country told pollsters last year that they were “extremely worr...
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20 of 306 episodesThere's No Good Plan to Stop 100,000 Opioid Deaths a Year
100,000 Americans died from April 2020 to April 2021 due to opioids, according to numbers released this week from the Centers for Disease Co...
Fewer Politicians Are Seeking Compromise. Should Christians?
Last Friday, both chambers of Congress passed an infrastructure bill that will commit more than one trillion dollars to America’s deteriorat...
Why the Climate Change Movement Needs the Church
Politicians, business leaders, and activists from around the world are meeting this and next week in Glasgow, Scotland, to make commitments...
Should Christians Be Disturbed by Facebook’s Mess?
This week, the revelations from a number of internal Facebook documents came to light, thanks to Frances Haugen, a former employee of the so...
Does God Really Want Missionaries to Risk Their Lives?
On Saturday, a gang kidnapped 17 North American missionaries in Haiti as the party returned from an orphanage in a suburb of Port-au-Prince....
What ‘Ted Lasso’ Understands About Redemption
Season 1 and Season 2 spoilers ahead. The second season of Ted Lasso ends with an image of Nate. The once kitman, recently promoted Greyhoun...
What Francis Collins Changed for Christians in Science
This week, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, announced that he would retire at the end of the year. An eva...
Did We Get Tammy Faye Wrong?
In this third decade of the 21st century, we’ve seen a lot of religious scandals, with Christian leaders abusing their power and position. T...
Drones Have Changed the Moral Calculus for War
On August 29, as American troops were accelerating their pullout from Afghanistan, the U.S. military ordered its last drone strike in the 20...
Did 9/11 Change How Evangelicals See Muslims?
This year marks 20 years since 19 men hijacked four planes, driving two of the aircraft into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon,...
Wisdom, Folly, and Taking Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19
In recent weeks, some Americans sick with COVID-19 have been looking for a cure from a very unorthodox source: ivermectin. Here’s how the Fo...
Slow to Speak: Listeners React to Our Critical Race Theory Episode
Here's a special, stand-alone Slow to Speak where guest host Kate Shellnutt joins Morgan Lee to read over listener feedback from Episode 271...
Is the Quest for ‘Meaningful Work’ a Scam?
This spring and summer, a lot of headlines about the economy sang a similar tune: From CNN: Why American workers don't want to go back to no...
'My Heart Is Broken’: An Afghan Pastor Grapples with the US Withdrawal
Earlier this year, Joe Biden announced that after close to 20 years, the United States would be withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Las...
Paul's Advice on Letting Conscience Be Your Guide on Vaccines and Masks
This week, the Christian Post reprinted a blog by Samuel Sey, a Canadian writer, entitled, “Why I am not getting the vaccine.” Sey’s essay d...
Rerun: The Fire This Time: How Climate Change Shifts Our Understanding of Suffering
Due to production issues, we are not running a new podcast today. Instead, we are replaying a unfortunately, once-again-timely episode we re...
Before Simone Biles Becomes Christians' Next Sports Metaphor
After one vault on Tuesday, Simone Biles took herself out of the US gymnastics women’s team competition. A day later, she withdrew from the...
Billionaires Are Traveling to Space. Should Christians Celebrate?
This Tuesday, Amazon founder and the richest man on the planet, Jeff Bezos, entered space for the first time. This was the virgin flight for...
Why Some Indigenous Christians Still Have Hope in the Church
Half a dozen Canadian churches have been set on fire or burned down this summer. This arson has come at a time when multiple mass graves hav...