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It used to be that good words were rare. If you could offer them through a sermon, a book or a lecture, people would stop and listen.
Now, as Curtis points out, AI can churn out words for free. @johnmarkcomer er adds that they often come with about the same amount of wisdom. His answer isn’t more words. It’s people whose words carry a kind of inner authority that only comes from time spent in the quiet. Jesus modeled this: the more in demand he became, the more often he withdrew to pray (Luke 5:15–16).
Who’s someone whose words carry weight because of how they live?
Listen to “Does the Church Need a Quiet Revolution?” wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.
The monk leading the silent meditation was on his iPhone.
While writing Into the Quiet, @johnmarkcomer went on retreat to a remote monastery in Big Sur, two hours past the last cell signal. Even there, the digital age had found a way in. John Mark says this is the first time in history you can go your entire life without ever really being alone.
Curtis pushes him hard: is silence essential to following Jesus, or just a nice extra for introverts? And does a “quiet revolution” have anything to say to a church tangled up in power and politics? What we didn’t expect was how gentle John Mark’s answer to “where do I start?” turned out to be. Buy an old-school alarm clock, leave your phone in another room, and let Psalm 23 roll through your mind before you get out of bed.
What’s one small way you’ve made room for quiet this year?
Listen to “Does the Church Need a Quiet Revolution?” wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.
@sharonsaysso points out that the people we admire most from history usually picked one or two things and stuck with them, sometimes for decades.
Her suggestion for families is to sit down together, choose one cause for the year (the local parks, the soup kitchen, your unhoused neighbors), and actually work on it. Next year, you can keep going or pick something new.
Listen to "Democracy Starts at Home" now. Link in bio.
“Being angry on the internet is not activism.”
@sharonsaysso tells her own kids this, and we haven’t stopped thinking about it. In our recent conversation with her, she makes the case that every adult is shaping how the next generation does politics — parents, aunties, coaches, youth pastors — and that the work that actually changes things usually happens far away from your feed.
Head to the link in our bio to hear more from “America’s government teacher.”
If you met more federal judges, you`d feel better about the country, not worse. That`s David French`s claim, and he`s spent years around judges nominated by both parties.
Curtis pushes on it hard heading into a tense midterm season. What we didn`t expect was where David landed: less a defense of the court than a challenge to the rest of us about how to love a neighbor when a ruling causes real harm. We`re still thinking about it.
What`s one way you`ve seen someone love a neighbor who was being treated unjustly?
Listen to "Can We Trust the Supreme Court?" wherever you get your podcasts.
Andy Crouch`s first memory of education is lying under a piano while his mother played — and what struck him wasn`t her intellectual achievement, it was that she could make something beautiful with her hands.
In this week`s episode with Curtis, he makes the case for a whole category of education elite schools skip: "There`s another thing you can be educated in: how to carry your body through the world and interact with it in such a way that a beautiful, useful result will come out." Woodworking, plumbing, learning an instrument — the kind of skill a diagnostic test could never measure.
Where did you learn something that never showed up on a transcript? Listen in.
When AI can write code, solve technical problems, and increasingly “get the right answer,” what should people study? In, what even is the purpose of school these days? And should we all become plumbers?!
In the latest from Good Faith, Curtis Chang talks with author and technology thinker Andy Crouch about what education is actually for and how we can prepare young people for a world changing faster than our institutions can keep up.
Their conversation moves from college majors and the surprising economic promise of the trades to a deeper question: How do we form people who can exercise judgment, create beauty, care for others, and explore the questions that have no easy answer?
If you have children or grandchildren approaching college—or if you care about the future of education—this episode is for you. Listen to the new episode of The Good Faith Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and share it with someone navigating these questions right now.
This episode of the Good Faith podcast features a discussion about artificial intelligence and is created with support from DELTA at the University of Notre Dame`s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, focused on human formation in the age of AI.
25 years ago today, two words entered the American vocabulary and never left.
Homeland security. We built a department around it, reorganized a government around it, went to war under it twice. This week Curtis sat down with Elizabeth Neumann, who helped build that apparatus from inside DHS, and Russell Moore, who spent those same 25 years watching what fear does to a church, to ask the question the anniversary keeps raising: are we actually safer, or just more afraid?
The line we keep coming back to is Russell`s. "Fear and apathy are not opposite extremes. They lead to one another." You can only stay on high alert so long before you go numb, and numb can feel a lot like peace until you notice what it cost you.
Listen in now. https://goodfaith.org/podcasts/the-homeland-security-trap-with-russell-moore-elizabeth-neumann/
Every church has a discipleship curriculum, whether it picked one or not.
Gary Haugen has spent thirty years watching what happens when sincere people never get help thinking through hard things, and his worry about the American church isn`t that people believe the wrong things, it`s that so many pastors have quietly left the hard conversations to cable news and the feed, and something is always willing to take that job.
Catch our conversation with Gary before a new episode drops tomorrow.
The most dangerous thing you can do with a gift is protect it.
In the parable of the talents, the servant who buries what he was given is the only one the master gets angry with, and Gary Haugen points out that his reason was not laziness, it was fear of getting it wrong. Thirty years into fighting modern slavery, Gary told us the thing he hears God saying most often is don`t be afraid of this, because you can`t be brave and safe at the same time. This is an episode you don’t want to miss.
They targeted 50 children. They got 38 out. Gary Haugen never saw the other 15 again.
He`s been doing this work for 30 years, and what we didn`t expect was how much of our conversation ended up being about the ones they didn`t reach. Not strategy. Grief, and what you do with it so it doesn`t take the fight out of you.
Swipe for the 6 practices that keep him in it, including the one his whole organization stops working to do twice a day.
Has the Modern Slave Trade Met Its Match? with Gary Haugen is out now. If you`re tired in your own corner of this work, start with this one.
God never actually answers the question. Moses asks who he is to go to Pharaoh, and it`s a fair question. One man, an empire, no leverage. And God doesn`t come back with a list of reasons he`s qualified. He just says, "I will be with you."
Gary Haugen pointed us to this in our conversation about 30 years of fighting modern slavery. You don`t get an answer to "who am I to take this on." You get a promise that you won`t be doing it alone. He says that`s what carries his team through the cases that go wrong and the kids they don`t reach in time. Don`t miss our latest episode.
