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In our latest conversation, David French offers a simple picture that carries a lot of weight, describing a faith shaped like the cross itself, where our love for God reaches upward and, in the same motion, sends us outward toward the people around us. He goes on to name the two ways that shape can break down when we value one over the other. Where are you tempted to do this? Don’t miss this week’s episode.
There is one power that defeats the powers and principalities: the cross. As Curtis and David French discuss this week, the humility of the cross, God laying down his own life among the least of these, is what overturns and rebukes every culture and every institutional legacy built on pride. No stronghold is beyond its reach.
Have hope in his sovereignty this week, friends.
You know the feeling of walking away from a conversation and realizing the other person never asked you a single thing about yourself?
David Brooks says only about 30% of people are question-askers. The rest are perfectly lovely—they just never learned how to make someone feel truly seen. And his big claim in this episode is the hopeful part: seeing people well isn`t a personality trait you`re born with. It`s a skill. A craft you can actually practice and get better at.
We sat with that for a while. So we pulled six of the most practical things Curtis and David unpacked in this conversation—swipe through for the whole list. Some of them are gentle. A couple of them sting a little (looking at you, slide 3).
The whole episode is one of those quietly convicting listens that changes how you show up at the next dinner table.
Which of the six do you most need to work on? We`ll go first: not being a topper.
Listen back to "How to Know a Person" with David Brooks. Link in bio.
A word of hope for anyone weary in the work: the results are not all on us. When the pursuit of justice feels slow or discouraging, David French reminds us that no step toward righteousness is wasted as long as the Spirit is still moving.
Don`t miss David`s reflections in yesterdays episode of The Good Faith Podcast.
What does the Confederacy`s legacy still mean for the modern South and Christian America?
In this episode, Curtis sits down again withNew York Times columnist and Good Faith "founding friend" David French to confront the enduring power of the Confederate myth. David reflects on growing up as a white Southerner in a culture shaped by Confederate symbols, revisionist history, racial injustice, and a deeply rooted shame-and-honor code. Curtis, a Chinese American immigrant, brings an outsider`s perspective that challenges familiar assumptions about heritage, memory, and belonging.
Together they dig into Confederate monuments, the theological defenses of slavery, the real meaning of "heritage, not hate," the resurgence of explicit racism, and whether honest historical reckoning can actually lead to redemption and reconciliation. Listen in.
The number of people who say they have no close friends has gone up four times since the year 2000. Four times.
That stat stopped us in our tracks when David Brooks shared it—and it`s why we keep coming back to this older episode of Good Faith. David sat down with Curtis to talk about his book How to Know a Person, and the whole conversation is about the thing we`re quietly starving for: being truly seen.
If you missed this one the first time around, it`s worth a listen back. And if you heard it already—trust us, it hits differently now.
Listen back to "How to Know a Person" with David Brooks. Link in bio.
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us absorbed the idea that thinking too hard was a threat to faith.
"Protestants have to embrace the notion that the life of the mind is not in opposition to the life of faith." — Pete Wehner
Pete joined us to trace how that false choice took hold, and what it`s cost the church. Hard questions, real study, honest doubt: none of it is the enemy of belief. It might be one of the truest ways we love God. New episode out now. Listen in.
Five hundred years ago, the whole Protestant project started with a line in the sand: we don`t need Catholic theology. Pete Wehner thinks we might need it now more than ever.
Not the doctrines that divided the church—the things underneath them: intellectual rigor, an anchor against the cultural current, a moral vocabulary thousands of years deep, and the maturity to say "we were wrong."
Swipe for six things Pete says Protestants can learn from the Catholic tradition, then listen to the full conversation.
Tradition tends to get treated as the thing we`re supposed to outgrow. Jeremiah treats it as the way home.
"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." — Jeremiah 6:16
That`s the move Pete Wehner keeps returning to in our latest conversation. When the cultural currents are pulling this hard, the wisdom isn`t to invent something new. It`s to stand at the crossroads and ask for the older, deeper path we may have walked right past.
Thousands of denominations. One Bible. That gap is the whole conversation.
"The trouble with sola scriptura is that it often assumes, implicitly if not explicitly, that the Bible is self-evident and easy to interpret. And I would say it`s not."
— Pete Wehner
We sat down with Pete to talk about what Protestants may have lost along the way, and why so many are quietly looking across the aisle to the Catholic tradition to find it again. This one stretched us.
New episode out now. Listen in.
Five hundred years ago, Protestants broke from the Catholic Church with a clear message: we don`t need your theology. Curtis sat down with Pete Wehner to ask whether that`s still true.
Pete, a writer at The Atlantic and a former White House staffer, makes a generous case that some of what the church needs most right now has been carefully kept alive in the Catholic tradition. Intellectual rigor. A moral framework with centuries behind it. A high view of every single human being.
This isn`t about who`s right and who`s wrong. It`s about what these two streams of the faith can still learn from each other.
Along the way they get into the limits of sola scriptura, the gift of Catholic social teaching, what Christian humanism actually means, and how faithful public witness should shape our response to everything from AI to our politics. Tune in.
Every Greek god drew a hard line at becoming human. They thought it would be beneath them. Ours did it anyway.
We talked with Jessica Hooton Wilson about what pagan mythology can actually teach Christians: Zeus, Athena, and the rest as pale reflections of one God, history quietly building toward the incarnation long before anyone understood what it meant.
Great stories can still point us to something true. Ours is greater than anything we could have invented. Don’t miss the full episode.
