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The early Christians treated spiritual dryness as a prerequisite for growth. Most of us treat it like a problem to fix.
Tish Harrison Warren says they were onto something. Her new book, What Grows in Weary Lands, draws from the desert fathers and mothers, the practice of Compline, and her own season of exhaustion to make a case for the kind of resilience that doesn`t run on grit.
Our conversation with Tish dropped this week on Good Faith. Worth saving a quiet hour for.
Most of us assume spiritual growth should feel like a constant upward trajectory.
When the early excitement fades—when prayer feels flat, when the progress bar stops moving, when God seems further than before—the reflex is to diagnose. I`m doing something wrong. I`ve drifted. I need a new practice. A new church. A new book.
What if it`s none of that? What if you`ve just left the easy part?
This week with Tish Harrison Warren, we got into the second stage of the spiritual life—the one no one warned us about. The one that doesn`t feel like progress but actually is. The one John of the Cross spent his life writing about while most of us spent ours trying to escape it.
The way of ease is making us more tired.
That`s the line that stopped us in our conversation with Tish Harrison Warren. The relief consumerism keeps selling? It`s part of what`s wearing us down.
But the journey through it takes us somewhere—to the end of ourselves, where God finally has room to come in.
This one stayed with us. Don`t miss this episode.
Some weariness sleep doesn`t touch.
We`ve loved Tish Harrison Warren`s writing for years—and were lucky enough to have her on the early days of the podcast in 2022 and join one of our prayer calls back in 2024. So this week`s episode feels less like an interview and more like picking up a conversation already in progress.
Curtis sits down with Tish—author of the new book, What Grows in Weary Lands (out this week!)—to talk about the kind of tired that won`t go away with an early bedtime. The kind that comes from carrying digital noise, political fracture, consumer pressure, and quiet isolation all at the same time.
Tish and Curtis walk through what going deep actually looks like—silence, Sabbath, prayer, embodied community, even delight—and why our usual responses to weariness tend to leave us emptier than before.
If your soul has been running on fumes, this conversation is worth sitting with.
Curtis asked David French what`s actually at stake in Ukraine for those of us who follow Jesus. This was his answer.
A quiet correction. The kind that sits with you.
We`re not called to a faith that retreats when the news cycle moves on. Hundreds of thousands of people are still suffering in the Donbas. The neighborhood Jesus had in mind was always bigger than ours.
The question shaping global politics right now is one Jesus already answered. ↓
We were talking with David French about Ukraine — six months of shifting alliances, defense planners on 25-year horizons, the slow unwinding of the post-war order — when Curtis pulled it back to Luke 10. Who is my neighbor? What is my neighborhood?
It`s the question underneath every isolationist argument, every "we`ve got our own problems" shrug, every careful narrowing of who gets to count. And Christians, of all people, were never supposed to answer it small. Don’t miss this conversation.
Part 2 of our conversation with Malcolm Guite is now live.
This episode is more personal, more literary, and perhaps even more moving than the first. Malcolm reflects on losing his faith as a teenager, encountering transcendence through the poetry of Keats, and eventually discovering in the Psalms not just an idea of God—but the living presence of God himself.
Along the way, he explores why beauty can awaken us before belief does, why the old myths still matter, and what the Arthurian legends can teach us about suffering, healing, and hope.
“The old stories do not deny the wasteland. They do not pretend the world is less wounded than it is. But they also refuse to let the wasteland have the final word.”
If Part 1 was about imagination and meaning, Part 2 is about longing, encounter, and the journey through the wasteland toward grace. Don`t miss it.
We just sat down with David French to make sense of what`s actually happening in Ukraine — and this is the line that wouldn`t leave us.
He`s describing six months of allies quietly making other plans. Germany rebuilding its army. France extending its nuclear umbrella. Canada weaning itself off American weapons. Once people stop counting on you, you don`t get to set the pace of what comes next.
There`s a spiritual version of this conversation too. David and Curtis go there.
The new episode is up, and worth your weekend listen.
We use the word “church” all the time in culture, on Good Faith, in The After Party.
But depending on the week, it can start to mean very different things. A place. A tribe. A set of shared instincts. A group we feel aligned with. Jesus had something deeper in mind.
A people being formed. A body learning to love. A community that exists not just for itself—but for others. That kind of church doesn’t happen automatically. It’s something we become, over time, as we follow Him together.
So it’s worth asking: What does it mean to be the Church right now?
Has America begun retreating from the role it once played in the world?
On this episode of Good Faith, David French and Curtis explore how Ukraine’s fight against Russia is transforming global power, reshaping alliances, and raising deeper questions about justice, responsibility, and moral leadership.
Why are Americans tuning this story out? And what does that say about us?
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We’re used to asking how the world works.
But what if the deeper question is: what is it saying?
Malcolm Guite reframes reality in our latest bonus episode—not as a machine, but as meaning spoken into being. Listen in now.
In our conversation with Hannah Miller King, this line keeps echoing.
Faith was never meant to be something we carry alone. At the table, we’re reminded that we’re being formed together—receiving grace side by side, learning a shared rhythm of dependence on God. And then we’re sent.
What we receive doesn’t stay contained in a moment or a building. It becomes the way we live—how we love, serve, and show up in the world around us. We’re not just individuals having spiritual experiences. We’re a people being nourished, and then sent out to become what we’ve received. Don’t miss this episode.
