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Discover how anxiety can become a space for spiritual growth, inviting us to depend more deeply on God and be formed into people of peace and courage.
Join David and Nancy French for conversations that bring honesty, humor, and hope to the toughest issues of faith, culture, and community.
Explore how faith can shape our politics through conversations rooted in hope, humility, and a shared pursuit of the common good.
From marriage to dementia to dying well, explore how friends who follow Jesus can navigate life’s hardest realities with courage, compassion, and a steady faith in what’s yet to come.
From AI to social media, Andy Crouch helps us discover how followers of Jesus can navigate technology with wisdom, discernment, and a vision for human flourishing.
Discover how we can nurture a resilient, thoughtful faith in the next generation—helping young people live with courage, curiosity, and conviction in a changing world.
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When a church isn’t growing, many pastors assume they’ve done something wrong.
Ryan Burge reminds us that the larger story of American religion includes powerful headwinds no single leader can overcome — and that faithfulness isn’t the same as numerical success. Don`t miss this episode.
The church helped shape this moment.
Which means it still has a role to play in what comes next.
But to move forward, we have to understand how we got here.
In our conversation with Ryan Burge — the researcher behind The Great Dechurching and author of The Vanishing Church — we go beyond the headlines and statistics to tell the story beneath them: how the church changed, how it shaped our politics, and why presence and belonging still matter.
This is a conversation worth sitting with.
🎧 Listen to the full episode now on the Good Faith podcast.
You know the numbers.
You’ve heard the terms.
You just may not know the name behind them.
Ryan Burge is the social scientist whose research shaped The Great Dechurching and gave us language we now take for granted — including the rise of the “nones.” His data has been cited everywhere, shared endlessly, and debated often.
But in this conversation, Ryan does more than “spit the numbers.”
He tells the story behind them.
Why politically we’re in the situation we’re in because of the church.
The numbers prove it.
The story behind them says even more.
From evangelicals and mainline Protestants to American Catholics and the nones, Ryan helps us see how the sorting of the church reshaped American politics — and what we lost when shared spaces disappeared.
This episode isn’t just about religious decline. It’s about belonging, polarization, and why faithful presence still matters. Don’t miss it, listen in.
Good Faith friends—we’re excited to share that we’ll be doing a live podcast recording at the Illuminate Conference this March, just outside Chattanooga, Tennessee!
Illuminate is an ecumenical Arts + Faith gathering (March 23–24) that brings together artists, thinkers, and the spiritually curious to explore how faith takes shape through beauty, imagination, and craft. Expect fifty-plus sessions ranging from William Blake to Woody Guthrie and Wendell Berry, hands-on workshops like pottery throwing and psalm-writing, a poetry open mic, and a staged reading of an original play about Kierkegaard. The weekend also features illustrator John Hendrix, author and podcaster Jonathan Rogers, and a full concert by Matt Maher.
We’re honored to be part of it—and to record an episode of Good Faith on-site with this community. Not able to attend the full conference? You can also purchase a ticket just for the Matt Maher concert + the live Good Faith recording.
Registration includes two meals, with group discounts available.
Learn more at southern.edu/illuminate or find the link in our bio. We’d love to see you there.
Rarely does anyone wake up and decide to abandon their values in one dramatic moment. More often, change happens quietly—through a long series of small accommodations that feel reasonable at the time, but slowly reshape what we accept as normal. In this episode, Pete Wehner explores how moral erosion works, why it’s so hard to notice while it’s happening, and what faithfulness looks like in moments of drift. Listen to the full conversation on the Good Faith Podcast.
Pete Wehner reminds us that demagogues don’t only threaten societies through dramatic acts. Their real power often lies in repetition—controlling the microphone day after day, shaping reality, and slowly eroding a nation’s moral sensibilities. The danger isn’t just political. It’s formative. Don’t miss this episode.
Jesus said the truth sets us free—but only if we’re willing to live in it.
In a moment when power, loyalty, and fear compete with moral clarity, Pete Wehner reminds us that resistance begins here: refusing to live within the lie, even when the lie is loud, popular, or convenient. Truth isn’t just personal—it’s political, public, and costly.
What happens when a nation stops measuring its power by its ideals—and starts measuring its ideals by its power? Pete Wehner warns that U.S. foreign policy is crossing that line, embracing a “might makes right” ethic that once would have been unthinkable. Don`t miss this episode.
What happens when morality leaves U.S. foreign policy?
In this episode, The Atlantic columnist and former Reagan–Bush adviser Pete Wehner joins Curtis Chang to confront a troubling shift in America’s role in the world. From Venezuela to a looming Greenland–Denmark showdown that could fracture NATO, Wehner argues we’re watching a “might makes right” ethic go mainstream—one that treats power, not human dignity, as the ultimate measure. Together, they ask whether Christian Americans can resist authoritarian drift, recover historical memory, and choose the harder work of living within the truth rather than accommodating the lie.
Don`t miss it.
If Scripture tells us who God is, creation shows us how God’s care and truth are made visible in the world we inhabit. Paying attention to the natural world is not a distraction from faith, but one way of listening more closely to the God who made it.
Listen to more from Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on faith, science, and loving the creation God gave us.
“Faith is the evidence of what we do not see. Science is the evidence of what we do see.”
Rather than beginning with polarized language, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe invites us to start with what we share—simple questions, lived experience, and careful attention to the world around us.
Don’t miss this moment from our latest conversation on the Good Faith Podcast.
Conversations about climate change can feel charged—especially for Christians. Political, emotional, and often easier to avoid than to engage.
That’s why we created a Read-Along Guide to accompany our Good Faith Podcast episode with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and committed Christian.
This guide is designed to help you engage the topic with hope, humility, and curiosity—whether you’re unsure, conflicted, or already thinking deeply about climate change.
You’ll find key ideas from the episode, reflection questions for personal or group use, and space to process how faith, science, and love of neighbor come together in this conversation.
