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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.
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There`s a kind of loneliness that geography can`t fix. You can be in a full room, a good marriage, a real community—and still feel unreachably alone.
In our conversation with Dr. Alison Cook, she kept returning to one quiet truth: even in the places inside us that feel most unseen, we are not actually alone there. This is the promise of Psalm 139. Not that God waits for us to climb out of the dark and come find him, but that he`s already there—in the uttermost parts, on the days we can`t feel a thing. His hand is holding, even when we don`t notice the grip.
We spend so much energy trying to escape being alone. Fill the quiet. Text someone back. Turn on something in the background.
But Dr. Alison Cook told us the people who are most at home in their own company are usually the least lonely ones in the room. Not because they need people less—because they`ve done the inner work of being with themselves. They know how they show up. They know what they need. So they can be with others without asking anyone to be everything.
Solitude, it turns out, isn`t the opposite of connection. It might be the ground it grows from.
When you`re alone with yourself, no screen filling the silence: is it a place you can rest, or one you rush to leave?
Most of us treat every kind of loneliness the same—a problem to solve by adding more people, more things to do, a longer to do list.
In yesterday`s episode, Dr. Alison Cook gently took that apart for us. The first move isn`t fixing the loneliness. It`s naming the kind of loneliness you`re experiencing. Which of the three did you recognize yourself in?
On a typical weekend, only 4.1% of Americans attend or host a social gathering. We`re more "connected" than any generation in history and lonelier than ever — and Dr. Alison Cook says the fix isn`t just adding more people to your life.
We sat down with her for a conversation that named something a lot of us feel but rarely say out loud: that loneliness isn`t always a problem to solve. Sometimes it`s a signal worth listening to. Alison walks Curtis through the difference between circumstantial loneliness, old attachment wounds, and the existential kind none of us escape — and offers one practice for all of it: recognize what you feel, then return to the truth that "I am loved even here."
Don`t miss this conversation.
We`ve made silence into a problem to solve. An awkward pause, dead air, a lull we rush to fill with a podcast, a text, a scroll. So we`ve nearly lost the thing Andy Crouch is describing: a space where nothing is being asked of us and nothing has to be said.
That`s exactly what a screen can`t give you. A device always offers communication and always demands a response. Real presence with another person, or with God doesn`t. It can just sit there with you, and be enough.
Try it this week. Fifteen minutes, no inputs, nothing to answer. See what shows up when you stop filling the quiet.
We can be tempted to measure your worth by what your mind produces: answers, output, tasks cleared. Andy Crouch points to something older and stranger: before your mind was ever useful, it was made to marvel. To behold the world you didn`t make and simply be amazed by it.
That`s the capacity most at risk right now in our technological age. Not our productivity, but our wonder: the ability to stand before something astonishing, or beautiful, or terrifying, with nothing to do about it but look.
Your wonder is worth protecting. Put down the thing that turns everything into a task, and let yourself be amazed.
You may not be able to stop using AI, but you can refuse to be formed by it.
That`s the hopeful turn in our conversation with Andy Crouch: staying human in an AI world isn`t about opting out—it`s about deliberately exercising the parts of us the tools are happy to take over. He offered four practices, and none of them are complicated. A rhythm of use and non-use. Silence. Reading real books, slowly. Making music with other people.
Think of it like going to the gym: but for your heart, soul, and mind. As Andy puts it, don`t take a forklift to the gym of being human.
Swipe through for all four, then tell us: which one are you starting with?
Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength: Andy Crouch told us that AI is quietly coming for all four.
When Jesus named the greatest commandment, he didn`t pick one part of us, he named the whole person: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." (Mark 12:30)
In our new episode, Andy Crouch makes an unsettling case: technology has spent a century slowly wearing down each of those four. Machines took our strength. Computers took our minds. Now AI is reaching for the rest—and the strange part is how good it feels on the way down. It`s a conversation you don`t want to miss, listen in.
Most of the world runs on a quiet assumption: that power is what`s ultimately real. Get enough of it, and you can protect and provide for the people like you.
In this week`s episode, Andy Crouch names the idea he thinks quietly overturns all of that: "The most revolutionary idea in the Bible is that the deepest reality of the cosmos is love, not power." A God who didn`t need to create, creating anyway — pouring out love on a world that could never repay it.
It reframes everything, including how we think about AI. Because AI is very good at giving us more power. It has almost nothing to offer us about love.
We were made to love God with all four parts of ourselves: our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Andy Crouch`s unsettling observation is that technology has been quietly wearing each one down for a hundred years. Machines took our strength. Computers took our minds. And now AI is reaching for what`s left: our relationships, our grief, our wonder, even our prayers.
The trap isn`t that it feels bad. It`s that cognitive offloading feels wonderful—right up until you notice what`s gone soft.
Swipe through for the whole arc, then tell us: which of the four do you feel slipping first?
AI will always give you an answer, and that`s exactly the problem.
Our friend Andy Crouch is back to talk all things AI, and ask the question we think we all are in our current moment: is the lack of friction in an AI world making us less human?
Wonder, silence, sacrificial love, sitting with someone in their suffering—are the very things AI is offering to take off our hands. "Don`t take a forklift to the gym of being human," he told us. Convenience feels like pure gift, right up until you notice what it`s quietly costing you.
This is the first episode in our new series on the explosive impact of AI, and of course Andy had to kick us off! Listen in.
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.
Some Christians will tell you that taking an antidepressant means you don`t trust God. Matt Loftus has heard all of it: including that medication will "dull the voice of the Holy Spirit."
His response is bracing and freeing: the Holy Spirit still speaks. We can`t tinker with our brain chemistry enough to shut God out. Loftus is a physician who takes psychiatric medication himself, so this isn`t theory—it`s a word from someone who`s needed both the medicine and the grace.
If you`ve ever felt guilty for getting the help you need, this one`s for you. Listen in to our latest episode.
