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Through thoughtful conversations on the issues and experiences that shape our lives, the Good Faith Podcast invites listeners to think clearly and live faithfully in an uncertain world.
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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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“Optimism isn’t rooted in the belief that we inevitably will succeed. It’s rooted in the belief that we must succeed.”
In our conversation with Brian Webb, he calls this stubborn optimism. Not naïveté. Not denial. Not wishful thinking.
But the quiet conviction that love requires perseverance. For Christians, hope isn’t based on perfect odds. It’s rooted in faithfulness.
Listening is a start. But sometimes the best conversations happen after the episode ends.
We’ve created a simple Read-Along Guide for our conversation with Brian Webb — designed to help you reflect, discuss, and discern what faithfulness looks like where you live.
Perfect for small groups, church teams, or thoughtful personal reflection.
No pressure. No agenda. Just space to think together. Download it at the link in our bio.
The Apostle Paul wasn’t talking about climate policy. He was talking about the Church. And yet this truth still stretches us: We are connected. What impacts one part of the body touches us all.
Faithfulness begins with remembering we belong to each other.
“Even if it weren’t about people, it would still be enough.”
God created the world. He called it good. He gave us responsibility.
Creation care isn’t political. It’s biblical. And it’s more than an “environmental issue.” Listen in for more from our episode with Brian Webb.
“God creates the world. He declares it good. God gives humans the responsibility of stewarding the creation.”
In our conversation with Brian Webb, this is where we start. Before debates. Before polarization. Before we’re overwhelmed.
Creation care begins in Genesis: with goodness, responsibility, and the call to be faithful. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Climate change isn’t just an environmental issue. It’s a human one.
In this episode, Brian Webb helps us reframe the conversation as he connects creation care to Scripture, suffering, institutions, and everyday faithfulness.
What if the question isn’t “Can I fix this?” But “Can I be faithful where I am?”
Listen to the final episode in our Christians & Climate series. It’s one we don’t think you’ll want to miss.
Struggling to see God in ordinary life? In our latest episode, N.T. Wright reminds us: meaning isn’t found by escaping real life, but by entering into it more deeply.
Love.
Grief.
Music.
Art.
Friendship.
Brokenness.
Beauty.
All of it matters.
All of it is where God meets us. Listen in and join us in asking “Is there something sacred about my ordinary?”
Not louder. Not angrier. Not more anxious. But different.
In its earliest years, Christianity didn’t spread through power. It spread because ordinary believers loved their neighbors in extraordinary ways.
What if the most compelling witness today wasn’t winning arguments, but embodying a winsome alternative?
A steadier presence. A deeper hope. A truer humanity. That’s the kind of difference the world can’t ignore. Tune into our latest episode with NT Wright and join us in asking “Would Jesus recognize my witness?”.
What happens when your country begins to slip beneath the sea?
In this Good Faith bonus drop, we hear directly from Taualo Penivao of the Christian Church of Tuvalu — a shepherd walking with his people through rising waters, disappearing land, and difficult decisions about migration and survival.
Often called “ground zero” of the global climate crisis, Tuvalu’s story reminds us: this is not just about the environment. It’s about neighbors, culture, and hope.
Listen to this short, powerful story — and consider what faithful presence looks like in a changing world.
This verse comes at the end of Paul’s great chapter on resurrection. Not escape.Resurrection.
Because Jesus is raised — and because new creation is coming — what we do now matters.
Your work. Your faithfulness. Your quiet obedience. Your love for your neighbor. None of it is wasted.
The Christian hope isn’t about leaving earth behind. It’s about trusting that what is done in the Lord carries forward into God’s renewed world. That’s good news worth living into.
Many of us inherited a version of the Christian story that sounded like this:
Believe. Go to heaven. Leave earth behind. But what if that’s not the full story the Bible tells?
From Genesis 1 to Revelation 21–22, Scripture traces a single, unified vision: creation and new creation. Not escape, renewal. Not abandoning earth, but heaven and earth made one.
As N.T. Wright reminds us, “The new heavens and new earth are a single reality.”
The Christian hope isn’t less than heaven. It’s bigger than we imagined.
Listen to N.T. Wright on The Good Faith Podcast as we explore resurrection, renewal, and the real Christian hope.
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible tells one story. Not a moral exam so we can escape to heaven. But heaven and earth — overlapping, interlocking realities.
Humans stand right at the intersection. If you’ve ever sensed the Christian story is bigger than “go to heaven someday”… this conversation with N.T. Wright is for you.



















