Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

Norman Wirzba writes that our homes and workplaces should nurture and celebrate life.

Adam Nicolson tells of reversing the destructive agricultural damage done to his farm in the past.

Christian Wiman writes that the “if” is what any honest faith looks like in this life.

Zohar Atkins discusses the real meaning of tikkun olam. Susannah and Zohar discuss the contemporary progressive vision of this idea, which means (or does it?) “to repair the world.” Where did that contemporary interpretation come from? And what was the original meaning? They go through the Rabbinic concept of Tikkun as equity, as a kind of emergency legal decree to be used when the law as written...

Carlo Gébler writes that we should try to repair the lives of others, even if things in our own lives seem broken.

Words written by Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm, a pacifist interracial Christian community in Georgia, taken from a Plough book, The Inconvenient Gospel.

Kurt Armstrong writes that not everyone can build skyscrapers; someone has to address that damp spot on your kitchen ceiling.

Matthew Sitman and Sohrab Ahmari discuss friendship across political divides. Both men have made their careers in political media and have made significant changes in their politics over the course of their lives – in Sohrab’s case, very publicly. These changes have affected some friendships and have left others intact. Sohrab and Matt and Susannah discuss the phenomenon of friendship that transce...

Benjamin Crosby, a young minister in a declining church, looks for reasons to hope.

In a short story by Narine Abgaryan, survivors of war in 1990s Armenia find a reason to go on living.

Peter Mommsen writes that modern life depends on the habit of discarding things. What if we fixed them instead?

Saharawi Mine Action Team members remove mines and plant trees in the Algerian Desert of Western Sahara.

Rowan Williams reminds us that in the birth of Christ, God comes to restore and set free every person and all creation.

Leah Libresco Sargeant discusses conflict as a part of debate and the activities of the Braver Angels Debates and Discourse program.

Antoine E. Davis and Aaron Edward Olson, both inmates, took risks to withstand the racism within the prison.

Kathleen A. Mulhern considers how we should spend our time in the evenings. We start the day intentionally and prayerfully, but all bets are off after five o’clock p.m.

Sarah Clarkson says that when mental illness struck, her mind became her enemy. She shares her struggle to love it again.

Susannah Black Roberts speaks with Stephanie Summers about how political opponents can disagree well. Stephanie is the head of the Center for Public Justice (CJP), a DC-based group that works with faith organizations and other organizations, as well as with Congress, to help craft a public culture and political culture that supports the Kuyperian idea of principled pluralism. We don’t all agree on...

In an interview, Archbishop Angalelos speaks about the Coptic Christians’ legacy of forgiving their enemies and those who persecute them.

Staughton Lynd and other radical visionaries experiment with communal living in the hills of Georgia.

The hosts speak with Sohrab Ahmari about how private power crushed American liberty. Sohrab’s new book, Tyranny, Inc., is a thoroughly reported look at the way that private economic power, especially the conditions of employment, has taken away workers’ abilities to have agency over their own lives. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? Sohrab looks at the history of the last several h...

Mary Townsend explores the concept of loving sinners, hating sins, and what our response as Christians should be.

Rachel Cañon Naffziger tells the story of Egor Redin, a Baptist lawyer from Russia who spoke out against the war.

Susannah speaks with Clare Stober and Marianne Wright about living without money. Clare didn’t grow up in the Bruderhof – she made the decision to join when she was in her early thirties, after a successful career. She describes her spiritual quest, and the doubts and worries that came with considering joining – and the freedom that she has felt since then. Marianne is fourth-generation Bruderhof,...

Benjamin Crosby asks if we can afford to love our enemies in an unforgiving society?