No Easy Answers with Mike Bellanti

Do Christians need pilgrimage? What does pilgrimage look like? Is there a place for pilgrimage in your own life? In this episode, host Mike Bellanti is joined by Nicole Smith and Taylor Klopatek to reflect on their recent journey through Spain, where they walked the Camino de Santiago. Together, they share what led them to embark on the pilgrimage, the expectations they carried before setting out,...

Mike Bellanti sits down with Tara Tess, Director of Worship and Communication at Northbrook Church, to explore a question many of us think we know the answer to… but may have reduced too much. Is worship just music? Or is it something deeper? Tara shares her personal journey and how her understanding of worship shifted from something she did… to something she lives. Together, they unpack: Why wors...

In this Episode, host Pastor Mike Bellanti is joined by his wife and licensed counselor, Rebecca Bellanti. Together they address the question, “What do you do on the worst day of your life?”  During their conversation they share about their encounters with loss, grief, infertility and miscarriage, and the frustration and pain that accompany those experiences. Rebecca also offers insight into commo...

Host Pastor Mike Bellanti welcomes Nicole Smith, Director of Missions at Northbrook Church, as they thoughtfully consider the question: “Would Jesus have a social media account?” Their conversation delves into whether social media can be a meaningful mission field, if it fuels outrage and oversimplifies activism, and revisits the timeless inquiry: what would Jesus do? Together, they unpack the uni...

In a world that craves certainty and clean lines, the apostle Paul reminds us that “for now, we see in a mirror dimly.” Not falsely. Not without meaning. But partially. In this episode, host Pastor Mike Bellanti is joined by Jason Esposito, Lead Pastor of Crossway Church, to explore what it looks like to hold deep convictions without hardening our hearts, to listen without losing our values, and t...

This episode of No Easy Answers features Mattie Kahn, Pastor of Life Groups, in a thoughtful conversation about faith, uncertainty, and trusting God.