Good Faith

By Curtis Chang

What's Good Faith about?

Join host Curtis Chang and his friends as they follow Jesus and make sense of the world. With expertise, thoughtfulness, and humor, they discuss how Christian faith intersects with culture, politics, work, entertainment, and other aspects of life. Good Faith is produced by Redeeming Babel. Good Faith is ranked in the top .5 percent of all podcasts.

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Good Faith episodes:

04.13.2024
How to Listen to Music (with Andy Crouch)
From Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman to Johann Sebastian Bach, host Curtis Chang engages in a captivating conversation with Good Faith contributor Andy Crouch about the profound significance of music in our everyday existence. Through insightful anecdotes and reflections, they...
04.06.2024
The After Party Edition: The Bible and The Ballot (with Kaitlyn Schiess)
Host Curtis Chang sits down with Kaitlyn Schiess, author of the thought-provoking book, "The Bible and The Ballot." Delving into the intersection of faith and politics, this conversation offers a compelling analysis of how Christians can use or abuse scripture...
03.30.2024
The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: What Democrats Fail to Get About Christians and Why It Matters (with David French)
Host Curtis Chang and “founding friend” David French engage in a thought-provoking discussion about the relationship between Democrats and Republican Evangelicals. With a nuanced exploration into topics like the “God Gap,” they shed light on why Democrats frequently fail to...
03.23.2024
The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: Why 2024 is not "deja vu all over again" (with Russell Moore)
In this thought-provoking episode, public theologian and The After Party partner Russell Moore explores the need for pastors to equip themselves and their congregations for the distinctive challenges of a presidential election featuring repeat candidates and all new potential for...
03.16.2024
The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: The Spiritual Discipline of Politics (with Michael Wear)
We tend to think of spiritual disciplines as taking us out of the world: privatized quiet times, sequestered retreats, individual Bible reading, and such. We especially disconnect spiritual disciplines from the very public world of politics. Michael Wear joins Curtis...
03.09.2024
The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: Anxiety and Politics
In this first episode in a series on faith and political engagement, we delve into the intersection of anxiety and politics, as Christians navigate the mounting tension of the 2024 election cycle. In an interview conducted by DT Slouffman, Redeeming...
03.02.2024
How to cultivate the inner life we need to face a chaotic world (with Alison Cook)
Our outer world – our politics, our society, our organizations, even our local community and families – can be enormously complex and even chaotic at times. How do we make sense of all that happens around us? Author and therapist...
02.24.2024
How we talk about cancer (with Nancy French)
40% of all Americans will receive a diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime and practically every adult will know someone who already has. How do we talk about this reality? Nancy French, who recently was diagnosed with an aggressive type...
02.17.2024
Escaping the media echo chamber (with David French)
Repeated studies show that the current media landscape is worsening polarization and weakening our ability to grasp truth. How do we escape getting trapped in our own “bespoke realities?” This Good Faith episode draws on a recent webinar led by...
02.10.2024
Why is there so much poverty in America? (with Matthew Desmond)
How are Christians supposed to think, feel, and act as they walk by a homeless person? As they drive through an impoverished neighborhood and pass by its residents? Our reactions will be strongly influenced by how we answer the question,...
02.03.2024
Will Western culture hunger for God more than we realize? (with Andy Crouch)
The dominant narrative is that Western culture is headed for ever greater levels of atheism, agnosticism, or at least departure from belief in the Christian God. Andy Crouch returns from his sabbatical to question this narrative. He points out that...
01.27.2024
The moral aftershocks of Gaza (with David French)
The ongoing war in Gaza has sent out reverberations in the political, military, and economic spheres. But what about the moral sphere? Curtis is joined by “founding friend” David French to examine the moral aftershocks of Gaza in two disparate...
01.20.2024
Where is AI taking us spiritually? (with James Cham and John Kim)
AI feels like a tornado that has hit society: unpredictable, powerful, and out of our control. How do we as Christians respond to this force in the world? Curtis is joined by two friends who live and work at the...
01.13.2024
How evangelicalism got hijacked (with Tim Alberta)
American evangelicalism’s pull towards the far right is felt by anyone that comes into contact with the movement. But how did this happen? Who did the pulling? What were the motivations? What were the pre-conditions that made evangelicals so susceptible?...
01.06.2024
Good Faith Classic: How I became an “adult” on January 6th
This episode drops on the three year anniversary of the Capitol insurrection of January 6 2021. The event revealed the dangerous nature of Trumpism and political violence. We should be worried about what happened, even today. But the event also...
12.16.2023
Humility and Hope in 2023 (with David French)
“Founding friend” David French returns to wrap up 2023 (we’re taking a break for a few weeks). He and Curtis look back at the year through the lens of two core spiritual values of The After Party: Humility and Hope....
12.09.2023
Why are evangelicals missing in action on climate change? (with Bruce Huber)
Climate change is a major long term threat to our world. Yet, we find very few evangelical Christians voices or mass engagement on this issue. Why this disturbing gap? To explore this question, Curtis is joined by Bruce Huber who...
12.02.2023
What’s happening at the border? Part 2 (with Michael Debruhl)
The wave of immigrants and refugees at the border has filled the news, and will most likely influence the next presidential elections. But what’s really happening there? And how should American Christians make sense of this issue? In the second...
11.26.2023
What’s happening at the border? Part 1 (with Bri Stensrud)
The wave of immigrants and refugees at the border has filled the news, and will most likely influence the next presidential elections. But what’s really happening there? And how should American Christians make sense of this issue? In the first...
11.18.2023
How to Know a Person (with David Brooks)
We’re living in a cultural moment where so many people feel unseen and unheard. What if the answer is not some big government or nonprofit program, but rather something as intimate as this: a meaningful conversation. David Brooks joins the...
11.11.2023
How Gaza is affecting American Jews and Christians (with Rabbi Michael Holzman and David French)
The Gaza crisis has sent out shock waves that extend to America. In this podcast, we explore how different communities and institutions in the US are responding. Rabbi Michael Holzman and David French join Curtis to examine what is happening...
11.04.2023
Why youth leave the church - and what can be done (with Kara Powell)
American youth who grew up in Christian families are leaving the church at a massive pace. Curtis talks with Kara Powell, executive director of The Fuller Youth Institute, about the complex reasons for this trend - and what can be...
10.28.2023
Can political controversy actually serve the local church? (with Chuck Mingo)
Some churches seek to exploit political controversy for self-serving ends. But many more churches instinctively avoid controversy, and steer away from topics that may reveal differences. In this episode, Curtis is joined by Chuck Mingo to explore a different route:...
10.21.2023
How anxious institutions affect us all (with Yuval Levin)
In the diagnosis of the epidemic of anxiety sweeping through society, the examination has tended to focus on individual risk factors or macro-social trends (like social media and smartphone adoption among teens). But this misses something going on at the...
10.14.2023
The Great Dechurching (with David French and Michael Graham)
In a wide ranging conversation, founding friend David French takes over the reins for Curtis Chang and discusses the new book, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?...
10.07.2023
How to Relate to Those Who Still Support Trump (with Pete Wehner)
It sure looks like Trump isn’t going away. Many of us around the Good Faith campfire oppose him deeply. But we have people in our lives – sometimes in fractured relationships – who are going to support Trump once again....
10.02.2023
Good Faith CLASSIC: College, God, and the Good Life (with Meghan Sullivan and David French)
In this Good Faith Classic episode, Curtis and David talk with Meghan Sullivan, philosopher, teacher, and creator of the most popular class at the University of Notre Dame, “God and the Good Life.” As many of us send our kids...
09.30.2023
Good Faith CLASSIC: College, God, and the Good Life (with Meghan Sullivan and David French)
In this Good Faith Classic episode, Curtis and David talk with Meghan Sullivan, philosopher, teacher, and creator of the most popular class at the University of Notre Dame, “God and the Good Life.” As many of us send our kids...
09.23.2023
The Uses and Misuses of the Book of Revelation (with Tremper Longman III)
Many Christians are tempted to just avoid the Book of Revelation. It can seem confusing and hard to read. Yet this avoidance can leave us vulnerable to the misuses of this part of Scripture, especially in making sense of our...
09.16.2023
Investing Rooted in a Biblical Worldview (with Robin John and Finny Kuruvilla)
Should your investment portfolio as a follower of Jesus look any different from everyone else’s? Do our Biblical values have implications for our 401K? Robin John and Finny Kuruvilla founded Eventide Investments because they believe the answer is a resounding,...
09.09.2023
Responding to Suffering (with Dr. Curt Thompson)
What is happening inside us when we ourselves suffer or those around us are suffering? What is happening in our brain? In our soul? Curtis is joined by “the other Curt” - Dr. Curt Thompson - to talk about his...
09.02.2023
When Will Things Return to Normal? (with David French)
“Founding friend” David French returns to address with Curtis the visceral question in many hearts and minds, “When will things return to normal?” They explore all the questions behind the question, such as “What exactly is ‘normal?” Does it differ...
08.26.2023
Making Sense of the Housing Crisis (with Jimmy Wright and Michael Hall)
Why do we as a society keep building more and more housing for people who already have the most options, all the while we are forcing people who most need housing to scramble amidst shortage? How do we not just...
08.19.2023
The Persecuted Church in China (with Bob Fu)
Bob Fu was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989. He later became a “double agent,” meaning he taught Communist Party officials during the day and operated illegal house churches at night. After he and his...
08.12.2023
Losing our Religion (with Russell Moore)
Our good friend and partner in The After Party project, Russell Moore, joins us to talk about his new book, “Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America.” Curtis and Russell talk about why “mapping” our loss is critical...
08.05.2023
Anxiety and Immigration
One cannot make sense of the deformation of the current conservative movement without understanding immigration. And one cannot grasp the nature of immigration without understanding anxiety. Like most political issues today, the topic of immigration is bathed in anxiety -...
07.22.2023
Good Faith Classic: What the heck is a Christian nationalist? (with David French)
For this episode, we rerun David and Curtis tackling the topic of Christian nationalism. What is it exactly? How does it relate to a genuine Christian understanding of how faith should relate to a nation? And how does it relate...
07.15.2023
Shiny, Not-So-Happy People (with David and Nancy French)
Shiny Happy People, a new docuseries documenting the effects of the teachings of Bill Gothard on the Duggars, had the biggest debut of any documentary series ever produced by Amazon. In this episode of the Good Faith podcast, guest host...
07.08.2023
When Faith and Power Mix (with Cherie Harder)
We’ve witnessed story after story about the abuse of power practiced by Christians and Christian institutions. Does that mean that, to quote Lord Acton, that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?” How should followers of Jesus relate...
07.01.2023
Guns Part 2: A Christian Response to Gun Violence (with Michael Allen and David Dillon)
How can Christian respond to the epidemic of gun violence sweeping our country? Michael Allen and David Dillon join us to share about their inspiring work with Together Chicago. They are an unlikely pair in a racially divided city torn...
06.24.2023
Guns Part 1: Good Faith Classic on Gun Culture and Control
This week, Curtis kicks off a two parter on the tough subject of guns in America. Part 1 is a Good Faith Classic where Curtis and David explored the tensions between gun culture and gun control in our hyper-polarized environment....
06.17.2023
How do revivals achieve lasting influence? (with Kevin Brown and David French)
The Asbury revival of early 2023 garnered a great deal of interest from Christians hungering for signs of hope. What’s happening there now? In the first part, Curtis talks with the President of Asbury University, Kevin Brown, to learn more...
06.10.2023
Facing Spiritual Abuse (with Dan Koch)
We examine the phenomena of spiritual abuse with the help of Dan Koch, researcher, therapist, and host of the podcast, You Have Permission. Both Curtis and Dan share how their own lives have been affected by spiritual abuse, and then...
06.03.2023
Finding Rest in a Restless World (with Andy Crouch)
Longtime friend Andy Crouch joins Curtis to talk about what it means to truly rest the way God intended us to do so. Why is rest so important to creativity? What is the difference between rest and leisure? Is binge...
05.27.2023
Report from Ukraine (with David French)
David returns from his recent trip to Kyiv to provide an eyewitness account of the war, including what it is like to survive the terror of a hypersonic missile attack by the Russians. He and Curtis discuss the physical, emotional,...
05.20.2023
The Anxiety Opportunity and Loss (with Curtis Chang)
Curtis Chang, the regular host of the Good Faith podcast, takes a turn in the “guest seat” in this special episode in which Nancy French interviews him about his new book, The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway...
05.13.2023
Good Faith Classic: What the Heck is an Evangelical? (with David French)
It’s the 75th Good Faith episode and we’re celebrating our “diamond” podcast by running back one of our first episodes. First released in November 2021, this episode is a “classic” (in our minds) because we define terms around several key...
05.06.2023
How to Do Evangelical Deconstruction (with Jon Ward)
Jon Ward, senior political correspondent for Yahoo News, joins Curtis to talk about his process of deconstructing - and reconstructing - his life as a follower of Jesus. Jon draws on his recently released book, Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement...
04.29.2023
Should I stay or should I go - the GOP version (with David French)
“Founding friend” David French returns to tackle the tough question that every Republican of good faith should be asking. They explain why this particular question of “Should I stay or should I go?” is highly relevant for everyone, regardless of...
04.22.2023
The truth about Gen Z - and the rest of us (with Jean Twenge)
Curtis is joined by the world’s leading expert on generational distinctions, Dr. Jean Twenge. They discuss the five major generations shaping our society, with a special focus on Gen Z. The conversation provides insight and practical help for parents, managers,...

What's Good Faith about?

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Good Faith episodes:

How to Listen to Music (with Andy Crouch)

The After Party Edition: The Bible and The Ballot (with Kaitlyn Schiess)

The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: What Democrats Fail to Get About Christians and Why It Matters (with David French)

The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: Why 2024 is not "deja vu all over again" (with Russell Moore)

The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: The Spiritual Discipline of Politics (with Michael Wear)

The Good Faith Podcast/The After Party Edition: Anxiety and Politics

How to cultivate the inner life we need to face a chaotic world (with Alison Cook)

How we talk about cancer (with Nancy French)

Escaping the media echo chamber (with David French)

Why is there so much poverty in America? (with Matthew Desmond)

Will Western culture hunger for God more than we realize? (with Andy Crouch)

The moral aftershocks of Gaza (with David French)

Where is AI taking us spiritually? (with James Cham and John Kim)

How evangelicalism got hijacked (with Tim Alberta)

Good Faith Classic: How I became an “adult” on January 6th

Humility and Hope in 2023 (with David French)

Why are evangelicals missing in action on climate change? (with Bruce Huber)

What’s happening at the border? Part 2 (with Michael Debruhl)

What’s happening at the border? Part 1 (with Bri Stensrud)

How to Know a Person (with David Brooks)

How Gaza is affecting American Jews and Christians (with Rabbi Michael Holzman and David French)

Why youth leave the church - and what can be done (with Kara Powell)

Can political controversy actually serve the local church? (with Chuck Mingo)

How anxious institutions affect us all (with Yuval Levin)

The Great Dechurching (with David French and Michael Graham)

How to Relate to Those Who Still Support Trump (with Pete Wehner)

Good Faith CLASSIC: College, God, and the Good Life (with Meghan Sullivan and David French)

Good Faith CLASSIC: College, God, and the Good Life (with Meghan Sullivan and David French)

The Uses and Misuses of the Book of Revelation (with Tremper Longman III)

Investing Rooted in a Biblical Worldview (with Robin John and Finny Kuruvilla)

Responding to Suffering (with Dr. Curt Thompson)

When Will Things Return to Normal? (with David French)

Making Sense of the Housing Crisis (with Jimmy Wright and Michael Hall)

The Persecuted Church in China (with Bob Fu)

Losing our Religion (with Russell Moore)

Anxiety and Immigration

Good Faith Classic: What the heck is a Christian nationalist? (with David French)

Shiny, Not-So-Happy People (with David and Nancy French)

When Faith and Power Mix (with Cherie Harder)

Guns Part 2: A Christian Response to Gun Violence (with Michael Allen and David Dillon)

Guns Part 1: Good Faith Classic on Gun Culture and Control

How do revivals achieve lasting influence? (with Kevin Brown and David French)

Facing Spiritual Abuse (with Dan Koch)

Finding Rest in a Restless World (with Andy Crouch)

Report from Ukraine (with David French)

The Anxiety Opportunity and Loss (with Curtis Chang)

Good Faith Classic: What the Heck is an Evangelical? (with David French)

How to Do Evangelical Deconstruction (with Jon Ward)

Should I stay or should I go - the GOP version (with David French)

The truth about Gen Z - and the rest of us (with Jean Twenge)