For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture

Dec 18 2024 207 ep. 41 mins 184
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Seeking and living a life worthy of our humanity. Theological insight, cultural analysis, and practical guidance for personal and communal flourishing. Brought to you by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.

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How to Read Simone Weil, Part 2: The Activist / Cynthia Wallace

Dec 18 2024 71 mins  
“What are you going through?” This was one of the central animating questions in Simone Weil’s thought that pushed her beyond philosophy into action. Weil believed that genuinely asking this question of the other, particularly the afflicted other, then truly listening and prayerfully attending, would move us toward an enactment of justice and love. Simone Weil believed tha

How to Read Simone Weil, Part 1: The Mystic / Eric O. Springsted

Dec 12 2024 59 mins  
This episode is the first of a short series exploring How to Read Simone Weil. The author of *Gravity and Grace*, *The Need for Roots*, and *Waiting for God*—among many other essays, letters, and notes, Weil has been an inspiration to philosophers, poets, priests, and politicians for the last century—almost all of it after her untimely death. She understood, perhaps more than

Open the Gates: Immigration & the Book of Revelation / Yii-Jan Lin

Dec 04 2024 43 mins  
Why do we have countries? Why do we mark this land and these people as distinct from that land and those people? What are countries for? Yii-Jan Lin (Associate Professor of New Testament, Yale Divinity School) joins Matt Croasmun to discuss her new book, Immigration and Apocalypse, which traces the development of distinctly American ideas about the meaning of a country, its borders

Letters to a Future Saint / Brad East & Drew Collins

Nov 21 2024 54 mins  
“For those of us who are drawn into church  history and church tradition and to reading theology,  there is very little as transformative as realizing that history is populated by women and men like us who tried to follow Christ in their own time and place and culture and circumstances,  some of whom succeeded. … Looking at the saints, they make me want to be a better Chr

How to Read Henry David Thoreau / Lawrence Buell

Nov 13 2024 60 mins  
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all

Cosmic Connections: Resonating with the World / Charles Taylor & Miroslav Volf

Nov 06 2024 54 mins  
Has modern humanity lost its connection to the world outside our heads? And can our experience of art and poetry help train us for a more elevated resonance with the cosmos? In today’s episode, theologian Miroslav Volf interviews philosopher Charles Taylor about his latest book, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. In it he turns to poetry to help articulate

How to Read Teresa of Ávila / Carlos Eire

Oct 30 2024 52 mins  
St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was a sixteenth-century Spanish nun and one of the most influential mystics in all of Church history, writing two spiritual classics still read today: The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle. Her autobiography (more accurately, a confession to Spanish Inquisitors) is The Life of St. Teresa of Ávila, detailing her spiritual experiences of the

History Speaks the Spirit of Justice / Jemar Tisby

Oct 23 2024 46 mins  
History reveals a lot of things about human nature: our innate drive towards progress, discovery, relationship, community. Often motivated by a drive to feel safe and flourish. But despite this instinct, history also shows that we’re prone to inflicting and being complicit to grave and violent injustices. We fail, regularly, at living well with our neighbors. In his new book, *T

Unity in Diversity, Empathic Wisdom / Christy Vines

Oct 16 2024 56 mins  
In our American quest for a more perfect union, we often mistake unity for sameness. We mistake unity for conformity. But the functional unity of a system—seems to actually *require* diversity, distinction, and difference. In this episode, Christy Vines (Founder/ CEO, Ideos Institute) reflects on the problem of division today; how we increasingly invest our identity in politics

Baseball as a Road to God / John Sexton

Oct 11 2024 77 mins  
To true fans, baseball is so much more than a sport. Some call it the perfect game. Some see it as a field of dreams. A portal to another dimension. Some see it as a road to God. Others—”heathen” we might call them—find the game unutterably boring. Too confusing, too long, too nit-picky about rules. In this episode, Yankee fan John Sexton (President Emeritus of New York Un