For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture Podcast
1) Burnout and Sabbath / Alexis Abernethy
Clinical psychologist Alexis Abernethy explores burnout, Sabbath rest, and resilienceâreframing rest as spiritual practice for individuals and communities. âFor me, itâs knowing that the Lord has mad...Show More
2) How to Read the Gospel of John / David Ford
The Gospel of John is a gospel of superabundance. The cosmic Christ made incarnate would of course yield an absolute superabundance of grace, love, and unity. What makes Johnâs Gospel so distinct fro...Show More
3) Amor Mundi Part 5: Humility and Glory of Love / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
Miroslav Volf critiques ambition, love of status, and superiority, offering a Christ-shaped vision of agapic love and humble glory. ââAnd if you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift...Show More
4) Amor Mundi Part 4: The Earth Embraced / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
Miroslav Volf explores agapic love, creationâs goodness, and Godâs griefâan alternative to despair, power, and world rejection. âWhen a wanted child is born, the immense joy of many parents often ren...Show More
5) Amor Mundi Part 3: Loving Our Fate? / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
Miroslav Volf critiques Nietzscheâs vision of power, love, and sufferingâand offers Jesusâs unconditional love as a more excellent way. The idea that competitive and goalless striving to increase one...Show More
6) Amor Mundi Part 2: Hating the World, Unquenchable Thirst / Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
Miroslav Volf confronts Schopenhauerâs pessimism and unquenchable thirst with a vision of love that affirms the world. âUnquenchable thirst makes for ceaseless pain. This befits our nature as objecti...Show More
7) Amor Mundi: Unchained from Our Sun / Part 1, Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford Lectures
Miroslav Volf on how to rightly love a radically ambivalent world. âThe world, our planetary home, certainly needs to be changed, improved. But what it needs even more is to be rightly loved.â Miros...Show More
8) How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse / Miroslav Volf
What if our relentless drive to be better than others is quietly breaking us? Miroslav Volf unpacks the core themes of his 2025 book, The Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes...Show More
9) The Body as Sacred Offering: Ballet and Embodied Faith / New York City Ballet Dancer Silas Farley
Silas Farley, former New York City Ballet dancer and current Dean of the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, explores the profound connections between classical ballet, Christian worship, a...Show More
10) Remembering Pope Francis / Nichole Flores and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Pope Francis died on Monday April 21, 2025. And to remember and celebrate his life, weâre bringing out an episode from our archives featuring social ethicist and Associate Professor of Religious Studi...Show More