# theologian (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover theologian. Page: Feed: --- ## [Shannon Kearns – Improvising Manhood (N374)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/shannon-kearns-improvising-manhood-n374/) _2026-08-10 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ What does it mean to become a man? And who teaches us how? In this episode, Tim is joined by author Shannon Kearns to explore the stories, expectations and assumptions that shape masculinity. Drawing on his experience as a trans man, Shannon offers a unique perspective on what it means to consciously navigate a world that many assume comes naturally. Together they explore male loneliness,… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/58200b59/f3bd4bf9.mp3) ## [Can Political Enemies Be Civic Friends? / Robert George (From the Archives)](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/can-political-enemies-be-civic-friends-robert-george-from-the-archives-j02HICjb) _2026-08-05 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Robert George) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ Civic friendship is not a nicety. For self-governing people, it is a necessity. What happens to a democracy when citizens stop seeing each other as citizens at all? Robert P. George is Princeton’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions (and known for his enduring friendship with Cornel West) argues that “the collapse of civic… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/0e8aa78b-baa8-45c5-8cd4-0412f61cab98/group-item/874cff30-97fa-4dc2-bf5a-c42bc56b323d/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [How to Die Well / Lydia Dugdale (From the Archives)](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/how-to-die-well-lydia-dugdale-from-the-archives-ncoA9Ssb) _2026-07-30 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Lydia Dugdale) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ Why don’t more doctors talk about death? Dr. Lydia Dugdale has been asking this question since she was a medical student. She is the Silberberg Professor of Medicine and directs the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and two books on how we die, including "The Lost Art of Dying." "Most medical professionals today are very unpracticed at talking to patients about their mortality," she says. Not… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/713627ea-375d-4e06-ba5d-7b6af8a67fa3/group-item/896bfc17-e82e-4794-83a5-6b072a7b5a3c/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Swami Padmanabha – Truth, Tradition and the Courage to Question (N373)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/swami-padmanabha-truth-tradition-and-the-courage-to-question-n373/) _2026-07-24 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ How do you hold onto a spiritual tradition after being deeply disappointed by the people who represent it? That's a question Swami Padmanabha — a Hindu monk, teacher and author of Evolution in Divine Love — has had to wrestle with more than once. Rather than walking away, those experiences led him into a deeper exploration of authority, uncertainty, love and the possibility that healthy traditions… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/36b2400c/45d80e3b.mp3) ## [You Must Change Your Life (From the Archive)](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/you-must-change-your-life-from-the-archive-Ral61tCF) _2026-07-22 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Bruce Herman) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ We were made by a Maker to be makers. Bruce Herman joins Evan Rosa to diagnose the quiet illness of a passive consumer culture that trains us to sit in front of screens and scroll and take, rather than make. “When we’re not making something, we’re not whole. We’re not healthy.“ His cure is stubbornly ordinary: go make a loaf of bread, grab a stick and start carving, make a good meal or a good… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/1d2d4259-b9dc-4e31-a742-ad74f2f76f1c/group-item/f4f3c0b0-37b0-4dd4-b3d9-16a2df006bb9/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Marissa Burt - The Myth of Good Christian Parenting (N372)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/marissa-burt-the-myth-of-good-christian-parenting-n372/) _2026-07-10 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ For many Christian parents, the message was simple: if you follow the biblical formula, your children will grow into faithful, flourishing adults. But what if those promises were never true? In this episode, Tim speaks with Marissa Burt , co-author of The Myth of Good Christian Parenting , about the rise of the evangelical parenting movement, the fears that fuelled it, and the hidden assumptions… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/40503850/eb343eb8.mp3) ## [I Don't Know What Faith Means Anymore: Terminal Illness, Poetic Faith, and Theological Doubt / Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/terminal-illness-poetic-faith-and-theological-doubt-miroslav-volf-and-christian-wiman-7q9jXVgq) _2026-07-08 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Miroslav Volf, Christian Wiman, Mark Oppenheimer) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ For twenty years, Christian Wiman has lived with a rare, incurable cancer. In the fall of 2022, during a stretch when the illness was especially bad, he wrote to his friend and Yale colleague Miroslav Volf: “I don’t know what faith means anymore. I’m a 56-year-old with a pile of books behind me and an experimental bone marrow transplant ahead of me, and I don’t know what faith means.” That letter… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/9c56e1b5-2cf2-4d10-b007-00ce47b13807/group-item/8c6b267e-bfb9-4250-8ac1-2300704317dd/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Owning Grief Redemptively: The Wound of Loss, the Failure of Theodicy, and the Cry of Suffering Love / Nicholas Wolterstorff](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/owning-grief-redemptively-the-wound-of-loss-the-failure-of-theodicy-and-the-cry-of-suffering-love-nicholas-wolterstorff-Yw_I7ZZc) _2026-06-24 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Nicholas Wolterstorff) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ More than forty years after his twenty-five-year-old son Eric died in a climbing accident, philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff joins Miroslav Volf to revisit the grief behind his classic Lament for a Son and his recent Living with Grief. “If he was worth loving when alive, he was worth grieving when dead.” In this episode they reflect together on mourning loss, refusing both the consolations of… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/42c2d863-1b9e-499e-8cd9-9e062218fc1d/group-item/c858911c-5f41-46ff-abde-41f53a1309cf/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Tina Schermer Sellers - Sex, Shame & Learning to Trust Our Bodies Again (N371)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/tina-schermer-sellers-sex-shame-learning-to-trust-our-bodies-again-n371/) _2026-06-23 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ In this episode, Tim talks with sex therapist and author Tina Schermer Sellers about the hidden legacy of religious sexual shame and the impact it can have on our relationships, our spirituality, and our sense of self. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Tina explores how messages absorbed in childhood can shape the way we experience our bodies, desire, intimacy, and even our understanding… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/b46fdef7/c4cbd707.mp3) ## [Anonymous Spiritual Hitchhiking: Emotional Health in the Digital Age / Anonymous](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/anonymous-spiritual-hitchhiking-emotional-health-in-the-digital-age-anonymous-A3ZG8zEc) _2026-06-17 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Justin Smith) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ We’re used to hostile online encounters with total strangers. It fuels the digital economy. But what if there were a way to experiment with radical emotional honesty with an anonymous other—much the same as you’d experience at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting? The anonymous founder of This Life, an audio-only app built on anonymity, joins For the Life of the World to argue that emotional and… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/eb02206d-8c8b-4e28-992b-4c2d6c80dead/group-item/1891c85f-dae8-4f1c-875e-f15cde396b87/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/c4cq9NqcT0PW) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [How to Read William Blake: Imagination and Flourishing Beyond Reason Alone / Mark Vernon](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/how-to-read-william-blake-imagination-and-flourishing-beyond-reason-alone-mark-vernon-vHE403tL) _2026-06-12 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Mark Vernon) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ What does it take to put a fractured world back together? Philosopher and psychotherapist Mark Vernon joins Evan Rosa to explore William Blake as the great counter-Enlightenment guide for our anxious, divided age. "The world comes to be seen as it truly is, which is infinite, and that can embrace distinction difference as much as similarity and sharing." In this episode with Evan Rosa, Vernon… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/0424f188-61ee-4c83-bde5-3b7ced1aa1c0/group-item/50e04223-8d2e-4dce-9a0c-409d546f8c69/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Abi Millar - Meaning, Mystery and Spirituality After Faith (N370)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/abi-millar-meaning-mystery-and-spirituality-after-faith-n370/) _2026-06-08 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ Abi Millar grew up in a charismatic evangelical church where faith once felt vivid, immediate and full of certainty. But as questions about science, belief, heaven and hell began to press in, that certainty slowly unravelled. In this conversation, Tim talks with Abi about what it cost to leave, the freedom and loss that followed, and the spiritual hunger that eventually re-emerged after a long… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/55b0189d/720cdc22.mp3) ## [Perseverance Through Weariness, Exhaustion, and Burnout: The Desert Wisdom of Christian Resilience / Tish Harrison Warren](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/perseverance-through-weariness-exhaustion-and-burnout-the-desert-wisdom-of-christian-resilience-tish-harrison-warren-BnHJhnvO) _2026-06-03 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Tish Harrison Warren) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ What sustains faith when prayer feels flat and God seems distant—and there's no clear tragedy to explain it? Anglican priest and former New York Times columnist Tish Harrison Warren joins Macie Bridge to talk about weariness, burnout, and the quiet middle stretches of a long spiritual life. Drawing on her new book What Grows in Weary Lands, she turns to the Desert Fathers and Mothers for a… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/c0fea5b2-1ffc-4ad1-bb44-e653c6b70cca/group-item/7bd546b9-138e-450e-ac2e-e534f400fec7/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Damon Garcia - Calling, Capitalism & Becoming Yourself (N369)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/damon-garcia-calling-capitalism-becoming-yourself-n369/) _2026-05-25 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ In this episode, Damon Garcia joins us to explore the pressure of trying to find — and faithfully follow — God’s plan for your life. Growing up in a Pentecostal and charismatic church culture, Damon was taught that God had a specific calling for each person, and that missing it could mean missing the life you were meant to live. Damon reflects on the anxiety, striving, and self-surveillance that… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/09fe9f0b/1fb97113.mp3) ## [Mark Vernon - Silence and the Search for God (N368)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/mark-vernon-silence-and-the-search-for-god-n368/) _2026-05-11 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ What if the deepest encounters with the divine are not dramatic or ecstatic, but quiet, steady, and hidden in ordinary life? Mark Vernon returns to Nomad to explore silence, mysticism, and the search for God after disillusionment. Reflecting on his own journey through priesthood, contemplative practice, psychotherapy and spiritual direction, Mark speaks about finding a form of Christianity rooted… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/93ec1314/e50545b0.mp3) ## [Giles Goddard, Halima Hussein & Natasha Chawla - Where Rivers Meet: Three Faith Traditions in Conversation (N367)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/giles-goddard-halima-hussein-natasha-chawla-where-rivers-meet-three-faith-traditions-in-conversation-n367/) _2026-04-24 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ In this conversation, Giles Goddard and Halima Gosai Hussein are joined by Natasha Chawla for a wide-ranging exploration of faith, change, and the unexpected places where different spiritual rivers meet. Drawing on their journeys within Christianity, Islam, and Hindu philosophy, they reflect on the traditions they inherited, the moments that reshaped them, and what it means to remain rooted while… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/455d50e1/1ae7cc75.mp3) ## [To Be Human Is to Be Unfinished: Anxiety, Existential Psychology, and Flourishing / Dan Koch & Kristen Tideman](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/to-be-human-is-to-be-unfinished-anxiety-existential-psychology-and-flourishing-dan-koch-kristen-tideman-_yfH_OAJ) _2026-04-15 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (Dan Koch, Kristen Tideman) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ What if the anxiety you most want to get rid of is the one you most need to listen to? Existential psychologist Dan Koch and marketing strategist Kristen Tideman join Evan Rosa for a conversation about what anxiety is actually for—and what happens when it turns against you. "To be human is to be unfinished. It is to have constantly limits around you, and your choice is to accept them or pretend… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/2dd215c6-8bbc-465e-a281-043601ec494c/group-item/5c36f88d-b3f2-4c8f-bdc3-b448bdceef59/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Selina Stone – Why Do the Wicked Prosper? (N366)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/selina-stone-why-do-the-wicked-prosper-n366/) _2026-04-06 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ In this special episode, theologian and author Selina Stone reflects on one of the oldest and most unsettling human questions: why do the wicked prosper? Drawing on scripture, history, and her own experience, Selina explores the anger, grief and moral disorientation that arise when cruelty and exploitation seem to flourish while justice is delayed. Rather than offering easy answers, she invites us… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/6867e1d9/1d2edf42.mp3) ## [Dwell in the Darkness: John's Passion Narrative, Good Friday, and the Education of Desire / David Ford](https://for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture.simplecast.com/episodes/dwell-in-the-darkness-johns-passion-narrative-good-friday-and-the-education-of-desire-david-ford-JVbolcjS) _2026-04-02 · evan.rosa@yale.edu (David Ford) · For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture_ As Christians enter the most solemn stretch of the liturgical year, theologian David Ford — who spent over twenty years writing his commentary on the Gospel of John — makes the case that no other Gospel prepares you for the cross the way John does. "The right question is not so much what happened on the cross, as who happened on the cross. All through the gospel, every chapter, John is saying —… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/fd920f73-b094-4955-92b0-5f4a97c18002/a01d83a2-e827-405a-ad71-642fe8958d5b/episodes/audio/group/66f5b761-6397-4701-9756-b41f2bc57228/group-item/ae483892-81f2-4638-8e45-2bc3feb220c9/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=tjI7YMGV) ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/M6pdMn4imC4j) _2026-04-02 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Lucy Sixsmith - Soul Survivor, Surrender & the Cost of Being Special (N365)](https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/lucy-sixsmith-soul-survivor-surrender-the-cost-of-being-special-n365/) _2026-03-20 · Nomad · Nomad Podcast_ Lucy Sixsmith joins Nomad to explore the world of Soul Survivor and the wider charismatic culture that shaped so many young Christians in the 1990s and 2000s. Drawing on her new book When the Music Fades , Lucy reflects on surrender language, “chosen generation” spirituality, and the subtle ways power can operate in spaces that feel warm, funny and down to earth. Together we ask what happens when… [Listen](https://media.transistor.fm/5d0a6c0d/27774a66.mp3)