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For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureAmor Mundi: Unchained from Our Sun / Part 1, Miroslav Volf's 2025 Gifford LecturesMiroslav Volf on how to rightly love a radically ambivalent world.“The world, our planetary home, certainly needs to be changed, improved. But what it needs even more is to be rightly loved.”Miroslav Volf begins his 2025 Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen with a provocative theological inquiry: What difference does belief in God make for our relationship to the world? Drawing deeply from Nietzsche’s “death of God,” Schopenhauer’s despair, and Hannah Arendt’s vision of amor mundi, Volf explores the ambivalence of modern life—its beauty and horror, its resonance and alienation. Can...2025-07-301h 00
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHow Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse / Miroslav VolfWhat 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 Us Worse. In this book, Volf offers a penetrating critique of comparison culture, diagnosing the hidden moral and spiritual wounds caused by competition and superiority.Drawing on Scripture, theology, philosophy, literature, and our culture’s obsession with competition and superiority, Volf challenges our assumptions about ambition and identity—and presents a deeply humanizing vision of life rooted not in being “the be...2025-07-2333 min
Reimagining the Good Life with Amy Julia BeckerThe Cost of Ambition with Miroslav Volf, PhDAmbition is the air we breathe—but what is it costing us? In this episode, Amy Julia Becker and theologian Miroslav Volf discuss his latest book, The Cost of Ambition. They unpack the hidden damage of a culture obsessed with competition and invite us to imagine a new way of being, for ourselves and our society, rooted not in achievement, but in love, mutuality, and genuine abundance. They explore: Striving for superiority in American cultureThe dark side of competitionLonging for what we haveStriving for excellence vs. striving for superiorityThe illusion of individual achievementPractices for embracing love and generosityReimagining hum...2025-06-0350 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Scandal of Giving and Forgiving / Miroslav VolfIt’s easy to forget how utterly scandalous the concepts of grace and forgiveness are. Grace is an absolutely unmerited, undeserved benevolence. Forgiveness is an intentional miscarriage of retributive justice, ignoring of the wrong by a wrongdoer.In Miroslav Volf’s understanding, forgiveness “decouples the deed from the doer.”Today’s episode features some highlights from Miroslav’s personal reflections about each chapter of his book Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace, including his thoughts about one of the most painful moments in his family’s history, the death of his 5-year...2025-02-2632 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureCosmic Connections: Resonating with the World / Charles Taylor & Miroslav VolfHas 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 the human experience of the cosmos we’re a part of.Together they discuss the modern Enlightenment view of our relation to the world and its shortcomings; modern disenchantment and the prospects of r...2024-11-0654 min
Chat By The PitchFrom Czech Republic to North America: The Global Growth of Volf Soccer Academy Part 2In part 2 of Chat by the Pitch, we continue our conversation with Alexander Jakubov and Libor Volf, founders of Volf Soccer Academy. From competing at top European clubs to mentoring young talent in North America, they reveal their unique approach to player development. Learn how they're connecting Europe, North America, and Africa through soccer, helping young players achieve their full potential. This episode dives deeper into how they guide players through critical stages of their soccer journey, preparing them for the professional world.Key Talking Points:The foundation of Volf Soccer Academy’s phil...2024-10-0346 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureLove and Judaism / Rabbi Shai Held with Miroslav VolfThere’s a common misconception that Judaism is a religion of law and Christianity is a religion of love. But the very love commandments at the heart of Jesus’s teaching are direct quotes from Deuteronomy 6. Jesus, after all, was Jewish.Joining Miroslav Volf in this episode is one of the most important Jewish thinkers alive today: Rabbi Shai Held—theologian, educator, author—is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at the Hadar Institute in New York City. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence and The Heart of Torah, a collection...2024-10-021h 01Chat By The PitchFrom Czech Republic to North America: The Global Growth of Volf Soccer Academy Part 1In this episode of Chat by the Pitch, we dive deep into the journeys of Alexander Jakubov and Libor Volf, co-owners of Volf Soccer Academy. From growing up in a small town and a major city with a passion for street soccer to building an international academy that spans multiple countries, these two former professional players discuss their philosophies, challenges, and the joy of helping the next generation of players. Learn how they’ve transformed the development of young soccer talent, focusing on skillbuilding, Discipline, and creating a positive and fun environment for growth.
Key Ta...2024-09-2642 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHow to Read Genesis / Marilynne Robinson & Miroslav Volf“The whole of human existence is like some sweet parable told in the most improbable place and circumstances. … God values our humanity. … One of the things that's fascinating about the Hebrew Bible is that it declared and was loyal to the fact that God is good and creation is good.”Novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson joins Miroslav Volf to discuss her latest book, Reading Genesis. Together they discuss why she took up this project of biblical commentary and what scripture and theological reflection means to her; how she thinks of Genesis as a theodicy (or a defense against...2024-08-2853 min
The Doctor's ArtA Physician to the Soul | Miroslav VolfWhat makes a life worth living? This question has animated great thinkers and faith traditions for millennia. Interestingly enough, in our time of rapid globalization, technological advancement, and material abundance, we often seem more unmoored from our conception of the self and its relation to the world than ever before.Our guest on this episode, Miroslav Volf, has spent his life wrestling with this question of questions and helping others to do the same. Volf is a professor of theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, and his...2024-08-271h 01
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureTheologian of Hope: Remembering Jürgen Moltmann (1926 – 2024) / Miroslav VolfOn June 3,2024, Jürgen Moltmann died. He was one of the greatest theologians of our time. He was 98 years old. In this episode, Miroslav Volf eulogizes and remembers his mentor and friend. We then share a previously released conversation between Miroslav Volf and Jürgen Moltmann. This episode first aired in April 2021—and it includes Moltmann’s conviction that “without living theologically, there can be no theology”; it explores the meaning of joy and its connection to anxiety, fear, wrath, hope, and love; and Professor Moltmann shares about the circumstances in which he came to faith—as a 16-year-old drafted into...2024-06-0642 min
Trinity Forum ConversationsA Life Worth Living with Miroslav VolfA Life Worth LivingWhat makes a good life? What habits of attention, reflection, and action orient us towards knowing, desiring, and doing what is good, true, and beautiful? Such “big questions” may seem unanswerable and intimidating — but their exploration is at the heart of the human quest for meaning.Drawing on his popular Yale course, theologian Miroslav Volf joined us to reflect on what makes for a flourishing life in our times:“You realize that there are things that are much more important. I mean this is the life of fullness. This is his life...2024-04-3033 min
Podcast: Předpoklad úspěchuEpizoda #15: Libor Volf, zakladatel Volf Soccer Academy - v cizině Vám zadarmo nikdo nic nedá - 1. částV této epizodě si poslechneme další inspirativní příběh, tentokrát bývalého fotbalisty, který reprezentoval Česko v mládežnických kategoriích, ale nikdy se naplno neprosadil do profesionálního fotbalu. A tak se jednoho dne rozhodl, po letech strávených ve španělské třetí lize, odletět do kanadského Vancoveru na working holiday víza. Začínal tam jako dělník na stavbě, téměř od nuly, ale postupnými krůčky se vrátil zpět k fotbalu, tentokrát už jako trenér.
Po práci chodil trénovat děti v místním parku, z...2024-04-2954 min
Upper House EventsWhat does it mean to love someone? | Public Lecture by Miroslav VolfWhat does it mean to love someone?This is a recorded lecture by theologian and public intellectual Miroslav Volf. Drawing on biblical themes and stories of The Good Samaritan and The Widow’s Offering, Professor Volf will speak to love’s generous practicality, its incomparable power to confer value, nobility, and beauty on others, and its active refusal to respect boundaries born of prejudice. If you seek a fresh vision of love and its outworking in a society grappling with division and disenfranchisement, or if you desire a deeper understanding of what it means to love...2024-02-271h 19Upper House EventsForgiveness, Justice, and Reconciliation with Miroslav VolfWhy would we consider forgiving someone who has deeply harmed us? How do we even go about forgiving someone who doesn’t deserve it? And where might forgiveness eventually lead us—individually and even corporately—if we pursue it? Forgiveness is beyond challenging. Some injuries are so acute, the very idea of forgiveness seems out of bounds. And when atrocities are perpetrated against an entire people group, how is forgiveness even an option? Is real justice attainable? Or peace? No-one, after all, is entitled to a “get out of jail free” card. During this lunch conversation...2024-02-2352 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureAdvent Hope: Darkness, Endurance, and No-Exit Situations / Miroslav VolfHelp the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for podcast production; visit faith.yale.edu/give to donate today.A special Advent bonus episode on hope. Theologian Miroslav Volf reflects on "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickenson, comments on the dark hope of Martin Luther & the Apostle Paul, and how hope and endurance are intrinsically connected in Christian spirituality. Show NotesEvan Rosa & Macie Bridge reflect on the theme of the first week of Advent: “Hope”“Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings t...2023-12-0424 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureN.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / Violence in God's Name: Monotheism, Nationalism, Violence, and Our Ultimate AllegianceAs you listen today, would you consider helping the Yale Center for Faith & Culture meet a $10,000 matching challenge for 2024 podcast production? visit faith.yale.edu/give to donate today."Christians are called to collaborate without compromise and to critique without dualism." (N.T. Wright, from today's episode)What better way to secure the greatness of your political state (or maybe political party) than to invoke the name of God as being uniquely supportive of your team? It brings a sickening and divisive new meaning to Romans 8:31—”If God is for us, who can be against us?” ...2023-12-0346 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureInterchange of Love: Gratitude, Gift, and Joyful Recognition / Miroslav Volf“Gratitude enlivens the world.” Gratitude is the emotional expression of the interchange of love between giver and receiver. So of course we’re looking for more of that in public—it’s the very evidence of giving to one another, grace with each other, beneficence for one another. In this conversation, Miroslav Volf and Evan Rosa discuss this remarkable interchange of love between giver and receiver that leads to gratitude. They discuss the meaning of gratitude in emotional, moral, and theological terms; and he introduces a variety of views on gratitude, from the story of the Pharisee...2023-11-1940 min
Týden uměníPLAN_T: PETR VOLFJak do městské zástavby vstupuje volné umění? Za jakých podmínek vznikají realizace pro developerské projekty? A kde v tomto směru můžeme hledat pozitivní vzory?
Na doposud Tajném místě v Praze bude letos odhaleno 8 uměleckých realizací ve veřejném prostoru, a to příhodně, během festivalu PRAGUE ART WEEK. Než vám ukážeme celou sbírku a její umístění, vítáme v podcastu PLAN_T kurátora nejen této kolekce, publicistu a kritika umění a architektury Petra Volfa.
Petr Volf v podcastů hovoří o tom, jak do...2023-08-2823 min
The James Altucher ShowUnveiling the Path to a Life Worth Living | Miroslav Volf (Yale Professor & Theologan)Join us for a captivating interview with acclaimed theologian Miroslav Volf as he unveils his groundbreaking book, "Life Worth Living: A Guide to Thinking Through What Really Matters." Alongside co-authors Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Volf challenges conventional wisdom and offers a fresh perspective on the meaning and purpose of life. From exploring the complexities of human existence to seeking genuine happiness, Volf's insights promise a transformative journey of self-discovery and personal growth.Drawing from his expertise as a professor and theologian, Volf delves into universal longings and exposes society's shortcomings in addressing the pursuit of a meaningful life. Through...2023-06-271h 08
Spiritual Life and Leadership169. The Materiality of God's Mission, with Miroslav Volf, author of The Home of GodSend me a text! I’d love to know what you're thinking!Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and the co-author of The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything.In this episode, Miroslav Volf and I talk about what it means for this world to be God’s home. And what it means for this world to be our home. And what this means for the mission of the church. And, finally, what should the church do when it feels like this world isn’t our hom...2023-06-2038 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureLife Worth Living Book Club Part 1 of 5 / Kelly Corrigan with Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, & Ryan McAnnally-Linz"Your life is too important to be guided by anything less than what matters most."Part 1 of a 5-part book club series on Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Written by Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, the book is based on a Yale College course that takes up some of the most pressing questions of life, but doesn’t keep the implications, challenges, confusion, perplexity, and demands of those questions at arms length. Both the course and the book invite life-long learners to ask, “For any idea, if that idea were true, how...2023-06-1754 min
A Bit of OptimismLife Worth Living with Miroslav VolfWhat does it mean for a life to go well? What matters most in our time on Earth? These are the most important questions of our lives and yet most of us have no clue how to answer them. Miroslav Volf is a theologian and professor who has been grappling with these ideas for decades. He is the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture where he teaches a class called “Life Worth Living,” and recently wrote a book by the same name.It turns out, life worth living is life h...2023-06-1331 min
Faith Across Borders: with Dr. Graham Joseph HillEpisode 1: Miroslav Volf on Overcoming Conflict, Hatred, & IndifferenceMiroslav Volf and Graham Joseph Hill discuss the topics of exclusion and embrace, expressing a public faith, and Muslim-Christian relations. How do we overcome hatred & conflict & indifference, & embrace the “other”?
Professor Volf is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
His books include Allah: A Christian Response (2011); Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (2006), which was the Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006; Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996), a winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award; and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Imag...2023-05-3134 min
Here's Where It Gets InterestingLife Worth Living with Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-LinzOn today’s episode of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon talks with Yale professors and two of the authors behind Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Initially a class in Yale’s humanities program, Life Worth Living sought to find answers to the age-old philosophical question: what’s the meaning of life? The book brings the classroom lessons to a new audience, and Sharon talks to Volf and McAnnally-Linz about how to go beyond TikTok and Cheetos and find true fulfillment.Special thanks to our guests, Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, for join...2023-05-3141 min
Em Suma: teologia em 7 minutos37. O que a Trindade tem a ver com vida de igreja, segundo Miroslav VolfNum mundo de igrejas para todos os gostos, qual seria a igreja que mais se aproxima da Trindade? Diferentemente do mundo hierárquico de bispos e gigantescas denominações burocráticas, o importante teólogo contemporâneo Miroslav Volf fala de como igrejas locais, com eleições frequentes e modelo congregacional, em que cada membro assume a responsabilidade pelo outro, permitem-nos ver e praticar o amor eterno entre Pai, Filho e Espírito Santo. Para você que sempre achou que estruturas de governo eclesiástico é a parte mais enfadonha da teologia, venha descobrir neste episódio como a Trindade pode fazer a...2023-05-1508 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureBringing Psychology to Theology / Justin Barrett & Miroslav VolfImagine building a cathedral with just a hammer and nails. How might theologians today continue to build the grand cathedral where human knowledge meets divine revelation by implementing the tools of psychological science? Experimental psychologist Justin Barrett joins theologian Miroslav Volf for a conversation on how psychology can contribute to theology. This episode is made possible by Blueprint1543.IntroductionTo a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Yep, we’ve heard that before. But imagine trying to make that work. Imagine, for instance, the visionary builder of a medieval cathedral… building it only...2023-04-2239 min
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Faith AngleMiroslav Volf and Tim Alberta: Life Worth LivingMiroslav Volf teaches theology at Yale University, where he also directs the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He is the author of 17 books, and his 1996 book Exclusion and Embrace was named by Christianity Today as one of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century. This new book, rooted in a popular Yale undergraduate course, is Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, co-authored by Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, both fellow teachers. Joining Miroslav for this conversation is Tim Alberta, a brilliant, ascending journalist and bestselling author in his own right, who is a staff wr...2023-04-0342 min
Embark On The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Riveting!Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav VolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604280to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most
Author: Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Kelly Corrigan, Maria Shriver
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Release date: March 28, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be...2023-03-289h 21
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & MeditationLife Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav VolfPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most Author: Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav Volf Narrator: Kelly Corrigan, Maria Shriver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be...2023-03-2810 minListen to Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & MeditationLife Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav VolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604280to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most
Author: Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Kelly Corrigan, Maria Shriver
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Release date: March 28, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Mindfulness & Meditation
Publisher's Summary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be...2023-03-289h 21Listen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & InspirationalLife Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav VolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604280to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most
Author: Ryan Mcannally-Linz, Matthew Croasmun, Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Kelly Corrigan, Maria Shriver
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Release date: March 28, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be...2023-03-289h 21
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureUkrainian Pastor Speaks Out: Resist Evil, Be Present, and Remember How Little You Control / Fyodor Raychynets & Miroslav VolfImagine war becoming your new normal. Imagine getting used to things like airstrike sirens. Imagine sleeping through the distant bombs. Imagine passing through the rubble on your way to work, or school, or church.Over the past year, war has become the new normal for Ukrainian pastor and theologian Fyodor Raychynets. Most of the expectations for how tthis war might go have fallen through. Worst case scenarios have come to pass. And the precarity and fragility of life outside of wartime—well, that continues too.A year ago, 20 days into the war, Fyodor joined Miroslav Vo...2023-03-1736 min
The In BetweenS3E33: Bridging Our Differences - An Interview With Theologian Dr. Miroslav VolfListen in to this previously aired interview with Dr. Miroslav Volf, theologian and public intellectual, author, and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. As we ask the question, "Would Jesus Be a Republican or a Democrat?", Dr. Volf helps shine a light on how to be a bridge builder in a polarized world, how to define oneself by commonalities over differences, and embracing identity "an unreliable ally of any political party." For more of Miroslav Volf, listen here:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture/id15050762942022-11-0653 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureMiroslav Volf / Beautiful, Humane, & Hospitable: Dwelling in the Home of God (In Memoriam, Phil Love)"If the goal of God in creating the world is to make it the home of God and humans together, then it is the intention of God to make this place as beautiful and as humane—as hospitable—to human life as it can possibly be." Miroslav Volf reflects on why he wrote his latest book, The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything. He also celebrates and eulogizes his friend Phil Love, to whom the book is dedicated.Click here to buy The Home of God for 30% off!Production NotesThis podcast featu...2022-10-2222 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureFostering the Knowledge and Love of God / Yale Divinity School BicentennialThe mission of Yale Divinity School is "to foster the knowledge and love of God through scholarly engagement with Christian traditions in a global, multifaith context." A variety of Yale Divinity School faculty and alumni have been featured as guests on For the Life of the World, and this episode highlights some of those contributions, including Krista Tippett, Willie Jennings, Keri Day, Kathryn Tanner, and David Kelsey (not to mention Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz). Current Yale Divinity Student Luke Stringer introduces each highlight segment. Special thanks to Harry Attridge and Tom Krattenmaker.Show NotesOur fi...2022-10-1543 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureKelly Corrigan & Miroslav Volf / Experts at Means, Amateurs at Ends: Talking About Success & Flourishing at College“We’ve become experts at means but amateurs at ends.” Miroslav Volf and Kelly Corrigan discuss the role of education in seeking a flourishing life; the risks and rewards endemic to asking questions of meaning and existential import in the higher educational context; the meaning of success to college students, and how the specter of success drives our cultural narrative; what it takes to live a life based on one's deepest -held values; Miroslav shares his own personal experience of approaching what makes life worth living within a particular Christian vision; what made him decide to be the only openly...2022-10-0358 min
Peace Catalyst PodcastMiroslav Volf and Hurunnessa Fariad - What it Means to Embrace the OtherDr. Miroslav Volf and Hurunnessa Fariad, two of our first ever Rick Love Peacemaker Award winners, join our President, Martin Brooks, for this conversation about the "why" and "how" of embracing 'the other.' The conversation is based around Dr. Volf’s book, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.
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Miroslav Volf's books: https://www.amazon.com/Miroslav-Volf/e/B001...2022-08-091h 06
Dive Into This Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook — Perfect During Your Workout.Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav VolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567743to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
Author: Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Release date: April 12, 2022
Genres: World Religions
Publisher's Summary:
We are at our human best when we give and forgive. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile? A deeply personal...2022-04-129h 25
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Title: Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
Author: Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:25:18
Language: English
Release date: 04-12-22
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational
Summary:
We are at our human best when we give and forgive. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when...2022-04-129h 25Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & InspirationalFree of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav VolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567743to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
Author: Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Release date: April 12, 2022
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
We are at our human best when we give and forgive. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile? A deeply personal...2022-04-129h 25Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityFree of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav VolfPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567743to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
Author: Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Release date: April 12, 2022
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
We are at our human best when we give and forgive. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile? A deeply personal yet...2022-04-129h 25
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureMiroslav Volf / War in Ukraine: Theological and Moral ReflectionsMiroslav Volf offers his personal reflections about the war on Ukraine. His theological and ethical commentary speaks to various facets of the situation, including: the global cultural clash between authoritarian nationalism and pluralistic democracy; the primacy and priority of God's universal and unconditional love for all humanity, including evildoers; the call to actively resist evil and guard our humanity; the importance of truth in an age of disinformation and suppression of real facts; the need for Christians to remain "unreliable allies" with governments or parties while remaining faithful to the humanity in the friend, neighbor, stranger, and enemy; but...2022-03-1931 min
Métamorphose, éveille ta conscience !#276 Dr Nadia Volf : L’acupuncture pour mobiliser nos ressourcesAnne Ghesquière reçoit dans Métamorphose la Dr Nadia Volf, docteur en médecine et responsable du diplôme interuniversitaire d’acupuncture scientifique à l’université Paris-Saclay et membre de l’Americain Academy of Medical Acupuncture.Comment apprendre à stimuler soi-même les points d’énergie dans les moments difficiles de la vie avec une acupuncture pour tous, voilà l’ambition de mon invitée. Elle nous aide à traverser les moments difficiles de la vie et surmonter les périodes de crise.Épisode #276ATTENTION : ces informations ne remplacent en aucun cas une consultation chez le médec...2022-03-171h 02
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureLisa Sharon Harper & Miroslav Volf / The Case for Reparations, Historical Restorative Justice, Ancestry, and Christian Power"I am because they were." Lisa Sharon Harper joins Miroslav Volf to discuss the significance of narrative history for understanding ourselves and our current cultural moment; the sequence of repeated injustices that have haunted America's past and directly impacted Black Americans for hundreds of years; the Christian nationalist temptation to hoard power; the necessary conditions for true repair, the role of reparations in the pursuit of racial justice, and the goodness of belonging.This month, Lisa Sharon Harper released a new book that traces her family's history. Even with the aid of new mail-order genetic testing and...2022-02-1954 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureN.T. Wright & Miroslav Volf / The Politics of Joy & Suffering in the Now and Not YetCan we find joy in our world? It's hard enough to find genuine, death-defying joy in the wake of the failure of the modern utopian project, the expectation that human reason and technology and political revolution might save us all. Overlay the malaise of modernity with this dumb pandemic, and the prospects for joy seem bleak. But for N.T. Wright, joy doesn't depend on the whims of circumstance or the proper function of the world. He speaks of the hardy resilience of joy, even in the midst of tragic, terrible, and untimely death. He speaks of the groanings...2022-01-2223 min
FULLER curated86.2 - Miroslav Volf on Globalization’s Effect on World FaithsIn his lecture “World Faiths and Globalization: How Does Globalization Affect Them?” delivered at the 2014 Payton Lectures, Miroslav Volf reflected on how world faiths—with their visions of human flourishing—meet systems of power and wealth in the midst of globalization. In response to Miroslav Volf’s lecture “World Faiths and Globalization: How Does Globalization Affect Them?” Marguerite Shuster, Oscar García-Johnson, Mignon Jacobs discussed themes of colonization, human flourishing, and the public arena as they relate to the major world faiths. At the time of recording, Miroslav Volf was director of the Yale Center for Faith and C...2022-01-1841 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureMiroslav Volf / Where the Light Gets In: Primordial Goodness, Excluding the Middle, and Searching for Hope in 2022Miroslav Volf and Evan Rosa consider audience questions and feedback about hopes and fears going into 2022. A reflective conversation about politics and theology, the aims of theological writing, suffering and the problem of evil, the loss of the middle ground in our polarized era (and Miroslav questions whether "middle" is even a Christian category), the primordial goodness of the world and seeing suffering with one eye squinted; and whether theology is for the religious only, or indeed, for the life of the world. NOTE: For the Life of the World will run highlights, readings, lectures, and other best-of features...2022-01-0150 minFor the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureCharles Taylor & Miroslav Volf / Finding a Shared Moral Understanding: Progress, Evil, Freedom, and Solidarity (Part 2)This is Part 2 of 2—don't miss the previous conversation with Charles Taylor on "What's Going Wrong with Our Democracies?"This episode was made possible in part by the generous support of the Tyndale House Foundation. For more information, visit tyndale.foundation.Part 2 of 2: Philosopher Charles Taylor joins Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz for a two-part conversation about what's gone wrong with our democracies and finding common moral understanding. In this episode, Charles Taylor explains his most recent thinking about the growth of common ethical understanding in a world that often fails to live up to th...2021-10-0937 minFor the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureCharles Taylor & Miroslav Volf / What's Wrong with Our Democracies?: Fear of Replacement, Post-Truth, and Entrenched Tribal Factions (Part 1)Philosopher Charles Taylor joins Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz for a two-part conversation about what's gone wrong with our democracies and finding common moral understanding. They discuss Christian nationalism, authoritarian government, the future viability of Christian faith and practice, the chaos of the post-truth epistemic crisis that’s rampant in political dialogue today, the role of social media in that crisis, and Taylor's most recent thinking about the growth of common ethical understanding in a world that often fails to live up to those shared moral principles of respect, dignity, and care.(Part 1 of a 2-part series)...2021-10-0240 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureDavid Brooks & Miroslav Volf / The Road to CharacterThe world today seem to prefer politics to morality, a personal brand to inner character, resume virtues that achieve success over eulogy virtues that reveal who you truly are... and it like this from the news to Instagram, at PTA meetings and little league fields, from the grocery store line to the protest front lines. David Brooks thinks we need to find our way back on the road to character.Today, New York Times columnist David Brooks joins Miroslav Volf for a conversation about his 2015 book The Road to Character. Together, they reflect on the central virtues...2021-09-2538 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureDavid Brooks & Miroslav Volf / What Is Human Flourishing?What is the shape of a flourishing human life? Once upon a time this question came pre-answered—by culture or tribe, by religion or philosophy, by tradition or way of life—but these days, given our increasingly individualized world and its emphasis on autonomy and self-expression, given the breakdown of social trust and the increasing degree of polarization and suspicion of the other: we each have to ask and answer these questions for ourselves: What is the good life?What does it mean to live a flourishing life, and how can we actually do it? These are diff...2021-09-1842 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureMiroslav Volf on 9/11 / A Grave in the Air: The Lasting Impact of 9/11 on Faith & CultureAs the first plane was crashing into the World Trade Center, Miroslav Volf was giving an address at the UN headquarters along the East River in Manhattan, just blocks away from Ground Zero. As the first plane shook the first tower and smoke rose into the sky, Miroslav was quoting Romanian poet Paul Celan. Specifically, his poem "Death Fugue"—which paints a dark picture of human suffering during the Holocaust and the living death that was the concentration camps. "We shovel a grave in the air." Miroslav went on to outline the features of reconciliation as embrace. "Emb...2021-09-1130 min
Mundo Cristão PodcastsPodcast Live - Exclusão & Abraço, com Miroslav VolfEsse é o áudio da live realizada por nós para o lançamento da obra "Exclusão & Abraço".
Os dias atuais apresentam uma realidade perturbadora. A alteridade, o simples fato de ser diferente de alguma forma, passou a ser definido como algo indesejado. Miroslav Volf afirma que a palavra curadora do evangelho precisa ser anunciada, e a teologia cristã não pode furtar-se a ignorar o quadro latente de ódio entre os diversos grupos de uma sociedade. A mensagem de Cristo é essencialmente reconciliatória, e nada melhor que a metáfora do abraço para anunciar a resposta cristã à exclusão.
Excl...2021-06-251h 09Mundo Cristão PodcastsPodcast Live - Exclusão & Abraço, com Miroslav VolfEsse é o áudio da live realizada por nós para o lançamento da obra "Exclusão & Abraço".Os dias atuais apresentam uma realidade perturbadora. A alteridade, o simples fato de ser diferente de alguma forma, passou a ser definido como algo indesejado. Miroslav Volf afirma que a palavra curadora do evangelho precisa ser anunciada, e a teologia cristã não pode furtar-se a ignorar o quadro latente de ódio entre os diversos grupos de uma sociedade. A mensagem de Cristo é essencialmente reconciliatória, e nada melhor que a metáfora do abraço para anunciar a resposta cristã à exclusão.Exclus...2021-06-251h 09
Je to kulatý?Libor Volf - Nebylo to jednoduchý, ale asi bych to nevrátil, říká o své životní cestě a možnosti dělat, co ho baví zakladatel Volf soccer academyLibor Volf začal s fotbalem v Dubicku v Olomouckém kraji. Poté přestoupil do Zábřehu, následně se stěhoval do Sigmy Olomouc. V 16 letech nakoukl poprvé i do fotbalové reprezentace. Byl součástí reprezentačního výběru, v kterém působil Martin Fenin, Ondřej Kúdela, Marek Suchý, Jan Šimůnek, Marcel Gecov, Luboš Kalouda, Tomáš Mičola, Jakub Mareš nebo Tomáš Pekhart. Do výběru na kanadské mistrovství světa v roce 2007 se však Libor nedostal. Po zranění se rozhodl netradičně odejít do Španělska, kde hrál tamní třetí nejvyšší soutěž. P...2021-06-0556 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureGilded Wounds, Co-Mingled Tears: The Gratuity of God in Art and Faith / Makoto Fujimura & Miroslav Volf"Jesus is the great kintsugi master." "Something that's broken is already more valuable than when it's whole." "The imagination creates, through the fractures, a river of gold, a mountain of gold." Makoto Fujimura joins Miroslav Volf to discuss Art & Faith: A Theology of Making. Fujimura is a painter who practices the Japanese art of nihonga, or slow art. His abstract expressionist pieces are composed of fine minerals he grinds himself and paints onto several dozens of layers, which take time and close attention both to make and to appreciate.Mako and Mir...2021-05-3041 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureEverything Wrong Can Be Made Right: Racial History, Reparations, and Belonging / Lisa Sharon Harper & Miroslav Volf"I am because they were." Lisa Sharon Harper joins Miroslav Volf to discuss the significance of narrative history for understanding ourselves and our current cultural moment; the sequence of repeated injustices that have haunted America's past and directly impacted Black Americans for hundreds of years; the Christian nationalist temptation to hoard power; the necessary conditions for true repair, the role of reparations in the pursuit of racial justice, and the goodness of belonging.About Lisa Sharon HarperFrom Ferguson to New York, and from Germany to South Africa to Australia, Lisa Sharon Harper leads trainings...2021-05-1552 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Freedom of Forgiveness: Ancient Christian Wisdom on The Happiness Lab / Laurie Santos & Miroslav VolfA conversation on the ancient wisdom of Christian forgiveness, between Yale psychologist Laurie Santos (host, The Happiness Lab) and Miroslav Volf. Recently appearing on The Happiness Lab, Miroslav and Laurie discuss his older brother's tragic death as a child and his family's response to forgive. Miroslav reflects on the formative impact of these events. He contrasts forgiveness as an obligation with forgiveness as a gift that frees one from captivity to the past and opens up possibilities for the future. Forgiveness, for him, is more than an event but a practice cultivated throughout life, offering a way of recognizing...2021-05-0834 min
All In! Living the Mission of GodA Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation, an Interview with Miroslav VolfHey everybody! Today I am giddy! I am thrilled to be able to have Dr. Miroslav Volf as a guest today. He is probably one of my favorite living theologians. I think you will enjoy this week's episode as we explore his book Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and is the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and...2021-04-2142 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CulturePassionate God, Crucified God, Joyful God / Jürgen Moltmann & Miroslav Volf"Without living theologically, there can be no theology." (Jürgen Moltmann) Miroslav Volf interviews his mentor, German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, who reflects on the meaning of joy and its connection to anxiety, fear, wrath, hope, and love.Moltmann tells his story of discovering (or, being discovered by) God as a 16-year-old drafted into World War II by the German Army, enduring the bombardment of his hometown of Hamburg, and being held for 3 years in a Scottish prison camp, where he read with new eyes the cry of dereliction from Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, “My...2021-04-1036 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureBefriending Reality: Engaging Otherness with Hospitality, Artfulness, and Particularity at Depth / Krista Tippett & Miroslav Volf“For me, the spiritual task is to befriend reality in all its mess and complexity—to do that with grace." Krista Tippett joins Miroslav Volf for a conversation on the importance of engaging otherness on the grounds of our common humanity; her personal faith journey from small town Baptists in Oklahoma, to a secular humanism in a divided Cold-War Berlin, and then back to her spiritual homeland and mother tongue of Christianity in an expansive and engaging new way; the art of conversation, deep listening, cultivating hospitality; the spiritual task of befriending reality; and the challenge of being alone and...2021-03-0642 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureJoy and the Act of Resistance Against Despair / Willie Jennings and Miroslav Volf"I look at joy as an act of resistance against despair and its forces. ... Joy in that regard is a work, that can become a state, that can become a way of life." Willie Jennings joins Miroslav Volf to discuss the definition of joy as an act of resistance against despair, the counterintuitive nature of cultivating joy in the midst of suffering, the commercialization of joy in Western culture, joy segregated by racism and slavery, how Jesus expands and corrects our understanding of joy.Support For the Life of the World by making a gift to the...2021-02-2824 min
Unleash the Power of Your Imagination With Full AudiobookExclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation Audiobook by Miroslav VolfListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 462658
Title: Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Author: Miroslav Volf
Narrator: Tom Parks
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:20:36
Language: English
Release date: 02-16-21
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Summary:
Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find...2021-02-165h 20
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CulturePatience with Yourself: Resisting the Temptation to Curate Yourself and Finding the Courage to Embrace ImperfectionThanks for listening to For the Life of the World. To support the show, you can make a tax-deductible gift to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture by clicking here.---This is that time of year when the little demon of self-criticism and self-denigration wakes up and starts nagging you for letting your new year’s resolutions slip a little. Or maybe you’re not there yet. You’re powering through, waking up early, working out hard, eating right, reading more, living your best life. Hey. Good on you. Go get it.But re...2021-01-1737 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureSedition in the Capitol: Wounded Pride, Lies that Incite Violence, Losing Connection to Reality, and Longing for Peace / Miroslav Volf & ColleaguesMiroslav Volf and the staff of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture respond to the lies, provocation, and violence at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.Show Notes"The most responsible thing to say about the President’s and the attackers’ actions is that they were without qualification wrong. To praise, to condone, to excuse, or to ignore them is to 'call evil good… put darkness for light… put bitter for sweet' (Isaiah 5:20)."At the heart of the current effort to deny and overturn the results of the presidential election is the wounded pride of a man who cann...2021-01-0710 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureChristian Witness in Turbulent Places / Miroslav Volf with Mike CosperMike Cosper, host of Cultivated, a podcast about faith and work, interviews Miroslav Volf about his vocation as theologian. They discuss Miroslav's youth in Croatia and his family's influence on his spirituality and theology, as well as the urgent need for faithful witness in our turbulent times. Original air date: November 2, 2020. Show Notes“I had parents who were extraordinary spiritual human beings, not in a sense that they were total exemplars of holiness, but there was kind of an honesty about the spiritual life”His father “experienced God’s love in the midst of Hell” on a socialist...2021-01-0238 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureIgnore These Walls: Faith that Leads to Freedom in Zimbabwe / Evan Mawarire & Miroslav VolfEvan Mawarire is a Pentecostal minister and democratic activist in Zimbabwe. He is founder of #ThisFlag Citizen's Movement and has been instrumental in standing up to corruption, injustice, and poverty in Zimbabwe. Miroslav Volf interviews Pastor Evan about his story of faith that leads to activism; the transformation he experience while being unjustly arrested, detained, and tortured in maximum security prison; and what it means to live a life worthy of our humanity.Show NotesIntroduction and clip from #ThisFlag viral videoHow Evan Mawarire became a Pentecostal minister#ThisFlag movement - united around the symbolism of...2020-12-2048 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureJoyful Recognition, All Is Gift: Four Perspectives on Gratitude in 2020 / Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Sarah Schnitker, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Miroslav VolfDefining gratitude as joyful recognition, the courage to be grateful, comparing gratitude for self-help vs gratitude in prayer, resilience, seeing all as gift and everything as grace. Featuring: Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Sarah Schnitker, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and Miroslav Volf.Show Notes1:07 - Miroslav VolfOur gratitude for you listeners!Sometimes complaint comes easier than gratitude, requiring the courage to be grateful.Misconceptions about gratitude: repayment of debt, obligation to the giver, a strategy for happiness or subjective well-being.Miroslav’s view of gratitude: Joyful recognitionGratitude is "joy over the giver, joy over the gift, joy over having received the...2020-11-2920 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureRabbi Sacks on Etching Everyday Existence with the Charisma of Holiness / Jonathan Sacks & Miroslav VolfRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was a British Jewish Rabbi, philosopher, politician, and author of more than 30 books. In this conversation, Miroslav Volf interviews Rabbi Sacks about Jewish perspectives on human flourishing, joy, sabbath and work, and the deeply communal and particular nature of Jewish faith as a witness to the common good. Rabbi Sacks died on November 7, 2020. May his memory be a blessing.This episode starts with a 12-minute reflection and memorial from Miroslav Volf, followed by a 40-minute conversation with Rabbi Sacks.For a video of the full conversation, click here: https://www.youtube...2020-11-1452 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureMixed Feelings: Poetry and Faith for Our Time / Christian Wiman & Miroslav VolfPoet Christian Wiman and theologian Miroslav Volf, both colleagues and friends, discuss poetry's ability to give voice to the mixed feelings of life today, talking about the mash-up of home and exile, joy and sorrow, saint and sinner; and Wiman reads some of his favorite poetry from his upcoming anthology, Home: 100 Poems.Poet Christian Wiman is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School. He’s the author of several books of poetry, including Every Riven Thing, Hammer is the Prayer, and his most recent, Survival Is a Style. His memoirs include the br...2020-11-0742 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureFaith 2020: Seeing Christianity in Political Context / Michael Wear & Miroslav VolfObama's 2012 director of faith-outreach, Michael Wear, joins theologian Miroslav Volf for a conversation on faith and politics in 2020 and beyond. They discuss the connection between the personal and the political in their own lives; why Christians should care about politics; the public responsibility that comes with democratic citizenship; compromise and personal integrity; the challenge of religious and political identity that converges around the common good; ambivalence and political homelessness; and the important challenge and prospect of finding joy in what is, while hoping for what seems impossible.Click here to listen to Michael Wear and the Faith 2020...2020-10-1748 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHow to Destroy a Debate: Winning, Democracy, and the Very Possibility of Public Discourse / Matt Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Miroslav VolfIn this episode, Matt Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, and Miroslav Volf discuss the Trump-Biden presidential debate from September 29, 2020, and its implications for public discourse and the very possibility of democratic deliberation. And yes, we know that that is not the headline anymore. The truth is stranger than fiction—again. The fact is lots of people are still sick. This pandemic is real. But we’re not trying to keep up with the latest headlines. The purpose of every single episode of this podcast is to help you envision and pursue a life that is worthy of your h...2020-10-0337 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHow Political Division Impacts Christian Unity / Miroslav Volf #AskMiroslavMiroslav Volf and Evan Rosa take listener questions about how to live faithfully in this political moment, focusing especially on questions of how political division impacts Christian and civil unity.Featuring:Miroslav’s social media bio gloss of the Prayer of St. Francis: "Before I tweet, I pray: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.” Dr. Bethany Keeley-Jonker: "I'm struggling to balance unity in the body with my firm conviction that the Trump presidency is hostile to my most deeply held Christian values.”Ramiro Medrano: "How can we foster unity in the body of Christ in the...2020-09-2632 minThe In BetweenS1E29 Bridging Our Differences: with theologian Miroslav VolfEric and Julia have an excellent interview with Dr. Miroslav Volf, theologian, public intellectual, author, and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. To hear more of Dr Volf's perspectives, check out his podcast "For The Life Of The World" available here:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-life-of-the-world-yale-center-for-faith-culture/id15050762942020-09-2652 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Home and Homelessness of God / Miroslav Volf and Drew CollinsIn this episode, Miroslav Volf and Drew Collins discuss home as a source of joy and humanity; the way we organize and order our homes for hospitality; and the homelessness of God and what that means for humanity.For many, the first thought of home is the threat of its negation: homelessness. Still others think of the stress and anxiety—sometimes even at life-threatening levels—of being at home. For some home is grounding, a place of safety and growth, it is embrace. For others, home is hostile, unsafe and risky, it is exclusionary. This episode features disc...2020-09-1232 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureCapitalism, Christianity, and Morality / David French and Miroslav VolfMiroslav Volf and David French discuss economy, morality, and human flourishing—looking in particular at the questions of whether capitalism and conservative moral values can coexist, and how the demands of Jesus’s ethics implicate free market economy.David French is a conservative political commentator for The Dispatch, known for his opposition to Donald Trump, his commitment to religious liberty, his advocacy for civility in public discourse, and his willingness to take a clear stand on political and cultural issues informed by his Christian faith commitments. The nature of the tug-o-war about reopening the American econo...2020-08-2230 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureViolence, Fascism, and Christian Nationalism / Miroslav Volf, Andrew Whitehead, and Samuel PerryThe current presidential administration has linked federal violence against largely peaceful protests in the name of law, order, and defending God. E.g., deploying tear gas for a Bible-holding photo opp. Does the melding of Christianity with the Nation produce violence and war? What's the relation between Christian Nationalism and fascism? Miroslav Volf asks sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry.Click here to listen to the full episode on Christian Nationalism in the United States.Books mentioned in this interview:Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the...2020-08-0914 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CulturePublic Faith Across the Divide / David French and Miroslav VolfIn this conversation, Miroslav Volf and David French discuss the politically and culturally polarized America; the resurgence of cultural struggle, if not outright culture war; seeing fundamentalist political religion on both the right and the left; forgiveness versus cancellation and how our view of human persons affects that public conversation; personal morality and social justice; and finally how political theology can make a difference now, the rest of this year (and it’s been a year), and the future of American life.Show NotesDavid French, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Rest...2020-07-2547 min
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampA Theology of Joy: Miroslav Volf
No theology of grumpiness here: Miroslav Volf (Professor of Theology, and Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University) sketches some initial direction for a Theology of Joy. Volf himself having suffered under a communist regime, and his father have imprisoned in a forced labor camp, he provides compelling possibilities for joy in some of the most difficult of circumstances. AND: Brother Preacher makes an (intrusive) appearance.
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- Master Course with Miroslav Volf (get 50% off with code VOLF50): https://www.tokensshow.com/courses
- Book: Exclusion and Embrace, Revised...2020-07-2335 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureN.T. Wright on Weeping, Waiting, and Working with God in the Pandemic / Miroslav Volf and N.T. WrightMiroslav Volf interviews N.T. Wright about his latest book, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath. They discuss: Jesus, the God who weeps; the problem with focusing on rational responses to the problem of evil rather than empathic presence and action; the proper translation of Romans 8:28 (hint, it’s not “All things work together for good to those who love God"); waiting for God through the crises of human life; the patience of unknowing; lament as a way of hoping in the dark; Friedrich Nietzsche on our tendency to misinterpret the pain and...2020-07-1853 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureTaking America Back for God / Miroslav Volf w/ Andrew Whitehead & Samuel PerryFor our Fourth of July episode, Miroslav Volf interviews Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, sociologists and authors of Taking America Back For God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. What is Christian Nationalism? Why does it matter? How powerful is it in American life? Who counts as a Christian Nationalist? They discuss the tendency of Christian Nationalism to use Christianity as a tribal identity marker or tool for power, rather than an authentic sign of faith or commitment to a the way of Jesus or the practice of his teaching. They discuss Christian Nationalism in racial perspective, comparing African-American...2020-07-0447 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CulturePeople or Economy? / Miroslav Volf & John HareMiroslav Volf presents a previously unreleased clip of his conversation with Yale philosopher John Hare, focusing on the treatment of essential workers, the meaning of dignity and respect, and the incommensurable value of human life. Miroslav offers extended commentary on capitalism, Christianity, and economic values in the midst of pandemic.Reference: David Brooks, "America Is Facing 5 Epic Crises All at Once" New York Times, June 25, 2020.Reference: What Is a Human Life Worth? / John Hare & Miroslav VolfShow NotesA conversation with John Hare in light of the multiple national crises of 2020.What’s...2020-06-2716 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureLaw of Love, Order of Peace / Miroslav Volf & Lauren Green"Religion is most dangerous when it is superficial—when it serves to mark my identity as belonging to a different group than you. And when it's a tool in a politician's hands to legitimize their power. Then they just use religion to mark and to validate what they want to do in any case. And that ends up being really a kind of desacralization of faith. That which is holy has been completely turned to a means of a secular, profane end that bears no relation to the content of that which is holy." Lauren Green, Chief Religion Correspondent at...2020-06-2038 min
Lighthouse FaithDr. Miroslav Volf: His Landmark Book "Exclusion & Embrace" Still Speaks to Us 30 Years LaterThe protests and riots following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer have made many people question, why is it we have a hard time getting along with people who are different from ourselves? What is the driving force behind the conflicts we've seen these last few weeks? Theologians will say that at the root of all our problems is sin. But surely there's more to it than that. Nearly 30 years ago Dr. Miroslav Volf wrote a book that explored the vagaries of our mistrust and malevolent actions towards our fellow human beings. The...2020-06-1135 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureRedeeming Dangerous Memories: Black Women and Racial Injustice / Keri Day and Miroslav VolfTheologian Keri Day shares her experience as a black woman and a theologian, not only of the past week, but the long history of racism in America, stemming from the racially inflected roots of America’s founding and emerging even from history that has been erased. She and Miroslav Volf discuss her whole vision of individual and social justice through the lens of Christian faith and practice. Keri also provides a gripping example of redeeming dangerous memories in the form of the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street Massacre.Show NotesKeri Day, Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Bl...2020-06-0639 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Need to Listen / Miroslav Volf"Before speaking about victims and to victims I need to listen. We all who are not victims need to listen." In a follow-up to his May 30 response to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, Miroslav Volf speaks frankly about the necessity of listening to black perspectives about racism, police brutality, and the history and continuous experience of black suffering.faith.yale.eduShow NotesPolice brutality and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George FloydMiroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of IdentityExclusion’s specific expression in racism in this countryThe bo...2020-06-0108 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureRacism, Exclusion, & Embrace / Miroslav VolfMiroslav Volf responds to the recent killing of unarmed black men, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. Exclusion takes many forms, but is marked by both a pursuit of false purity and a failure to see the other as fully human. Visit faith.yale.edu for more information.Show NotesA brief response to the recent killings of unarmed black men, Ahmad Arbery and George Floyd.Exclusion’s many forms are all a pursuit of false purity and failure to see another’s humanity.Ahmad Aubrey and George Floyd’s deaths embody what happens when we close...2020-05-3009 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHope Pt. 2, Hope Against Hope / Miroslav VolfMiroslav Volf investigates the darker side of hope, explaining what it means to “hope against hope” (Romans 4:18) and “hope in what we do not see” (Romans 8:25). He concludes with hope’s connection to patient endurance. This is the second of a two-part series on hope.For comments, questions, suggested topics, or just to say hello, email faith@yale.edu.Visit faith.yale.edu for more information.Show Notes“Genuine hope remains alive when there is no good reason to expect something positive in the future."“We hope in what we do not see.” (Romans...2020-05-2318 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureWhat Is a Human Life Worth? / John Hare & Miroslav VolfTheologian Miroslav Volf and philosopher John Hare (Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School) discuss Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s fundamental question behind reopening the economy from COVID-19 lockdown, “How much is a human life worth?” Why we should go to such great lengths, sacrificing so much, to save a single human life? What about humans gives us dignity? How should we approach the dilemmas posed by incommensurable values, where there’s no agreed upon standard for comparison? How can we better frame the question of the value of human life by observing the life of Jesus?“My...2020-05-1625 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Promise and Peril of Home / Miroslav Volf & Ryan McAnnally-LinzWarning: Hello friends, during a part of this episode on the complicated nature of home during a pandemic, the topic of domestic violence comes up. This is a serious and sensitive matter. If you or someone you know is suffering from abuse, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or if you’re unable to speak safely, you can log onto thehotline.org or text LOVEIS to 22522.For more information about the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, visit faith.yale.edu.Follow Miroslav Volf on Twitter: @MiroslavVolfFollow Rya...2020-04-1838 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHow to Be Afraid: Easter in the Time of COVID-19 / Miroslav VolfFor the Life of the World is produced by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. For more info, visit faith.yale.eduFollow Miroslav Volf on Twitter: @MiroslavVolf-1:37 Introductory summary of the Podcast-3:35 A diagnosis of the role of fear in our culture today and how we should respond to it--pulling from an earlier podcast.-5:50 Miroslav reflects on how Christians should respond to fear. -6:15 Jesus’ injunction “fear not!” and how we are to properly contextualize that phrase: “It is not a call to disregard or minimize p...2020-04-1136 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Culture of Fear / Miroslav Volf, Matt Croasmun, Drew CollinsFor the Life of the World is produced by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. For more info, visit faith.yale.eduFollow Miroslav Volf on Twitter: @MiroslavVolfShow Notes-0:12 Introductory Teaser-0:57 Summary and introduction to the topic of this podcast—fear. -3:35 Miroslav begins. -3:40 Thoughts from Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety-4:15 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” Proverbs 9:10 -4:50 The two questions we should have toward fear: 1. What do we fear for? 2. What are we afra...2020-04-0427 minFor the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureTrailer / A Message from Miroslav Volf: Faith in a Time of PandemicFor the Life of the World is produced by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. For more info, visit faith.yale.eduFollow Miroslav Volf on Twitter: @MiroslavVolf-0:45 Introduction to the podcast (Evan Rosa)-2:22 Beginning of Miroslav’s thoughts. -3:30 What responding to the pandemic looks like for those professions that directly engage with tangible issues. -4:20 What responding to the pandemic looks like for theologians and non-working Christians. -6:00 “The question for all of us is how do we live with this disruption? How do we l...2020-03-2813 min
The Table Audio w/ Evan RosaStanding in the Fissures: Miroslav Volf on Theology, Memory, Reconciliation, and the SelfTheologian Miroslav Volf on the challenge of living a theology in the fissures of life; the often irreducible complexity of human experience; how Volf's own biography and personal experience with oppression during the Cold War impacted his theology; the centrality of memory to forgiveness; and the importance of living as a porous, open self—open to encountering and embracing the other.2019-05-1400 min
The Veritas ForumHow to Love Your Enemies | Miroslav VolfFrom the Crusades to the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Christianity’s relationship to violence is troubling. How can we make sense of Jesus's call to "love your enemies” when so much violence has been committed in his name?
Yale theologian Miroslav Volf believes that blaming religion for violence ignores the larger problem. At a Veritas Forum from UC Santa Barbara, Volf explores the relationship between God, religion, and violence.2018-03-1753 min
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