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

Miroslav Volf, Evan Rosa

evan.rosa@yale.edu

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Booking Overview

This is an interview-led theology and cultural analysis podcast focused on Christian thought, ethics, suffering, faith, and human flourishing, with external guests including prominent theologians, philosophers, poets, and spiritually oriented founders. PR agencies could credibly pitch published scholars, public intellectuals, authors, and practitioners with substantive work on religion, ethics, grief, technology, or communal flourishing; booking difficulty is high because guests typically have distinguished academic, literary, or professional credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 253

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

evan.rosa@yale.edu

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Host

Miroslav Volf - Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is the author of Exclusion and Embrace and the New York Times bestsell...

Evan Rosa - Senior editor at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and a host focused on the relationship between theology, culture, emotional life, and human flourishing.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Published theologians, philosophers, poets, authors, academics, founders, and practitioners with substantial expertise or lived experience related to faith, ethics, suffering, emotional life, technology, or human flourishing.

Required Achievements:

Published books with substantial cultural or academic relevance, Distinguished university appointments or research careers, Recognized contributions to theology, philosophy, literature, or spiritual practice, Leadership of organizations or products addressing emotional, ethical, or communal life

Recent Guest Discussions

Christian Wiman - Terminal Illness, Poetic Faith, Theological Doubt, Grief, Love Of God, And The Relationship Between Belief And Spiritual Presence.

Nicholas Wolterstorff - Grief, Lament, Suffering, Theodicy, Mourning, Theological Responses To Loss, And Grief In Prison Education.

Justin Smith - Anonymity, Emotional Honesty, Spiritual Growth, Technology, Negative Emotion, Design, And Meaningful Connection At Scale.

Recent Topics

Theology, Christianity, Ethics, Human Flourishing, Philosophy

Episodes

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

I Don't Know What Faith Means Anymore: Terminal Illness, Poetic Faith, and Theological Doubt / Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman

July 08, 2026

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 became the seed of an extended correspondence between the poet and the theologian, now published ...

Owning Grief Redemptively: The Wound of Loss, the Failure of Theodicy, and the Cry of Suffering Love / Nicholas Wolterstorff

June 24, 2026

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 theodicy and the pressure to move on. Together they discuss owning grief rather than disowning it, la...

Anonymous Spiritual Hitchhiking: Emotional Health in the Digital Age / Anonymous

June 17, 2026

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 spiritual progress is still possible at scale. "What's really kind is to care about somebody else. And ...

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