effrey is Professor of Religion at Washington & Lee University. He is the author of books and essays including From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation – On a Vital Organ, Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity which received the 2013 Award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Studies from the American Academy of Religion…
Some books diagnose the sickness of an age. Others offer practices for healing. Jonathan Pan Walton’s work does both.
For this Radix Live conversation, we are pleased to have Walton discuss two of his books: Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free and Beauty and Resistance: Spiritual Rhythms for Formation and Repair. One names the false stories that shape our national imagination; the other offers a way of living that resists despair, burnout, and spiritual fragmentation. Sounds timely, right?
In a cultural moment marked by emotional fatigue and fierce division, Walton raises timely questions:
-What lies have we mistaken for truth?
-Where have politics, nation, and identity become substitutes for the Gospel?
-And how might Christians recover rhythms of life that make justice, beauty, and repair possible?
This conversation moves between critique and hope. Drawing from Scripture, lived experience, and spiritual wisdom,…
We live in a visual age. Screens catechize us daily, shaping how we see the world, ourselves, and even God. But what if the Church has always possessed a visual language of its own: one not designed to distract, but to reveal?It’s an interesting question – timely, too.
In this Radix Live conversation, Eve Tibbs reflects on her gloriously illustrated book Seeing the Gospel: An Interpretive Guide to Orthodox Icons (2025) and invites us to rediscover Orthodox icons as more than religious art. Often described as “windows into heaven,” icons are theological proclamations in color and form – visual interpretations of Holy Scripture that draw viewers into the Kingdom of God.
Hosted by Matthew Steem, this event features dialogue between Eve Tibbs and Christian contemplative and essayist Arthur Aghajanian. Aghajanian writes and speaks at the intersection of visual culture and theology, examining how images guide imagination and influence our perception of reality. Together they consider how icons shape Christian imagination, how beauty forms belief, and what it means to “see the Gospel” in a culture saturated with competing images.…
Katie is an art historian and critic specializing in issues of art, spirituality, contemplative practice and the artistic process. She has written two books, several book chapters, and more than one hundred articles on topics ranging from ancient temples to medieval cathedrals to postmodern…
