In a cultural moment saturated with slogans, spin, and carefully managed (abused?) language, poetry may seem like a quiet—and perhaps unnecessary—art.…
This remarkable forum where Christians, agnostics, and atheists gathered for sustained—and often spirited—conversation ...…
In this conversation, Laura reflects on the adaptation of Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle, a series that attempts to bring together Arthurian legend, Christian imagination, and the enduring appeal of myth. With a careful balance between appreciation and critique (not an easy task), she explores the show’s moments of beauty alongside its struggles with pacing, character, and theological coherence.…
Words are what endure on the page. But for those who knew Luci Shaw, it was her way of being in the world that left the deepest mark.…
We sometimes speak of hope as though it were a kind of optimism—a brightness we choose in spite of the world as it is. But what if hope…
You and Madeleine L'Engle became great friends. (You even coauthored a book on friendship). How did the long, close relationship influence you both as writers?…
Jamie is an Associate Professor of American religions and material culture at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her PhD from Duke University. Her book Protestant Relics in Early America examines relic veneration, corpse inspection, and the art of…
Michael is Professor of Architecture at the University of Hartford. He is the sole author, editor, or contributor to more than 75 books on architecture, including five books for children.
Michael is the recipient of the Edward S. Frey Memorial Award, in Recognition of the…
Across the Western Church, a seismic shift is underway. Assumptions are being questioned, inherited frameworks are cracking, and for many, faith itself feels unsettled. This moment has come to be known—sometimes anxiously, sometimes triumphantly—as “deconstruction.” But what if deconstruction is neither a collapse nor a cure-all? What if it is, instead, a threshold?
In this Radix Live conversation, Jersak reflects on his book Out of the Embers: Faith After the Great Deconstruction, exploring what faith might look like after cherished certainties are shaken—but not abandoned. Drawing from memoir, theology, philosophy, and the Christian tradition, Jersak invites us to consider how deconstruction, when approached wisely and communally, can actually become a pathway toward deeper communion with God rather than an exit from faith.
Rather than rushing to rescue belief or cheer its dismantling, Jersak patiently “deconstructs deconstruction” itself. He engages voices from across time—from Moses and Paul to Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and Simone Weil—showing that this unsettling process is not new, nor is it faithless.…