Rhythms for a Fractured Age with Jonathan Pan Walton (NCB’s Radix Live)

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,…

Seeing the Gospel: Orthodox Icons and the Visual Language of Faith (NCB’s Radix Live)

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.…

A Poetics of Presence: Malcolm Guite on Luci Shaw

Malcolm Guite is a beloved poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and scholar whose work explores the rich interplay between faith and the arts. He studied at Cambridge and Durham, and later served as chaplain and fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. His academic interests include writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, alongside broader questions of imagination and belief. Guite is the author of a number of poetry collections, including Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year, The Singing Bowl, and Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament and Hope, as well as books on theology and literature such as What Do Christians Believe?, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lifting the Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God—all marked by a desire to be both thoughtful and beautiful. He also performs as a musician with the band Mystery Train and regularly shares reflections on poetry, faith, and culture. To read (and hear) more, visit his website at https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/, or watch his videos at https://www.youtube.com/@MalcolmGuitespell.
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We often remember poets for their words. But sometimes it is their way of seeing—and of helping others to see—that leaves something just as lasting. In this conversation, Malcolm Guite reflects on his friendship with Luci Shaw, a poet whose work (quietly, and persistently) attends to the small, the ordinary, and the easily overlooked. What follows is part tribute, part theological reflection, and part invitation: to recover attention in a distracted age, to rediscover rootedness in a restless one, and to notice the ways grace so often arrives unannounced. Along the way, Guite offers stories, poems, and insights into the kind of literary friendship that doesn’t demand imitation—but instead helps another voice become more fully itself.…

Adapting Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle: Merlin in the Age of Streaming

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.…

Bradley Jersak’s Out of the Embers: Faith After the Great Deconstruction (NCB’s Radix Live)

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.…

Living in the Book of Common Prayer, with Julie Lane-Gay

In a world governed by speed, productivity, and distraction, many Christians (us!) long for something steadier—a way of prayer that can hold the whole of life. We rush to work, share coffee with friends, collapse into bed at day’s end, and hope, somehow, to sense God’s presence in it all. Yet prayer can often feel elusive, as though God were distant rather than near.

In this live conversation, Julie Lane-Gay reflected on her award-winning book The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer and invited us into a deeper way of inhabiting time, prayer, and grace through the Book of Common Prayer. Rather than offering a history or technical guide, Lane-Gay shared how the Prayer Book quietly forms us—shaping our hearts, ordering our days, and anchoring ordinary Christian life in Christ.

Drawing on personal stories, insight, and lived practice (which she writes about ever so beautifully), Julie explored how liturgical prayer resists cultural hurry, re-forms our desires, and roots us in God’s larger story. Along the way, the conversation touched on formation, community, catechesis, the church calendar, and why praying with the Church—across time and place—mattered now more than ever. Hosted by Radix editor Matthew Steem, this event featured Julie Lane-Gay in conversation about a way of prayer that was slow, communal, and profoundly hopeful.…

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