David Maginley: Death and the Work of Becoming Human

David Maginley is a Canadian author, ordained Lutheran minister, and psychospiritual specialist with more than 25 years of experience in cancer, palliative, and intensive care. Based in Halifax, he served as an interfaith spiritual counsellor at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and now maintains a private practice supporting patients and families facing life‑limiting illness. He is the award‑winning author of Early Exits: Spirituality, Mortality, and Meaning in an Age of Medical Assistance in Dying, as well as Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey. A four‑time cancer survivor and near‑death experiencer, David brings clinical, theological, and lived insight to his writing and international speaking on spirituality, grief, and end‑of‑life care. Known for his compassionate, evidence‑informed approach, he blends professional expertise with warmth and a touch of humor. Learn more at davidmaginley.com.

Much of the conversation surrounding medical assistance in dying begins with suffering: how much can be endured, what can be relieved, and when a person should be permitted to say, “Enough.” But beneath those questions may lie another: What are we afraid of losing when we die? In this conversation, David Maginley, author of Early Exits, explores the existential dimensions of dying—and particularly our fears of dependency, diminishment, and losing control. Drawing on decades of spiritual-care work, Maginley considers MAID alongside palliative care, near-death awareness, ego and identity, and the possibility that dying has something important to teach both the person approaching death and those gathered around them. What emerges is not a simple argument for or against MAID, but an invitation to recover a richer understanding of dying—and, perhaps, of what it means to be fully human.…

Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema with Jeffrey Overstreet (NCB’s Radix Live)

What if watching movies could be a spiritual discipline? For one film critic, great films became guiding lights—an escape from fear-based religion into richer experiences of imagination, beauty, community, and faith.

In this Radix Live conversation, we are delighted to welcome Jeffrey Overstreet to discuss his beautifully reflective new book, published in May 2026. Part memoir, part film criticism, and part spiritual testimony, the book traces Overstreet's journey from a fear-based religious upbringing into a richer and more expansive vision of faith—one shaped, surprisingly enough, by movies. As always, there will also be time for questions from our live audience.

Setting the Scene
Growing up in a bubble of churches and Christian schools, Jeffrey Overstreet was taught by example to condemn "worldly" art and culture as predatory and poisonous. Yet the flicker of light from cinema screens proved a temptation too powerful to resist. And what he found there was quite the opposite of what he'd been told: he found God at play in ten thousand theatres.…

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.…

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