Thoughtful dialogues between leading voices across disciplines—thinkers at the intersection of faith, science, and spiritual transformation helping us imagine a future rooted in the pursuit of wholeness. Our lives are shaped around immersive, powerful stories that thrive at the heart of our religious traditions, scientific inquiries, and cultural landscapes. Within these big stories that shape our
beliefs and movement through the world are also smaller stories – those television shows that we wind down watching, social media channels through which we laugh and connect, books that invite us into stories, and our personal stories shared face-to-face. All stories – big and small – point toward our fundamental hunger for wholeness, understanding, and love. Behind all these stories is a unity of love. Not a unity that is closed and exclusive, but a union that differentiates. Not a love that is simply romantic, but a love that connects us across our differences and helps us discover a way of flourishing together at a global scale. This podcast series seeks to explore questions of hunger or yearning for wholeness by examining cultural activities and the ways science, religion are woven into them. What does reality television tell us about our desires for love? What can a sitcom show us about belonging to a whole? How do new social media apps reveal emergent personhood? Will artificial intelligence and religion cooperate to enhance the quality of our global connections? Each episode uses an example from cultural favorites – such as a TV show, novel, music or art piece, or social media app – as a lens to explore the questions that emerge from our religious traditions and beliefs and the ways science enhances or challenges those beliefs. Companioned by experts, we examine how our culture reveals a desire for love at the center of the universe and how religion and science cooperate to bring that love alive.
