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What Does Radical Acceptance Look Like in Real Life?
 
In this Good Faith Podcast episode, Curtis Chang sits down with Dave Evans (co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab) to tear up the "find your purpose" script and explore how design thinking, faith, and radical acceptance can lead to real meaning—especially through grief and uncertainty. Expect sharp insights, honest stories, and practical tools to build a life with more presence, flow, and authenticity starting now. Dave and Curtis dig into faith and the tension of the "already and not yet" as they look at the ideas in Dave's latest book, How to Live a Meaningful Life.
 
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03:05 - Dave Evans' Journey & the Origins of Life Design
09:54 - Are there Pitfalls When Pursuing Impact and Transactional Mindset?
18:08 - Design Moves for Greater Meaning
22:05 - Radical Acceptance Illustrated by Personal Loss 
28:06 - Why Is the Concept of Flow Important?
39:37 - Compatibility of Design Thinking and Christian Worldview
41:06 - Four Areas of Human Experience for Meaning
45:34 - Meaning in the Second Half of Life 
48:59 - Getting Started: Practical First Steps
 
Scriptures:
Deuteronomy 30:11–14 (ESV) 
Deuteronomy 30:19–20 (ESV)
John 10:10 (ESV) 
Philippians 2:5-11 (ESV) 
Romans 12:2 (ESV)
Ecclesiastes 2:11 (ESV)
Luke 17:20–21 (ESV)
Mark 8:18 (ESV)
 
Mentioned in This Episode:
Dave Evans + Bill Burnett's How to Live a Meaningful Life: Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and Flow Every Day
What is Radical Acceptance?
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Lisa Miller's lecture The Awakened Brain 
Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk: My Stroke of Insight
More about Jean Vanier and L'Arche
Richard Rohr's Falling Upward
Veritas Forum: Dallas Willard
Stanford's Life Design Lab
What is Design thinking? (pdf)
Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things
More from Dave Evans:
Dave Evans + Bill Burnett's Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Dave Evans + Bill Burnett's Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness--and a New Freedom--at Work
Dave Evans Praxis Mentor page
Check out: Designing Your Life website
 
Connected Good Faith Episodes:
Good Faith ep. 68: The Impact Fetish (with Andy Crouch)
 
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Prayers of the People: The Power of Prayer in Difficult Times
 
The Good Faith Podcast host Curtis Chang and producer DT Slouffman guide listeners through a communal time of prayer. Responding to heartfelt prayer requests from newsletter subscribers, they reflect on themes of hope, family reconciliation, and finding peace amid uncertainty. Each request is followed by a moment of silent prayer, inviting listeners to participate. The episode emphasizes surrendering to God's will, the challenges of strained relationships, and seeking God's presence in suffering.
 
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Mentioned In This Episode:
Matthew 6:9–13 (ESV)
Ephesians 3:14-15 (ESV)
C.S. Lewis' book The Four Loves
 
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Can Missionaries, Not Politics, Depolarize Climate Change for Christians?
 
Climate change isn't a partisan talking point—it's a discipleship test, and Brian Webb, a seasoned sustainability director and educator, joins Curtis Chang to make the case that climate ignorance hurts both the body of Christ and the world God made for our flourishing. From typhoons overseas to Lyme disease at home, Webb shows how climate change is already hurting real people—and why Christians can't shrug it off. Forget guilt and "change your light bulb" advice: Brian and Curtis lean into stubborn optimism and practical action for churches, workplaces, and local communities.
 
06:01 - A Faith Journey Becomes A Creation Care Story
08:23 - Creation Care and 1 Corinthians 12
14:06 - Connecting Climate Change Impact to Human Suffering 
18:30 - The Problem of Warming From California Wildfires to Lyme Disease
33:35 - Examples of Institutional Action
39:10 - Measuring Institutional Progress
40:16 - Missionaries Sounding the Alarm 
43:56 - Dealing with Discouragement and Stubborn Hope 
50:01 - Series Wrap-Up and Final Takeaways
 
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Mentioned In This Episode:
Colossians 1:15-17 (ESV)
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (ESV)
Read the Cape Town Commitment 
Learn more about A Rocha USA
Learn more about the Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus
The YWAM (Youth With A Mission) School of Sustainable Development
Learn about the Christian Climate Observers Program (CCOP)
Learn about Typhoon Haiyan survivor Marinel Ubaldo (Noble Women's Initiative)
Tuvalu & the Pacific Conference of Churches
Organizations Helping Tuvalu:
Tuvalu Climate Finance Project 
Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
Government of Tuvalu – Climate Change / projects portal
 
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Vanishing Coastlines, Dying Reefs, and the Future of an Island Nation
 
In this short Good Faith podcast story, Taualo Penivao, General Secretary of the Christian Church of Tuvalu, shares a firsthand witness of how climate change is reshaping daily life, faith, and the difficult questions of land reclamation and climate migration. Hear why Tuvalu is often called "ground zero" for the global climate crisis—and what support is needed to help protect its people, culture, and future.
 
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Organizations Helping Tuvalu:
Tuvalu Climate Finance Project 
Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project
Government of Tuvalu – Climate Change / projects portal
 
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Is The Greatest Shift in Christian Theology Going From Heaven to Earth?
 
Heaven isn't the point of the gospel—and N.T. Wright challenges the "accept Jesus and escape earth" narrative of Christianity. Curtis Chang talks with Wright, leading theologian and prolific author, about New Creation and his latest book God's Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal, asking whether the Bible's promise is the Kingdom of God on earth—or simply going to heaven when you die. They examine the "royal priesthood" calling, what this means for life after death and suffering now, and the true purpose of Christian faith.
 
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03:43 - The Continuity Between Old and New Testaments
05:05 - Reject Platonism and Embracing New Creation?
08:04 - A Vision More Demanding Than The "Ticket To Heaven" Gospel
13:48 - What Does This Mean For Grace, Works, and Human Vocation?
19:53 - Divergence on the Meaning of The Kingdom of God
27:24 - The Problem of Evil and the "Now and Not Yet"
34:59 - A Pastoral Response to Heaven-Focused Theology
40:41 - How Are Heaven and Earth Interlocking Realities?
47:59 - The Royal Priesthood: Humanity's Biblical Mandate
51:47 - Tom Wright's Future Projects and Reflections
 
Scriptures:
Revelation 5:9-10 (ESV) - kingdom + priests reign on the earth
Exodus 19:6; Deuteronomy 7:6; 1 Peter 2:9 (ESV) - royal priesthood
Genesis 1-2 (ESV) - creation "very good"; humanity's vocation
Revelation 21–22 (ESV) - new heaven/new earth; God dwelling with humanity
Romans 12:2 (ESV) - renewing of the mind
Romans 8:21–23 (ESV) - creation set free; redemption of bodies
Malachi 3:1 + Isaiah 40:3 (ESV) - prepare the way; the Lord coming to his temple
Psalm 8 (ESV) - humanity crowned with glory/honor; vocation
Ephesians 4 (ESV) - new humanity; community ethics
 
Mentioned in This Episode:
N.T. Wright's book God's Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal
N.T. Wright's book Surprised by Hope
What is the Bar Kokhba Revolt?
What is the Mishnah?
"Teach Me, My God and King" (George Herbert / "The Elixir") 
Tom Holland's book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
C.S. Lewis' book Miracles
Scot McKnight's book Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire
 
More from N.T. Wright:
N.T. Wright Online
N.T. Wright's Speaking engagements
N.T. Wright's books (Amazon)
 
Past Conversations with N.T. Wright:
Good Faith ep. 207: N.T. Wright Explains Ephesians: The Church, Christian Nationalism, & the Armor of God
Good Faith ep. 128: The Unseen Spiritual Powers Shaping Our World (with N.T. Wright)
 
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