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Keas Keasler – Dallas Willard’s Theology
February 27, 2026
Nate speaks with author and Willard scholar Keas Keasler about the enduring helpfulness of Dallas Willard’s life and work.
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Tiffany Clark — Sundar Singh’s God-Bathed World
February 13, 2026
Nathan Foster talks with Tiffany Clark about what the 20th century Indian Christian mystic Sundar Singh can teach us about encountering God.
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Pete Greig — Normal People Hearing God
January 22, 2026
Pete Greig, author of the book How To Hear God (up next in the Renovaré Book Club), joined Nate for a wonderful conversation on the ways that God speaks and what it looks like to listen well.
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New Year Meditation with Vivianne Foster
January 9, 2026
Nathan and Vivianne Foster share a meditation for the New Year melding a famous quote by Francis de Sales with the words of Mary from Luke 1 in this bonus episode of Life With God.
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Vivianne Foster — The Blessing of Welcome
December 19, 2025
On this week’s podcast episode, Nathan and Vivianne Foster discuss how to welcome Christ—looking to Jesus’ parents as a picture of consent, receptivity, and hospitality.
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Scott Erickson — Excavating Prayer through Art
December 5, 2025
Artist, author, and speaker Scott Erickson joined Nate for a conversation about creative expression as a way to speak truth, notice God's work in our lives, and excavate prayer and adoration for Christ.
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Brad East – God in the Digital Age
November 14, 2025
Brad East joined Nate on Life With God for a helpful conversation about how our use of technology must be governed by the overarching goals of spiritual formation in Christ.
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Grace Hamman — Tried and True Paths to Holiness
October 24, 2025
Grace Hamman talks with Nathan about medieval wisdom for how to cooperate with God’s grace to set aside vices (anti-love impulses) and put on virtues (loving, Christlike impulses).
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Andrew Ranucci — What Pastors Need
October 10, 2025
Nathan speaks with Andrew Ranucci, Director of the Next Frontiers program for pastors, about his journey from pastoring a congregation to pastoring pastors.
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Stanley Hauerwas and Tish Harrison Warren — Theology that Makes a Difference
September 26, 2025
In episode 305 of Life With God, Nathan speaks with Stanley Hauerwas, a theologian with a wide and profound influence. Also joining the show is Tish Harrison Warren (who has written the foreword to a new book showcasing Hauerwas's core ideas) about how Stanley shaped her life and ministry.
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Terry Wildman — Wisdom Keepers
September 12, 2025
Nate talks with Terry Wildman, lead translator of the First Nations Version of the Bible, about the way that cultural translation brings the beauty and meaning of scripture to the surface for people ready to hear the good news.
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Trevor Hudson – What I’ve Learned About God’s Will
August 29, 2025
Trevor Hudson joined Nathan on the Life With God podcast to discuss his latest book, In Search of God’s Will—which will be our first group-read in the Renovaré Book Club starting this Fall.
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Julian Davis Reid – Becoming Folk of Rest
August 15, 2025
Musician and theologian Julian Davis Reid talks with Nate on Life With God about the invitations of Scripture and Black music to receive God’s rest—and to help others rest—while living in the tension of a world where so much is still not right.
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Ted Harro — The Renew Campaign
August 1, 2025
Nathan Foster sat down with Renovaré's president Ted Harro to discuss bold new ministry initiatives at Renovaré that will carry our founding vision forward to a Church and a world in need of renewal.
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Nathan Foster — Celebrating 300 Episodes
July 25, 2025
Producers Brian Morykon and Grace Pouch interview Nathan Foster about his role as the host of Life With God and about the podcasting medium as a place for listening and growing together.
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Rebecca DeYoung — What To Do When We’re Angry
July 11, 2025
On episode 299 of Life With God (recorded live at the RēGathering conference) professor and author Rebecca DeYoung talks with Nathan about anger and forgiveness.
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Paola Barrera — The Gift of Immigration
June 6, 2025
Venezuelan-Canadian author Paola Barrera joins Nate on Life With God to discuss her story of immigration and how it shaped her outlook on God’s kingdom.
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Bill Simmons — Letting the Land Lie Fallow
May 23, 2025
President and CEO of American Leprosy Missions (Hope Rises International) Bill Simmons speaks with Nate about burnout and the Sabbatical experience that brought deep healing to his soul.
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Kathleen Norris — A Sister’s Reflections on Disability
May 9, 2025
Nathan speaks with renowned author Kathleen Norris about writing about her sister in her new book, Rebecca Sue: A Sister’s Reflections on Disability, Faith, and Love.
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Lisa and Mark McMinn — Invitation to Slow
April 25, 2025
The McMinn's join Nate to talk about life on their farm and finding the right pace for a flourishing life.
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Audio Meditation: The Present Moment
April 11, 2025
In this audio meditation, Nathan Foster weaves together a selection of beautiful and challenging sayings by 17th-century spiritual director, Jean Pierre de Caussade that invite us to embrace God’s formation deep into our souls.
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Walter Strickland II — Formed by Suffering
March 28, 2025
Nathan talks with Walter Strickland about his new book Swing Low and the way that the African American Christian experience adds crucial wisdom to living a with-God life.
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Amanda Held Opelt — God, Goodness, and Grief
March 14, 2025
Amanda Opelt talks with Nathan about finding her theological assumptions challenged during a season of deep grief. The two discuss the difference between wholeness and happiness and between goodness and prosperity in this music-filled episode.
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James Catford — The Present Moment
February 24, 2025
James Catford joins Nathan to talk about book 4 in this year's Renovaré Book Club — Jean-Pierre de Caussade's 18th century classic book on trust, Abandonment to Divine Providence.