How can we help people imagine a different way of living? This week, David Zahl joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss the repercussions of seculosity in the way we relate to performance, how community points to a bigger mission than our own wants, and how language and stories can offer a fresh way of engaging with issues in Christian spaces.

What is the beauty and dignity of dependence? This week, Leah Libresco Sargeant joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss how individualism has created an illusion of autonomy that contradicts our identity as children of God, our need to see our strengths and crosses as fruitful because of God’s power, and the stories and images in the Bible that depict our dependence on God and on others.

What does it mean to not belong to ourselves? This week, Alan Noble joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss the consequences of striving for self-fulfillment and self-sufficiency in our society, the need for community for individuals’ stories to flourish, and the assurance that our identity rests in the loving gaze of our Father.

How can a robust understanding of our finitude help counter the dangers of individualism? This week, Kelly Kapic joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss how trinitarian theology can deepen our understanding of personhood, how suffering can teach us dependence on God and others, and the effects of technology on our relationship with the world around us.

What are the consequences of forgetting what it means to be human? This week, Carl Trueman joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss what it means for humans to be made in the image of God, how community and hospitality can restore our sense of the imago dei, and the acts of consecration that hold the tension of our agency as individuals and our responsibility to the Body.

What does the self mean for a Christian identity? This week, Angela Franks joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss identity in individuality throughout Christian history and in the Church today, solid versus liquid identity formation, and how body-related issues are deeply connected to identity struggles.

Welcome back! This new season of The Cartographers is exploring individualism, its history, and how the Church can build a community and legacy in which individuals partake in the joys of self and others. In the first episode, Bryce and Ashley outline the shape of this conversation, discussing the background of the gifts and challenges that individuality has brought through the lens of freedom, meaning, and community.

What does it mean for manhood and womanhood to be redeemed? This week, Abigail Favale joins Bryce and Ashley to discuss the differences between men and women, their integral complementarity, and why our bodies matter more than we might expect.

Abigail Favale: The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

Abigail Favale: "Rethinking Complementarity: From Stereotypes to Icons"

Abigail Favale: "Is Gender Too Troubled?"

Abigail Favale: "What is a Woman? A Half-Answered Question"

Abigail Favale is a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory and Our Lady of the Sign: A Novel.

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