Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work
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Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work
Cultivated, hosted by Mike Cosper, is a conversational podcast that explores the connection between vocation and faith in the lives of individuals who are working to shape and influence the world around them. Guests range include artists, athletes, writers, academics, entrepreneurs, and business lea...
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64 EpisodenTrailer: Promised Land
Promised Land is a limited series exploring the moral, spiritual, and political challenges presented by the Israel-Hamas War. Host Mike Cosper (The Ri...
Coming Soon: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
When Mars Hill Church was planted in Seattle in 1996, few would have imagined where it would lead. But in the next 18 years, it would become one of th...
Jen Pollock Michel on Vocation, Writing, and Habit
Jen Pollock Michel is a writer based in Toronto, CA. She’s the author of several books, including Surprised by Paradox and A Habit Called Faith, whic...
Doug Logan: Reformed Theology in the Urban Context
Doug Logan was running a barbershop in Patterson, New Jersey when he met Jesus. Doug, who is black, quickly married his girlfriend Angel, who is white...
Tish Harrison Warren: How Grief is Our Companion in the Christian Life
We’re often unprepared or unwilling to face experiences of loss and suffering. But in fact, they are opportunities for deep encounters with the presen...
Makoto Fujimura on How What's Broken Becomes Beautiful
Makoto Fujimura is a painter and the author of several books on the intersection of faith, culture, and the arts. Most recently he’s published Art and...
Timothy Dalrymple on The Church's Need for Storytellers and Sages
Timothy Dalrymple is the President and CEO of Christianity Today. His road to CT is marked by a number of surprise turns, the first being a significan...
Aundi Kolber on Trying Softer
Aundi Kolber is a therapist and the author of Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Co...
Latifah Alattas on Suffering, Healing, and Singing
Cultivated veteran Latifah Alattas returns to the podcast this week to talk about life, faith, and creative work after divorce. When her marriage ende...
Ross Mason on Innovation, Risk, and Recovery
Ross Mason’s work has crossed the country and crossed the globe, from Moscow to Silicon Valley, and back to Georgia, where he’s from originally. A lif...
Dom D'Agostino on Reconciling Science and Faith
Dominic “Dom” D’Agostino is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, where he teaches at the Morsani College of Medicine and the Dep...
Rich Lowry on Where Conservatism Goes From Here
Cultivated features the stories and ideas of Christians from a wide variety of perspectives. Their opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Christ...
Miroslav Volf on Christian Witness in Turbulent Places
Miroslav Volf’s writing is considered some of the most significant theological work of the last century. He was born into a family of Pentecostal Chri...
John Kingston on Awakening America
This sponsored episode of Cultivated is brought to you by CT Creative Studio in partnership with American Awakening, an ambitious multi-platform effor...
Beth Moore on Standing Up to Your Own Tribe
Beth Moore has a passion for the scriptures that has guided her ministry for decades. On this episode, she recounts her story and some of the figures...
Politics and Public Witness with David French
David French's story takes him from rural Alabama and Kentucky to Harvard law school. Afterwards, he found himself fighting for religious liberty and...
Practicing Medicine and Caring for Patients with Dr.Heather Lewis
On this episode of Cultivated, Mike sits down with obstetrician and friend Dr. Heather Lewis. Wildly funny, smart, and confident, Heather talks about...
Music, Loss, and the Kindness of God with Jeremy Casella
Jeremy Casella has been a singer songwriter and performing artist for nearly twenty years. He’s performed and collaborated with people like Andrew Pet...
Augustine, Authenticity, and Emotional Health with James K.A. Smith
James K.A. Smith talks with Mike Cosper about his story, his new book on Augustine, fatherlessness, and a wide range of other topics.
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Grace, Laughter, and Secular Religions with David Zahl
On this episode, Mike Cosper and David Zahl talk about his story, why he came to start Mockingbird, and what their mission is all about. They also tal...
Finding Holy with Ashley Hales
Ashley Hales holds a PhD in English from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She’s a writer, speaker, and hosts The Finding Holy Podcast. Ashley’s...
Wholeheartedness, Contemplative Spirituality, and Narcissism with Chuck DeGroat
On this episode, we'll hear Chuck DeGroat's story – one that's full of surprising turns and surprising transitions. We'll talk about contemplative spi...
God Tricked Me Into This - Kyle Idleman
Mike Cosper sits down with Kyle Idleman to discuss his career as a church planter, his evolution as an author, and his role as teaching pastor at Sout...
You Have 6 Weeks To Change My Life
Daniel Baltzer is a New York visual artist, and in this episode, he and Mike get into the grind of being an artist, and what it means to be a Christia...
"Why Didn't You Come Sooner?" - Christine Caine
On this episode, Mike Cosper talks to Christine Caine, founder of A21, whose mission is to end slavery around the world.
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I own that I'm an anomaly - Lecrae
Mike Cosper sat down with hip hop recording artist Lecrae to discuss his life and work, and how he has come to terms with the idea that his career is...
Push Hard on the Plow with an Open Hand - Sebastian Traeger
Sebastian Traeger is an author, entrepreneur & executive VP of the IMB. On this week’s episode, we hear his story and how he's worked through the tens...
This Isn't New Testament Christianity - Russ Moore
Russ Moore’s career straddles the line between faith & politics & culture, and in his role as President of the ERLC, he is often called upon to speak...
My Faith Has Shaped My Life - Phil Keaggy Pt. 2
This week, Phil Keaggy returns to discuss his faith and how it has shaped his life and music. Along the way, Keaggy shares the story of how he came to...
God Saved Me For A Purpose - Phil Keaggy Pt. 1
This week is the first of a two-part interview, and in this installment, Keaggy walks Mike through his fascinating career gently and unpretentiously d...
My Faith Was All I Had - Justin Forsett
This week, Mike sits down with Justin Forsett, retired NFL running back and entrepreneur. Forsett’s story, where he was always deemed too small or too...
Bonus Episode: The Best of Cultivated
Mike is joined by his two best friends, Sarah Cosper (who also happens to be Mike's wife) and Lachlan Coffey, to talk about their favorite moments fro...
My Job is to Think Small: Alison Whitehurst on Leaving the Big Things to God
This week, we visited with Alison Whitehurst in New York, where she’s been busy in productions like The Fortress of Solitude, at The Public Theatre....
Esteban Shedd on Missional Hip-Hop
This week, Esteban Shedd stopped by to talk to Mike about the music he makes with Alert312 and how hip-hop culture shaped faith and led him to launch...
Taking Grace to the Sex Industry, with Rachelle Starr
Rachelle Starr, Founder and Executive Director of Scarlet Hope, describes her journey of sharing the love of Christ with women in the adult entertainm...
The Origins of Christian Rock
Dr. Gregory Alan Thornbury talks about his new book "Why Should The Devil Have All the Good Music?" about Larry Norman and the origins of Christian ro...
Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman, along with his creative partner David Levien, is the creator of the Showtime series Billions and writer of the film Ocean's Thirteen....
Skip and Timshel Matheny
This week, Mike talks with Skip and Timshel Matheny from Roman Candle. Conversation includes what it's like being husband and wife in a band, why so m...
Vito Aiuto
Vito Aiuto is one half of the indie band Welcome Wagon, along with his wife Monique. He’s also the pastor of a church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On th...
Jonathan Seale
Jonathan Seale is a record producer and the co-founder of Mason Jar Music. He’s worked with Feist, Fleet Foxes, Josh Garrells, and many more. On this...