We’ve reached the end of another amazing year on the podcast — all thanks to you, our listeners! In 2025, we had over 100,000 listens and 6 million YouTube views across 140 different countries. We’re so grateful for the thousands of you who listen to the podcast and watch our forums online every week.
In this episode, Seth (our podcast host and Senior Media Manager at The Veritas Forum) shares some stats from the podcast in 2025 and our favorite three episodes of the year. We feature excerpts from Esau McCaulley (Wheaton), Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern), Angel Adams Parham (UVA), Roosevelt Montás (Bard), and Ross Douthat (NYTimes).
Esau McCaulley
Gary Morson
Frank Bruni
Hope, for me, isn't a positive attitude toward life. I believe that Jesus died and rose again, that there's a future that awaits me, and that my end is not despair and doom but joy. Because of that, I believe that the world has purpose and meaning.
Who am I? Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What kind of meaning is there to what I'm doing? I think that religious traditions give us guides to try to figure these questions out.
One of my profound convictions is that people who are interested in religious matters and . . . the big questions should proceed on the assumption that the world is not a trick. God is not out to get you. The universe isn't out to fool you. It hasn't hidden the truth about existence.
