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006. A Silicon Valley Pastor on the Spiritual Cost of a Distracted Life ft. Jay Kim
Jun 24, 2026
1h 20m 13s
005. The Hidden Spiritual Cost of How We Work ft. Gary Hamel
Jun 10, 2026
1h 25m 02s
004. How Politics Shapes Our Spiritual Formation ft. Michael Wear
May 20, 2026
1h 34m 47s
003. Facing Humanity's Hidden Capacity for Evil ft. Gary Haugen
May 6, 2026
1h 18m 12s
002. How to Read the Old Testament (and Still Have Faith) ft. Tremper Longman
Apr 22, 2026
1h 11m 56s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | 006. A Silicon Valley Pastor on the Spiritual Cost of a Distracted Life ft. Jay Kim | What does it take to find peace in a culture engineered for distraction? In this episode of Formation, John Ortberg sits down with a Silicon Valley pastor whose pursuit of attention, rest, and spiritual formation was interrupted by a panic attack — and reshaped by an ancient prayer practice, the problem with multitasking, and the rise of AI. Jay Kim is a pastor, author, and podcaster who serves at WestGate Church in the heart of Silicon Valley. He's thought deeply about what it means to purs... | 1h 20m 13s | |
| 6/10/26 | 005. The Hidden Spiritual Cost of How We Work ft. Gary Hamel | What does it mean to treat people as ends in themselves rather than instruments to get things done? Gary Hamel joins John for a conversation about work, dignity, and the quiet crisis inside most organizations. One of the world's most influential business thinkers, Gary has spent decades asking why so few workplaces actually unleash the people inside them, and what it would look like if they did. This is a conversation about agency, meaning, and why the biblical vision of every human being mad... | 1h 25m 02s | |
| 5/20/26 | 004. How Politics Shapes Our Spiritual Formation ft. Michael Wear | What does it look like to follow Jesus when the culture insists that everything depends on the next election? Michael Wear joins John for a conversation about politics, allegiance, and the slow work of keeping ultimate things ultimate. A former White House staffer who came to faith as a teenager in a Wegmans grocery store, Michael has spent his career arguing that Christian knowledge is not just privately meaningful but publicly useful, and that the church has handed political parties a power... | 1h 34m 47s | |
| 5/6/26 | 003. Facing Humanity's Hidden Capacity for Evil ft. Gary Haugen | What does it take to do hard things for a long time without being broken by them? Gary Haugen is the founder and CEO of International Justice Mission, a global organization that protects the poor from violence throughout the developing world. He joins John for a conversation about evil, the human capacity for violence, and why the people most serious about changing the world may be the ones most in need of spiritual formation. AMA Opportunity: Leave us a review ahead of our launch for a chan... | 1h 18m 12s | |
| 4/22/26 | 002. How to Read the Old Testament (and Still Have Faith) ft. Tremper Longman | What do we do with a God who commands violence, permits slavery, and seems to change his mind? Tremper Longman III — one of the most prolific and trusted Old Testament scholars of his generation — joins John for a conversation about the parts of Scripture that trouble us most, and why sitting with that trouble might be more formative than explaining it away. AMA Opportunity: Leave us a review ahead of our launch for a chance to ask John a question on an upcoming episode. Here's how: fol... | 1h 11m 56s | |
| 4/22/26 | 001. How God Gets Our Attention and the Pace of Formation ft. Tyler Staton | What does it mean to know God, not as a doctrine held, but as a presence inhabited? Tyler Staton joins John for the first conversation in Formation's history: an unhurried exploration of how the Holy Spirit forms us, why prayer is less about technique than attention, and what it looks like to discover God not only in the sanctuary but in the chaos of a basketball sideline, a marriage, and a cancer diagnosis. This is a conversation about the ancient and the empirical, and how sometimes we may ... | 1h 18m 27s | |
| 4/8/26 |  Your Chance to Ask John a Question | Leave us a review ahead of our launch for a chance to be featured in an upcoming episode. Do you want a chance to ask John a question? Four easy steps. Follow the podcastLeave a reviewTake a screenshotEmail it to usEmail proof of your review to us along with your question for John — connect@becomenew.com We’ll answer selected* questions in an upcoming episode of the podcast. (Your screenshot must be attached. Submissions without proof of review will not be considered. Entries are limited to... | 1m 36s |
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