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We seek a world in which every person can wrestle with life’s most important questions and take hold of a life worthy of our humanity.
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What is a life worth living?
We seek a world in which every person can wrestle with life’s most important questions and take hold of a life worthy of our humanity.
The Cost of Ambition
Is your self-worth tied to your ambitions? Or is your value set by your mere humanity? Join Miroslav Volf for a guided exploration of The Cost of Ambition, and learn how striving to be better than others makes us worse.
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Your life is too important to be guided by anything less than what matters most.
Based on the popular Yale College course, this book will help you respond to the deepest questions in the context of your own life.
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The Joy of Humility
How we understand humility is not a matter of mere semantics. It is a pursuit of inquiry with the potential to inform—perhaps even to transform—our lives.
BOOK
The Cost of Ambition
Miroslav Volf argues that striving for superiority has negative consequences in all domains of life. Instead, we should strive for excellence.
Download Life Worth Living High School Curriculum
Michael LoStracco
November 4, 2026
A full-semester elective for grades 11–12—featuring a syllabus, facilitation guide, classroom activities, contemplative practice scripts, grading rubrics, and more. Developed by Michael LoStracco, Chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy at William Penn Charter School.
November 4, 2026
July 1, 2026
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The Cost of Ambition Wins Christianity Today Best Book Award
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The Fear to Hope: Ukrainian Pastor on Democracy, Fear, and Abundant Life in the Midst of War
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Fyodor Raychynets
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Life Worth Living Curriculum Design Competition Announcement
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Who Is Jesus Christ Actually for Us Today?
A Conference in Celebration of Jürgen Moltmann's 100th Birthday
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Free of Charge: Learning to Give and Forgive
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By Miroslav Volf and Drew Collins
July 31, 2025
10-part video series / 48-page guide (PDF)
We live in a culture stripped of grace, in desperate need for generosity and forgiveness. Join Miroslav Volf & Drew Collins for this 10-part video series and 48-page discussion guide walking through Miroslav's book, Free of Charge.
July 31, 2025
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The Cost of Ambition
Explore the Jürgen Moltmann Memorial Website & Message Board
By Miroslav Volf
July 31, 2025
7-part video series / 40-page guide (PDF)
Is your self-worth tied to your ambitions? Or is your value set by your mere humanity? Join Miroslav Volf for a guided exploration of The Cost of Ambition, and learn how striving to be better than others makes us worse.
July 31, 2025
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Public Faith for Troubled Times
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By Miroslav Volf
July 31, 2025
9-part video series / 26-page guide (PDF)
What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus Christ in a nation where some shout his name as a kind of battle cry and others wish to banish it from public life? Miroslav Volf leads you through his book, A Public Faith, in this 9-part video series and 26-page discussion guide.
July 31, 2025
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From Here to Here
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By Ryan McAnnally-Linz
July 31, 2025
55-page ESSAY (PDF)
In this short text, Ryan McAnnally-Linz explores what it means to live pilgrim lives as Christians: lives “on the way”—not yet at home.
July 31, 2025
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Monotheism, Nationalism, and Violence
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By Miroslav Volf
July 31, 2025
25 Theses on Religion and Politics (PDF)
"The price monotheism always has to pay for its alliance with exclusive nationalism is the loss of its soul. When monotheism embraces exclusive nationalism, monotheism's God morphs from the creator and lover of all people and all creatures into a selfish and violent idol of a particular nation."
July 31, 2025
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Our purpose is to help people envision and pursue lives worthy of our humanity. We see theology as a way of life seeking understanding. So our work takes its shape in research, teaching, and public engagement expressed through two initiatives.
Christ & Flourishing
What it means to be human and how to flourish are hotly contested in our world. We believe that Jesus Christ is the key to human flourishing, and that his life and work can revitalize and transform Christian higher education, the church, and through them, the world.
Life Worth Living
What is the shape of flourishing life? Life Worth Living equips students, educators, and the public for the lifelong process of discerning, articulating, and pursuing the good life through engaging the world’s philosophical and religious traditions.
Jürgen Moltmann Memorial Website
Curated by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture
July 31, 2025
44 min
IN MEMORIAM: 1926–2024
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