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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Doubt, Depth, and the Future of Belief with Tomáš Halík

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What happens to faith when certainty collapses? Kate Bowler sits down with theologian and former underground priest Tomáš Halík to explore belief forged under surveillance, the spiritual value of doubt, and why going deeper—not louder—might be the only faithful response to a fractured world. Together, they consider silence, suffering, and what it means to remain open to God when clarity is nowhere to be found. SHOW NOTES Watch the live conversation on YouTube Touch the Wounds — Tomáš Halík The Afternoon of Christianity — Tomáš Halík

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:05.7

Hi, it's Kate.

0:07.1

And if you're looking for another podcast that tackles life's big questions,

0:10.6

I have the perfect recommendation for you,

0:12.9

the Signal Award-winning podcast, No Small Endeavor.

0:16.2

No Small Endeavor explores one of life's biggest questions.

0:19.3

What does it really mean to live a good life?

0:21.8

Each episode, host and award-winning theologian Lee C. Camp sits down with thoughtful guests

0:27.1

like happiness expert Gretchen Rubin and New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker

0:31.9

to explore the ideas and habits that help people flourish. Follow No Small Endever on Apple

0:36.9

podcasts, Spotify, or wherever

0:39.0

you're listening now. What kind of faith survives when it has no power at all? That's at the

0:45.3

heart of my conversation today. I'm speaking with someone whose life sounds almost impossible.

0:52.4

Father Thomas Halleck grew up behind the Iron Curtain in communist Czechoslovak

0:56.5

in a country where priests were imprisoned and the church was treated as a political threat.

1:02.9

He trained for the priesthood in secret. He was ordained in secret. He ministered under constant

1:09.5

surveillance. And somehow, in the midst of all that, in the

1:14.4

long shadow of state atheism, he did not lose faith. He found it. He's a theologian who writes

1:22.5

about silence and doubt and beauty and how to keep faith alive when there seems very little evidence

1:29.8

for its necessity.

1:32.2

Many of us have felt like the ground is shifting underneath us, like culturally, technologically,

1:37.1

spiritually.

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