Faith and the Purpose of Life with Rainn Wilson

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Steve catches up with the amazing Rainn Wilson as they do a deep dive on faith, meaning, and a higher power. Rainn Wilson is an actor, comedian, and director. He is best known as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office (2005-2013). He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of Dwight. Rainn is currently the host of the Soul Boom podcast. BetterHelp: Alive with Steve Burns listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/stevealive. Quince: Go to quince.com/alive for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Aura:: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/ALIVE. Promo Code ALIVE. NordVPN: 🌎Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here https://nordvpn.com/alivewithsteve It’s risk- free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee! JLab: Look for the blue box at retailers everywhere or shop jlab.com and use code ALIVE for 15% off your order today. You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Lemonada
0:02.0	Hey, good to see you.
0:19.0	Here you are.
0:20.0	Come on in. Welcome to see you. Here you are. Come on in.
0:21.6	Welcome to Alive.
0:25.6	Okay.
0:26.6	Got another big question for you today.
0:31.6	How do you define faith? fine face. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
0:49.3	Mm-hmm.
0:50.3	Yeah. Yeah.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:57.7	I am making tea.
0:59.4	Do you want some tea?
1:01.5	I think one definition of faith is maybe a little reductive is that it is belief without evidence, right?
1:16.6	And let's be honest, that's something we do all the time.
1:20.6	A huge portion of our lives is, rests on assumptions that we can't prove you know um like like the idea that
1:33.4	tomorrow is a thing that's a kind of faith right but the word itself points to something deeper, right?
1:45.4	Like it's capitalized, capital F, faith.
1:48.9	It's a belief, yeah, but a sacred belief.
1:55.3	It's believing in something not in spite of a lack of evidence, but almost because of it, if that makes sense.
2:03.7	Here you go.
2:06.5	And if I'm being really honest with you, this is something I struggle with and have for quite a while.
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