For Such a Time as This: Faithful Witness in Uncertain Times (NCB's Radix Live)

What does faithful discipleship look like when the world seems to be coming apart?

Join theologian Hanna Reichel for a timely conversation on her book For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional. Drawing on Scripture, church history, and the witness of Christians who remained faithful through periods of political upheaval—including the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany—Reichel offers practical wisdom for cultivating discernment, courage, hope, and community in anxious times. Rather than encouraging fear or political tribalism, she invites believers to rediscover the deep resources of the Christian tradition for living faithfully in extraordinary seasons.

This special Radix Live conversation will be hosted by Michael Barram and Doug Dunderdale, whose recent congregational study of Reichel's book sparked meaningful conversation about Christian witness, courage, and hope for today's church.

Hanna Reichel, Ph.D., is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Raised an ecumenical Lutheran, Reichel serves as a ruling elder in the PC(USA) and on the Theology Working Group of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. Their work has won academic honors including the Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise and the Ernst Wolf Award; it has also been featured in public outlets such as The Atlantic, the Presbyterian Foundation’s Leading Theologically, CTI’s Theology Matters, and Tripp Fuller’s Homebrewed Christianity.

Michael Barram, Ph.D., is Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California. His work explores missional hermeneutics and how Scripture shapes moral imagination and moral reasoning, especially around economic and social justice. He is the author of Missional Economics (2018) and Mission and Moral Reflection in Paul (2006), and co-author (with John R. Franke) of Liberating Scripture (2024). Barram also co-edited Reparations and the Theological Disciplines (2023) and the Cascade series Studies in Missional Hermeneutics, Theology, and Praxis. He also teaches for New College Berkeley and First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley.

Doug Dunderdale has worked in the independent film and video industry for more than 45 years, focusing primarily on documentaries. He got his start working on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and has (barely) made a living traveling the world and helping tell intriguing stories. Fortunately, documentaries rarely focus on boring people or places. Doug is the son of a Presbyterian minister (the other Doug Dunderdale) and has persisted in his commitment to the church and to God despite plenty of reasons why that might not make sense. He is an elder at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley.