Spiritual searching without tidy certainty.
Godsearch treats faith less as a courtroom argument than as a practical search for unity, truth, and good. Across long interviews, Michael Shevak asks guests to connect biography, doctrine, peace work, politics, ego, and daily service.
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Godsearch is a searching, interview-centered theology show that keeps returning to the same practical pressure point: what difference does God, or the experience called God, make in ordinary human life? It does not move like a formal lecture. It sounds more like a guided conversation where testimony keeps becoming metaphysics. Michael Shevak often begins with confusion, war, politics, ego, religious identity, or personal pain, then follows the guest toward a larger claim about good, unity, truth, and responsibility. The show is especially interested in interfaith life. Its guests include people working in peace work, religious tolerance, communications, street art, academia, media, and personal spiritual practice. Patrick Jouin speaks from the world of universal peace work, and the conversation turns toward harmony, evil, science, and commitment. Swami Bodhicitta brings a psychiatrist's concern with ego into a broader account of self, attachment, and mind beyond mind. Maria Crespo discusses Catholic identity, the United Religions Initiative, and the danger of narrowing faith into rigid systems. Isaac Campbell connects communication work with wheat pasting, public memory, grief, and communities learning to see themselves. Imam Arif Huskiq is introduced through bridge-building between Muslims, Jews, Christians, and people of all faiths. Tom Basile pulls spirituality into politics, rights, biblical interpretation, and the pressures of national life. Dr. Arik Greenberg brings academic theology and an interfaith background into the question of why people search at all. Cayce Kolodney represents a more personal path, one framed as a self-based religion that still reaches beyond the self. The show can be loose and repetitive. That looseness is part of its texture. Shevak paraphrases, circles back, corrects himself, and keeps pressing for the point underneath the point. At its best, Godsearch turns private experience into a public spiritual argument. It is for listeners who want theology with human fingerprints on it, not a polished debate stage. The mood is warm, grave when the subject requires it, and persistently hopeful about repair.
Made for: For listeners drawn to interfaith dialogue, lived theology, peace work, and conversations where personal history becomes a question about God, good, and responsibility. It especially suits people comfortable with long-form, reflective talk.
What sets it apart: Godsearch stands apart by treating God as an experience to be tested through conduct, relationship, and repair rather than as a doctrine to defend. Its interviews keep translating biography into spiritual practice.
Want to experience Good in your Life? That’s the experience called “God”. God is a spiritual experience that’s right there for all people, “believers”, agnostics and atheists alike. But, you have to lose the nonsense, the dangerous teachings – religious, scientific, pop-spiritual, political . . . – that block the Good in your life, and our world. If you’re alive, you’re already on a Godsearch.(tm) So, uncover, discover and recover the Truth that is yourself. (And have fun doing it!) A leader in inter-religious dialogue, the author of 7 books, Michael Shevack has taught spirituality and comparative religion around the world. Come experience the
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Godsearch tests spiritual ideas against public responsibility, personal identity, peace work, and sustained conversation across religious traditions.
Godsearch builds each interview around a persistent question: how does an experience of the divine change a person's conduct in the world? Michael Shevak welcomes belief, doubt, and differing traditions, then keeps steering abstract claims toward consequences.
Wheat-pasted memorials meet Genesis and individual rights when your spiritual curiosity escapes the sanctuary.
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A peace-focused conversation that asks what God changes in lived experience.
This episode frames peace as part of a larger inquiry into what God changes in lived experience. Michael Shevak starts with war, fear, and military buildup, then brings in Patrick Jouin, vice president of the Universal Peace Foundation, whose path runs through youth, study, and…
An earnest meditation on selfhood, communion, and consciousness beyond mind.
God Search returns to a familiar spiritual problem: whether the self is a fixed fact or something meant to be outgrown. Michael Shevak's conversation with psychiatrist Andrew Ferber, also known as Swami Bodhicitta, keeps circling that larger claim about consciousness, communion,…
A reflective interfaith conversation about rooted faith, openness, and the risk of reducing belief into an ism.
God Search frames an interfaith conversation around unity, truth, and how a rooted Catholic identity can meet other religions and spiritual expressions without losing clarity.
A God search that turns street art and community memory into spiritual testimony.
Michael Shevak gives the episode a steady spiritual center by treating it as a God search, then introducing Isaac Campbell, a communications consultant for United Remembrance Movement, described here as the largest grassroots interreligious movement in the world.
A faith conversation that asks what spirituality can mean in public life.
Tom Basile and Mike Shevack steer the discussion toward a blunt, durable question: whether spirituality still has a real place in politics and economics.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
On Godsearch, ordained rabbi Michael Chevak treats confusion about “what is an individual?” as a starting point for spiritual inquiry.
Michael Shevak opens God Search with war, fear, and military buildup on one side and peace on the other.
Michael Shevak welcomes psychiatrist Andrew Ferber, better known as Swami Bodhicitta, and treats God search as a way to look at shared human experience across belief and unbelief.
Michael Shevak opens with a search for unity.
Michael Shevak opens by treating life as a God search.
This episode features an interview with Imam Arif Huskiq, a Muslim community leader and interfaith advocate who discusses his work building bridges between different religious groups in a time of religious turmoil.
Mike Shevack interviews Tom Basile on God Search about whether spirituality can still matter in the real world.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features an interview with Cayce Kolodney about developing a personal, authentic religion based on self-experience rather than traditional dogma.
This episode features an interview with Rev.
On Godsearch, Michael Shevak examines neurosis as the result of treating noncritical oppositions as if they were life-and-death boundaries.
This episode explores covenant marriage as a union of two cosmic views, delving into the complexity of physical bodies and the metaphysical aspects of thought and relationships.
This episode explores the essential yet subtle nature of wisdom, framed through the symbolic significance of the number 12 and its connections to cosmic, historical, and psychological themes.