Faith Matters

When Faith Meant Trust, with Teresa Morgan

Executive Director, God. Faith, Teresa Morgan, When Faith Meant Trust, Yale Divinity School, Zach Davis

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42 min·February 22, 2026

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We’re so excited to share a conversation that our friend and Executive Director, Zach Davis, had with Teresa Morgan, Professor at Yale Divinity School and a leading scholar of early Christian history.

Teresa invites us to reconsider one of the most central words in Christianity: faith. She explains that for the first generations of Christians, “faith” didn’t mean signing on to a list of beliefs. It meant something more like trust—faithfulness, trustworthiness, the act of entrusting your life to God. Faith was less about what you thought and more about the kind of relationship you were l...

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