What happens when cutting someone off starts to feel like proof that healing is taking place?

In this Thinking Through episode, Jonathan Kindler examines the growing cultural movement toward going no contact with family and asks when distance is wise—and when it becomes avoidance. Beginning with the Wall Street Journal story of Shoshana Rubli, this episode explores why estrangement can bring real relief, why relief is not always the same thing as healing, and how psychological language can sometimes turn complicated relationships into simple diagnoses.

Blending current research, counseling insight, biblical reflection, and cultural observation, Jonathan looks at David and Saul, Joseph and his brothers, Matthew 18, Romans 12, Proverbs 27, 2 Thessalonians 3, Romans 5, and Ephesians 5 to distinguish forgiveness, reconciliation, trust, and access. He also explores the difference between a boundary and a wall—and when ongoing harm may make greater distance necessary.

Whether you’re considering no contact, living with family estrangement, or trying to love someone who continues to cross established lines, this episode invites you to move beyond slogans. To tell the truth. To restrain harm. To leave room for repentance where possible. And to faithfully steward the life God has entrusted to you.

Sometimes distance is necessary.

But the goal isn’t merely to become unreachable.

The goal is to become faithful.

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What do you believe God is doing when nothing appears to be moving?

In this reflective episode, Jonathan Kindler explores the quiet ache of waiting through the lens of Psalm 40 and Lamentations 3. The waiting room is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is just slow. The answer has not come. The door has not opened. The grief has not lifted. And the longer we wait, the more our hearts start interpreting the silence.

Blending scripture, storytelling, and counseling insight, this episode looks at what waiting exposes in us: our fears, our assumptions, our need for control, and the stories we begin telling ourselves about God when life feels stalled. But Psalm 40 reminds us that waiting is not nothing. It is faith refusing to move on from God.

Whether you are waiting for clarity, healing, reconciliation, relief, or your own heart to feel alive again, this episode calls you to name what you are waiting for, refuse to turn delay into a verdict, and take the next faithful step.

The waiting room may feel still, but stillness is not the same thing as abandonment. The Lord hears before you see movement. He works before you feel it. And He knows how to bring His people up.

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What do you do when life feels dry, empty, and strangely hard to explain?

In this immersive episode, Jonathan Kindler begins a new series called The Places We Find Ourselves by exploring the desert seasons of the soul through Psalm 107. Sometimes hardship does not look like crisis. Sometimes it looks like responsibility. You are still showing up, still working, still caring for people, still doing what needs to be done, but underneath it all, something feels faint.

Blending Scripture, storytelling, biblical counseling insight, and honest reflection, this episode gives language to the dry places where comfort gets thin, thirst starts telling the truth, and false relief begins to look like water. Through Psalm 107 and the promise of Christ as the bread of life, Jonathan points listeners back to the God who hears, leads, and satisfies the longing soul.

Whether you are wandering, weary, spiritually dry, or just realizing that the things you keep reaching for cannot finally satisfy, this episode is an invitation to bring your thirst honestly before the Lord. The desert may tell the truth about your thirst, but it does not get the final word. The Lord does.

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Is relief really the answer? And is medication right for me?

In this second episode of the Thinking Through: Medication series, Jonathan Kindler slows the conversation down and invites listeners to examine what happens after relief arrives. When the volume lowers, when the edge softens, when life feels more manageable. What do we do with that space?

Blending Scripture, theology of the body, pastoral wisdom, and personal storytelling, this episode explores why relief is not a destination but a crossroads. Jonathan helps listeners discern the difference between mercy and replacement, stabilization and sanctification, quiet and true peace. Drawing from biblical examples of healing, limitation, and dependence, he asks whether relief is helping us walk more faithfully or quietly teaching us what we rely on.

Whether you’re considering medication, currently taking it, or wrestling with what feeling better actually means, this episode calls you to wisdom. To discernment. To a peace that doesn’t bypass formation, and a faith that knows what to do when the volume goes down.

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