A media company about belief

Explore what you believe. Find the courage to live it.

We help Americans work out what they believe, why they believe it, and how to make their leaders answer for it.

Our spiritual crisis is upstream of our political one. Before Americans became polarized, they were unmoored.

For generations, Americans formed their moral consciousness in two places: the pews and the polis. We believe in both.

Today politics carries the certainty of religion, and religion feels awfully political. Neither is doing much for our moral formation. Genuine Media exists to feed that hunger, through this election and long after it.

Our newsletter · Every two weeks

Good Faith

Politics, religion, and spirituality. The week’s moral weather, paired with reflections and stories from writers, thinkers, and seekers.

In a bad-faith world, this is our practice of good faith.

The Moral WeatherWhat the week’s news asks of us.
The Heart of ItEssays from writers wrestling with belief.
One Good ThingSomething worth hoping about.
Keep GoingWhat to read, watch, and listen to.

Lately in Good Faith

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Oct 11, 2026Where Are the Good Men?The Cornell case, a bill stalled for seven years, and what we owe our sons. Sep 27, 2026Should I Be Fighting ICE or Praying in the ICU?A hospital chaplain on activism, attention, and whether presence is enough. Sep 13, 2026Losing Religion Made America MeanAn evangelical and a Muslim on what America lost when we lost religion. Aug 30, 2026Nobody Wants to Have Fun AnymoreCasper ter Kuile on the power of ritual, its fall in American life, and how we can build it back. Aug 16, 2026What Has Belonging Cost You?Eyal Rozmarin says the explanations for Gaza are too small, and that the missing one is a need we all share. Aug 2, 2026Biased News Isn’t the Problem. Hiding It Is.How the “god trick” of unbiased news broke our trust and how standing somewhere can build it back.

What’s next

New podcast · Coming soon

Good Body

A new show from Genuine Media. Subscribe to Good Faith to hear the first episode when it drops.

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Gatherings

Genuine Media LIVE

Each gathering is built around one moral question, with storytelling, reflection, and dialogue in a shared room. We’ve held our first. More are coming.

Hear about the next one

Before Good Body, we made Sounds Pretty Genuine, eight conversations about belief with guests including Shannon Watts and Rep. Sarah McBride. Watch the archive on YouTube →

slow media.
Your attention is sacred.

  1. 01Made to be savored, lasting longer than a single news cycle.
  2. 02Partnerships and stories chosen for shared values, with virality a distant second.
  3. 03Work you will want to revisit, share, and argue about over dinner.

Our commitments

We embrace complexity.There are no pure spaces and no pure people.
We are independent.We are not of the Democratic Party, or any party.
We honor plurality.The opinions we feature aren’t all our own, and that’s the point.
We engage without endorsing.Engagement is a commitment to curiosity.
We practice dialogue, not takedowns.This isn’t gotcha journalism.
We value human dignity.It is our moral red line.
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Where our name comes from

“Cultivate the discipline of listening to the sound of the genuine in yourself.”

Howard Thurman, Spelman College, 1980

What do you believe, and will you act on it?

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