This week’s guest is Adam Fronczek. Adam has been the Pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church for eight years. He is passionate about understanding the changing role of religion in our culture; he is also convinced that there is still a place for an active neighborhood church, where generations gather together to figure out life, where people greet you by name and know your story, and where we consider together how we can leave the world a little better than we found it. Adam is married and has four kids.

In this episode, we talk about the ways religion can both hold us together—and pull us apart. What begins as a conversation about coherence quickly turns into something deeper: how faith, doubt, vocation, masculinity, and middle age collide in real life.

Together we ask: How do we navigate incoherence as parents and people of faith? And is it possible to find solidarity—not in having it all figured out—but in admitting that we don’t?

This is a conversation about the daily work of meaning-making, about gratitude, choice, and consent, and about what it might look like to rebuild our lives—and our faith—together, one day at a time.

We’re excited to share a new sponsor: The Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at Xavier University, here in Cincinnati, is dedicated to deepening understanding across faiths and promoting systemic change.

Avenue M is produced by Bespoken Live with music by Zach Swelber, who plays in Circle It and Mosant.