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August 29, 2024
Localism
Dale Ahlquist is the founder the of the Society of G. K. Chesterton and Chesterton Schools, of which there are currently 70 and number is rising. He i…
August 15, 2024
A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
What would you do in the place of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter in 1943? Mumble your loyalty oath to Hitler like everyone else—or refuse and pay …
August 1, 2024
Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne)
LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ri…
July 18, 2024
What Would Jesus Say about Diversity and Inclusion? (with Pete Imperial)
Pete Imperial has been principal of St. Mary’s Catholic High School in Berkeley, California, a Lasallian Catholic School of 160 years and going strong…
July 4, 2024
Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The book …
June 20, 2024
Wise as Serpents, Gentle as Doves (with Dorcas Oyelade and Kailea Barte)
Dorcas Oyelade and Kailea Barté, two young women, still teenagers, organized a Christian club in a public at John Swett High School in Crockett, North…
June 6, 2024
Late Have I Loved You
John Michael Talbot is a tremendously successful musician and writer; he is also the founder of a monastery—the Brothers and Sisters of Charity at Lit…
May 24, 2024
Jerome’s Tears
Professor David Bonagura, theologian and Latinist, has translated and edited seven of St. Jerome’s letters dealing with death and mourning. This docto…
May 9, 2024
Knocking at the Brothel Door (with Michael John Cusick)
Michael John Cusick argues that our addictions and disordered sexual desires are really a misdirected effort to reach God and live in connection with …
April 25, 2024
Making Moves (and Making Movies) in the Mission Field (with Temeko Richardson)
Temeko Ricardson grew up in the Protestant American tradition; she was a “GPK” (grand-pastor-kid) from a family of church leaders. She has been thinki…
April 11, 2024
Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
There have been Christians in the Holy Land for two thousand years; “we are the first church,” says Father Firas Abedrabbo who is from Bethlehem and w…
March 28, 2024
The Wood Between the Worlds (with Brian Zahnd)
For Christians, the central event in history and in universe is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. This killing of God …
March 14, 2024
Woe to this Generation (with Colin Rahill)
Colin Rahill dropped out of law school to become a Catholic writer; he just finished his first book, Castor & Pollux (Emerald Books, 2023), which is a…
March 1, 2024
Miracle Man: Intercession and Healing
Lifelong alcoholic Joe McGivney drank himself into brain damage and permanent disability. The day after being placed into the assisted care he would n…
February 15, 2024
Homo sapiens catholicus
Theology Professor Jeremy Holmes of Wyoming Catholic College teaches a class called “Science and Theology,” which is about the Darwin’s theory of evol…
February 8, 2024
The Ground is Crying out to God
Father Piotr Żelazko is Vicar for the St. James Vicariate in Jerusalem and has been priest in Israel for fifteen years (he is a native of Poland and s…
February 1, 2024
The Good Fire
Peter Hess (Ph.D, FFT2) is a theologian, an environmental scientist, a wildland fire practitioner, and firefighter type two. I ask Peter about this wo…
January 18, 2024
"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson
The 2006 Mel Gibson movie, Apocalypto, takes us into a decadent Maya civilization in the Yucatan on the eve of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. It coul…
January 8, 2024
The Men We Need
“What is a man?” asks Hamlet. If all he does is “sleep and feed,” then “a beast, no more.” That’s not enough for Hamlet, and it’s not enough for Brant…
December 9, 2023
Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth
It turns out that our familiar narrative of the Virgin of Guadalupe, when Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 and left her ima…