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Mercy Ships (with Reanne Newquist)

October 1, 2024

Mercy Ships

Reanne Newquist

Reanne Newquist tells me about her voyage on Mercy Ships bringing healthcare to some of the poorest people in the world, a mission started by Don Step…

A Letter from Jesus (with Dann Aungst)

September 12, 2024

A Letter from Jesus

Dann Aungst

Dann Aungst was pretty far gone in his sexual addiction when Jesus grabbed him (figuratively) by the lapels and sent him (literally) messengers, a let…

Localism (with Dale Ahlquist)

August 29, 2024

Localism

Dale Ahlquist

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…

A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)

August 15, 2024

A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)

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 …

Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne): Fighting Child Slavery and Exploitation with OUR Rescue

August 1, 2024

Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne)

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…

What Would Jesus Say about Diversity and Inclusion? (with Pete Imperial)

July 18, 2024

What Would Jesus Say about Diversity and Inclusion? (with Pete Imperial)

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…

Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)

July 4, 2024

Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)

Christine M. Wohar

Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The book …

Wise as Serpents, Gentle as Doves (with Dorcas Oyelade and Kailea Barte)

June 20, 2024

Wise as Serpents, Gentle as Doves (with Dorcas Oyelade and Kailea Barte)

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…

Late Have I Loved You (with John Michael Talbot)

June 6, 2024

Late Have I Loved You

John Michael Talbot

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…

Jerome’s Tears (with David Bonagura Jr.): Death and Mourning in Christian Late Antiquity

May 24, 2024

Jerome’s Tears

David G. Bonagura Jr.

Professor David Bonagura, theologian and Latinist, has translated and edited seven of St. Jerome’s letters dealing with death and mourning. This docto…

Knocking at the Brothel Door (with Michael John Cusick)

May 9, 2024

Knocking at the Brothel Door (with Michael John Cusick)

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 …

Making Moves (and Making Movies) in the Mission Field (with Temeko Richardson): Protestant Evangelical Content Creation

April 25, 2024

Making Moves (and Making Movies) in the Mission Field (with Temeko Richardson)

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…

Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)

April 11, 2024

Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)

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…

The Wood Between the Worlds (with Brian Zahnd)

March 28, 2024

The Wood Between the Worlds (with Brian Zahnd)

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 …

Woe to this Generation (with Colin Rahill)

March 14, 2024

Woe to this Generation (with Colin Rahill)

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…

Miracle Man (with Joe McGivney)

March 1, 2024

Miracle Man: Intercession and Healing

Joe McGivney

Lifelong alcoholic Joe McGivney drank himself into brain damage and permanent disability. The day after being placed into the assisted care he would n…

Homo sapiens catholicus (with Jeremy Holmes)

February 15, 2024

Homo sapiens catholicus

Jeremy Holmes

Theology Professor Jeremy Holmes of Wyoming Catholic College teaches a class called “Science and Theology,” which is about the Darwin’s theory of evol…

The Ground is Crying out to God (with Fr. Piotr Żelazko)

February 8, 2024

The Ground is Crying out to God

Piotr Żelazko

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…

The Good Fire: Theology of Stewardship & Controlled Burning (with Peter Hess)

February 1, 2024

The Good Fire

Peter Hess

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…

"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson (with Jonathon Fessenden)

January 18, 2024

"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson

Jonathon Fessenden

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…