About Nathan Phillips

BA, University of Notre Dame, MA/Ph.D. (ABD) University of Chicago Divinity School. Experience with podcasting, hosted 30+ episodes for CM Radio for Legal teams at Accenture LLP. Theology Teacher at Saint Joseph High School in South Bend, Indiana.
Podcast Host for Catholic Studies

NBN Episodes hosted by Nathan:

Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

February 5, 2026

Lands of Likeness

Kevin Hart
Hosted by Nathan Phillips

In Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (U Chicago Press, 2023), Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a medita…

Daniel Wyche, "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2025)

January 17, 2026

The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other

Daniel Louis Wyche
Hosted by Nathan Phillips

In The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation (Columbia UP, 2025), Daniel Wyche examines the…

Józef Tischner, "The Philosophy of Drama" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

November 12, 2025

The Philosophy of Drama

Józef Tischner
Hosted by Nathan Phillips

The Philosophy of Drama (U Notre Dame Press, 2024), by the Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner (translated by Artur Rosman, University of Notre Dame P…

Paul Mariani, "The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity" (Paraclete Press, 2019)

September 6, 2025

The Mystery of It All

Paul Mariani
Hosted by Nathan Phillips

Paul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the liv…