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About Krzysztof Odyniec
Krzysztof Odyniec was born in Poland and has lived in the United States since childhood. He studied history at UC Berkeley (BA, 2001; PhD, 2017) and pedagogy at Harvard (EdM, 2005). His dissertation was on the first resident ambassador from Poland-Lithuania to the court of Charles V in Spain; part of it appears as a chapter in _Historians Without Borders_ (Knoblauch and Abrams, eds., from Routledge, 2019). Krzysztof has taught at UC Berkeley as a graduate student and postdoc, at two community colleges as an adjunct professor, and at a number of secondary schools as either a history or an English teacher. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Mali (2002-2004) specializing in Natural Resource Management, where he also taught at a village school.Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of Medieval and Early Modern Europe; he is also the host of the 'Almost Good Catholics' podcast.
NBN Episodes hosted by Krzysztof:
April 5, 2026
Jesus: Undercover Boss or God with Us? (Anne Blackwill)
As we move into Holy Week, the Triduum, Easter and its season, all Christians ask themselves ‘what is this all about?’ and why God created such and el…
March 8, 2026
The Tree of Life (Brian Zahnd)
“The movie is a prayer,” says Brian Zahnd, about Terrence Mallick’s 2011 The Tree of Life, his favorite movie of all time. Brian has seen it forty tim…
February 6, 2026
Church and State
Following Pope Leo’s State of the World Address in January of 2026, the three American Cardinals who are also diocesan archbishops Cardinal Cupich (Ar…
January 3, 2026
Insane for the Light (Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI)
Father Ron Rolheiser’s new book Insane for the Light: A Spirituality for Our Wisdom Years, which is about how to grow old well and be fruitful, first …
December 20, 2025
Knight, Monk, King, Prophet (Juan Domínguez)
Before the Scientific Revolution, Western medicine was thought in terms of humors: cheerful people were sanguine and had a lot of blood, fiery choleri…
November 26, 2025
In the Footsteps of St. Thomas (with Bishop Daniel Timotheos
Bishop Daniel talks like a Texas Protestant in terms of Church Planting and giving your heart to Christ, but actually he is a bishop in the Orthodox C…
November 8, 2025
Madrid on the Move
In her new book Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester UP, 2021), Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo explai…
October 6, 2025
Struck Down, Not Destroyed
Vatican journalist Colleen Dulle discusses her new book, Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter, a memoir of the last se…
September 8, 2025
Cup Overflowing
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows,” wrote King David in Psalm 23. The overfl…
August 10, 2025
Guidance about the Transgender Question
The authors and editors of a new edited volume, Gender Ideology and Pastoral Practice: A Handbook for Catholic Clergy, Counselors, and Ministerial Lea…
August 1, 2025
The Deepest Border
In his new book, The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border (Stanford, 2019), Sasha D. Pack considers th…
July 21, 2025
The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386-1596
The volume offers a re-examination of the rise of the Jagiellon dynasty in medieval and early modern Central Europe. Originating in Lithuania and exte…
July 15, 2025
Pope Leo XIV (with Christopher White)
Vatican Reporter Christopher White has just written book about Pope Leo XIV, our new Holy Father, an American, an Augustinian, from Chicago, from Perú…
May 23, 2025
100 Tough Questions for Catholics
David Bonagura teaches classical languages and theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York and Catholic International University; he also teaches hi…
May 8, 2025
Art and Its Holy Object (with Steve Auth)
For the transcendental and numinous things, sometimes there are no words. But art—paintings, sculpture, music, film—can knock us sideways a little and…
April 14, 2025
Salve Regina (with Bishop Athanasius Schneider)
“And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling [.…] And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and s…
April 5, 2025
Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality
“What is truth?” Pontius Pilate scoffed at Jesus (Jn 18:38), and that’s how we think about matters today in our culture—subjectively: my truth, your t…
March 22, 2025
Human Rights in a Divided World
In his most recent book, Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (Georgetown UP, 2024), Jesuit scholar and Georgetown profe…
March 18, 2025
Build, Baby, Build
Economist Bryan Caplan has written—and artist Ady Branzei has illustrated—this new graphic novel about housing regulation (if ‘novel’ can be applied t…
February 28, 2025
This is the Way: Serving at the Altar of Your Lay Vocation
Cristofer Pereyra is the founder and CEO of the Tepeyac Leadership Initiative (TLI) and was a friend and follower of Bishop Thomas Olmsted (who was in…
November 28, 2024
Talking with a Man Who Returned from the Dead (with Paul Zucarelli)
This is my second conversation with Paul Zucarelli who died in 2017 and returned from the dead through the intercessory prayer of Bishop Thomas Olmste…
November 7, 2024
Holy, Catholic, Apostolic (with Paul Zucarelli)
Paul Zucarelli died in 2017 and returned from the dead through the intercessory prayer of Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix and the faith of his family…
October 1, 2024
Mercy Ships
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…
September 12, 2024
A Letter from Jesus
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…