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Almost Good Catholics
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…
November 23, 2023
Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect?
Jay Richards PhD, OP discusses the new book to which he contributed a chapter, God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Sophia Instit…
November 9, 2023
Let Us Make Man in Our Image
In our talk about his book, More than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture (InterVarsity Press, 2023), and in addition to quoting Pope…
October 26, 2023
Live from Israel (with Fr. Piotr Zelazko)
Father Piotr Zelazko 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…
October 19, 2023
Kids These Days
Jane Sloan Peters remembers World Youth Day in Toronto back in 2002 when she was a teenager. She also talks about being a young mother and a teacher; …
September 28, 2023
Hammertime and Hanukkah
Between 167 and 160 BC, Judas Maccabeus and his brothers led a revolt against the Greek tyrant who desecrated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Miraculo…
September 14, 2023
Brides of Christ
Sister Mary Josefa of the Eucharist is a Benedictine nun in Missouri; she and the sisters of her community recently wrote a charming children’s book, …
August 31, 2023
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 2023)…
August 24, 2023
The Seven Deadly Sins
Father Chris Pietraszko has been thinking about sin and redemption for the last year and a half as he has been writing a series of articles that will …