Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address w/ Gary Saul Morson
Evangelization & Culture Podcast
Release Date: 10/01/2024
Finding the World's Fullness w/ Robert Cording
Evangelization & Culture Podcast
If there is one struggle in life, it is with the unknown. In an age of self-assertion and technological wonder, we strive to obliterate the uncertain, eradicate the imperfect, and master the mysterious. And yet, these goals are impossible. Should we fear the unknown or embrace it? Is mystery threatening, or is it wondrous? Join Dr. Tod Worner and Professor-Poet Robert Cording as they explore these questions addressed in his phenomenal book, Finding the World’s Fullness, on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the...
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The College Beat: Catholicism on College Campuses w/ Caroline Kurt
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With Catholic college students losing their faith in devastating numbers, what is the Catholic Church to do? Enjoin the brightest, faith-filled, and articulate college students to help us bring them back. Caroline Kurt is a devout Catholic, a college senior, and a keen writer/editor for Hillsdale College’s paper, The Collegian. She and a dozen premier college students are the vanguard of writers for Evangelization & Culture Online’s The College Beat. Join us on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast as we discuss the faith life of the modern college student and the means by which...
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Sacred Stories from the Sidelines of Notre Dame Football w/ Fr. Nate Wills, CSC
Evangelization & Culture Podcast
When Fr. Nate Wills raised doubts about his qualifications to serve as the University of Notre Dame’s football team chaplain, Fr. Pete McCormick assured him, “We don’t need you to call plays. We just need you to point [people] to Jesus.” Join me and Fr. Nate Wills on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast as we explore his book, , a rich unfolding of lessons learned from and imparted to the extraordinary Notre Dame football team and the greater university community. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast...
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How the Young Evangelize the Young w/ George Jacobson
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St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, “Angels are appointed to the guardianship of men, that they may take them by the hand and guide them to eternal life, encourage them to good works, and protect them against the assaults of the demons.” As we grow in our faith, shouldn’t we do the same for others? Through his Instagram pages Marian Militia and Monk Mindset, George Jacobson is taking people by the hand. Join me and George Jacobson on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast as we explore how, in an age of uncertainty, one Catholic college student is lighting the fires of faith in others. ...
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Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre w/ Dr. Christopher Kaczor
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Sir William Osler, the godfather of internal medicine and a gifted professor once observed, “No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.” was one of the most consequential moral philosophers of the twentieth century and a keen professor at the University of Notre Dame. What did MacIntyre believe and how did he teach? Join me and Catholic philosopher as we explore the impact Alasdair MacIntyre had on his students (like Dr. Kaczor) and the world of philosophy on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay...
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Fragile Objects w/ Katy Carl
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Novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor once insisted, “You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate.” In her short stories, weaves tales of despair and hope, brokenness and healing, and all being captured in the glory and grit of the human condition. Many ask, “Where have the good writers gone?” Read Katy and you’ll find one of them. Join me and Katy Carl, author of Fragile Objects, her first short story collection, on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture...
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Contemplation and the Cross w/ Fr. Thomas Joseph White
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“Every human person seeks peace, spiritual peace within oneself and with others, and material peace through a social life of friendship, charity, and genuine justice. What is at the heart of this aspiration? What indeed is peace?” Join me and Fr. Thomas Joseph White as we discuss his new book Contemplation and the Cross on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast biweekly on , on , or wherever you get your podcasts. You can get more content like this in the quarterly print journal of...
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Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power w/ Timothy Ryback
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Millions of pages have been written seeking to answer one vexing question: How did Adolf Hitler happen? Was the Führer of the Third Reich an accident of history or a fearsome warning of what the future may hold? Join me and Timothy Ryback as we explore the cunning and the luck, the designs and the accidents that brought Hitler to power in Ryback’s captivating book, Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast biweekly on , on , or wherever you get...
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What Is Beauty? w/ Bishop Barron
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The modern world tells us that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” And yet, the Catholic Church deems beauty a transcendental. Is beauty something predictable, ephemeral, and a simple matter of taste? Or is beauty surprising, enduring, and objectively indisputable? Join me and Bishop Robert Barron as we explore the burning question, “What is beauty?” on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast biweekly on , on , or wherever you get your podcasts. You can get more content like this in...
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We Have Ceased to See the Purpose w/ Ignat Solzhenitsyn
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In his iconic Templeton lecture, Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn summarized the horrors of the twentieth century’s Communist experiment, saying, “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Join me and Ignat Solzhenitsyn as we explore his father’s heroic words and exquisite diagnosis of man’s plight without God in his book, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization &...
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In 1978, a Soviet dissident and former Gulag prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn stood before the graduating class of Harvard University and offered the commencement address. But it wasn’t the address they expected (or necessarily wanted). In fact, it caused great angst among the contented intellectual classes. Join me and Dr. Gary Saul Morson, eminent professor of Russian literature as we consider the shock and lasting relevance of Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard address.
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