“Dr. J” to her tribe, this influencer as a PhD and teaching experience at Yale, and George Brown University. An economist by training, she has invaluable insights into the wreckage we see around us caused by the failed Sexual Revolution. The organization she founded, The Ruth Institute, exists to help survivors of this very public shipwreck.
With the Obergefel v Hodges (2015) decision redefining marriage at the federal level, we have reached a legal tipping point. Most Americans support marriage as it’s been defined for millennia, as the lifelong union of one man and one woman with openness to children. Culture is one thing, laws are another.
If you want practical insights into how to talk about this and other challenges such as our collective no-fault divorce attitude (yes, it has infected “good Catholic” circles), and the forgotten players known as children, this is the interview for you.
You will learn:
Question of the week (for the married): When people look at your marriage, how likely are they to say, “I want a marriage like that”?
(For the unmarried): What is a good question to ask your boyfriend or girlfriend that would either qualify or disqualify them as a good candidate for marriage?
Resources recommended in this episode:
101 Tips for a Happier Marriage: Simple Ways for Couples to Grow Closer to God and to Each Other by Jennifer Roback-Morse and Betsy Kerekes
Sex Au Naturel: What It Is and Why It’s Good For Your Marriage, by Patrick Coffin
Additional resources:
Go to ruthinstitute.org for more from Dr. J.
Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom by Ryan Anderson
Getting the Marriage Conversation Right: A Guide for Effective Dialogue by William May
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Get your C.S. Lewis on! Lovers of the works of Clive Staples Lewis (+1963), especially The Chronicles of Narnia septet will not want to miss this interview with Lewis scholar and Catholic convert, Dr. Michael Ward of Oxford and Houston Baptist University.
The Narnia series has been one of the most critically analyzed book series in history since it was penned over 60 years ago. My guest in this episode has discovered a interpretative framework to the seven books that eluded the Lewisphere for decades and now has them abuzz.
It’s all about the seven planets of the medieval cosmos. Even if you’ve re-read the books many times, Dr. Ward’s insights will bring you a whole new depth and wonder to C.S. Lewis’s best known work.
And because he is English (I say, the inventors of the language you’re now reading) his prose will expand your vocabulary as well!
I should note one thing. At the end of the interview, I jokingly asked him about his work for Q under Her Majesty the Queen. This is because he had a walk-on part in the James Bond film The World Is Never Enough. (He’s the bespectacled, white lab-coated assistant to Q in this funny scene, handing 007 his X-ray glasses at 1:20: )
In this episode you will learn:
Resources recommended in this episode:
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward
Gustav Holst, The Planets (music CD)
S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to His Life & Works by Walter Hooper
The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis ed. By Michael Ward and Robert MacSwain
The World Is Not Enough, James Bond film DVD starring Pierce Brosnan, co-starring….Michael Ward.
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The last couple of shows have been on the intellectual-nerd side. Here’s another one! Father Thomas J. White, OP, of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, has distilled the essential of Catholicism into a single volume, The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism. I devoured the book (insofar as you can devour a work that relies on Thomas Aquinas’s methods and language) in a few days despite being a slow reader. His style is accessible and his prose elegant with a whiff of humor here and there.
All of that comes through in this interview, as Father White gets down to basics of foundations of Catholicism.
After listening, you will know:
Question of the week: How would you finish the sentence, “I”m Catholic because…..” Or, “I’m not Catholic because….”
Resources recommended in this episode:
The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism by Father White, OP
Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed
Ignatius Study Bible, RSV Second Catholic Edition by the Holy Spirit and the sacred authors.
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Arguments for God’s existence are all the rage, as Ed Feser exemplified well in the last two episodes. But what about us? What’s our nature as humans? Do we have a soul? How can we know that the soul is immortal and not just a few pounds of electric meat between our ears that produces cool experiences like a mythical God?
Very few modern thinkers are devoting a lot of time to the question of the soul and whether it’s immortal. Plato thought so, as it most Greek philosophers. Certainly the Bible affirms it. Dr. Michael Augros has written a new book called The Immortal In You. How Human Nature Is More Than Science Can Say. We talked about the finer points in my interview with him. You’ll learn a ton, as I did, about:
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