Stay ConnectedTod Worner discusses the culture, faith, literature, philosophy, history, and more in stimulating conversations with renown intellectuals of our time on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Tod also shares a reflection of his own and a book recommendation in each episode.
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The respected, middle-aged Kate Montclair has an inoperable brain cancer. She is going to die. But how? Her friend Adele, the vivacious leader of the Death Symposium, knows just how to help her.
Join me and Christendom associate professor of philosophy and novelist Daniel McInerny as we explore the profound tensions and irresistible temptations surrounding incurable illness and the fashionable choice of euthanasia.
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"I am inclined to set it up as a canon," C.S. Lewis clucked, "that a children's story that is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story." To read children's literature as a child is to be immersed in a world of wonder. To read them again as an adult is to begin to understand what they truly meant.
Join me and Word on Fire Spark Editor Haley Stewart as we explore exactly why children's literature matters.
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids them come and die." So said Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed by the Nazis at Flossenbürg concentration camp. True commitment to Christ is no lark; it is seismic.
Join me and Bishop Robert Barron as we discuss The Strangest Way—the nature, impact, and responsibility that comes with authentic conversion to Catholicism.
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What happens when you assert control, determine your destiny, and then find out that you are going to die shortly from an incurable cancer? If you are Tammy Peterson, you embrace the cross, pray the Rosary, and find yourself completely and utterly transformed.
Join me and Tammy Peterson as we explore her harrowing journey from the consuming darkness of cancer to the blinding light of Christ.
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What if there was an incandescent Truth, but no one felt it worth fighting for? Meet Turnbull and MacIan, a fiery atheist editor and an ardent Catholic highlander, as they physically duel and verbally joust over the highest of things while an ideological world conspires to affect their silence.
Join me and the President of the Society for G.K. Chesterton, Dale Ahlquist, as we explore Chesterton's ingenious novel, The Ball and the Cross.
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Before Pope John Paul II shook the foundations of the Communist world, there was the inspired witness and breathtaking courage of Hungary's József Cardinal Mindszenty. Carrying a picture of Christ bearing his crown of thorns, Mindszenty drew strength from its Latin inscription, Devictus vincit (Defeated, he is victorious).
Join me and Professor Daniel Mahoney as we delve into the gripping Memoirs of Cardinal Mindszenty which reveal the faith of a Catholic giant and the crucible in which he was formed.
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How did four English women—a genius, a firecracker, a polymath, and a synthesizer—enter a stultifying philosophical milieu at Oxford and change ethics forever? Join me as I discuss Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgely, and Phillipa Foot with Professor Benjamin Lipscomb and his captivating book, The Women Are Up to Something.
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French pediatrician and geneticist Jérôme Lejeune insisted, "We need to be clear: The quality of a civilization can be measured by the respect it has for its weakest members. There is no other criterion." After he criticized the cozy relationship between the scientific community and the practice of aborting patients with Down syndrome, Lejeune wrote to his wife, "Today, I lost my Nobel prize."
Join me and Mark Bradford, the Word on Fire Fellow for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, as we discuss how Jérôme Lejeune changed his life and the lives of those with challenging disabilities.
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Friends, why do we love being distracted from the important things of life? The great French philosopher Blaise Pascal observed, "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room."
On today's episode of "The Word on Fire Show," Brandon Vogt and I discuss why it is so hard to be still and contemplate reality, and how we can get better at it.
A listener asks, what are some things laity can do to build unity in the Church?
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia possessed a towering intellect, a sharp wit, and a deep Catholic faith. When asked if Justice Scalia was cognizant of the grand impression he made, his daughter Meg would answer, "Oh, yes. I mean, he was putting on a show—but it was a great show."
Join me and Newsmax Chief White House Correspondent James Rosen and author of Scalia: Rise to Greatness as we explore the character and jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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