Jordan Daniel Wood – Grace, Theosis, and Virtues
Jordan Daniel Wood is the first guest we’ve had on a second time…and we will have him on for a third! I had a whole list of things that I wanted to talk with him about the first time we...
Category: Pope Francis Generation Podcast
Has Church Teaching Changed?
Dominic and I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago about living out the evangelical counsels (poverty, chastity, and obedience) in marriage that unexpectedly blew up on Catholic Twitter…and not in a good way, haha. There were many folks...
Interview with Eve Tushnet – Helping gay Christians experience God’s extravagant love
I first heard of Eve Tushnet when I attended a Courage conference in Detroit several years ago that was hosted by Janet Smith. Even though I had much stronger, and much less nuanced, opinions back then I thought that Eve’s...
Is Celibacy Better than Marriage?
When I was in college, the leader of a young adult group told me something like, “While the particular vocation a person is called to is the best vocation for them, the priesthood and consecrated vocations are objectively greater.” At...
Interview with Liz Hansen – Abuse and cover up at Franciscan University
I first heard of Liz Hansen a couple of years ago when I read her article in Crisis Magazine titled, “Franciscan University and Its Friars Face a Reckoning.” While I didn’t attend Franciscan University as a student, I did...
“Patris Corde” Novena to St. Joseph
[Editor’s note: I didn’t realize until moments ago that no one hit “publish” on this post yesterday. But it’s never too late to catch up on a novena, so I’m hitting publish now! — ML] At the beginning of...
Mike Lewis on his near death experience and opposition to Pope Francis
Podcast: Season 3, Episode 5 It took three seasons, but we finally had Mike Lewis on the podcast! Mike reminded me that the very first podcast I was a part of the very first Where Peter Is podcast episode, recorded...
Interview with Rachel Amiri: Toxic NFP Culture
Rachel Amiri and I have been talking about NFP and NFP culture for several years now. Before we started recording, she reminded me that we first met when we were arguing with each other in NFP groups on Facebook (not...
Interview with Robert Fastiggi: Can we disagree with Church teaching?
I think I first came across Dr. Fastiggi’s work after Mike Lewis told me he was a defender of Pope Francis when Amoris Laetitia came out. Then I realized he teaches at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, which is the local seminary...
Interview with Jordan Daniel Wood – The Vocation of the Theologian and St. Maximus the Confessor
I first discovered Jordan Daniel Wood a little over a year ago when I stumbled across his interview on the Particular Good podcast about his book “The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor.” I listened to this two-hour...
Interview with Brad Jersak – Faith after Deconstruction
To kick off the third season of the Pope Francis Generation podcast, Dominic and I interviewed Brad Jersak! I first came across his work a few years ago when a friend shared a video of his talk “The Gospel in Chairs.”...
Interview with Gloria Purvis – Can a Catholic be Woke?
I first heard of Gloria Purvis in the summer of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. Around that time, Sam Rocha interviewed her for an excellent article in Church Life Journal titled, The Gift of Blackness to the Church. The...
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