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Podcasts

  • 18-01-2021 12:55pm
    #1
    John Hutton
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    Wondering what Christian podcasts people listen to, and if they have any recommendations.

    I'll start us off with a few I enjoy, in no particular order.

    The Word on Fire show with Bishop Barron

    https://www.wordonfireshow.com/

    Home From Rome. Features 3 Irish priests based in the north. I enjoy this one, the 3 guys have a very good rapport and are quite funny. Currently on a Christmas break.

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112777

    Pints with Aquinas. I dip in and out of this one, it can be very interesting but heavy at times.

    https://pintswithaquinas.com/

    Clerically Speaking. Features two young priests, one American and a Canadian. Can be very good at times, it really depends on the topic they decide to talk about.

    https://www.clericallyspeaking.com/


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  • #2
    John Hutton
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    The most recent episode of the Word on Fire podcast is very good.
    Friends, according to YouVersion, the popular Bible app, 2020’s most-read Bible verse was Isaiah 41:10: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” In this new episode of "The Word on Fire Show," Brandon Vogt and I discuss this verse, the Bible's repeated encouragement not to be afraid, and how we can overcome our fears of sickness, loss, and death. A listener asks, was Jesus subject to things like doubt and ignorance?


  • #3
    KayJay86
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    I watch more YouTube videos than listen to podcasts but it was through YouTube that I found Fr Mike Schmitz (from the Ascension Press channel) who is now doing a bible in a year podcast with some commentary. Its been great so far though I'm maybe a week or so behind.

    In terms of YouTube, this interview on the Catholic Answers channel is one of the most fascinating videos I've watched lately. Will definitely check out the book they're talking about:

    https://youtu.be/CNZwcopgreM


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    Yellow_Fern
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    God Splaining
    https://opeast.org/godsplaining/

    US Dominican friars
    Analysis of Dominican and general theology.

    The Burrowshire Podcast
    https://burrowshirepodcast.com/
    Insight into Catholic culture

    Gript Sunday reflections
    https://gript.ie/pod_category/sunday-meditation/
    Nice Irish sunday thoughs

    Babylon Bee
    https://babylonbee.com/podcast
    More comedy/satire than Christian but it has a Christian ethos and it is usually hilarious.


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    Has anyone been listening to the "Brendan Option"? It's very good, Fr Brendan doesn't pull any punches, but he is also quite funny and witty.

    On Podcast and video on YouTube too.



  • #6
    Thinkingaboutit
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    KayJay86 wrote: »
    I watch more YouTube videos than listen to podcasts but it was through YouTube that I found Fr Mike Schmitz (from the Ascension Press channel) who is now doing a bible in a year podcast with some commentary. Its been great so far though I'm maybe a week or so behind.

    In terms of YouTube, this interview on the Catholic Answers channel is one of the most fascinating videos I've watched lately. Will definitely check out the book they're talking about:

    https://youtu.be/CNZwcopgreM

    Youtube videos can act as podcasts. Some Youtubers like Dr Taylor Marshal will have a sort of illustrated talk on Youtube or other streaming sites, but on Spotify the same talk will be just audio.

    For example his talk 'Did Christ go hell?' is both a video and audio, same with his video where a pregnant mother saw the priest call the police on her as she had no mask, which is also a Spotify audio only podcast.





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    santana75
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    Becket cook is very good. His book "A change of affection" is his story from Gay Hollywood set designer to evangelist.

    http://https://youtu.be/KNxsIwDD6gQ


  • #8
    Thinkingaboutit
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    Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition is good too. His recent podcasts relate to obscure Papal letters that interestingly are left untranslated (from the official Latin), and patently not heeded now by the present occupant of the office.


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    Jordan Peterson's recent talk with Bishop Robert Barron is very interesting. Much more so then the previous one, where you could tell that Peterson was not at all well. (He is not fully better but you can see him improving week to week).



    Very interesting is the discussion about how people want to be challenged, they want the difficult, not lily livered "whatever you're having" spirituality. This is undoubtedly true, and the reason why, in my opinion, that young people are attracted to challenging preaching (this is not the same as harshness or condemnation, but rather what I said, challenging) and not 'modern' guitar music at Mass.

    Barron talks about how making Catholicism "dumbed down" and "too easy" has caused lots of damage.


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    Fr Brendan Kilcoyne's podcast "the Brendan Option" is fast becoming a must watch/listen. Today he details how many in the Catholic church in Ireland feel, refreshing to see a priest brave enough to say it as it is - to name what many would hand-wringingly describe as critics as what they are, "enemies".



    This crisis is separating the men from the boys (so to speak), it will be interesting to see how the Church develops from here, smaller (for now) and more devout I would think.


  • #11
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    Interesting interview with an exorcist on Pints with Aquinas



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    Just to add to the above, Fr Collins CM has a useful book on the topic, Matt Baglio also has an interesting book (a bit scary) on the topic.

    I found the bit about purgatory in the podcast very interesting. If you are in Rome there is an interesting small museum at the back of Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (which is a beautiful neogothic church worth visiting anyway) in a small room; the 'Museum of the Souls of Purgatory' with a number of items which were interacted with by souls in purgatory.


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    Highly reccomended



  • #14
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    Fr Brendan is on a roll, purgatory today.



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