Author-to-Author

In this episode of Author to Author, guest host Kiki Latimer interviews Stephen Beach on his book The Drama of Metaphysics: An Exploration into the Psychological Power of Worldviews.

Western Philosophy has been a 2500-year conversation attempting to understand the reality which lies beyond the changing physical appearances of the world. This perennial metaphysical discussion provided the West with a framework for its beliefs, politics, morality, and common values. In the 20th century, this conversation was rejected in favor of new Materialist ideologies like Methodological Naturalism, Nazism, Nihilism, Communism, and Transhumanism. The success of these experiments in ideology hinge, though, on one central problem: Can man really be shaped into the image of his own making, or will his metaphysical identity always make a return?

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Francis Etheredge on his book Reaching for the Resurrection: A Pastoral Bioethics. (April 20, 2022)

Francis Etheredge returns to the subject of bioethics with essays on loneliness, aloneness, euthanasia, meaning, anorexia and purpose, brain death and the life and death of Jesus Christ. Why? Because man, male and female, one in body and soul, suffers as a religious being. To be able, therefore, to respond mercifully and constructively to a variety of human wounds, opening up, again and again, the possibilities of life, we need to recognize that the whole of human personhood entails being-in-relationship: that man is a social being and exists in relation to God and neighbor: the God who comes to show us the truth-in-love that heals and calls us to share what we have received with our neighbor.

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Sean Kelley on his book The Visitor: A Near-death Covid Experience Taught One Man: Faith, Prayer, Love, and Charity are God’s Remedies to Survive and Thrive. (April 19, 2022)

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Roger Skrenes on his book The Human Equation (April 13, 2022)

This book is an attempt to trace the footprints of the Creator since the event of the Big Bang. It is a snapshot in one volume of the movement and work of God in the world of our experience, especially illustrating the divine face of evolution since the beginnings of Creation.

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Home for The Homily: The Sacred Art of Homiletics concerns a new and required depth of preaching the word of God within the Mass. This calls for a new and deeper appreciation of communication skills. The homilist may no longer stand separately on the shoreline nor drift in the safety of shallow waters, rather he must have the faith of Peter to “put out into deep water.” This requires depth of soul, depth of character, depth of vulnerability, and depth of skill. When Christ asks Peter to “put out into the deep water,” Peter considers his level of faith in Jesus and decides, by grace, to do so. This is a pivotal moment; without this affirmative decision there will be no catch. It is no different for the homilist today. The intimacy and depth of the effective homily requires an affirmative decision to put out into the deep. May this book help you, the homilist, put out into the deep and thereby, allow the homily to reach its four sequential destinations: the home of the Mass, the home of the Intellect, the home of the Heart, and the home of the Will, the domestic Church where homily is lived out.

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Dcn. Gerard-Marie Anthony and Dr. Sabine Heisman on The Deacon and the Doctor (April 12, 2022)

The Deacon and the Doctor: A Prescription for Navigating Child Loss provides a spiritual, medical, psychological guide to help families A.C.Q.U.I.R.E peace after child loss. As one in four women experience miscarriage, it is essential to provide resources, bring awareness, and teach the community how to engage appropriately so these families are supported properly. Our hope is this book will help families and the community navigate the many obstacles encountered after child loss.

The International Theological Commission, with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, offers a theologically-grounded hope of that in "The Hope of Salvation for Infants who Die without Being Baptised" located online at https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html

"The conclusion of this study is that there are theological and liturgical reasons to hope that infants who die without baptism may be saved and brought into eternal happiness, even if there is not an explicit teaching on this question found in Revelation. However, none of the considerations proposed in this text to motivate a new approach to the question may be used to negate the necessity of baptism, nor to delay the conferral of the sacrament. Rather, there are reasons to hope that God will save these infants precisely because it was not possible to do for them that what would have been most desirable— to baptize them in the faith of the Church and incorporate them visibly into the Body of Christ."

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Dr. Gerard Verschuuren on his book A Beautiful Mind and Soul. (April 11, 2022)

How can a Catholic scientist speak about “a beautiful mind and soul”? Dr. Gerard Verschuuren does so as a Catholic who knows that science has nothing to say about mind and soul, but also that science has nothing to say against it. Using a lively, conversational dialog between a skeptical scientist and a religious scientist, this book provides an enlightening tour through the pivotal questions raised by our human minds and souls, which were created in God’s image.

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/beautifulmindandsoul/

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Barbara Lorenzo on her book Miracle Mission to Medjugorje (April 10, 2022)

A random invitation to hear a person speak about Medjugorje leads Barbara on a journey that will change her life. Within months of her mother’s hearing that witness, she and her family are bound for what was then Yugoslavia on the brink of a civil war. Barbara, her sick and dying brother, his friend, and her faith-filled mom travel to the place where the Blessed Mother is appearing and miracles are happening. It is the last hope. From the first day to the last, they witness unexplained miracles, and her mind awakens as their spirits soar. One sees halos. They all see the sun yo-yo from the sky. Her dying brother climbs a mountain despite it seeming impossible. They cross a threshold and are forever changed. Their witness astounds them and pulls them into a web of love that fuels Barbara’s faith for the subsequent chapters of her life. It leads her back to the place of transformation and miracles. This book is an affirmation of the force greater than us all.

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Ivan Arthur on his book Pavement Prayers (April 8, 2022)

Kalia confessed to murder last night amid a hushed silence that lasted only a short while before he went into detailed account of the events that led to it . . .

Thus begins one of the prayers in this book.

This is a book of prayers that tell a story. But, of course, all prayers – all personal prayers – tell stories. Prayer is, in many ways, the spiritualization of incident, and in every fervent prayer one can find a short story of an epic sticking to it. The Mumbai pavement is wonderfully rich in story. For every twenty-or-so-steps that you take over it, your feet could be shuffling through chapters, or, perhaps, volumes of intricate plot, moving human drama and the most thrilling narrative. This book is those twenty-or-so-steps of narrative and plot, the story of a pavement dweller and his patch of pavement told in the most intimate form of narration: his personal prayer.

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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Michel Legault, MSA, on his Autobiography, Part 3: Life in Connecticut (March 31, 2022)

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