Catching Foxes

By Luke and GomerTV & Film Religion & Spirituality Christianity

Catching Foxes episodes

July 11, 2021Sin as Micro-dosing Divinity
Saturday: Last full day of school, if Luke can get his paper done today.
Tension in a program like this that is executive, and nature of time crunch, you are constantly forced to prioritize how much time and attention to give each individual task. Tension in Luke’s cohort: Luke loves intensity of the schedule- Meeting after meeting, decision after decision, restraint after restraint- but the others are upset that it’s too intense and things are getting lost in the shuffle. But that’s the point. You’re becoming a better non-profit executive, not an expert, researcher, or professor. You just need the ground under your feet.
Gomer bought a minivan for cash after telling his wife “We aren’t getting a minivan today.” He didn’t even pull out of the parking lot yet before he made the decision. It checked the boxes and was inexpensive enough.
Gomer likes talking shit about people. Why? You are called to be a tiny god, but you aren’t acting like it, so you stomp on others to fake elevate yourself. A micro-dose of divinity. Sin as false-theosis, self-divinization is always pulling God down to our level, whereas divine filiation is God lifting us up to His level, as it were. The goal is to feel more than human, but I cannot do that for myself, so I have to bring down other humans. Yet, to be “more than human” in reality is to be humble, realizing that you can’t make yourself more than human on your own, you need God to do that. But why work? Why asceticism and mortification? If I have free will, where does God’s grace come in? The hypostatic union is the only answer!
Also, the woman who cut my hair was flawless. She was dead quiet. Never small talked with me once other than “do you want what you got last time.” And that was it. Once she hummed along with the song for like 15 seconds but that was more pleasant than disruptive.
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July 03, 2021Beauty will Save the World!
Main Topic: discussion around Dr. Tracey Rowland's "What did Dostoyevsky mean when he said ‘Beauty will save the world’?"
Opening Banter: Luke's test on non-profit boards led Gomer to ask about a FICTIONAL Catholic non-profit.
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What did Dostoyevsky mean when he said ‘Beauty will save the world’? | dawsonsociety.org.au
— What did Dostoyevsky mean when he said ‘Beauty will save the world’?
by Tom Gourlay
Professor Tracey Rowland, Dean of the Melbourne session of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies presented this lecture at the Dawson Society Speakers Forum of 1 October 2013.
William Lane Craig explains why he is not a Catholic - YouTube
— William Lane Craig explains why he is not a Catholic
A Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron & William Lane Craig | Claremont McKenna College - 2018 - YouTube
— A Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron & William Lane Craig | Claremont McKenna College - 2018
1 hr 11 min
June 25, 2021Welcome to Your Cohort
Luke's "one that got away" who dumped him because he failed college. Gomer misses his podcast wife.
Take Gomer to the Woodshed
Gomer's sad moment in Father's Day was a homily that went nowhere for 40 minutes, but everything else was fantastic.
Luke has an "A" right now for grad school, worth 5 points, but it still counts!
Then Luke goes on and on about how much he loves his cohort and the school and the basilica and yadda, yadda, yadda.
Also, "Hi, Paul!"
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Mendoza College of Business
— Ed Hums is in his fourteenth year as a full-time faculty member of the Mendoza College of Business and currently teaches financial and managerial accounting to undergraduates and team teaches a course in the Masters in Non-Profit Administration program. He also lectures in the Executive Education program at the University and at various corporate locations. For several years Ed played a major role in the Notre Dame – St. Mary’s Tax Assistance Program. Ed will also serve as the faculty adviser for the Notre Dame Accounting Association. In addition to his teaching and lecturing, Ed monitors the rail industry.
Mendoza College of Business
— Accountancy Professor Ken Milani’s most recent research and writing have focused on foreign partners and the operating activities of partnerships. Recent articles co-authored by Milani have explored the income tax implications of U.S. real property interests owned by non-resident alien partners, alternative ways of placing property into a partnership, and the advantages of altering a partner’s adjusted basis as an income tax planning tool.
1 hr 15 min
June 19, 2021Shannon Gormley Uncensored! (AMA)
"Ask Michael's Wife Anything"
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NASCAR- why she likes it, how she got into it, and why it's important to her;
Homeschooling and our Classical approach,
and then a ton of questions about being married to an idiot like me.
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Boring Old White Guy: Bill Murray went to Loyola Academy...
— First of all, as any self-respecting fan knows, Caddyshack was based on Murray's experiences at Indian Hill Club in Winnetka. But what you may not know is that like many other country clubs of the time, Indian Hill was "restricted." That might sound almost quaint today, but it means the club didn't admit blacks or Jews as members. In fact, until at least the 1950s, or even as late as the 1960s, Indian Hill had only one Catholic member, Monsignor Thomas Burke of Faith, Hope and Charity Parish.
1 hr 5 min
June 11, 20213 Life Questions
Luke's at Notre Dame! (And he forgot his microphone!)
FOLLOW-UP
First: Six Types of Working Genius in Gomer's home and with a co-worker.
Second: Season 2 non-spoiler review of "For All Mankind".
Question: How do you handle screen time with your kids?
Question: How do you have a sucessful long-distance relationship?
Question: If I were the pastor, these are the Top Three Things I would do
Luke's at Notre Dame!
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443 – C.S. Lewis’s “Most Dangerous” Argument
— Trent is joined by Pints with Jack host David Bates to dive into C.S. Lewis’s most philosophically challenging argument against atheism.
Lisa Frank Unicorn Folder 2 Pocket 1990's
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June 04, 2021Six Types of Working Genius and Ministry
The Working Genius Podcast by Patrick Lencioni.
IDEATION
Wonder
Invention
ACTIVATION
Discernment
Galvanizing
IMPLEMENTATION
Enablement
Tenacity
Notes
-Luke killed a mouse, Gomer’s wife killed a scorpion, while Gomer was naked
-Take Gomer to the Woodshed: Nonviolence and the violence in protests follow-up
Gomer D.I.S.C. profile for staff, majority of which were “Stability” but the YM were “Innovative.” The YM is where you find the creatives and the envelope-pushers, but the rest of staff had the Stable personality, and so they hate change as a part of their personality. So you have a real reason why no one paints the walls or puts up beautiful artwork or challenges the status quo. Luke's experience of the “Catholic Creatives” working group where the culture screamed: New things are respected (and expected)!
Remember, each of the six types of working genius are verbs, it’s who you are and what you do. This idea of the verb really opened Luke to the process of the Working Genius as a process. Looking at these different approaches, however, really helped Luke see where he was strongest and weakest, where my strengths were, and also how Catching Foxes came together. Also, we both suck at Tenacity! (thanks for keeping us alive, Kate.)
A few examples:
**Discernment: **Sometimes the hyper-spiritualizing of “all things” leads to false action. We think “God put this on my heart” but that doesn’t mean we don’t think through the problems, or MAYBE that's just our way of smuggling in our ideas in a religious context. I mean, who's going to question God's will for your ministry?!
Galvanizing: We forget that we aren’t just speaking to the people in the pews, but to the staff! We need to galvanize the staff, inspire them, and move them. We need to minister to their needs in a way that gets them involved in a mission.
Enablement: No more victims of unvoiced expectations, or worse, shifting unvoiced expectations! Enablement is not the same as letting someone do their job description, but training, working with, feedback, coaching, etc. Help them do the right thing- connect and cooperate.
-Luke and I both suck at Tenacity!
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6 Types of Working Genius. Is Patrick Lencioni correct with the… | by Louie Rahil, MBA | ILLUMINATION | Medium
— All of these six types of working genius are required to get things done in any company. None of us are good at all of them, and everyone is good at least two. In this article, I’m going to introduce you to the Six Working Genius Tool.
The 6 Types of Working Genius w/ Patrick Lencioni - EntreLeadership Interview
— The 6 Types of Working Genius w/ Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni - The 6 Types Of Working Genius | The Learning leader Show w/ Ryan Hawk - YouTube
— What is a "Working Genius?” – There are 6 different types, and we all have two of them that are natural to us, that we're good at doing them, and we get energy, joy, and satisfaction from them. What about the other 4 areas? – 2 of them are Working Frustrations that drain us of our energy and passion, and in many cases, we’re not very good at them; and 2 other areas that are in between called Working Competencies, areas that we can do pretty well, maybe even really well, but that don’t necessarily give us energy or joy.
Home | The 6 Types of Working Genius
— Far too many people in the world suffer needlessly because they don't understand their personal areas of working genius. As a result, they don't do the kind of work that gives them joy and energy, and they end up in jobs and projects that are draining and demoralizing. This is a grave tragedy on two levels.
First, it leads those people to lose confidence in themselves and enthusiasm for life, which is devastating for them, their families and friends, and society as a whole. That alone is heartbreaking.
Second, organizations and teams–even families–that don't tap into the true genius of their members can't come close to realizing their potential. They are left puzzled by their inability to achieve their goals. This often leads them to make inaccurate and hurtful judgements about one another, and to feel unnecessarily guilty about their own shortcomings.
What makes all of this particularly tragic is that it is avoidable. The solution is for everyone–employees, managers, students and spouses–to identify their areas of working genius, as well as their areas of life-draining weakness, and to put themselves in a position to tap into their genius more and engage in their weakness less.
That is what this assessment is all about.
‎The Working Genius Podcast with Patrick Lencioni on Apple Podcasts
— What is your Working Genius? The Working Genius podcast is designed to help people identify their natural gifts and find joy and fulfillment in their work and life.
Working Genius Assessment for $25
1 hr 23 min
May 28, 2021Sacred Art, Progress, and How to Argue with your Spouse
We start talking about Sacred Architecture and crappy churches, which moves the conversation to Sacred Artwork and how we advance them without getting lost in the lameness of the fad or the trendy. Then halfway we hit on the topic of arguing with your spouse. We end with a "Keeping up with the Kardashians" moment of "Take Luke out to the Woodshed".
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The Dream of the Rood - The Abbey of Misrule
— And it really was everything. No aspect of daily life was unaffected by the story: the organisation of the working week; the cycle of annual feast and rest days; the payment of taxes; the moral duties of individuals; the very notion of individuals, with ‘God-given’ rights and duties; the attitude to neighbours and strangers; the obligations of charity; the structure of families; and most of all, the wide picture of the universe - its structure and meaning, and our human place within it.
Sacrosanctum concilium
— Holy Mother Church has therefore always been the friend of the fine arts and has ever sought their noble help, with the special aim that all things set apart for use in divine worship should be truly worthy, becoming, and beautiful, signs and symbols of the supernatural world, and for this purpose she has trained artists. In fact, the Church has, with good reason, always reserved to herself the right to pass judgment upon the arts, deciding which of the works of artists are in accordance with faith, piety, and cherished traditional laws, and thereby fitted for sacred use.
The Church has been particularly careful to see that sacred furnishings should worthily and beautifully serve the dignity of worship, and has admitted changes in materials, style, or ornamentation prompted by the progress of the technical arts with the passage of time.
Wherefore it has pleased the Fathers to issue the following decrees on these matters.
1 hr 23 min
May 21, 2021Massa Damnata?
Luke and Gomer talk about goodness and why people always want to be right in the Church, even when we damn our adversaries needlessly.
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Universalism, Balthasar, the Massa Damnata, and the Question of Evangelization. – Gaudium et Spes 22
— My point in all of this is not to dump on Ralph Martin, although his scandalous treatment of Balthasar and von Speyr richly deserves it, but to highlight the extent to which the traditionalist movement has become obsessed with eternal hellfire. As I have mentioned before, their mantra should be “more hell cowbell please.” Martin’s book, “A Church in Crisis,” is an otherwise decent book with which I am in deep agreement on many points, which only underscores the oddity of his sudden flight into hysteria and calumny when it comes to the question of Balthasar and Hell. And that really was the main point of all of the foregoing. Namely, that the retrieval of some concept of the massa damnata is so important to traditionalists that they are willing to eviscerate, and then to draw and quarter, even orthodox theologians of great stature who they deem to be too soft on the question.
How to Get to Heaven — Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon - YouTube
— Friends, in today’s first reading, we hear from St. Peter that it is only through the name of the Lord that we may be saved. Whatever elements of truth there are to be found in various religions, these partial elements participate in the fullness of truth found in Jesus. In Christ and through Christ, we are made to become participants in God’s own life.
Ralph Martin Responds to Bishop Barron on the Salvation of Non-Christians - YouTube
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What Ought Balthasar to Hope?
— "Death is not the final word." Desire, Experience, Conversion: An Interview with Father John Nepil
hope #judgement #death
Psalm 22 RSVCE - Plea for Deliverance from Suffering and - Bible Gateway
— My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
— In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, | since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, | patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond.
1 hr 47 min
May 14, 2021We Never Forgot You, Dr. Dre.
Banter: Dr. Dre seems to have suffered from insecurity due to the lack of success around the Aftermath album.
Main Topic: Luke's prayer life sucks. Gomer gives amazing advice.
Life Lesson: Do NOT, under any circumstances, forget about Dre.
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Questlove says Dr. Dre "saved" The Roots after their label "imploded"
— Questlove says Dr. Dre “saved” The Roots after their label “imploded”
1 hr 7 min
May 07, 2021Marvel vs. NASA
Gomer and Luke start out with some banter, then follow-up.
The topic for today is contrasting "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" with "For All Mankind" in the areas where they treat social issues. Gomer bashes the crap out of Marvel for their inability in this show to not be on the nose and praises the writers and actors of "For All Mankind" so creating such compelling characters that you actually think they are, you know, human. Just when you think the villains are pure villains, they aren't. Just when you think the one-dimensional man is a bigot, he's not. Just when you think the mission will finally succeed, it doesn't. Or does it? Cap demand we "do better" but AppleTV actually does!
Two Follow-Ups, Main Topic, followed by complaining about Restrictions.
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— Behind all the Money there was Andy Dufresne - The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Movie Clip HD Scene
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Luke and Gomer became friends Freshman year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and 14 years later they started a podcast. The show oscillates between a conversation between just the two of…