Dr. Vigen Guroian was a Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He has also written books on subjects ranging from theology to gardening to fairy tales. His book Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination was widely acclaimed and was featured on NPR'S Talk of the Nation. He has contributed more than 200 articles to journals, encyclopedias, magazines and newspapers. On this episode of the show, he talks with Doug about fairy tales and instructing children in virtue.

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This episode is an interview with Fr. Bochanski talks of Courage, a Catholic apostolate that serves those with same-sex attraction. Courage is not an attempt to "fix" or "heal" them, but exists to promote chastity, service and fellowship. Fr. Bochanski is the newly appointed executive director, but has been with Courage for about 6 years, both in Philadelphia and at the home office in Connecticut.

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Holy Family Healthcare is a small clinic in Hartford, MI that operates according the Catholic principles. Using the corporal and spiritual works of mercy as a guide, it attempts to restore a covenant relationship with doctors and patients as it serves the poor of the area, including many migrant workers. Dr. Bouchard is the staff pediatrician as well as the founder. He is also a deacon aspirant who hopes to be ordained in Sept 2017.

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Brian Melton is the Chief Network Growth Office and General Counsel for the Cristo Rey Network, which operates Catholic schools for low income students based on a work study program. They have 30 schools across the country and hope to have 40 by 2020.Brian was a founding partner of Shackelford, Melton, McKinley & Norton, LLP, a law firm with offices in Dallas, Nashville and Austin. Brian also served as Chair of the Education Task Force of the Greater Dallas Chamber and Chair of the Community Symposium for Justice in Education of the Dallas Bar Association. He is a graduate of the SMU's Dedman School of Law. Cristo Rey can be found online www.cristoreynetwork.org.

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Michael Austin teaches humane letters at a Phoenix charter school. He studied at Thomas Aquinas College and the University of Dallas. He and Doug jump around a bit as they discuss teaching methods, the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom and philosophy.

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Prof. Bonevac is teaches philosophy at the University of Texas-Austin. His did his undergraduate work at Haverford and got both his masters degree and PhD. from the University of Pittsburgh. Recently, his decision to stop teaching the course "Contemporary Moral Problems" due to a combination of student apathy and uncivil discourse.

Bonevac has written five books, the first of which (Reduction in the Abstract Sciences) was the winner of the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy. He is also the Co-founder and Principal Advocate at BriefLogic. He can be found online at www.bonevac.info.

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Phoenix-area Catholic extraordinaire Jamie Hanson shares his reading suggestions with Doug, who returns the favor. The each give 10 or so accessible and enjoyable books that might appeal to a wide variety of people and serve as great gifts it you get caught in a lurch.

Jamie is a founding member of Catholic Phoenix. Right now, however, his efforts are focused on creating and running The Kindling, a website that showcases Phoenix-area Catholic writing. In his spare time, he is a husband, father to six, and a lawyer.

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List of books mentioned in this episode:

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Dog of the South by Charles Portis

Arizona Outlaws and Lawman by Marshall Trimble

The Last Gunfight by Jeff Guinn

The Four Cardinal Virtues by Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone

Linchpin by Seth Godin

Steal Like and Artist: 10 Things No One Ever Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon

Freddie Steinmark: Faith, Family, Football by Bower Yousse and Thomas Cryan

The Big Scrum by John J. Miller

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual notetaking by Mike Rhode

Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel and Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley

Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love by Joseph Pearce

Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce

A First Glance At Thomas Aquinas (A Handbook for Peeping Thomists) by Ralph McInerny

Until Lily: The First in a Trilogy by Sherry Boas

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Chris is the CEO and fund manager of the Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, which is supports the growth of VC in Michigan while bridging the gap between Michigan's emerging innovation community and it's commercial/industrial base.

Chris has a background in accounting and law, and previously co-founded Ardesta. LLC and Avalon Investments. He is also the finance chair of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. And, in his spare time, he is a soul music fan and created soultracks.com from scratch. He and Doug talk about his business and his deep Catholic faith.

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For our show this week, Dr. Carlin discusses medieval matrimony and its implications for the modern sacrament. He and Doug discuss the changes in the ceremony throughout the years and it's importance in the public square.

Dr, Carlin did his undergraduate work at Williams, and his graduate work in Fordham. He earned is PhD in Medieval Studies from the Catholic University of America and his specialties include medieval monasticism, sacramental theology and historical theology.

As promised, here is a selected bibliography:

Bethune, Brian. “The Text of the Christian Rite of Marriage in Medieval Spain.” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1986.

Brooke, Christopher N. L. The Medieval Idea of Marriage. Oxford, 1989.

Brundage, James A. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Centro italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo, ed. Il Matrimonio nella società altomedievale: 22-28 aprile 1976. Spoleto: Presso la sede del Centro, 1977.

Molin, Jean-Baptiste and Protais Mutembe. Le rituel du mariage en France du XIIe au XVI siècle. Paris: Beauchesne, 1974.

Reynolds, Philip Lyndon. Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianization of Marriage During the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods. Turnhout: Brill, 2001.

Searle, Mark, and Kenneth W. Stevenson. Documents of the Marriage Liturgy. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992.

Sheehan, Michael M. Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies, ed. James K. Farge. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1996.

Stevenson, Kenneth W. Nuptial Blessing: A Study of Christian Marriage Rites. Alcuin Club Collection 64. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1982.

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Just in time for the election (almost), Erik Twist chats with Doug in some of the internal conflicts with liberal democracy. Their discussion s based largely on a book called The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by Ryszard Legutko, a Polish philosopher at Jagellonian University in Krakow.

Erik is a long time Catholic Phoenix board member as well as a former president of the board. He has lived in Phoenix for most of his life and works in the education field. He studied political science at Trinity University in San Antonio and has a Masters in Divinity from Oxford.

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