Join us for this introductory conversation on the concept of philosophy ("love of wisdom").  As we go through this conversation we give a working definition of what philosophy is, how we all have a philosophical outlook, and the consequences of not thinking about the truths you hold about the universe. We then talk about some of the major philosophical movements and themes of modernity: utilitarianism, dualism, and atheistic materialism. 

Learn more about Pat here:
One of his books - https://howtobebetterbook.com/
His website - https://www.chroniclesofstrength.com/
His youtube channel - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pat-flynn-show/id1253261458

Did you set your New Year's resolutions? Was carving out a more intentional Sabbath one of them? This week we are republishing an awesome interview with Dr.  Nathan Stucky about his contemporary research and theological understanding of sabbath. It's certainly worth a re-listen, as we can always be fine tuning our approach experience the Divine in our rest. The team at Eden Revisited hopes you had a Merry Christmas and wishes you a Happy New Year! Stay tuned for more content, interviews, and banjo interludes in 2022!
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How often do we wake up on a Sunday morning and really look forward to a day of rest, one where we see the day as an opportunity to stop and reflect on God's omnipotent grace? How can we "wake up" with work looming on Monday, chores to be completed, and activities to haul the kids off to? It can often seem like there is never a moment to breathe.
In this episode, Tyler interviews Dr. Nathan Stucky, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and founder of the Farminary. Nate grew up on a farm in Kansas, which is where he attributes his love of farming. He studied music at Bethel College, and spent six years as a youth minister before heading to graduate school at Princeton. Along with having his Doctoral degree he is also an ordained minister in the Mennonite tradition. Nate has recently been taking a close look at the role of Sabbath in our relationship with God. We discuss his recent book, Wrestling with Rest, which serves as a rich theological dive into the meaning of Sabbath in the midst of our busy contemporary lives.
In our conversation we discuss God's vision of rest, from the creation story all the way to Jesus' living ministry. We examine our role in recognizing the pure gift and significant meaning of true Sabbath practice. We finish by discussing some of the innovative agricultural education that he and his students participate in at the Farminary.

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You've probably heard of Dorothy Day, but who was her inspiration and companion in realizing the vision of the Catholic Worker movement? In this episode, Eric Anglada joins Tyler and Nick in revisiting the oft-forgotten Peter Maurin. Peter and his synthesis of “cult, culture, and cultivation” made for an unlikely but dynamic duo with Dorothy, one that ultimately unleashed one of the greatest American Catholic movements of the 20th Century. Brimming with memorable quips and a love of the land, Peter teamed up with the legendary Catholic social activist to launch houses of hospitality, fight for the dignity of work, and create a legacy still alive today. Tune in reap the wisdom of this underappreciated visionary!

Eric Anglada lives and works with his wife, Brenna, at St. Isidore Catholic Worker Farm in Wisconsin.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

• What created the synergy between Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day?
• What is the true meaning of the Green Revolution?
• What is the Catholic Worker movement?
• Why is personalism different than rugged American individualism?
• How do you “Create a society where it is easier to be good”?
• Why is the land so important to Catholic spirituality?    
• What does daily life look like on a Catholic Worker farm?

LINKS

• "Taking Root: The history and new growth of Catholic Worker farms" by Eric Anglada in America Magazine
• Easy Essays by Peter Maurin
• The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker by Lincoln Rice
• The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day's spiritual autobiography
• MPT Presents | Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story | PBS

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Join Austin and Malcolm Schluenderfritz for a conversation about voluntary poverty. We discuss what poverty is, what it isn't, and how it integrates with the Christian life. The conversation goes into an Edenic account of poverty and outlines what voluntary poverty could look like in the modern world. Join us for this fascinating and often forgotten conversation. 

Fr. Dubay's book: Happy Are You Poor
The article mentioned: Is it Really Nessesary to be Poor?
Malcolm's Blog: Happy Are You Poor

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Join us on this Thanksgiving episode as we dive into gratitude, especially in regards to food.  Tyler attempts to read some poetry and Nick grades him harshly. We use the wise words of American poet and agricultural/environmental activist, Wendell Berry, to frame our minds and hearts around what it means to enter into deeper gratitude about the food we consume. See below for the text of these poems and the excerpt from his book of essays, Bringing it to the Table.

Also check out the song (to be performed someday by Morgan!)  "Waltzing Matilda" and one of Nick's favorite children's story, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. And because I shouted them out in the show, happy Thanksgiving to Storey Family Farm and to any of our South Bend listeners.

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The Wish to be Generous

ALL that I serve will die, all my delights,
the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field,
the silent lilies standing in the woods,
the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all
will burn in man’s evil, or dwindle
in its own age. Let the world bring on me
the sleep of darkness without stars, so I may know
my little light taken from me into the seed
of the beginning and the end, so I may bow
to mystery, and take my stand on the earth
like a tree in a field, passing without haste
or regret toward what will be, my life
a patient willing descent into the grass.

 - Wendell Berry

A Prayer After Eating
I have taken in the light
that quickened eye and leaf
May my brain be bright with praise
of what I eat, in the brief blaze
of motion and of thought.
May I be worthy of my meat.
   
 - Wendell Berry

This episode is a rebroadcast from February 2021. Since then, Dr. Larry Chapp has appeared on the "Bishop Barron Presents" series, where he and Bishop Barron discussed the Catholic Worker Movement, Traditionalism and liberalism in the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, and other topics. You can watch his interview with Bishop Barron here.

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Join Nick and Austin as they sit down with Dr. Larry Chapp to discuss his transition from academia to life on a Catholic Worker Farm. He explores the theology of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, as well as their ideas on personalism, distributism, and what it means to live a "radical" Christian life. We also get some practical tips on why sheep are better than goats and how one can responsibly plan to start their own farm.
Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology and taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. He now operates the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania with his wife, Carmina.  He also runs the popular blog Gaudium et Spes 22.
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LINKS

• The Long Loneliness  by Dorothy Day (spiritual autobiography)
• Catholic Worker Movement
• The Hound of Distributism (primer on the economic philosophy)
• Peter Maurin's Easy Essays

Could you eat manna for 40 years? The Israelites did – kicking and screaming – and they learned a lesson or two about themselves and their God along the way.

On today’s episode, Nick and Tyler do a close reading of Exodus 16 and explore the Israelites’ radical transition from Egyptian captivity to (reluctant) trust in Providence. Using the work of theologian Ellen Davis as a guide, this podcast connects the Israelites’ wilderness experience to our own modern need for rest, restraint, justice, simplicity, and contentment. Can you pass the manna, please?

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

• Why Egypt was considered the first industrial society.
• What manna was and the bizarre rules around it.
• How and why the Sabbath originated.
• How the Israelites’ wilderness experience was an inverse of their captivity in Egypt.
• Why eating is considered an agricultural, moral, social, and economic act.
• And why the Prince of Egypt movie is so darn good!

LINKS

• Ellen Davis’ book Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading Of The Bible
• Wendell Berry: “Eating is an agricultural act.”
• Nick’s favorite song from Prince of Egypt

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Luke Robinson, our bread specialist from episode 18 is on the show again to discuss why he thinks wine, like bread, is MAGIC. For those who remember our conversation about sourdough, leaven, and bread making, you'll remember how effortlessly Luke mines the depths of the everyday. Luke shares how he came to appreciate wine, his own experiences working at wineries, and how this has provided much fruit for his interior gardens.  Plus after this show you'll impress your friends by describing the terroir of your wine.  Let this show hit you like the a good glass of wine, as our friend Luke says, "with a little zing and some zang." However, don't rush it. Remember, the best wine is aged. 

In today's interview, Nick and Austin talk to Dr. Jay Richards about the lost Christian practice of fasting.  Dr. Richards explains how the wellness trend of intermittent fasting doesn't just extend back a few years but rather back to the earliest Christian communities. We pull on ancient wisdom and modern science to help better understand what fasting is, why we should fast, and where to start.

Dr. Jay Richards is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the Executive Editor of The Stream.

Dr. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage; Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; and Eat, Fast, Feast. His most recent book, with Douglas Axe and William Briggs, is The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe.

You can learn more about Dr. Richards in the links below.
 
If you like this episode and want to listen to more on the same subject we recommend listening to our interview with Sophia Berg (Charitou) on fasting and the diet culture. 

LInks

• Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul―A Christian Guide to Fasting
• More articles and resources by Dr. Richards.

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We're talking communes, but keep your clothes on, people. Today we explore the Rule of St. Augustine and his vision for a common life for lay Christians. There's more to this than s'mores, fire dances, and optional clothing.

After his baptism, Augustine founded a  community of laymen with whom he shared life and prayer. His community was oriented around a Rule designed to bring its members closer to God and neighbor. Eventually, the Rule was extended to priests and became what is now the oldest monastic rule in the Western Church. Nick, Tyler, and Austin discuss how Augustine's principles would fit in with their own Catholic "commune," or intentional community, dreams.

Show Highlights

• Who was St. Augustine and why did he start a Rule of community living?
• Why do secular communes often lead to disaster?
• Did Augustine think a pure democracy would work in the monastery?
• Was Augustine a communist?
• Can "commune" members go on personal shopping sprees?
• Could we play Settlers of Catan on our "commune"?
• What would be the most difficult parts of living together?
• What are the keys to fraternal correction?
• Can there be snacks?

Links

• Rule of St. Augustine (can be read in one sitting!)

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