Evangelization & Culture Podcast

"In almost all of [Seneca's] tragedies," sixteenth century playwright Giambattisa Giraldi Cinthio confessed, "he surpassed . . . all the Greeks who ever wrote—in wisdom, in gravity, in decorum, in majesty, and in memorable aphorism." And yet no one seems to remember him. Who was this ingenious ancient Roman thinker and writer?

Join me and celebrated poet Dana Gioia as we discuss Seneca's The Madness of Hercules and why Seneca is still supremely relevant today.

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While many argue that Adolf Hitler was "made" upon the 1939 outbreak of World War II or his 1933 accession to the Chancellorship of Germany, one historian reasons that the ordinary man became Führer in 1923. With the French occupying industrial portions of Germany, the economy fell into a tailspin and political radicalism skyrocketed. This led a rabid German corporal with a toothbrush mustache to orchestrate the infamous Beer Hall Putsch.

Join me and Professor Mark Jones as we discuss the rarely considered origins of Adolf Hitler in his book, 1923.

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How did a young, passionate politico rise to accompany Richard Nixon into the Oval Office only to find himself convicted and imprisoned for false statements about political dirty tricks?

Join Tod and former Deputy Assistant to the President, Dwight Chapin, as we explore his rise and fall and the lessons learned about the complexity of human nature in his gripping memoir, The President's Man.

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What happens when a cradle Catholic wanders from his faith, succeeds brilliantly as a Protestant in the Academy, only to find himself convicted through his own research and the grace of God of the truth of the Catholic Faith? As G.K. Chesterton wrote, "The moment a man ceases to pull against the Church he feels a tug towards it. . . . The moment he tries to be fair to it he begins to be fond of it.

Join me and Professor Francis Beckwith as we explore his tale of a Catholic reversion.

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The respected, middle-aged Kate Montclair has an inoperable brain cancer. She is going to die. But how? Her friend Adele, the vivacious leader of the Death Symposium, knows just how to help her.

Join me and Christendom associate professor of philosophy and novelist Daniel McInerny as we explore the profound tensions and irresistible temptations surrounding incurable illness and the fashionable choice of euthanasia.

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"I am inclined to set it up as a canon," C.S. Lewis clucked, "that a children's story that is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story." To read children's literature as a child is to be immersed in a world of wonder. To read them again as an adult is to begin to understand what they truly meant.

Join me and Word on Fire Spark Editor Haley Stewart as we explore exactly why children's literature matters.

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"When Christ calls a man, he bids them come and die." So said Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed by the Nazis at Flossenbürg concentration camp. True commitment to Christ is no lark; it is seismic.

Join me and Bishop Robert Barron as we discuss The Strangest Way—the nature, impact, and responsibility that comes with authentic conversion to Catholicism.

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What happens when you assert control, determine your destiny, and then find out that you are going to die shortly from an incurable cancer? If you are Tammy Peterson, you embrace the cross, pray the Rosary, and find yourself completely and utterly transformed.

Join me and Tammy Peterson as we explore her harrowing journey from the consuming darkness of cancer to the blinding light of Christ.

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What if there was an incandescent Truth, but no one felt it worth fighting for? Meet Turnbull and MacIan, a fiery atheist editor and an ardent Catholic highlander, as they physically duel and verbally joust over the highest of things while an ideological world conspires to affect their silence.

Join me and the President of the Society for G.K. Chesterton, Dale Ahlquist, as we explore Chesterton's ingenious novel, The Ball and the Cross.

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Before Pope John Paul II shook the foundations of the Communist world, there was the inspired witness and breathtaking courage of Hungary's József Cardinal Mindszenty. Carrying a picture of Christ bearing his crown of thorns, Mindszenty drew strength from its Latin inscription, Devictus vincit (Defeated, he is victorious).

Join me and Professor Daniel Mahoney as we delve into the gripping Memoirs of Cardinal Mindszenty which reveal the faith of a Catholic giant and the crucible in which he was formed.

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