Today, we welcome our first guest ever to the show, Dr. Matt Breuninger—associate professor of Psychology at Franciscan University, author of Finding Freedom in Christ: Healing Life’s Hurts, and most important, the former owner of Visitation House.

We talked for a solid 90 minutes up in the attic about what it means to be a good man, a good father, and a good husband (including an inordinate amount of time discerning if it involves jiu jitsu), and had way too much fun. Maybe a little too much fun. But once you get past the first 15 minutes of nonsense, we promise there is a ton of substance, largely thanks to Matt, who is one of the smartest and best guys any of us know. You should buy his book, follow him on Instagram, and bring him to your diocese to speak.

Mentioned on Today’s Episode:

Known: Embraced By the Heart of the Father (A 12-Week Online Coaching Program led by Matt Breuninger and Isaac Wicker)

A Father Who Keeps His Promises by Scott Hahn

The Holdovers

Twilight Samurai

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

“Evangelical Sanctity: The Completion of Natural Virtue,” by Saint John Henry Newman (Sermon III of the Oxford Sermons)

These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body by Emily Stimpson Chapman

Familiaris Consortio

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