Jaws of Life Podcast

Only the most morbid among us enjoy going to funerals, and , yet, as we grow older they become a reality we must face.  This same reality forces us to face the pilgrim like status that we all have and face the realty of our own mortality.  Join us for this week’s episdode, where Tim and Rob are at it again–deploying the jaws of life to pull hope and courage from the world’s mistaken views on death and funerals.

Let’s face it, we can’t always agree to disagree.  What do we do when the most important things like faith and our worldview divdes us from those we are closest to, threatening to ruin our relationship?  We learn the art of civility.    In today’s edition of the podcast, Rob and Tim dust off the jaws of life to preserve friendship and charity from the wreckage of uncivil discourse among friends.

Who among us doesn’t look forward to a much-needed getaway from the regular day-to-day grind of life? When these all-too-rare opportunities for vacation do come up, its important that we invest them wisely.  Otherwise, we risk missing the opportunity to fully renew and refresh ourselves in a meaningful way.  But how do we do this exactly?  In today’s edition of the podcast, Rob and Tim engage the jaws of life to rescue our vacations from endless activism and the resulting boredom.

At various times throughout our country’s existence, leaders have remarked about gaps between the wealthy and poor.  Sometimes these remarks are mere demagoguery for the sake of politics, but in truth there ARE two increasingly disparate moral cultures forming in our countrynow.  And more importantly, the consequences of this morality gap are dire for our future as a nation.  In this edition of the podcast, Rob and Tim again employ the jaws of life to salvage a healthy civic morality from the grips of a compassionate nonjudgmentalism.

After last week’s discussion, Tim and Rob realized that there was still a lot of meat left on the bone in our discussion of the Holy Father.  Join us for this part 2 of Following the Pope where we use the Jaws of Life to pry the fridge open to serve some fresh left-overs on the Pope’s agenda.

Pope Francis has been dubbed the “Pope from the Ends of the Earth” and seems poised to change the Church.  What has he been up to and how should the average lay Catholic respond to what we are hearing from the Vatican?  Stay tuned to today’s episode of the Jaws of Life where Tim and Rob are at it again, looking at, and of course talking about, the Holy Father, Francis.

From antiquity, generations have been exhorted to know thyself.  Within the Catholic tradition, spiritual masters have long recommended the discovery of temperament as a way to grow in self knowledge.  In an age of complicated personality tests, this classical template can help us easily understand why we tend to react the way we do in certain situations.  In this episode of the podcast, Tim and Rob crank up the jaws of life to rescue authentic self knowledge from the trap of self deception.

In the marketplace of ideas, Christianity has been reduced to merely one worldview among many.  Its unique message–that is the saving action of the living Christ–is drowned out amidst various ideas.  Still the next generation of Christians depends upon us enthusiastically sharing the Good News.  How can we do that?  Join us for today’s episode of the podcast where Tim and Rob have the Jaws of Life buzzing once again to rescue authentic evangelization from a culture of religious indifference.

Most of us spend the majority of our adult lives at “work” and most of us tolerate it at best.  How can we get fulfillment out of our work?  Join us for this episode of the podcast where Tim and Rob put on their work gloves, grab the Jaws of Life and rip apart modern day work in order to free it from the grips of utilitarianism and boredom.