The Warrior Priest Podcast

By Warrior Priest

What's The Warrior Priest Podcast about?

Standing at the intersection of conflict and belief to better understand the human condition. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/support

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The Warrior Priest Podcast episodes:

06.28.2024
0202: Midweek Debrief - Death, Still-Borns & Ravens
No pressure, no diamond. You don’t become a good captain by never meeting a storm. And so, at the end of your life – many years from now God willing – there is but one tree, vines threaded gloriously and...
06.21.2024
0201 - Midweek Debrief - The Denial of Death
No matter how much we love the city, or our home, or the land, they will never love us back. They do not give birth to hope. They destroy us in the pursuit of it. And so, to survive you...
06.14.2024
0200: Midweek Debrief - The War on Self in a Can-Do Society
The complaint of the depressive individual, “Nothing is possible,” can only occur in a society that thinks, “Nothing is impossible.” No-longer-being-able-to-be-able leads to destructive self-reproach and auto-aggression. The achievement-subject finds itself fighting with itself. The depressive has been wounded by...
06.07.2024
0199: Midweek Debrief - Friendly Big Brother
Like is the digital Amen. When we click Like, we are bowing down to the order to domination. The smartphone is not just an effective surveillance apparatus; it is also a mobile confessional. - Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/message Support this...
05.29.2024
0198: Midweek Debrief - Kindness Is Invincible
“That kindness is invincible, provided it's sincere- not ironic or an act. What can even the most vicious person do if you keep treating him with kindness and gently set him straight” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/message Support this...
05.23.2024
0197: Midweek Debrief - A New Telling of Three Ancient Tales
We are mud people with a holy breath sweeping through us. That is a comfort, Jesus says. Not tree people so much, or zebra people, or pomegranate people, but mud people. There is a primality in it. It is an...
05.22.2024
0196: Midweek Debrief - The Plight of Addiction
“What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” Alice Miller, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence --- Send in a voice message:...
05.10.2024
0195: Midweek Debrief - Rage Against The New God
Technology is our new god. What would a refusal to worship look like? Paul Kingsnorth offers a vision of resistance, which I discuss in this week's episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/support
05.02.2024
194: Midweek Debrief - Unlocking Reality
If God gave us what we asked for all at once, it would wipe us out. Too much reality. We have to chew on one piece of manna at a time. God’s announcements to the heart are so prestigious that...
04.18.2024
0193: Midweek Debrief - Musui's Story, A Tokugawa Samurai, part 2
“I myself have resolved to follow the path of righteousness henceforth. More than anything, devote yourself to learning and act in accordance with the teachings of the past.” - Katsu Kokichi, Musui's Story --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/message Support this...
04.12.2024
0192: Midweek Debrief - Musui's Story, A Tokugawa Samurai
“I realized that this was true for both China and Japan: every one of those who had been brought to ruin or lost their lands had been punished by Heaven for neglecting the proprieties between sovereign and subject, the bond...
04.04.2024
0191: Midweek Debrief - The First & Final Story
It was not long then until there was the spirit coming, by God’s power, the holy breath, going under the hard stone to the corpse! Light was at that moment opened up, for the good of the sons of men....
03.21.2024
0190: Midweek Debrief - Listening Long to The Silence
Many and powerful are the agents who would bar the door to the key to the universe, many who would throw a veil over him. Moses, you recall, was hard to see. David, perhaps more so. None of this has...
03.14.2024
0189: Midweek Debrief - How Lovely It Was
Those who do not want to live under God’s government will not be forced to. That would erase the principle of love upon which the cosmos is founded — no one will be sent away from the presence of God...
03.07.2024
0188: Midweek Debrief - Keening Their Swords
David was a stone in the path upon which the Paradise King trod. This King is the earth shaker. He is the cloud rider. He is the guardian of widows and orphans, and a servant-king who withholds nothing from his people....
02.29.2024
0187: Midweek Debrief - The Flames of Time
After his death, the people waited for a prophet like Moses to appear because Moses had told them to watch. “Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers.” Moses had said,...
02.22.2024
0186: Midweek Debrief - The Gloaming Time
The gods came down. Slinking, slithering, prowling, whispering, they sought out earthly kings. And so, Pharaoh Merneptah heard a voice in the dark and the voice said his name. He woke, and there was Ptah with a plan. The old...
02.15.2024
0185: In The Beginning... A Story
... we must start in the most difficult place: in the beginning. We have to start where the story is not broken or befouled, when wild waves cooled sun-soaked shores and the choruses of birds carried over ebony cliffs, who...
02.08.2024
0184: Midweek Debrief - Buffered & Pourous People
Almost everyone can agree that one of the big differences between us and our ancestors of five hundred years ago is that they lived in an “enchanted” world, and we do not; at the very least, we live in a much...
02.01.2024
0183: Midweek Debrief - Chesterton on Fairytales
This is the profound morality of fairy-tales; which, so far from being lawless, go to the root of all law. Instead of finding (like common books of ethics) a rationalistic basis for each Commandment, they find the great mystical basis...
01.24.2024
0182: Midweek Debrief - What Is The Goal of An Art?
The Way of combat strategy can be likened to the craft of carpentry. Comparing samurai with carpenters is related to the subject of “houses.” We speak of noble houses, warrior houses and the “Four Houses.” We also talk of the collapse...
01.17.2024
0181: Midweek Debrief - Starting Off on The Right Foot with Miyamoto Musashi
“Never fail to have this attitude of mind, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion. Fight against all kinds of people and be aware of their mind. Follow a road...
12.27.2023
0180: Midweek Debrief - Lost in the Tall Grass of Gratitude
I got lost in the tall grass of my thoughts after promising at the front end of the podcast that I wasn't going to do it! So, I discuss confidence versus overconfidence, finding your passion, and being a life-long student. ---...
12.20.2023
0179: Midweek Debrief - This Week, Let's Be Children Again
The Child that was ere worlds begun (… We need but walk a little way, We need but see a latch undone …) The Child that played with moon and sun Is playing with a little hay. - G.K. Chesterton, Aleteia --- Send in a...
12.14.2023
0178: Midweek Debrief - The Void of Addiction
“Any passion can become an addiction; but then how to distinguish between the two? The central question is: who’s in charge, the individual or their behavior? It’s possible to rule a passion, but an obsessive passion that a person is...
12.06.2023
0178: Midweek Debrief - Monsters Front & Center
“the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras' heads.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Monsters...
11.29.2023
0177: Midweek Debrief - True Myth Tells The Truth
Myths, Lewis told Tolkien, were "lies and therefore worthless, even though breathed through silver." "No," Tolkien replied. "They are not lies." Far from being lies, they were the best way sometimes the only way of conveying truths that would otherwise remain...
11.22.2023
0176: Midweek Debrief - Stories Will Save The World
“After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and...
11.17.2023
0175: Midweek Debrief - Encouragement in the Midst of Danger
In this episode, I read three early Anglo-Saxon texts: The Lorica of Loding, Precepts, and Vainglory. Each poem offers encouragement and hope to those who are in need of protection, wisdom, and guidance in spiritual and earthly matters. They also...
11.08.2023
0174: Midweek Debrief - Hope Is All We Have
Hope is not a wish. It is not optimism or naivety. It is an assertion. It is telling the world, “No, this is not the way things will be; things will be better.” For both Marcel and Tolkien, it is only with...
10.24.2023
0173: Midweek Debrief - The Politics of Obedience
“Obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him...
10.18.2023
0172: Midweek Debrief - Controlling People Through Fear
“…physical attacks lead to a corresponding increase of trust in political leaders and submission to them. This effect is likely the same whether the attack be a surprise, known to political leaders yet allowed to happen, or directly orchestrated by...
09.27.2023
0171: Midweek Debrief - It's Time to Talk About Spiritual Warfare
In the relentless battle-space of spiritual warfare, where the fires of sin and temptation constantly threaten to burn down our faith and lives, Christians are called by God to stand as warriors of faith. We take to heart the words...
09.20.2023
0170: Midweek Debrief - The Benefits of Failure
We are raised and educated to believe that failure should be avoided at any cost. The harsh truth is that we cannot be successful in everything we do, but we can strive for excellence as long as we embrace the lessons...
09.13.2023
0169: Midweek Debrief - The Virtuous Man & The Devil's Child
That wise man sang, the word-ready warrior, and he retold this legend: “He who elevates himself in this perilous moment through his overmastering pride, heaving up his lofty spirit, he must be humbled after his passing journey, crushed down low, dwelling fixed in torments, encompassed...
09.06.2023
0168: Midweek Debrief - Brotherhood & Hope
“Brotherhood has nothing to do with feelings; it has to do with how you define your relationship to others. It has to do with the rather profound decision to put the welfare of the group above your personal welfare. In...
08.30.2023
0167: Midweek Debrief - Fighting for Freedom
“For most of human history, freedom had to be at least suffered for, if not died for, and that raised its value to something almost sacred. In modern democracies, however, an ethos of public sacrifice is rarely needed because freedom...
08.18.2023
0166: Midweek Debrief - Struggle, Self-Sacrifice & Life in Abundance
“The most alarming rhetoric comes out of the dispute between liberals and conservatives, and it’s a dangerous waste of time because they’re both right. ... If you want to make a society work, then you don’t keep underscoring the places where you’re...
08.09.2023
0165: Midweek Debrief - Doing The Next Best Thing
“What would you risk dying for—and for whom—is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question,...
07.26.2023
0164: Midweek Debrief - Do Not Regret What You Have Done
It’s natural to have regrets, but this does not mean that you should live in a state of regret. Many people say that you shouldn’t regret anything, but I think what they mean is that they don’t regret how things have...
07.19.2023
0163: Midweek Debrief - Integrity...
Integrity means always staying true to your values, even when faced with temptation or adversity. It means never compromising your principles for personal gain. It’s about walking the path of righteousness, no matter how challenging it may be. In a...
07.12.2023
0162: Midweek Debrief - Who's The Goat?
There is no reason why someone is chosen to be a scapegoat beyond the immediate imperative to restore order. Once the mimetic process pushes a society to the height of the disturbance, the mechanism of bloody pacification begins to work....
06.28.2023
0161: Midweek Debrief - Put Some Respect on Other People
When we step onto the mats, we become part of something greater than ourselves. We become part of a lineage, a brotherhood, a sisterhood, a family that stretches back through time. In this family, respect is not an option; it’s...
06.21.2023
0160: Midweek Debrief - I Appreciate You
First, stop trying to be the person you think other people want you to be. Second, stop listening to people who aren't where you want to be. These are symptoms of the hurt child's mind. --- Send in a voice message:...
06.14.2023
0159: Midweek Debrief - Believing You're Not Good Enough...
“Every event has two handles - one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can't.” - Epictetus, Enchiridion, 43 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/support
06.08.2023
Sermunition Sunday #83 - The Wild & Untamed Spirit of God
The Holy Spirit is no tame pet to be leashed and controlled. Oh no, he is more like a raging wildfire, consuming everything in his path. The Holy Spirit is the sledgehammer that knocks holes in the fortress of our...
06.07.2023
0158: Midweek Debrief - Microdosing & Creativity
“When microdosing, I notice a lot of differences in my energy level, motivation and focus, but most importantly, I really feel it brings more color to my life. I think more creatively and easily make connections. This leads me to...
06.07.2023
Sermunition Sunday #82 - The Spirit Crashes Into Our Lives
In this topsy-turvy world, where truth is often obscured by a haze of deceit and propaganda, only the Holy Spirit can navigate us through a treacherous landscape of news and social media, separating fact from fiction for us, and exposing...
05.31.2023
0157: Midweek Debrief - All Governments Are Religious Cults
“The State takes the place of God… the socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship.” - Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/donavon-riley/support
05.24.2023
0156: Midweek Debrief - Sir Geraint & Enid
So off rode Sir Geraint, keeping at some distance behind the lady, the knight, and the dwarf. At last, after passing through many woods, he lost sight of them as they disappeared beyond the top of a hill. Sir Geraint...

What's The Warrior Priest Podcast about?

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The Warrior Priest Podcast episodes:

0202: Midweek Debrief - Death, Still-Borns & Ravens

0201 - Midweek Debrief - The Denial of Death

0200: Midweek Debrief - The War on Self in a Can-Do Society

0199: Midweek Debrief - Friendly Big Brother

0198: Midweek Debrief - Kindness Is Invincible

0197: Midweek Debrief - A New Telling of Three Ancient Tales

0196: Midweek Debrief - The Plight of Addiction

0195: Midweek Debrief - Rage Against The New God

194: Midweek Debrief - Unlocking Reality

0193: Midweek Debrief - Musui's Story, A Tokugawa Samurai, part 2

0192: Midweek Debrief - Musui's Story, A Tokugawa Samurai

0191: Midweek Debrief - The First & Final Story

0190: Midweek Debrief - Listening Long to The Silence

0189: Midweek Debrief - How Lovely It Was

0188: Midweek Debrief - Keening Their Swords

0187: Midweek Debrief - The Flames of Time

0186: Midweek Debrief - The Gloaming Time

0185: In The Beginning... A Story

0184: Midweek Debrief - Buffered & Pourous People

0183: Midweek Debrief - Chesterton on Fairytales

0182: Midweek Debrief - What Is The Goal of An Art?

0181: Midweek Debrief - Starting Off on The Right Foot with Miyamoto Musashi

0180: Midweek Debrief - Lost in the Tall Grass of Gratitude

0179: Midweek Debrief - This Week, Let's Be Children Again

0178: Midweek Debrief - The Void of Addiction

0178: Midweek Debrief - Monsters Front & Center

0177: Midweek Debrief - True Myth Tells The Truth

0176: Midweek Debrief - Stories Will Save The World

0175: Midweek Debrief - Encouragement in the Midst of Danger

0174: Midweek Debrief - Hope Is All We Have

0173: Midweek Debrief - The Politics of Obedience

0172: Midweek Debrief - Controlling People Through Fear

0171: Midweek Debrief - It's Time to Talk About Spiritual Warfare

0170: Midweek Debrief - The Benefits of Failure

0169: Midweek Debrief - The Virtuous Man & The Devil's Child

0168: Midweek Debrief - Brotherhood & Hope

0167: Midweek Debrief - Fighting for Freedom

0166: Midweek Debrief - Struggle, Self-Sacrifice & Life in Abundance

0165: Midweek Debrief - Doing The Next Best Thing

0164: Midweek Debrief - Do Not Regret What You Have Done

0163: Midweek Debrief - Integrity...

0162: Midweek Debrief - Who's The Goat?

0161: Midweek Debrief - Put Some Respect on Other People

0160: Midweek Debrief - I Appreciate You

0159: Midweek Debrief - Believing You're Not Good Enough...

Sermunition Sunday #83 - The Wild & Untamed Spirit of God

0158: Midweek Debrief - Microdosing & Creativity

Sermunition Sunday #82 - The Spirit Crashes Into Our Lives

0157: Midweek Debrief - All Governments Are Religious Cults

0156: Midweek Debrief - Sir Geraint & Enid

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