Practicing the Faith 1 - Tradition: Getting Aristotle into Your iPhone and Jesus into Your Bread

Some things you simply need to practice to know. In the first episode of this series, we explore how practicing a Tradition does more than keep you connected to the past. It's key to launching you into a new future.

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Original Score by Julius Obregon Jr. 

In this episode, Wil takes a story told by Chris Dixon in The Atlantic and adapts it to focus on the role and nature of Tradition (and expands it to give Plato his due!). If you are interested in going deeper into the ideas themselves, you can read the original article here.

Adversity that Magnifies God's Grace - w/ Julie Carrick

This week we talk with Julie Carrick, author of "Unfailing Grace", recording artist, and the person behind the Carrick Ministries foundation. She’s also someone who has prayed for miracles, and received miracles, and not received miracles.

In our conversation, this cradle Catholic presents a view of Christ’s ongoing, and very tangible, presence in the world, and how this makes us people who see adversity as something that only magnifies God’s grace. 

Trauma, the Left and Right Brain, and Redemptive Relationships - a Conversation w/ Dr. Ken Baugh (pt. II)

We pick up the conversation with Dr. Ken Baugh, director of IDT Ministries and author of “Unhindered Abundance: Restoring our Souls in a Fragmented World.”, exploring the way different dimensions of our brains work, and how this interaction points to the massive importance of redemptive relationships in our healing.  

CONTENT WARNING: Some listeners may want to know ahead of time that we do talk about parental trauma as a prominent example.

God, Trauma, Neuroscience, and Spiritual Formation - a Conversation w/ Dr. Ken Baugh (pt. I)

This week and next, we talk about God and Trauma and Cutting-edge Neuroscience and Ancient Spiritual Formation practices with Dr. Ken Baugh, director of IDT Ministries and author of “Unhindered Abundance: Restoring our Souls in a Fragmented World.” 

CONTENT WARNING: Some listeners may want to know ahead of time that we do talk about parental trauma as a prominent example.