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a church for our children, or no church at all?
May 22, 2026
33m 26s
The Shroud of Turin: What Scientists Discovered
Apr 8, 2026
2h 15m 43s
Stations of the Cross
Mar 28, 2026
1h 06m 02s
Judgment as a setting for learning and practicing hope
Feb 27, 2026
1h 22m 57s
Prayer and suffering as schools of hope
Feb 25, 2026
1h 05m 38s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/22/26 |  a church for our children, or no church at all?✨ | churchchildren+3 | — | Vatican Council II | — | church for childrensynodality+3 | — | 33m 26s | |
| 4/8/26 |  The Shroud of Turin: What Scientists Discovered✨ | Shroud of Turinscientific research+3 | Jack Sacco | Saint Monica's Catholic ChurchThe Shroud of Turin | Santa Monica, California | Shroud of Turinscientific findings+3 | — | 2h 15m 43s | |
| 3/28/26 |  Stations of the Cross✨ | Stations of the CrossHoly Week+3 | — | The Passion of The ChristVia Cruci | — | Stations of the CrossHoly Week+3 | — | 1h 06m 02s | |
| 2/27/26 |  Judgment as a setting for learning and practicing hope✨ | Christian hopejudgment+4 | Kale Zelden | — | — | Christian hopejudgment+5 | — | 1h 22m 57s | |
| 2/25/26 |  Prayer and suffering as schools of hope✨ | Christian hopeprayer+3 | Kale Zelden | DennisCrommett.Bandcamp.com | — | Christian hopePope Benedict XVI+3 | — | 1h 05m 38s | |
| 2/24/26 |  The true shape of Christian hope✨ | Christian hopePope Benedict XVI+3 | Kale Zelden | Pope Benedict XVI | — | Christian hopePope Benedict XVI+3 | — | 21m 38s | |
| 2/23/26 |  the transformation of Christian hope in the modern age✨ | Christian hopemodernity+4 | Kale | — | — | Christian hopemodernity+5 | — | 56m 12s | |
| 2/21/26 |  is Christian hope individualistic?✨ | Christian hopeindividualism+5 | Kale Zelden | ChurchCalled to Communion | — | Christian hopeindividualism+5 | — | 55m 11s | |
| 2/12/26 |  faith-based hope and eternal life✨ | faith-based hopeeternal life+5 | Kale Zelden | Spe SalviThe Still Point in the Turning World+3 | — | hopeeternal life+7 | — | 1h 00m 34s | |
| 2/9/26 |  what is faith-based hope?✨ | faith-based hopePope Benedict XVI+3 | Kale Zelden | Spe SalviAve Maris Stella+3 | — | faithhope+5 | — | 41m 43s | |
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| 1/30/26 |  The battle for hope | My friend Kale and I discuss a broad range of topics, including: the self-conscious church; the church as an expert in humanity; self-exploitation and social media; and Catholic identity and liturgy. Kale's interview with Paul VanderKlay (Sept 3, 2020) Katie Van Schaijik - Theology of the Body: A Cure for Clericalism (2019) Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises (1926) Pope Francis - Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), paragraphs 93-97 (2013) Pop... | 1h 08m 31s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 |  The meaning of communion | In this episode, I offer a reflection on Holy Communion -- the Body and Blood of Christ -- as it relates to life in the Body of Christ... quoting from not only C.S. Lewis, but also Pope Benedict XVI in Deus Caritas Est. I also include a rendition of Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, as performed by Fernando Ortega. Additional music for the podcast has been provided through the generosity of Jeremy Casella. Support the show | 16m 31s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 |  The Last Things | In 2008, during a Holy Week RCIA retreat, I led a reflection on The Last Things -- death, judgment, heaven and hell. Rather than diving right into a discussion of things ultimate, I decided to provide some context, and some of that context came from C.S. Lewis. In The Weight of Glory, Lewis observes that "we are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he ca... | 1h 36m 50s | ||||||
| 11/15/25 |  When US bishops LARP as politicians | This is my first podcast episode affiliated with my new Substack. You can read the article and view the associated videos by visiting my Substack here: https://doxaweb.substack.com/ Support the show | 1h 39m 49s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  Faust's Bargain Debasement | In this episode, Kale and I discuss the final pages of The Abolition of Man. In a world allegedly without objective values, what conditions the conditioners? Chesterton’s idea of play and rules providing freedom; the reality that a value-free neutrality does not exist; trans-humanism and post-humanism; the dismembering of nature and disenchantment; the magician’s bargain: how the last step toward the abolition of man is unlike every prior step; the common ancestry of science and magic; ... | 1h 19m 49s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  The Final Conquest of Man over Humanity | Today, we begin discussing the final chapter of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. Topics include: slavery and freedom; the conquest of man over man; the flight from the reality of death; the world state as a surrogate for the Tao; eugenics, trans-humanism and post-humanism; man as raw material for the post-human project; the impact of World War I on the thinking of Lewis; and what a positive and humane technical progress could look like. The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis After Humanity: A ... | 54m 25s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  Screwtape rejects the Tao | My friend Kale Zelden and I finish discussing the second chapter of The Abolition of Man: “The Way.” We discuss the rebellion of the branch against the tree; whether authority can be interrogated from within or without the Tao; addressing moral relativity before making an apologia for faith; and how the end of this chapter of The Abolition of Man echoes the tower of Babel and The Screwtape Letters. Click here for the show notes. Support the show | 1h 09m 50s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  The Way | My friend Kale Zelden and I begin discussing the second chapter of The Abolition of Man: "The Way." We discuss Innovators and Debunkers, the limits of instinct, and the indispensable role of the Tao. The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man - Michael Ward Bishop Barron's conversation with evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein Macbeth - William Shakespeare Plato's Allegory of the Cave Support the show | 1h 03m 55s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  Men Without Chests | My friend Kale Zelden and I complete our conversation about the first chapter of The Abolition of Man: "Men Without Chests." We discuss debunking, the cultivation of just sentiments, the Tao, the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, and the chest as essential mediator between the head and the belly. The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man - Michael Ward Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - John Vervaeke Shadowlands Theolog... | 1h 35m 07s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  The grammar of The Green Book | My friend Kale Zelden returns to the podcast to discuss with me The Abolition of Man, a collection of lectures on ethics that C.S. Lewis first delivered in 1943 at the University of Durham. Today's episode contains our opening conversation about The Abolition of Man. The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man - Michael Ward The Stranger - Albert Camus A Critical Look at The Stranger: The Culpability of Moral Estrangement That Hideous Streng... | 1h 16m 23s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  Season 2: Humanity and the Abolition of Man | The second season of this podcast will be focused on the theme of humanity: Specifically, the topic of how to ground our humanity within a truly ethical framework. It's something to which C.S. Lewis gave close attention in a book titled The Abolition of Man, first published in 1943. My friend Kale Zelden will return to discuss the book with me, as we have both appreciated the book for a long time and are eager to revisit it. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis After Humanity by F... | 2m 08s | ||||||
| 5/21/21 |  The grace of Pentecost, and loving the Church | In honor of the approaching solemnity of Pentecost, I'm posting a special episode today on the grace of Pentecost and loving the Church. It's a presentation I recorded in Los Angeles back in 2008, when I had the chance to hear then-Father (and now Cardinal) Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap give a talk sponsored by the Southern California Renewal Conference (SCRC). Cantalamessa's words about divisions in the body of Christ, the importance of each person seeking the good of the other, and the valu... | 43m 52s | ||||||
| 11/3/20 |  Living in the Age of COVID | In the current pandemic, nothing is more evident than our diverse attitudes toward our vulnerability and the ephemeral quality of life in this world. The aversion to risk and the obsession with surviving at any cost have been thrown into very sharp relief. In this context, I think that an essay by C.S. Lewis entitled On Living in an Atomic Age, first published in 1948, is incredibly relevant to the current hour. To illustrate the point, I have adapted the essay to speak not about the atomic... | 21m 59s | ||||||
| 6/8/20 | The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis | Welcome to the Weight of Glory Podcast, an audio podcast designed to explore themes related to a sermon preached by C.S. Lewis seventy-eight years ago this week. The inaugural episode of the podcast is a reading of Lewis' essay. Music for the podcast (Let It All Go from the acoustic album Already/Not Yet) has been provided through the generosity of Jeremy Casella (https://jeremycasella.com) Support the show | 40m 13s | ||||||
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