Outside The Walls With Timothy Putnam

Dr. Timothy Muldoon, pastoral theologian at Boston College and author of a number of books on Ignatian spirituality, the theology of the laity, and marriage and family, joins us to talk about his new book published through Orbis Books entitled How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood. The book tells how Community Renewal International built a movement to heal racial tensions, create bonds of friendship, and cure the loneliness and depression that blights our communities in cities across the United States and Africa. 

Allison Gingras joins us to talk about her new book on Ave Maria Press, Signs of Faith: My Unexpected Journey with Sacramentals, the Saints, and the Abundant Grace of God.

Dr. Leonard DeLorenzo, from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, joins us to talk about his new book Our Faithful Departed: Where They Are and Why It Matters available on Ave Maria Press. This book explores the Communion of Saints rooted in Catholic anthropology and incarnated through personal experiences. We talk about how to wrap our minds around this mystical communion and how to strengthen that communion through communal practices.   

Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Dr. Italy”), Co-founder and Director of The Crossroads Initiative, is the author of five books and hundreds of articles. In 2019, Dr. D’Ambrosio published the groundbreaking Bible study on the life of Jesus Christ filmed in the Holy Land, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life, presenting alongside Jeff Cavins and Dr. Edward Sri. In 2022, he became the co-author and co-presenter of What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith, together with Dr. Andrew Swafford and Sarah Swafford. Dr. D’Ambrosio is currently a Professor of Theology at the Catholic Distance University.

Matthew Benfield has had an eventful year. He was confirmed in the Catholic Church, completing a 10-year journey of faith, completed a consecration to the Sacred Heart, to Jesus through Mary, and runs a popular TikTok account (TheologiaViatorum). We talk about his conversion, the importance of living compassionately, and communicating the Gospel effectively.  

In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, married couples Adam and Haylee Minihan and David and Pamela Niles share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made. This book goes beyond the aesthetic or surface-level attributes of a Catholic home. Beyond that, it shares how to foster holiness in all the little moments in Catholic family life.

Bo Bonner, Co-host of the Uncommon Good (https://theuncommongood.simplecast.com), joins us to talk about the various modes by which we approach the Bible and through which we receive Sacred Scripture.

Dr. Mark Giszczak, Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute, recently wrote the book “Bible Translation and the Making of the ESV Catholic Edition.” In this book, He covers the conversations that preceded the ESV project and the promulgation of the Vatican document on translation, Liturgiam authenticam (2001). The meeting of the minds represented by the ESV translation philosophy and the Vatican’s own translation norms is remarkable.  Dr. Mark Giszczak specializes in Old Testament Wisdom Literature as well as biblical theology and Catholic biblical interpretation. He blogs at https://catholicbiblestudent.com/    

JonMarc Grodi, Executive Director of the Coming Home Network and Host of The Journey Home on EWTN, joins us to talk about the continual call to conversion that leads us to a life of Virtue. Patrons can access extra segments - Learn more and listen at https://www.patreon.com/posts/72900101. 

Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP was recently named the editor of Our Sunday Visitor, the weekly national Catholic newspaper found at OSVNEWS.COM.  Father Patrick comes to OSV from the English edition of Aleteia.org, the global Catholic news and spirituality website, where he served as editor-in-chief. This spring, Father Patrick was nominated to serve as a Eucharistic Preacher, a work he has undertaken to support the USCCB-led National Eucharistic Revival, and along with his Dominican brothers, he hosts the podcast Godsplaining, and he co-authored the book Saint Dominic’s Way of Life: A Path to Knowing and Loving God (OSV Books).

Paul Fahey, co-founder of Where Peter Is, has recently written a necessary and helpful article on recognizing and preventing spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church called "The Place Where you Stand is Holy Ground."  This type of abuse is not often talked about, but leaves lasting scars, and is a major contributor to the "rise of the nones." 

Have we been conditioned to act on our gut instinct, our first impression, or do we take the time to look beyond our primary instinct and to our second thought? So often Jesus saw beyond the immediately obvious and into underlying motivations. As scripture says, "man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart." Kristin Putnam and I discuss what it might look like to reconsider our polarized impulses and ponder situations and circumstances more deeply.

Rachel Bulman is a regular contributor to the Word on Fire blog, an author with two forthcoming books, and co-hosts the Youtube show “Meet the Bulmans” with her husband, Dcn Jason Bulman, who was recently ordained to the Diocese of Orlando. They join us on-air to talk about their practice of hospitality and their expression of vulnerability as a part of a lifestyle of evangelization.

Dr. Ann M. Garrido (https://www.anngarrido.com/) is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, (https://www.ai.edu/) where she previously directed the school’s Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching program. Garrido has served as the Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics at the University of Notre Dame.  She is the author of multiple books, including the award-winning Redeeming Administration, Redeeming Conflict, Let’s Talk About Truth, and the topic of today's conversation, Rules of Engagement: 8 Christian Habits for Being Good and Doing Good Online (https://www.avemariapress.com/products/rules-of-engagement).  

Sr. Alicia Torres, F.E. is on the Executive Team for the USCCB's National Eucharistic Revival. She joins us to talk about the initiative, and her own experience with Christ in the Eucharist.

Brett Salkeld is Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina in Saskatchewan and is the co-host of the Thinking Faith podcast. His latest book, Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and Christian Unity, is available on Baker Academic Press. Today we talk about his Church Life Journal piece, Guilt, Responsibility, and Purgatory: How Traditional Catholic Teaching Can Help Us Think About Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations.

Matt Regner is the Director of Liturgy and Evangelization at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin. He recently wrote a thoughtful essay Parishioners Don't Belong at the Parish published in the Church Life Journal. We talked over several points from the article about the end goals of evangelization.  Patreon supporters get an extra 19 minutes of conversation. Learn More.

Casey Phillips is the director of Evangelization at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington, KY, and the co-host of the podcast The BaptiCatholic Show. He joins us to talk about Evangelization in a Catholic context.

What picture pops into your head when you envision "the Church?" Whose faces are situated next to yours in the family portrait above God's mantle? The answer to this question has implications on how we live out our faith, practice evangelization, and make disciples. It's the fundamental question of "Who Belongs?" Fr. Josh Johnson joins us to discuss his new book, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Restoring God’s Vision for Race and Discipleship. This book follows Fr. Josh’s journey of serving as the only Black priest in the diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Fr. Josh draws from the riches of Scripture, personal experience as a Catholic of color, his priestly ministry, and the wisdom of the Church to encourage Catholics to understand more deeply the call of Christ to make disciples of “all peoples and nations (Matt. 28:19).”

Michael Grasinski, President of Ruah Woods Institute, and Rob Stamper, Curriculum and Education Specialist, join us to talk about the Institute and their TOB Curriculum for Catholic Schools. We also discuss the nature of the TOB as a Christian Anthropology and key element of a Worldview that emphasizes the dignity of the human person. Patreon supporters get an extra 9 minutes of conversation as Michael and Rob share their initial encounter with the Theology of the Body. Learn more at https://www.patreon.com/posts/68244799.