A Word from Our Outpost: Faithful Formation for Catholic Missionary Disciples on Prayer, Evangelization, Scripture, and Disci

A solution to clericalism is to dive deeper into what the role of the laity is-- this episode, we look at the second objective of the lay apostolate according to Vatican II's document, Apostolicam Actuositatem. We strongly recommend people (no matter their state in life) give this document a read; we also suggest you give this episode a listen, a share, and a review!Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

I don't usually do reaction videos, but when I saw the same basic thing happen in two debates, I thought it at least worth calling out, especially because of how egregious it was, and how little people took note of it. The Jordan Peterson episode in full can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwk5MPE_6zE&t=1983sAnd the relevant clip from it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9fSjo72wmxYWxpUh5WZgS4fkaRrhNgzoThe Michael Knowles Episode in full can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBoFwaTWm70&t=2462sAnd the relevant piece begins here: https://youtu.be/yBoFwaTWm70?si=xM7uU8VWIHm1otL2&t=2647The two-part Star Trek: TNG episode was Chain of Command.  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Something intensely meaningful happens at Mass; the summit of all meaning, in fact, happens at Mass. But many of us may miss the implications, so here's a little episode looking at some of them! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

AJ Garcia, parish regional director of FOCUS, joins us to talk about his decision to join FOCUS, to leave FOCUS, and to rejoin FOCUS! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Leanne Jarvis is a Certified FEMM Fertility & Hormone Coach, as well as a former FOCUS missionary! She shares her story of athletic ambitions crushed, faith gained, and mission lived both on campus and out in the world!You can find her work at https://rosefem.com/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

This is a rare treat! Luke and Megan Reetz join Joseph on this episode, and Luke was one of the most instrumental men in Joseph's deepening conversion in college. We get to hear how each of them ended up joining FOCUS, what they learned, and how their lives are playing out now on mission! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Nathan Stanley, the senior director of Talent and Leadership Development for FOCUS, joins Joseph for this episode, and what a delight it was! Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Joseph talks to author Kevin Wells about St. John Vianney and his lessons for parents today.Purchase Kevin's book here: https://kevinwells.org/booksKevin Wells is a Catholic writer, speaker, and former sports reporter with the Tampa Tribune, where he covered major-league baseball. He is the author of the best-selling Catholic book The Priests We Need to Save the Church (Sophia, 2019) and Burst, A Story of God's Grace When Life Falls Apart (Servant). His most recent best-selling book, Priest and Begger, tells the story of the heroic life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, a priest from Washington DC who went on to serve the poor in South Korea. Within 15 years, Father Schwartz had changed the course of Korean history, founding and reforming orphanages, hospitals, hospices, clinics, schools, and the Sisters of Mary, a Korean religious order dedicated to the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor. All the while, he himself—like the Sisters—lived the same hard poverty as the people he served and loved.Wells is currently the president of the Monsignor Thomas Wells Society for Vocations. He also serves a Director of Public Relations for World Villages of Children, which supports the works of Fr. Al Schwartz. His work with youths earned him the James Cardinal Hickey National Figure Award from the Archdiocese of Washington. He lives in Millersville, Md., with his wife and three children. Learn more at https://kevinwells.org/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Do you have a mission? And do you know who around you is working toward the same end?Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Happy Spy Wednesday?Odds are good, we all operate as spies in the kingdom of God, from time to time. Today's a good day to repent and stop! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

We had the delight of hosting Jared Smyth, vice president at Communio and former FOCUS missionary (and Joseph's former missionary!) for this episode!For those in marriage ministry/parish ministry/diocesan ministry, check out Communio and let Jared know if you're interested in their services at jsmyth@communio.org! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

John and Caitilin Wojtasek are two lovely former missionaries and we are delighted to have hosted them on the podcast!They share their missionary journeys as well as their struggles with infertility as a married couple, and we hope you find their story to be a blessing to you!You can find out more about John's work here: https://goldeneaglecreative.co/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Thomas Ripplinger spent two years as a full-time Catholic missionary at Michigan Technological University, and is still living mission today with his wife and children in a small town in Wisconsin. Join us for a delightful conversation! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

We're joined with Amanda Teixeira, co-founder of WalletWin, to talk about her time as a full-time missionary and the lessons and fruit that came from years with FOCUS and beyond! Hear how she was at the beginning of both FOCUS Greek and FOCUS Summer Projects! In January 2012, FOCUS missionary Amanda Teixeira, and her husband, Jonathan, had $25,000 in debt and a deep desire to break free. A short — and zealous — seven and half months later they wrote their last check to Sallie Mae and closed the doors on debt forever. Since kicking debt to the curb, they've focused on saving, investing and giving in a way that set them up for total financial peace for a lifetime.Upon hearing their story, a few people asked them money questions — and they answered. That snowballed into hundreds of answers, speaking at events, providing financial coaching, and in 2017, founding WalletWin to provide Catholic financial formation for the whole family.They are authors of How to Attack Debt, Build Savings, and Change the World Through Generosity: A Catholic Guide to Managing Money, hosts of The Catholic Money Show, and creators of The Catholic Money Course, and The Catholic Family Emergency Binder. They have appeared on EWTN, FORMED.org, and are regular guests on Relevant Radio. Their financial formation programs are used by parishes, dioceses, and schools across the country.Jonathan and Amanda live in Omaha, Nebraska with their four children. As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Soren and Ever Johnson are founders of Trinity House, and Joseph had a chance to sit down with Soren and discuss what makes a home really imitate the love of the Trinity.The mission of Trinity House Community is to inspire families to make home a taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture. Consider launching a Trinity House Community Group for families at your parish. For just $499/year, this turn-key model offers families a "date night + family night" experience and is now blessing families at 34 parishes in 14 states! Subscribe to receive Soren & Ever's weekly Heaven in Your Home Lettershere. Every Tuesday, you'll receive inspiring stories and practical tools for your own "Trinity House."  Check out their Heaven in Your Home Letters & Guide: Inspiration & Tools for Building a Trinity House (Amazon, $24.99)Print up the Heaven in Your Home Flowchart and hang it on your fridge as a reference point for your family's growing life in Christ! Visit their ministry's Trinity House Cafe + Market, which offers "a little taste of heaven at the corner of Church & Market Streets" in the heart of old town Leesburg, VA.  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

"Remember Man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return!"There's no time like Lent to reflect a little more deeply on death.  Find the catechism section here: https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_11/ii_dying_in_christ_jesus.html As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Deacon Luke Oestman, longtime missionary with FOCUS and director of St. Timothy Fellows, joins the podcast to share his passion for the Father's blessing!You can find Deacon Luke here: https://focus.org/missionaries/luke-oestman/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Crystal had the opportunity to interview her favorite podcaster, Dana K. White, host of the podcast "A Slob Comes Clean."Dana just came out with a new book, Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy Home, and Crystal had a delightful time talking with her about it!Dana is the creator of the No Mess Decluttering Method and (much to her own surprise) a Decluttering Expert. Dana shares realistic home management strategies and a message of hope for the hopelessly messy in her books: Organizing for the Rest of Us, Decluttering at the Speed of Life (a Wall Street Journal bestseller), and How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind. Dana teaches her strategies through her blog, podcast, and videos at ASlobComesClean.com and trains coaches in her unique decluttering process at DeclutteringCoaches.com. You can find Dana's new book here: https://www.aslobcomesclean.com/jesus/You can follow Dana here: https://www.youtube.com/danakwhitehttps://www.facebook.com/ASlobComesClean/https://www.instagram.com/aslobcomesclean As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

We had the delight of having Peter Herbeck, executive vice president of Renewal Ministries, on the podcast to unpack the last line of the last OT prophet, "He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents" (Malachi 4:6a).  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

What if having a family were a team sport? What if a lot of the loneliness and frustration of the home were from someone being guilty of poor sportsmanship? Jordan Langdon joins us to share her story of transformation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!Check out her work at https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

This topic probably deserves a longer episode treating it, but I really wanted to get some thoughts about feeling homeless from the two primary institutions (family and Church), and especially from feeling so from within the institutions. There are a great number of people who come to Mass and don't feel at home, just as there are a great many who live at an address that doesn't feel all that homely. This isn't to dismiss the tragedy of being physically homeless-- I think I mentioned in the episode that physical homelessness is more visible, and after the fact, remembered that a great many homeless disguise their homelessness by roving from one friend's/family member's house to another-- what I meant was moreso that there is a physical malady there, and it is point-to-able in a way that spiritual homelessness isn't. Anywho, I still recommend the book True Leadership: https://amzn.to/4ju0AmI (and this link actually earns us a commission! Crystal set it up recently!) **These are Amazon affiliate links which provide a small commission to this channel via anything purchased via these links As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

When we make invitations, we're making several statements all at once-- that we have something worth offering, that the other might receive, and that they're free to make a choice one way or another. If we don't make invitations, all three of those statements get called at least into question. Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Why would we want to improve?Joseph goes through the three main reasons-- and the third might not be what you expected!Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/join our free resource library platform herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

In Dietrich von Hildebrand's epic tome, Transformation in Christ, he writes that the thing without which there is not the Christian life is a readiness to change. Listen in to find out more! As always, check out website at https://ouroutpost.org/check out our resource library herecatch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Merry Christmas, from Our Outpost to Yours! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Am I my brother's keeper? Is he mine?What responsibility do we have to one another?Is the answer to Cain's question all that straightforward?Listen in to find out more! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

A sixth-born and a twelfth-born walk onto a podcast...Joseph and his brother, Fr. Jacob, reflect on what openness to life means and goodness of having a large family. As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Signs of Christmas are starting to appear everywhere-- in stores, on the radio, on lawns and across roofs, in homes, and we're wondering: is that a bad thing?Listen in to a  discussion between Joseph and his brother, Fr. Jacob, about celebrating Christmas outside the Christmas season! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Scripture is shallow enough for a lamb to wade and deep enough for an elephant to bathe, so saith St. Gregory the Great. So for this episode, we'll do a shallow review of salvation history with little vignettes that show some of the depths to be plumbed.There are six main salvation history moments before Christ: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and the Babylonian Exile. Listen in for takeaways that still endlessly fascinate Joseph!Let us know if these takeaways are new to you! Leave a comment or send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.org with what struck you! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!If you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for some time to chat with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Christ is king, but not like any other king. His authority comes from a completely different way of conceptualizing power. The constrained vision of authority as a permanent power struggle is something Christ totally side-steps, and that changes how we understand Him, our role in the world, and our role in our homes.Listen in to find out more! And if you're a Catholic husband, feel free to sign up for time with me: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

If we believe in a God Who hears us, intercessory prayer makes all the sense in the world. And yet. And yet, sometimes we relegate intercessory prayer to the background. This episode explores three reasons Joseph might do so-- maybe one or more might strike home with you, too!  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Creation, Fall, Incarnation, Salvation. The gospel, if anything, is a response to the brokenness we all experience (and participate in...). Here's a way to talk about it! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Evangelization has become something of a buzz-word in Catholic circles today. Worse than that, sometimes it takes on an inhuman and mechanistic tone that couldn't be further from the truth. So Joseph unpacks what he means by evangelization, and what he suspects the Church also means...Here's the cycle in picture form! If you're a Catholic husband and would like 45 minutes with Joseph, sign up here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

"Lord, don't trust Philip today." Simple, profound, hilarious, and supremely useful, this prayer has long been a favorite of Joseph's, and in this episode, he shares why. If you're a Catholic husband, you can sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

This past Sunday's gospel reading was about the rich young man, and one thing that may not have been immediately evident is how tied it is to the notion of marriage. Listen in to find out more!If you're a Catholic husband, you can sign up for 45 minutes with Joseph! https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Happy 200th episode, everybody!!Christ instituted seven sacraments. Three of them are sacraments of initiation, two of them are for healing, and two, friends, are ordered toward the salvation of other people. Those two sacraments are holy orders (deacons, priests, and bishops) and matrimony. Hear how we unpack how matrimony is meant to be an apostolic institution, truly missionary in its beauty!Just a little about us-- we're here to help husbands and wives to become more competent and confident at running beautiful evangelical homes. Our podcasts, retreats, workshops, guides, blogs, books (forthcoming!), and more are all for that purpose!For those near Jackson, MI, here are some events we have planned for the near future: https://ouroutpost.org/events/For Catholic husbands, if you'd like 45 minutes with Joseph, you can grab that here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-josephFor our other podcast, check out this page, which will take you to links to all the platforms on which that podcast (and this podcast) reside: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Have you ever been to a talk on evangelizing and been told that everyone has a testimony to share? It's partially true. But where it's partially false, it can be extremely damaging to people.Because not everyone has a testimony to share right now, but everyone is in the midst of the greatest love story ever told.  If you're a Catholic husband, feel encouraged to sign up for some time to talk with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

One thing missionaries need to be able to do is to start friendly conversations. Joseph may not be the most charming and extroverted fellow, but he spent years thinking and trying out different ways to start conversations with strangers-- here are some thoughts on the process!Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

One of Joseph's favorite questions to ask people is "What have you been reading recently?" It's both prompted great conversation, as well as produced a number of awkward moments. Matthew Kelly has said, "We become the books we read"-- so if we're interested in who people are and who they're becoming, what they're reading is incredibly important!Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-josephHere's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

We're in a pretty failure-averse world. There's not much mercy and not much margin for error in a world where our mistakes can be plastered across screens throughout the world. So how do we wrap our heads around failure, and what kinds of failure are out there? Turns out, there's at least three kinds of failures-- one for when we're learning and growing, one for when we unintentionally wander, and one for when we intentionally do the wrong thing. I think it's pretty helpful to have categories for failure, and over it all, a merciful and patient heart. Just my two cents...Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-josephHere's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lovely version of the story of King Midas, called "The Golden Touch," and Joseph read it aloud to his kids recently. While it's ostensibly about greed, it's also about exchanging real life for sterile, un-smellable, un-tasteable, un-nourishing shiny facsimiles. In other, unrelated news, how's your smartphone looking these days? Here's Hawthorne's story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35377/35377-h/35377-h.htm#THE_GOLDEN_TOUCH but it's public domain, so you can find it many places...Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-josephHere's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

It's weird how scandalous it sounds, that life is worth living, sharing, and multiplying. But these are ways we're inclined to be, to behave, and to desire as human beings. So saith Aristotle, Aquinas, and me, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.(Joseph did mis-speak-- it's in question 94, article 2, not question 86, of first part of the second part of the Summa: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm#:~:text=Thirdly%2C%20there%20is%20in%20man,law%3B%20for%20instance%2C%20to%20shun)Joseph unpacks these inclinations a bit, and hopefully conveys the main point that YOUR life is worth living, sharing, and multiplying.For the Catholic husbands, find time to chat with Joseph here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph⁠https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Our social fabric is threadbare these days, and making invitations is our way of re-enforcing, patching, and strengthening society.Joseph talks about having invite-to-able lives, about making clear invitations, and handling rejection. Those are the things he needs to hear, so he's guessing you might too! On our website, if Catholic husbands have a minute (or 45) to talk with Joseph about some of his upcoming projects, that'd be appreciated: https://ouroutpost.org/youroutpost/ and scroll down to the link to find a time with Joseph.If you're in the southern Michigan area, check out this upcoming event hosted by the Chesterton Academy of St. George! (this is an impersonal invitation, btw): https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

How proud am I? Do I think I'm wiser than I really am?Do I think I'm stronger than I really am?Do I think I'm more excusable than I really am?Probably. And that, my friends, is prideful.Listen in to find out more!Here's the website for Catholic singles (aged 22-35ish): https://ouroutpost.org/dating/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

If we want to live in harsh conditions, we could wear appropriate equipment, we could change the conditions, or (maybe impossibly) we could change ourselves to adapt to those conditions. If we want to live in perfect love, there's a temptation to either become superficial or water down what it means to live perfect love, while the only real option is the seemingly-impossible one: we need to change.In this episode, Joseph talks about the three significant changes that happen to us to allow us to live in the city of God: the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Marriage can be great for many reasons, but its greatness is not one of the reasons Joseph talks about getting married.What does he talk about? The sacrament of marriage fundamentally re-orients us to with respect to time, it stitches together a broken society, and the process of finding a spouse can and should help raise the collective bar for men and women-- so will call single men and women to be better.Just fyi-- we're interviewing Catholic singles right now, and we'll be starting an online program for Catholic singles soon. If you're male and single, sign up with Joseph for a 45 minute call here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/lite/joseph-serving-singles and if you're female and single, sign up with Crystal for a 45 minute call here: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/lite/crystal-serving-singles  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Here's the text of the passage from Mark 4:35-41:On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples:“Let us cross to the other side.”Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was.And other boats were with him.A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat,so that it was already filling up.Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.They woke him and said to him,“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”He woke up,rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet!  Be still!”The wind ceased and there was great calm.Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified?Do you not yet have faith?”They were filled with great awe and said to one another,“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?” As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

Aristotle writes about three different kinds of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. It's not uncommon to hear talks about friendship, and how of the three kinds, the best/truest kind of friendship needs to be focused on. We even have some episodes about that very thing. But what Joseph noticed recently is that we're suffering not just from a lack of virtuous/true friends. We're suffering, too, from a singular lack of all three kinds of friends. In our overly-technologized society, where we'd rather watch other people have pleasant lives than do so ourselves, we actually need a return of the useful and the pleasant friendships, too.  As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

While the Grubers have started a marriage ministry, that also serves Catholic singles, Joseph has been moonlighting as one of the pilot-ers of the pilot initiative of the Knights of Columbus, Cor. It's been a very different way to serve men in the community, both from what the Knights have been doing as well as from what Joseph has been doing. You can see some of what he's been up to here: jacksoncor.org.Men's ministries as a whole have been something Joseph has been interested in-- it's been really unclear what they are, who they're for, and what difference they're supposed to make. Cor, so far, has made sense to him! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

We are delighted to share a conversation with MaryRose Depperschmidt with you all! She is the host of two podcasts, The Crab and the Cross and The Catholic Dating Podcast.Our conversation ranged all over, getting some of her story, her takes on the dating culture, and some really interesting dives into issues facing men and women today. We hope you enjoy!You can find MaryRose on Instagram @thecrabandthecrosspodcast  and @thecatholicbacheloretteAnd her podcasts can be found on Spotify and on Apple podcasts: The Crab and the Cross and The Catholic Dating Podcast For those in and around southern Michigan who are single, Crystal and Joseph will be leading a one day retreat on June 22, 2024 in Jackson, MI: http://bit.ly/june22retreatAnd for all Catholic singles, we'll be hosting a 12-week program called Save the Date starting the second week of July: https://ouroutpost.org/dating/ Please share with your single friends-- it's designed to help people grow in a community, date with freedom and clarity, and live their vocations joyfully! As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!

We're delighted to be joined by Andy Hickman, whose approach to work and organization somehow, and we're not sure how, contains elements that appeal to both Joseph and Crystal, who have...very different approaches to work and organization. Andy Hickman is the Founder of hēl, a ground breaking art form for clarifying thoughts, healing emotions, and regenerating creativity. After losing his mind in a neurotic breakdown at age 17, Andy found the four specific behaviors that create overwhelm, foster apathy, and sterilize playfulness.  These four negative behaviors each have a positive counterpart. Instead of overwhelm, they create clarity and presence of mind. Instead of fostering apathy, they reenergize you by reconnecting you with your core self and desires. Instead of sterilizing your playfulness, they animate and organize your creative faculties. These four core positive behaviors form a simple and practical ecosystem that unlocks your personal development and transforms your life. This ecosystem, called hēl, is the organic and natural alternative to overly complex and stressful productivity systems. It is designed to be used in both your personal and professional life. It is the rare and middle way between the path of control and the path of chaos. Find out more here: https://hel.co/ As always, check out our work, and join our email list, at https://ouroutpost.org/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.organd please rate, review, and share!