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Check out this Encore show from March 26, 2025 Father John Paul Erickson joins Patrick to discuss Spiritual Movies (4:06) what are the dangers of movies the spiritual life Father shares a movie which he really enjoys (13:52) Sean - The Adventures of Robinhood from 1938. It's a very Catholic movie. Had a good impression on my life. Saw it when I was 6. Greg – Nefarious outstanding movie. Certain groups played it off as a horror film. It's good vs. evil. Some have avoided it because it deals with evil. The guy who did it also did God is Not Dead. One priest said every priest should see it for giving advice for confession. Mark - Calvary...Irish Film. 10 years old. About a priest who really lays down life for his flock. (22:47) Break 1 John - Of Gods and Men...French film. About monks serving souls in north Africa. Based on a true story. Barb - The Shack...about what it's like to be God and sacrifice your son. It shows God sacrificed his son as this guy sacrificed his daughter. Bring your tissues. (29:50) Nels - The Last Supper....newly released film. Emphasis on Judas in that movie. Miriam - 7th Heaven...1930's. Star5ring Jimmy Stewart. Unlikely love story ever told. Mention of God in the movie. He's an atheist and then things happen. My favorite movie. (35:43) Break 2 Roland - Journey to Bethlehem....nativity story. Silence...the story of the Japanese Martyrs. Ignition Martyrs (39:16) Matt - Beckett, and the Cardinal. Excommunication scene in Beckett is most powerful scene. The Cardinal being more recent. Pope Benedict was advisor for this movie. Came out when V2 was written. Patrick shares some movie recommendation from listeners who write in. Roxanne - The Most Reluctant Convert...untold story of CS Lewis. Very good. (43:02) Jean - King of Kings...1925. It's a silent movie and beautiful. Eric - The Scarlet and the Black. Based off the Scarlet Pimpernel. Hides thousands of Jews during WWII. I think it's a must see. Resources - Spiritual Movies: Babette’s Feast (1987) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Nefarious (2023) Calvary (Irish film) (2014) Of Gods and Men (2010) The Mission (1986) Arrival (2016) The Blue Kite (Chinese) (1993) The Shack (2017) The Last Supper (2025) The Chosen (series) (2017 – present) Seventh Heaven (1937) A Hidden Life (2019) A Man for All Seasons (1966) All That Remains: Dr. Takashi Nagai (2016) Journey to Bethlehem (Christmas) ( Nativity Story (Christmas) Silence (2023) Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) The Ten Commandments (1956) Ben Hur (1959) The Robe (1953) Becket (1964) The Cardinal (1963) Gattaca (1997) The Most Reluctant Convert: the Untold Story of C.S. Lewis (2021) The King of Kings (1927) The Scarlet and the Black (1983) The Sound of Metal (2019) Life is Beautiful (1997) The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) The Lord of the Rings (2001-03) Groundhog Day (1993) A River Runs Through It (1992)

Father John Paul Erickson joins Patrick to discuss Spiritual Movies (4:06) what are the dangers of movies the spiritual life Father shares a movie which he really enjoys (13:52) Sean - The Adventures of Robinhood from 1938. It's a very Catholic movie. Had a good impression on my life. Saw it when I was 6. Greg – Nefarious outstanding movie. Certain groups played it off as a horror film. It's good vs. evil. Some have avoided it because it deals with evil. The guy who did it also did God is Not Dead. One priest said every priest should see it for giving advice for confession. Mark - Calvary...Irish Film. 10 years old. About a priest who really lays down life for his flock. (22:47) Break 1 John - Of Gods and Men...French film. About monks serving souls in north Africa. Based on a true story. Barb - The Shack...about what it's like to be God and sacrifice your son. It shows God sacrificed his son as this guy sacrificed his daughter. Bring your tissues. (29:50) Nels - The Last Supper....newly released film. Emphasis on Judas in that movie. Miriam - 7th Heaven...1930's. Star5ring Jimmy Stewart. Unlikely love story ever told. Mention of God in the movie. He's an atheist and then things happen. My favorite movie. (35:43) Break 2 Roland - Journey to Bethlehem....nativity story. Silence...the story of the Japanese Martyrs. Ignition Martyrs (39:16) Matt - Beckett, and the Cardinal. Excommunication scene in Beckett is most powerful scene. The Cardinal being more recent. Pope Benedict was advisor for this movie. Came out when V2 was written. Patrick shares some movie recommendation from listeners who write in. Roxanne - The Most Reluctant Convert...untold story of CS Lewis. Very good. (43:02) Jean - King of Kings...1925. It's a silent movie and beautiful. Eric - The Scarlet and the Black. Based off the Scarlet Pimpernel. Hides thousands of Jews during WWII. I think it's a must see. Resources - Spiritual Movies: Babette’s Feast (1987) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Nefarious (2023) Calvary (Irish film) (2014) Of Gods and Men (2010) The Mission (1986) Arrival (2016) The Blue Kite (Chinese) (1993) The Shack (2017) The Last Supper (2025) The Chosen (series) (2017 – present) Seventh Heaven (1937) A Hidden Life (2019) A Man for All Seasons (1966) All That Remains: Dr. Takashi Nagai (2016) Journey to Bethlehem (Christmas) ( Nativity Story (Christmas) Silence (2023) Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) The Ten Commandments (1956) Ben Hur (1959) The Robe (1953) Becket (1964) The Cardinal (1963) Gattaca (1997) The Most Reluctant Convert: the Untold Story of C.S. Lewis (2021) The King of Kings (1927) The Scarlet and the Black (1983) The Sound of Metal (2019) Life is Beautiful (1997) The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) The Lord of the Rings (2001-03) Groundhog Day (1993) A River Runs Through It (1992)

In this episode of The Prime Subjective, the gang explores the halfway point of Lower Decks Season 5, by discussing Episode 5, "Starbase 80?!" and Episode 6, "Of Gods and Angles." Join Chris Newcomer, Karie Coleman-Hinners and Michael Henley as they discuss special guest stars, weird space stations, orbs, cubes, orbs vs. cubes, cubes vs. orbs, and more! The post Lower Decks S05E05 & E06 appeared first on Crossroads Comedy Theater.

Rob and Kev dodge floating cubes, spheres, and squishy lightning bolts in "Of Gods and Angles", then reflect on other non-humanoid species in "The Savage Curtain" (TOS), "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", "Star Trek Generations", "Where Silence Has Lease" (TNG), and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".LD 5×06 Of Gods and AnglesOllyZeusTOS 2×04 Who Mourns for Adonais?DemigodSquAaronRonald B. Moore (comedian)Ronald B. MooreRonald D. MooreNon-humanoid lifeSubspace Radio #36: Understanding Non-humanoid LifeTOS 3×22 The Savage CurtainKahless the UnforgettableExcalbianStar Trek: The Motion PictureV'gerMachine planetLiving machinesStar Trek IV: The Voyage HomeWhale ProbeNomadDoomsday machineStar Trek GenerationsNexusTNG 2×02 Where Silence Has LeaseNagilumAuto-destructStar Trek: Deep Space NineProphetsDS9 1×01/02 EmissaryFoundersDS9 5×12 The BegottenDS9 5×22 Children of TimeStar Trek: ProdigyZeroMurf

Discussing LD episodes 45-46. "Starbase 80?!" (5005) @ 00:50, "Of Gods and Angles" (5006) @ 19:23.

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Bob and Matt discuss "Of Gods and Angels" and "Terminal Provocations". To further support our podcast, please visit http://www.patreon.com/uncannytreks.

It's a double review this round, maman! We're catching up on the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks! We're taking a trip to Starbase 80 and retreading over some already-too-well-tread ground involving feuding peoples and young lovers. It's a real mixed bag, maman!Episodes Reviewed:Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x05 - "Starbase 80?!"Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x06 - "Of Gods and Angles"Hosts:David C. RobersonMatthew CarrollNote: This episode of Star Trek Universe continues Dave and Matt's ongoing journey discussing Star Trek as they have since the late1980s.Join Us:Site: http://startrekucast.comApple: http://bit.ly/StuCastSpotify: http://bit.ly/StarTrekUCastSpreaker: http://bit.ly/StuCastSpreaker

On "Phasers Set To Stun," we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at the television shows, animation, movies, and more. On this week's episode, our crew welcomes the return of Star Trek: Lower Decks for it's final season. Join us for a recap of episode 6, Of Gods and Angles.For exclusive episodes and content, send some latinum to our Patreon here! You can sign up for a FREE 7-day trial, or sign up for a free membership to get limited access!Check out www.afilmbypodcast.com/ for more information.Email us at afilmbypodcast@gmail.com with your questions, comments, and requests.Find us on X Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @afilmbypodcast.

Union Federation EP.203: Star Trek: Lower Decks - Season 5 - EP.06: “Of Gods and Angels”   Watch the video version on Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork Listen to the audio podcast version here: https://fpnet.podbean.com/category/union-federation Welcome to the Union Federation Podcast on the Fandom Podcast Network & BQN Network, where we discuss both Star Trek and The Orville. Your Union Federation crew continue to celebrate the fifth and final season Star Trek: Lower Decks!   On this episode your Union Federation Crew discuss Star Trek: Lower Decks -  Season 5 - Episode 6: “Of Gods and Angels”   Until next time on the Union Federation Podcast, "Live Long & Prosper" & "We Are, Without A Doubt, The Weirdest Ship In The Fleet!"   Union Federation Podcast Contact Info. Hailing frequencies are now open........   Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork   Union Federation: A Star Trek and The Orville Podcast Feed: Link: https://fpnet.podbean.com/category/union-federation   Facebook: The Union Federation: A Star Trek and Orville Podcast Group. Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/323504344789120   - Fandom Podcast Network Master Audio Feed: https://fpnet.podbean.com/ - Fandom Podcast Network is on ALL major podcasts platforms. - Email: theunionfederation@gmail.com - Instagram: @UnionFederationPodcast / https://www.instagram.com/unionfederationpodcast/ - X (Twitter) : @unionfedpodcast / https://x.com/UnionFedPodcast - Bluesky: @fanpodnetwork / https://bsky.app/profile/fanpodnetwork.bsky.social Host & Guest Contact Info: - Kyle Wagner on X: @AKyleW / Instagram & Threads: @Akylefandom / @akyleW on Discord / @Ksport16: Letterboxd / Blue Sky: @akylew - Amy Nelson on X: @MissAmyNelson / Instagram: @amynelson522 / Bluesky: @bqnpodcasts - Hayley Stoddart on Instagram & Bluesky: @trekkie01D - Kevin Reitzel on X / Instagram / Threads / Discord & Letterboxd: @spartan_phoenix / Bluesky: @spartanphoenix   Where to Find BQN: Instagram: @BQNpodcasts Bluesky: @bqnpodcasts Facebook: The BQN Collective (listener's group) Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bqnpodcast   #FandomPodcastNetwork #FPNet #FPN #UnionFederation #UnionFederationPodcast #BQN #StarTrek #TheOrville #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrekLowerDecksSeasonFive #OfGodsAndAngels #TawnyNewsome #JackQuaid #NoelWells #EugeneCordero #DawnnLewis #JerryOConnell #FredTatasciore #GillianVigman #PaulScheer #AmyNelson #HayleyStoddart #KyleWagner #KevinReitzel

Chrissie and Thad talk with Aaron Waltke about the Lower Decks episode “Of Gods and Angles.” Join us in BQN Podcast Collective on Facebook. Find us on the socials:The Network: @BQNPodcastsThe Show: @IDICPodcast.  Chrissie: @TheGoddessLivia.  Thad: @Tyranicus. And our guest: Aaron Waltke, @GoodAaaron News Links: OTOY Unification film: https://youtu.be/mgOZFny7F50?si=O4DqUdTnnM_2noGL  The BQN Podcast Collective is brought to you by our listeners. Special thanks to these patrons on Patreon whose generous contributions help to produce this podcast and the many others on our network! Nay nar nay nar AenarJason AndersonAnonymousJerry AntimanoVera BibleSusan L. De ClerckRyan DamonDavidChrissie De Clerck-SzilagyiLars Di ScenzaThad HaitMatt HarkerPeter HongWilliam JacksonJim McMahonJoe MignoneMahendran RadhakrishnanTom Van ScotterJenediah SeastrumJonathan SnowDavey WillettCarl Wonders  Join the Hive Mind Collective at https://www.Patreon.com/BQN and become an integral part of our podcast. Your unique perspective and support will help us continue to produce high-quality content that you love!Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. STAR TREK and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. “BQN” is not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with CBS/Paramount Pictures or the STAR TREK franchise.

Anika and Liz mediate a war between sentient shapes, and try not to ask awkward questions like, "Why do you even HAVE genders?" Okay, no, we're discussing Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 6, "Of Gods and Angles"! Another round of the "accept what makes you different" moral, which is not bad, but more suited to Bluey than an allegedly sophisticated comedy for adults (Bluey is successful for the same reason that Star Trek is successful! Competence porn and aspirational levels of decency!) "They could do anything, but they have no imagination!" is a BOLD choice of dialogue in a season this weak Teen pregnancy? The Humourless Feminist Killjoy Hour is here to ask: is Star Trek entering its natalist era? Liz talks really authoritatively about Romeo and Juliet for someone who hasn't read or watched it since 1997

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It's another Romeo and Juliet story. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler discuss this story of conflict over small differences, another Boimler hare-brained scheme, and an ensign grappling with her demigod origins and lame superpower. The post Of Gods and Angles (LD) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Hosts Cam Smith and Tyler Orton hit up an Acamarian arcade while reviewing the latest two episodes of Lower Decks, Starbase 80?! and Of Gods and Angles. From Enterprise shout-outs, to demigod children and Boimler's facial hair, the duo cover all the big topics. Plus, the hosts discuss the recent Roddenberry Archive-produced short film Unification.    Join our Facebook page for exclusive content such as videos and bonus episodes. And you can also visit our blog, or follow us on Twitter and YouTube! Send any other questions, topic ideas or feedback to subspacetransmissionspod@gmail.com! Related Podcast Episodes: Catching Up with Lower Decks S4 + Very Short Treks Star Trek: Generations   Join us next time as we create the Benjamin Sisko hall of fame!

This week we are introduced to a new Cerritos Lower Decker, Ensign Olly, as well as some classic Starfleet diplomacy. Join us as we kick off our coverage of the second half of the final season of LOWER DECKS. As always, available in both video and audio-only formats. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sJY25192FA Get RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/f37edb0c/podcast/rss Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tex-trek/id1495605753?uo=4 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mdZ030Klldxwn7SSc5PKp?si=3BOqsbQER9Ssfppqk7lofQ&fbclid=IwAR1M1uH_xBE1lYWcwQocoDzjoVSsLmCgBt08TCEYAltwIH3MPC0S60bMCsE Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/YXPeRyQh7y Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/txtrek Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 5 Episode 6, “Of Gods and Angels” Written by Keyshawn C. Garraway Directed by Brandon Williams Mariner teams up with a troubled ensign while the Cerritos hosts peace talks between warring civilizations. http://www.facebook.com/textrek https://www.instagram.com/txtrek/ http://twitter.com/TxTrek https://www.tiktok.com/@txtrek Email: fathereeactual@tex-trek.com

As the Cerritos plays host to delicate diplomatic talks, Mariner becomes a mentor to the descendant of a demigod. Matt and Pete attempt to grasp episode 506, “Of Gods and Angles.”Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek.Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or tweeting @PhantasticGeek.MP3

As the Cerritos plays host to delicate diplomatic talks, Mariner becomes a mentor to the descendant of a demigod. Matt and Pete attempt to grasp episode 506, “Of Gods and Angles.”Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek.Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or tweeting @PhantasticGeek.MP3

Anthony and Laurie start the week discussing the release of the Roddenberry Archive’s latest short film Unification, which has fandom buzzing over the return of William Shatner’s James T. Kirk. Roddenberry also released some cool new interviews with Shatner, Robin Curtis, and George Takei. They catch up on the latest news on Strange New Worlds and discuss Laurie’s conversation with DS9’s Nana Visitor about the journey she took writing  Open A Channel – A Woman’s Trek. [24:07] The podcasters then pivot to Lower Decks’ “Of Gods and Angles.”  Both agree it was a lot of fun but also predictable, while the highlight was the Boimler story with Dr. T’Ana. They roll in some audio from Tony’s new interview with Gillian Vigman talking about how she ad-libs T’Ana’s signature curses. [45:55] They wrap with a former NASA official who flashed the Vulcan salute while being sworn into for Congressional testimony, and how to stay in the loop on Trek Talks, which has a growing lineup of star-studded panels for the January 2025 charity event in support of the Hollywood Food Coalition.

Anthony and Laurie start the week discussing the release of the Roddenberry Archive’s latest short film Unification, which has fandom buzzing over the return of William Shatner’s James T. Kirk. Roddenberry also released some cool new interviews with Shatner, Robin Curtis, and George Takei. They catch up on the latest news on Strange New Worlds and discuss Laurie’s conversation with DS9’s Nana Visitor about the journey she took writing  Open A Channel – A Woman’s Trek. [24:07] The podcasters then pivot to Lower Decks’ “Of Gods and Angles.”  Both agree it was a lot of fun but also predictable, while the highlight was the Boimler story with Dr. T’Ana. They roll in some audio from Tony’s new interview with Gillian Vigman talking about how she ad-libs T’Ana’s signature curses. [45:55] They wrap with a former NASA official who flashed the Vulcan salute while being sworn into for Congressional testimony, and how to stay in the loop on Trek Talks, which has a growing lineup of star-studded panels for the January 2025 charity event in support of the Hollywood Food Coalition.

This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew is taking a look at “Unification,” the latest short film from The Roddenberry Archive and OTOY! We’ll tackling the film’s staggering implications for Star Trek, both in-universe and what it may portend for the future of Star Trek. We’re also diving into “Of Gods and Angles,” the latest […] The post Unification and Of Gods and Angles – Earth Station Trek – Episode 192 appeared first on The ESO Network.

We don't care if you're a cube or an orb, we just want you to listen to our review of episode 506 of Star Trek Lower Decks, "Of Gods and Angles!"Mariner teams up with a troubled ensign while the Cerritos hosts peace talks between civilizations.Plus, we talk 765874 Unification, the mailbag, and more on this week's episode of Strange New Pod!12:47 - 765874 Unification Reaction42:49 - "Of Gods and Angles" ReviewSend us a textSupport the show

A podcast review of Star Trek's visit to the infamous starbase, followed by a geometry war resolved by a demigod. (The post Lower Decks S5E05-06: Starbase 80?! & Of Gods and Angles first appeared on Transporter Lock - A Star Trek podcast.)

This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew is taking a look at "Unification," the latest short film from The Roddenberry Archive and OTOY! We'll tackling the film's staggering implications for Star Trek, both in-universe and what it may portend for the future of Star Trek. We're also diving into "Of Gods and Angles," the latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks! Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #startrek #roddenberryarchive #unification #lowerdecks #ofgodsandangles

Dave Mader has watched Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 5, Episode 6 "Of Gods and Angles", as part of a Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode Review podcast series. Joined by a panel of Star Trek enthusiasts, they react to the episode and break it all down. Full spoiler warning. Live Long and Podcast Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 E6 "Of Gods and Angles" Episode Review First Aired: November 21, 2024 In-universe year: 2382 Date of Podcast: November 21, 2024 Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode Review Podcast Series THIS WEEK'S PODCASTERS Dave Mader, Davan Skelhorn, Justin Velociraptor LIVE LONG AND PODCAST FOUNDED BY Dave Mader and Jaemeel Robinson A PROUD MEMBER OF THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PODCASTS Check us out online at https://www.ufpodcasts.com/livelongandpodcast PRODUCER Dave Mader Check us out online at https://www.ufpodcasts.com/livelongandpodcast Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/LiveLongandPodcast Streaming live on Twitch, Youtube and Facebook: Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/livelongandpodcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/livelongandpodcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/LiveLongAndPodcast Audio version available wherever you get your audio podcasts. Listen to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yIEMJhawSLGAozJAh4EdG Listen via Anchor: https://anchor.fm/livelongandpodcast #LowerDecks #StarTrek #Television #LiveLongAndPodcast #LocutorsOfTrek #UFP #UnitedFederationOfPodcasts #UFpodcasts

Exploring Star Trek Lower Decks Episode 6: Of Gods and Angles In this episode of Make It So, host Kurt North is joined by recurring guest Craig McKenzie to discuss the sixth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks titled 'Of Gods and Angles.' They delve into the episode's themes, character arcs, and comedic elements, particularly focusing on Boimler's beard growth and his attempts to impress Dr. T'Ana. The discussion also touches on Mariner's evolving leadership role and the introduction of a new character, Ensign Oly, who has hidden powers and struggles with guidance. Craig and Kurt compare this season's multiverse theme with previous seasons and speculate about upcoming episodes. 00:00 Welcome to Make It So: Star Trek Lower Decks Discussion 01:25 Recap of Lower Decks Episodes 1-5 02:33 Episode 6: Of Gods and Angles Overview 03:38 Character Analysis: Boimler and Mariner 05:47 Episode 6 Breakdown: Plot and Themes 07:31 Character Development 15:59 Boimler's Beard and Personal Growth 21:59 Final Thoughts and Season Predictions 28:50 Outro and Where to Find Us Host/Editor Kurt North Guest Craig McKenzie Make It So on socials: https://linktr.ee/makeitso Film Stories Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: www.filmstories.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week (9/20 & 9/22) on ART ON THE AIR our entire show features artist, author and glassworks creator, Lynda Pownall-Carlson discussing her creative journey influenced by her artist parents who ran Jon Pownall film company in Chicago producing old school animation. Our Spotlight is on Memorial Opera House's grand reopening production with the Mel Brooks' musical “Young Frankenstein” opening September 26th, plus spotlight extras on Lakeshore Public media's early childhood development program, Building Blocks, and traditional photographer Tim Lace and fresco artist Diane Grams discussing their Chesterton Art Center exhibit, Of Gods and Warriors in September. Tune in on Sunday at 7pm on Lakeshore Public Media 89.1FM for our hour long conversation with our special guests or listen at lakeshorepublicmedia.org/AOTA, and can also be heard Fridays at 11am and Mondays at 5pm on WVLP 103.1FM (WVLP.org) or listen live at Tune In. Listen to past ART ON THE AIR shows at lakeshorepublicmedia.org/AOTA or brech.com/aota. Please have your friends send show feedback to Lakeshore at: radiofeedback@lakeshorepublicmedia.org Send your questions about our show to AOTA@brech.com LIKE us on Facebook.com/artonthairwvlp to keep up to date about art issues in the Region. New and encore episodes also heard as podcasts on: NPR, Spotify Tune IN, Amazon Music, Apple and Google Podcasts, plus many other podcast platforms. https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/art-on-the-air/2024-09-05/art-on-the-air-september-22-2024

In today's episode of The Table Business, Jack is joined by Jack Kellum from Of Gods and Gamemasters. On his Instagram bio Jack is listed as ‘a world builder of exceptional skill' so in today's episode we take a deep dive on world-building.   In this episode Jack breaks down what world-building actually is, we discuss a few tips to get started when building your first world and Jack shares the biggest mistakes he sees first-time world builders make. Resources and links: Of Gods and Gamemasters website Of Gods and Gamemasters on YouTube Of Gods and Gamemasters on X Connect: Sounds Like Adventure on Instagram Sounds Like Adventure on YouTube Sounds Like Adventure on Threads Jack on Instagram Sounds Like Adventure website See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EPISODE 112 | GESARA & the Red Caesar What do proposed economic reforms, the idea of a post-constitutional American dictator and Christian Nationalism have in common? Donald Trump, for starters - at least for some people. Scammers and grifters of all stripes find common ground with would-be authoritarians in a weird confluence of conspiracy narratives that hope to create and capitalize on chaos to further their own agendas. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:00 - NESARA Nest Eggs - Harvey Francis Barnard drains the swamp, the Dove of Oneness swaps Judy "Zebra" Knight and Ramtha for the Omega Trust and becomes the first 9/11 "truther", various weirdos like Sheldan Nidle, Jennifer Lee, Sherry Shriner and channelers jump aboard and lay the groundwork for QAnon 10:26 - The GESARA that Lays the Golden Eggs - White Dragons, Alcuin Bramerton and other scammers promise an end to debt 13:39 - Solace in Quantum - The Quantum Financial System, Quantum AI, Comte St. Germain, lots of metals, the Alliance await Q Day 20:20 - Red Caesar - Kevin Slack hates modernism, loves the Roman Empire 23:54 - Caesarism - Tracing the term, the Claremont Institute is more dangerous than you suspect 27:56 - The Flight 93 Election - Alexander Michael Black likes Red Caesar, Michael Anton tortures a metaphor but finds a new career 33:36 - Haywood for Warlord - Shampoo king and "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood founds the Society for American Civic Renewal, builds a compound and organizes private militias 38:14 - King of the Seven Mountains - Stephen Wolfe makes the case for Christian Nationalism, Lance Wallnau sells coins; Rafael Cruz, Paula White-Cain, Michele Bachman, Lauren Boebert and Mike Johnson scale the Seven Mountains 40:42 - A Clear and Present Danger - Trump's words vs his track record, a possible "revenge term", watch out for the sucker fish, Wisconsin tries to hobble Justice Janet Protasiewicz, North Carolina gives Gov-Ops sweeping powers, Ron DeSantis creates not one but two private militias  47:45 - True Grift - The monetization of narrative and attention, Trump is all things to all grifters, the future might be just more chaos or it might be something worse Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info Draining the Swamp: The NESARA Story by Harvey F. Barnard Conspiracy Watch: The Best Law Ever in Mother Jones Dove of Oneness/NESARA founder Shaini Goodwin page on Cult Education Institute website The Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins video on Behind the Bastards Ramtha's School of Enlightenment website QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader on Daily Beast Still waiting for NESARA? Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform by Harvey F. Barnard Galactic Human Activation Materials for sale  Deepfake Quantum AI Investment Scam Pops Up on Facebook Nesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives on BBC Sounds Inside the QAnon Crypto Scam That Cost People Millions and One Man His Life Project Leap: Quantum-proofing the financial system by the Bank for International Settlements Project Leap pdf NESARA and The Mark of The Beast by Dr. Scott Young Scott Young's YouTube channel The Quantum Financial System Manual of GESARA-NESARA & XRP  GESARA/QFS map  Quantum Financial System (QFS): Revolutionizing Finance or Conspiracy Theory? on CoinCodex YouTube Prosperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System video from the Hudson Institute ( four white guys complaining) Exposing the Quantum AI Investment Scam on Blossom Social YouTube War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism by Kevin Slack The Claremont Institute The Red Caesar Code: A guidebook for the installation of the American dictator by Alexander Michael Black Calls for an American Julius Caesar are ignorant, dangerous on R Street ‘Red Caesarism' is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening in The Guardian Red Caesarism threatens democracy and the rule of law in the Concord Monitor The right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it on Salon Red Caesar and the Next Regime on Rick Wilson's substack The Flight 93 Election by Michael Anton ("Publius Decius Mus") After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose by Michael Anton Flight 93 and Our National Disease on Law & Liberty How Michael Anton's ‘Flight 93 Election' Essay Defined the Trump Era in New York Magazine Departing the Shining City from the Cato Institute The Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency on Politico The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return by Michael Anton Charles Haywood's review of Anton's The Stakes Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay by Arthur Milikh  Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) archived website The Worthy House - Towards a Politics of Future Past website by Charles Haywood US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord' of secretive far-right men's network in The Guardian The Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen Wolfe The Rise of Right-Wing Wokeism (review of Wolfe's book) Beware the 'Christian Prince' (another review of Wolfe's book) Of Gods and Men: A Long Review of Wolfe's Case for Christian Nationalism (a long review of Wolfe's book) Televangelist's show sells $45 Trump coin as ‘point of contact' to God Pastor Paula White calls on angels from Africa and South America to bring Trump victory 'The Lord says it is done': White House spiritual adviser Paula White prays for 'angels from Africa' to cement Trump's re-election Tracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala. Supreme Court on NPR (audio) How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference Ali Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going Mainstream The Radical GOP's “Seven Mountains Mandate” on The Big Picture Trump-O-Meter on PolitiFact ‘A revenge term': what would another four years of Trump look like? from The Guardian Trump Warns He Could ‘Certainly' Indict Political Opponents if He's Reelected Ex-RNC Chair's Stark Warning on 'Threat' Posed by Donald Trump Impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz? Here's what's missing from debate Wisconsin Republicans Walk Back Efforts to Impeach Newly Elected State Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force" NC lawmakers exempt themselves from public records laws while Democrats blast 'secret police' powers Ron DeSantis plans Florida paramilitary force outside federal control Governor Ron DeSantis Unveils the Florida State Guard   The Dangers of DeSantis's Militia on the Southern Poverty Law Center  America's most effective fascism enforcers are bored boomers, not youthful brawlers My QAnon Date Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. 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Tales from the Tavern returned to PAX East again! Luna greatly enjoyed chatting with five members of the tabletop community to discuss the hot topics of tabletop RPGs! With guests from all over the TTRPG community answering questions from our audience just minutes before the show, we had an amazing time! Grab a drink and enjoy the show! Guests:  Rosie - @sweetrosiebee Juicy Garland, Tabletop Tailspinners - @juicygarland Jack Kellum, Of Gods & Gamemasters - @JackGogsbane Jacob Plicque, The Empatheater, Duval & Dragons - @DuvalKingJacob Shannon, Paradice Productions - @sroby25 Extra special thanks to the love of my life Jason (@shadomain) and best friend Jenny (@JR_Rainville) for their unending help and support. I couldn't do any of this without them. Tales from the Tavern is a round table discussion about nerdy things like tabletop games and dice with a fresh round of guests every month! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us live on the first Sunday each month at 8pm Eastern⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linktree⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/taverntales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/taverntales/support

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He's been an important force in shaping legal policy over the last decade. He's written an essential book on our constitution. He's worked closely with government -- but done so with a sense of public purpose. Arghya Sengupta joins Amit Varma in episode 366 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about  his life, his work and his learnings.  (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Arghya Sengupta on Twitter, LinkedIn, Times of India and Vidhi Center for Legal Policy. 2. The Colonial Constitution -- Arghya Sengupta. 3. Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. 4. Insiders and Outsiders -- Amit Varma. 5. The Ideas of Our Constitution — Episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Khosla). 6. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 7. Murali Neelakantan Looks at the World -- Episode 329 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Rahul Matthan Seeks the Protocol -- Episode 360 of The Seen and the Unseen. 9. Apar Gupta Fights the Good Fight -- Episode 353 of The Seen and the Unseen. 10.  The Life and Times of KP Krishnan -- Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen. 11. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State -- Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 12. The Right to Property -- Episode 26 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 13. Shruti Rajagopalan on our constitutional amendments. 14. 'कोस-कोस पर बदले पानी, चार कोस पर वाणी।' 15. Devangshu Datta Traded His Corduroy Pants -- Episode 348 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. Ao. 17. Enid Blyton, Five Find-Outers, The Famous Five, Billy Bunter, Just William, Hardy Boys, Three Investigators and Jeffrey Archer. 18. Kane and Abel -- Jeffrey Archer. 19. Bimbo -- Jim Reeves. 20. Chandril Bhattacharya interviewed at Kolkata Literary Meet 2016. (Listen to him 5:40 onwards). 21. Chandrabindoo on Spotify and YouTube. 22. Rabindra Sangeet. 23. The Complete Adventures of Feluda — Satyajit Ray. 24. Chander Pahar (Bengali) -- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. 25. Sonar Kella -- Satyajit Ray. 26. Donoghue v Stevenson. 27. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein. 28. Law, Legislation and Liberty -- Friedrich Hayek. 29. Nationalist Thought in a Colonial World -- Partha Chatterjee. 30. The Truth Pill -- Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy. 31. Taxi No 9211 -- Milan Luthria. 32. Kashmir and Article 370 — Episode 134 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan). 33. The Overton Window. 34. From Addict to Convict -- Neha Singhal, Arpita Mitra and Kaushiki Sanyal. (Scroll down on the page for Punjabi version.) 35. Punjab's drug menace: Secrecy renders women substance abusers 'invisible' -- Neha Singhal & Sumathi Chandrashekaran. 36. End of Life Care in India: A Model Legal Framework 2.0 -- Dhvani Mehta and Akshat Agarwal. 37. Gyan Prakash on the Emergency — Episode 103 of The Seen and the Unseen. 38. The Collected Writings and Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. 39. Annihilation of Caste -- BR Ambedkar. 40. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad -- Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 41. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? — Amit Varma. 42. The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. 43. Marching For Salt (2015) -- Amit Varma. 44. Two Concepts of Liberty -- Isaiah Berlin. 45. Why Freedom Matters -- Episode 10 of Everything is Everything. 46. Sandipto Dasgupta on the Anxious Administrator. 47. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 48. Hind Swaraj — MK Gandhi. 49. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 50. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 51. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back -- Subhashish Bhadra. 52. Of Gods and Men -- Xavier Beauvois. 53. Devi -- Satyajit Ray. 54. Jalsaghar -- Satyajit Ray. 55. Advaita on YouTube Music, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram and Twitter. 56. Junoon and Coke Studio Pakistan. 57. Now and Then -- The Beatles. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘'The Engine Room of Law” by Simahina.

1. In his sermon today, Tim shared the story of the Monks of Tibhirine, whose faithful lives in the midst of the Algerian “black decade” (1992-2002) inspired the French language film, “Of Gods and Men.” What were your responses to the stories of these men? What details, sentiments, and elements stood out to you as you listened to their story, and the scene of their ongoing dialog Tim presented to us? What thoughts, questions, or feelings rise in you now as you take a few moments to reflect on their legacies? 2. Tim said that the story of the Tibhirine Monks reminded him of an exchange that centers in Joshua 5:13-15. In this moment, Joshua and the Israelites are cowed in the face of the fortress at Jericho. As a man, later identified as as the commander of the Lord's army, appears, Joshua asks, “Are you on our side, or that of our enemies?” The Lord's representative responds with, “Neither!” When Joshua then asks the man what he has to say to Joshua, his servant, the man replies, “Take your sandals off your feet because the place where you are standing is holy.” Tim talked about how we can feel like we, ourselves, are being asked, “Are you on our side or on the side of our enemies?” He paraphrased the representative's response as, “You think there are sides?” Calling to mind Cain & Abel, he reminded us that all humankind are our family, and that all killing is fratricide. What strikes you about this exchange, especially in light of Tim's sermon today? Where in your life have you faced (or are you facing) this question? Where do you feel compelled to pick sides? What happens inside when you consider the representative's response:“You think there are sides?” Are there situations in which sides feel like they are truly required? What might it be like to challenge that conclusion? What thoughts & feelings surface for you as you consider these ideas in light of larger global issues, like the current crisis in Gaza? What shifts when you think of the idea of “there are no sides” in relationship to some of your own more personal conflicts and “wars?” Share about what comes up for you. 3. Tim shared part of the last letter left by Christian de Chergé, the abbot at the Tibhirine Monastery, and one of the 7 of his brethren who were beheaded in the midst of the conflict. In the letter, de Chergé said that his life had “no more value than any other…nor any less.” de Chergé wrote of his desire to forgive “with all [his] heart the one who would strike [him] down.” He also went on to address and thank the person responsible for his eventual adieu, and to commend that person “to the God whose face I see in yours.” Tim taught that de Chergé and the other monks of Tibhirine challenge us to look into the faces of our own personal enemies and seewGod in them. Tim reminded us that though we may be tempted to fall into either a camp that insists on fighting or another that flees the conflict, the monks give us the example of a third way: we can move close in peacemaking to live in solidarity with friend and enemy alike. He said, “This is how the Kingdom comes.” Take a moment to imagine yourself confronted with someone who may be the one to take you life. Is it possible for you to connect with de Chergé's sentiments of forgiveness and love in that space? Why or why not? Share about what you're experiencing as you consider it. Consider, too, the conflicts in your own life - both those personally close and those more global and farther afield. What might it be like for you to actively pursue that third path, and move close in peacemaking? What does it feel like to consider the idea? What might that look like in real, practical life? How do you feel about the possibilities?

If you've had any encounter with Jesuits or Ignatian spirituality, you know the whole thing rests on the simple yet radical idea that God is to be found in all things. And films — stories — are an obvious place to look for God. Stories reflect who we are as people; they point the way toward where we might yet go. We can all point to our favorite “religious” film, right? ("The Mission," "Of Gods and Men," "Calvary"...) But what about movies that are less obviously religious? That seems almost entirely bereft of any spirituality? Today's topic—and guest—will provide some answers. John Dougherty has been working in Jesuit schools for more than a decade. He knows a thing or two about finding God in all things—and helping others do the same. As a writer, he's penned many an essay at the intersection of faith, pop culture, parenting and spirituality. That's why America Magazine asked him to helm the weekly “Catholic Movie Club” column. You can learn more about John at johndocwrites.com. And follow along at the Catholic Movie Club: https://www.americamagazine.org/section/catholic-movie-club

Stephen Aryan was born in Iran in 1977 and raised in Whitley Bay, on the north east coast of the UK. He has been reading fantasy since a very young age. It started with books by David Eddings, Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Terry Brooks, Ursula le Guin, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and later David Gemmell, who had a huge influence on his work. After graduating university in 1999 he started working in marketing. Around this time he also started submitting his first fantasy novel to agents. In 2013, he submitted his latest novel, Battlemage, to Juliet Mushens. It took Stephen a long time and many struggles to get this far. You can read the full story on a two part blog he wrote called How I Found an Agent Part 1, and How I Found an Agent Part 2. In 2014, Battlemage, was snatched up by Orbit books and subsequently published in 2015. It went on to be published in France, Germany and Russia and was a finalist for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for best debut fantasy novel. Battlemage went on to win the inaugural Hellfest Inferno Award in France after a public vote. The sequels, Bloodmage, and Chaosmage were both published in 2016, completing the Age of Darkness trilogy. In 2017 he published Mageborn, the first in a new trilogy, the Age of Dread, with Orbit books. This followed on from his first trilogy, with the return of fan-favourite characters and many new faces. The sequels, Magefall and Magebane were published in 2018 and 2019 respectively, wrapping up his second trilogy. In 2018 he also published Of Gods and Men with Orbit, a digital and audio novella which served as a prequel to Battlemage. In 2020 Stephen was picked up for a new duology by Angry Robot Books. The story is set in a brand new world. The first novel, The Coward, was published in June 2021 and it received a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. The sequel, The Warrior, was published in August 2022. In 2022, Angry Robot signed The Judas Blossom, the first instalment in a Persian inspired fantasy trilogy, from Stephen. The first book will be published on 11th July 2023. The Judas Blossom has been described as an “imaginative and sprawling reimagining of the Mongol Empire's invasion of Persia” following the lives of four characters at the centre of the war. It is an examination of Persian culture, family and war in a stunning, immersive world.  Stephen lives in the West Midlands with his partner and two cats. When he's not writing novels or podcasting, he can be found drinking real ale, reading books or watching TV. Stephen is represented by Juliet Mushens of the Mushens Entertainment agency. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. https://twitter.com/SteveAryan

The Judas Blossom: Book I of The Nightingale and the Falcon Stephen Aryan was born in Iran in 1977 and raised in Whitley Bay, on the north east coast of the UK. He has been reading fantasy since a very young age. It started with books by David Eddings, Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Terry Brooks, Ursula le Guin, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and later David Gemmell, who had a huge influence on his work. After graduating university in 1999 he started working in marketing. Around this time he also started submitting his first fantasy novel to agents. In 2013, he submitted his latest novel, Battlemage, to Juliet Mushens. It took Stephen a long time and many struggles to get this far. You can read the full story on a two part blog he wrote called How I Found an Agent Part 1, and How I Found an Agent Part 2. In 2014, Battlemage, was snatched up by Orbit books and subsequently published in 2015. It went on to be published in France, Germany and Russia and was a finalist for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for best debut fantasy novel. Battlemage went on to win the inaugural Hellfest Inferno Award in France after a public vote. The sequels, Bloodmage, and Chaosmage were both published in 2016, completing the Age of Darkness trilogy. In 2017 he published Mageborn, the first in a new trilogy, the Age of Dread, with Orbit books. This followed on from his first trilogy, with the return of fan-favourite characters and many new faces. The sequels, Magefall and Magebane were published in 2018 and 2019 respectively, wrapping up his second trilogy. In 2018 he also published Of Gods and Men with Orbit, a digital and audio novella which served as a prequel to Battlemage. In 2020 Stephen was picked up for a new duology by Angry Robot Books. The story is set in a brand new world. The first novel, The Coward, was published in June 2021 and it received a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. The sequel, The Warrior, was published in August 2022. In 2022, Angry Robot signed The Judas Blossom, the first instalment in a Persian inspired fantasy trilogy, from Stephen. The first book will be published on 11th July 2023. The Judas Blossom has been described as an “imaginative and sprawling reimagining of the Mongol Empire's invasion of Persia” following the lives of four characters at the centre of the war. It is an examination of Persian culture, family and war in a stunning, immersive world.  Stephen lives in the West Midlands with his partner and two cats. When he's not writing novels or podcasting, he can be found drinking real ale, reading books or watching TV. Stephen is represented by Juliet Mushens of the Mushens Entertainment agency. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. https://twitter.com/SteveAryan When you click a link on our site, it might just be a magical portal (aka an affiliate link). We're passionate about only sharing the treasures we truly believe in. Every purchase made from our links not only supports Dabble but also the marvelous authors and creators we showcase, at no additional cost to you.

Max has to get emergency surgery, we visit a St. George festival at Fatima Farm, Of Gods and Men is a slow contemplation on vocation, and we wrestle with whether Chapter four of The Restoration of Christian Culture is misnamed or not. Movies & TV: Of Gods and Men (Blu-ray) Other great stuff we like: Pacem in Terris retreat center Picnic Blanket Restoration of Christian Culture from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey Restoration of Christian Culture PDF Spiritual Direction.com Sam's new podcast: To Interview Them https://www.fatimafarm.com/ liturgical calendar from Sofia institute Press Wyoming Catholic Gregory the Great's St. Nicholas Guild Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary Mac's Woodworking Shop   Mac's Online Woodcraft Store Mac's book! Clueless in Galilee   Please support us through Patreon Find us on our website Our libsyn page where you can find all our old episodes   Theme song by Mary Bragg.   Our other show: Spoiled! with Mac and Katherine   We use Amazon affiliate links. We may get a little kickback if you use the link above to purchase from Amazon.  

Jay and Tim forget to say who they are, and then talk about Lenten-themed movies. (With an outtake because Tim can never figure out how to end things.)Some of the films we mention in this episode: Hunger, Silence, Last Days in the Desert, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Passion of the Christ, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Of Gods and Men, Into Great Silence.Tim wrote something about Last Days in the Desert here, and Of Gods and Men here.Come find us:WebsiteFacebookTwitterOpening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee RosevereClosing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Chapter 1, Of Gods and Monsters, is taking form as the first entry in the Gunn/Safran DCU. PhantasticGeek.com's Pete and Matt go up, up, and away into the future of DC Comics in live action.Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek.Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or tweeting @PhantasticGeek.MP3

This episode I'm joined by Harlen Ogni, DM of previous guest Aaron's Games and prolific worldbuilder, with a staggering 250,000 words on World Anvil! Harlen joins me to to chat about our approaches to worldbuilding and what drives us to put pen to paper. 02:52 - Catharsis 13:22 - Letting Go of Your World 31:34 - Environmental Storytelling 46:03 - Of Gods and Kings Find Harlen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OgniHarlen Find Thinking Critically online: Website: https://www.thinkingcritically.co.uk Socials: @ThinkCritDnD YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkCritDnD Dungeons, Dice, & Dudes: https://linktr.ee/DDandD References: World Anvil worldbuilding tools 'Chaos' episode of Thinking Critically Patrons: Joe from The Fourth Leg @jcd0818: https://anchor.fm/james-h-anderson Optional Rule @optionalrule: https://www.optionalrule.com/ Matthew Perkins @mperkinsDM: https://www.matthewperkins.net/ Matt Street @mpstreet88: https://www.virtualtimehustle.com/ Intro Music: 'Local Forecast' by Kevin MacLeod Intermission Music: 'Chill' by Kevin MacLeod Outro Music: 'Local Forecast - Elevator' by Kevin MacLeod Podcast art by Lily from https://www.beiworkshop.com/

This week on Tales from the Tavern, Luna is super excited to sit down with Five members of the tabletop community to debate the hot topics of tabletop RPGs! With guests from all over the TTRPG it'll surely be an interesting show! Grab a drink and enjoy the show! Guests: Jack Kellum, Of Gods and Gamemasters | @Of Gods and Gamemasters Kayla, DM Daliance Taylor, Backwater Bastards Trevor (aka VertroxNightblood) Zach Katz, Fantasize Me Podcast Tales from the Tavern is a round table discussion about nerdy things like tabletop games and dice with a fresh round of guests every week! Do you want to come on the show and talk nerdy? Sign up is here! https://forms.gle/7MYNZKuQJV2QkTtp6 Like what you hear? Consider supporting Tales from the Tavern on Patreon! Host: GamerMomLuna --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taverntales/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taverntales/support

This week, we celebrate episode 100! It's been a long and tiring road, and we are so glad to have shared it with you.  This week, we're joined by some repeat guests for a hangout and Q&A episode: Jack from Of Gods and Gamemasters (@JackGogsbane), Mike from 19 Hits the Dragon (@19HitstheDragon), Rob from Worldbuild With Us (@LetsWorldbuild), and Jon from Tale of the Manticore (@ManticoreTale). It was a grand old time, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. As we mention, we are taking the month of September off, and will be going biweekly when we return in October. This is both to relax some of the stress of putting out weekly episodes and to start creating better and more consistent content outside of the podcast, specifically for our Patreon. Stay tuned for details on what else we are working on.   Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/UndercommonTaste Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ucthomebrew Join us on Instagram: instagram.com/undercommontaste Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/undercommontaste  Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/64R7ze3fBV Watch the uncut video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA8oMy23xB36xpq-IvzZOw  Watch us live on Twitch: twitch.tv/undercommontaste Find our shorts on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@undercommon_taste Our theme song is Massacre Anne, written and performed by Mary Crowell, and used with permission. You can find Mary's work online at marycrowell.bandcamp.com, or on Patreon at patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell. Our logo was illustrated by David Sutherland. You can find David's work online at instagram.com/wilex_73, or on DeviantArt at deviantart.com/davidsutherland.

“I talked as much about the National Basketball Association in Syria as I did about politics. Syrians felt so global and interested in everything. As a young backpacker, I don't know that I appreciated the historical moment that I was in.”  –Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Shaun talk about how they first came to know of Father Paolo and Deir Mar Musa monastery in Syria (3:00); the warm and hospitable experience of traveling in other parts of the country (10:00); Father Paolo's "interfaith dialogue" initiatives at Deir Mar Musa  (18:30); what happened to Father Paolo after the Syrian government cracked down on dissent and protest in 2011 (29:00); and how Father Paolo's monastery fostered interfaith dialogue over debate, and what his legacy is in Syria (43:00). Shaun O'Neill is the author of A Church of Islam: The Syrian Calling of Father Paolo Dall'Oglio. Notable Links: The strangers we meet on the road (Deviate episode) Paolo Dall'Oglio (Italian priest and peace activist) Deir Mar Musa (Christian monastery in Syria) 2011 Syrian uprising (phase of the Arab Spring) Sufism (mystic Islamic practice) Neuromancer, by William Gibson (novel) Tahrir Square (public area in Cairo) Hafez al-Assad (Syrian president from 1971-2000) Kurdish Syria (northeast part of the country) Alawites (ethnoreligious group) Interfaith dialogue (interaction between religious traditions) Desert Fathers (early Christian monks) Free Syrian Army (civil war faction) Daesh (militant Islamists in Syria and Iraq) Pope John Paul II (Catholic leader) Of Gods and Men (2010 film) Frans van der Lugt (Dutch priest killed in Syria) Syncretism (combining of different beliefs) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

Er is een pijpleiding tussen God en mijzelf waardoor zijn levend water kan stromen. Ik moet ervoor zorgen dat hierin geen gaten zitten en dat alle verbindingen goed gelegd zijn zodat er geen rotzooi kan binnenstromen. Of Gods plan met mijn leven werkelijkheid wordt, hangt af van mij. Ik moet me positioneren, de juiste plaats innemen. Zo kan ik uit positie raken door vb. niet te vergeven Anderzijds is Vasten een goede manier om te helpen positie in te nemen. Esther is hier een goed voorbeeld van.

Er is een pijpleiding tussen God en mijzelf waardoor zijn levend water kan stromen. Ik moet ervoor zorgen dat hierin geen gaten zitten en dat alle verbindingen goed gelegd zijn zodat er geen rotzooi kan binnenstromen. Of Gods plan met mijn leven werkelijkheid wordt, hangt af van mij. Ik moet me positioneren, de juiste plaats innemen. Zo kan ik uit positie raken door vb. niet te vergeven Anderzijds is Vasten een goede manier om te helpen positie in te nemen. Esther is hier een goed voorbeeld van.

Er is een pijpleiding tussen God en mijzelf waardoor zijn levend water kan stromen. Ik moet ervoor zorgen dat hierin geen gaten zitten en dat alle verbindingen goed gelegd zijn zodat er geen rotzooi kan binnenstromen. Of Gods plan met mijn leven...

The Mind Behind 'The End': Part 2 of Our Interview with Joe Donka | The Goblins and Growlers Podcast Episode Introduction Welcome to part 2 of our interview with Joe Donka, creator of "The End," the 1995 Christian Apocalypse role-playing game that was banned from GenCon. This is essentially part 3 of our Joe Donka Trilogy so, if you haven't already, be sure to go back and listen to our January 10 episode where we discuss the game for the first time, then go back and listen to the first part of our interview on on March 28. We're so grateful to Joe for taking time out of his day to talk to us and share stories about this fascinating and unique property he created. I had a smile on my face the whole time I was editing this. I decided I'm not even going to put time codes in this episode because it's such a fun interview that you really should listen to the whole thing.  Obviously there are some mature themes discussed here -- maybe a little bit moreso than last week -- so keep that in mind as you're listening. Fortunately there was only one part where we had to do any bleeping. And thanks again to Joe because he sent us a copy of the Judges screen and two autographed copies of "The End." They're glorious. About Joe: Joe is a semi-retired (maybe?) game designer. The primary mind behind Scapegoat Games, half of Tyranny Games, and the principal creator of "The End," a post-apocalyptic game about the people left behind after the devout are whisked off to heaven, and the evil whisked off to hell. “The meek shall inherit the Earth” wasn't a promise, it was a warning. Additional Resources GGP Reviews The End: https://goblinsandgrowlers.podbean.com/e/the-end-a-tabletop-rpg-about-the-christian-apocalypse/  Part 1 of our interview: https://goblinsandgrowlers.podbean.com/e/the-mind-behind-the-end-joe-donka-pt-1/ The End (Second Edition): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/778/The-End-Lost-Souls-Edition  Of Gods and Men: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/840/Of-Gods-and-Men  Tyranny Games: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/25/Tyranny-Games "The End" on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_(role-playing_game) Richard Kane Ferguson's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rkaneferguson/?hl=en Richard Kane Ferguson's portfolio: https://scryfall.com/search?as=full&order=name&q=a%3A%22richard+kane+ferguson%22&utm_source=mci Listen, rate, and subscribe! If you like the show, please tell a friend about it. And if you want to tell more people, then please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. You can find and/or support us at all the places below: https://twitter.com/WayOfBrandolore  https://www.instagram.com/wayofbrandolore/ https://twitter.com/BlackCloakDM https://patreon.com/goblinsgrowlers https://facebook.com/GoblinsAndGrowlers https://goblinsandgrowlers.podbean.com (and basically any other podcatcher) https://quidproroll.podbean.com (our sister podcast, an actual play) JOIN OUR DISCORD: bit.ly/goblindiscord The Goblins and Growlers Podcast is produced by Goblins and Growlers, a Richmond, Virginia-based tabletop-roleplaying-game content and events company dedicated to inclusivity through TTRPGs.

The Mind Behind 'The End': Part 1 of Our Interview with Joe Donka | The Goblins and Growlers Podcast Episode Introduction We're joined today by Joe Donka, creator of "The End," a roleplaying game set in the Christian Apocalypse. After spending hours scouring the internet for alternate ways to contact Joe, Brandon and I came up with a game plan for if we didn't hear from him, then we both got busy with life as we often do. In the meantime, Joe reached back out to Brandon and agreed to an interview! The excitement is palpable. Get ready as we interview the mind behind "The End," getting context, and having some of our wild speculation corrected! About Joe: Joe is a semi-retired (maybe?) game designer. The primary mind behind Scapegoat Games, half of Tyranny Games, and the principal creator of "The End," a post-apocalyptic game about the people left behind after the devout are whisked off to heaven, and the evil whisked off to hell. “The meek shall inherit the Earth” wasn't a promise, it was a warning. Topics Introduction (0:23) Mrs. Donka's amusement at the whole situation (1:36) How we came to review The End in the first place (2:35) Joe's first collaborator Shane (3:56) “Special Thanks to Denny's” (4:56) Wanting to be an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances (7:08) Joe's early life, how it influenced The End (10:22) Joe sets the record straight on his age (12:49) The gestation period of The End from concept to publishing (15:20) Scapegoat Games staff (20:02) Harry Liebowitz and Brandon the Optimist (21:12) The End is the Dark Souls of TTRPGs (23:39) Joe's favorite philosophers (26:07) Back to God, WA (29:22) Joe's love for post-apocalypse media (30:46) Joe's (at the time) plans for Scapegoat Games (33:13) The Fall of Scapegoat (34:15) Naming the company Scapegoat Games (43:29) Getting banned from Gen Con (44:10) “If he's working this hard, it's going to be successful.” (50:44) Outro (52:12) Additional Resources GGP Reviews The End: https://goblinsandgrowlers.podbean.com/e/the-end-a-tabletop-rpg-about-the-christian-apocalypse/  The End: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/778/The-End-Lost-Souls-Edition  Of Gods and Men: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/840/Of-Gods-and-Men  Joe Donka Games: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/25/Tyranny-Games    Listen, rate, and subscribe! If you like the show, please tell a friend about it. And if you want to tell more people, then please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. You can find and/or support us at all the places below: https://twitter.com/WayOfBrandolore  https://twitter.com/BlackCloakDM https://patreon.com/goblinsgrowlers https://facebook.com/GoblinsAndGrowlers https://goblinsandgrowlers.podbean.com (and basically any other podcatcher) https://quidproroll.podbean.com (our sister podcast, an actual play) JOIN OUR DISCORD: bit.ly/goblindiscord The Goblins and Growlers Podcast is produced by Goblins and Growlers, a Richmond, Virginia-based tabletop-roleplaying-game content and events company dedicated to inclusivity through TTRPGs.

One of the trailblazers in the field of Japanese philosophy, James W. Heisig, delivered his five lectures in 2019 at Boston College as the Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity. These lectures were compiled into this book, Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons (Nagoya & Brussels: Chisokudō Publications, 2019). In them the author begins from the assumption that if the Christian God is to have global significance, it will not merely be a matter of Christianity accepting cultural and religious diversity and retreating from its mission of converting the entire world to its own way of thinking about God. The conversion to tolerance and hospitality towards other modes of belief and practice marks a watershed for Christianity, but only as a transition to straighten out its past in the face of a graver, commoner concern: the care of an earth abused by human civilization and devalued by organized religion. The author approaches this question from a broader consideration of the origins and functions of gods in minds and from there suggests grounding metaphors of the divine and its relationship to the natural world in a nothingness beyond being and becoming. During our interview, I asked Jim: The ongoing challenges of bringing our ecological concerns and street activism to the centerstage of our intellectual and philosophical discussions in academia are daunting. We (academics) tend to create another specialised branch of "environmental philosophy" or "philosophy of nature" as an elective rather than the core discourse in the field of philosophy. I asked him what is needed for philosophers and specialists of religious studies to take seriously the practical concept of the "care of an earth." His nuanced answer was this: a "revolution."  We also delved into the concept of nothingness as "connectedness" and the logic of soku 即 as a particular rendering of it in reference to contemporary Japanese philosophy. The examples he provided towards the end of the interview was stunning to say the least: A genuine connectedness between humans and nature, which also means to be faithful to emergences of gods in our minds from diverse cultural and historical backgrounds, should look like Kintsugi 金継ぎ. It can not only heal what is once broken but the process of healing can be beautiful and renew our appreciation of what we have broken once. We hope that philosophy programs from around the world will follow this revolutionary practice of connectedness.   Takeshi Morisato is philosopher and sometimes academic. He is the editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy. He specializes in comparative and Japanese philosophy but he is also interested in making Japan and philosophy accessible to a wider audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the trailblazers in the field of Japanese philosophy, James W. Heisig, delivered his five lectures in 2019 at Boston College as the Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity. These lectures were compiled into this book, Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons (Nagoya & Brussels: Chisokudō Publications, 2019). In them the author begins from the assumption that if the Christian God is to have global significance, it will not merely be a matter of Christianity accepting cultural and religious diversity and retreating from its mission of converting the entire world to its own way of thinking about God. The conversion to tolerance and hospitality towards other modes of belief and practice marks a watershed for Christianity, but only as a transition to straighten out its past in the face of a graver, commoner concern: the care of an earth abused by human civilization and devalued by organized religion. The author approaches this question from a broader consideration of the origins and functions of gods in minds and from there suggests grounding metaphors of the divine and its relationship to the natural world in a nothingness beyond being and becoming. During our interview, I asked Jim: The ongoing challenges of bringing our ecological concerns and street activism to the centerstage of our intellectual and philosophical discussions in academia are daunting. We (academics) tend to create another specialised branch of "environmental philosophy" or "philosophy of nature" as an elective rather than the core discourse in the field of philosophy. I asked him what is needed for philosophers and specialists of religious studies to take seriously the practical concept of the "care of an earth." His nuanced answer was this: a "revolution."  We also delved into the concept of nothingness as "connectedness" and the logic of soku 即 as a particular rendering of it in reference to contemporary Japanese philosophy. The examples he provided towards the end of the interview was stunning to say the least: A genuine connectedness between humans and nature, which also means to be faithful to emergences of gods in our minds from diverse cultural and historical backgrounds, should look like Kintsugi 金継ぎ. It can not only heal what is once broken but the process of healing can be beautiful and renew our appreciation of what we have broken once. We hope that philosophy programs from around the world will follow this revolutionary practice of connectedness.   Takeshi Morisato is philosopher and sometimes academic. He is the editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy. He specializes in comparative and Japanese philosophy but he is also interested in making Japan and philosophy accessible to a wider audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

Sofia and Adrianna have a conversation about freedom, the foundational value of our culture. When we search for freedom, why do we often end up bored, dissatisfied, and afraid? What is the true source of freedom? How, personally, have we discovered freedom in our lives? What are practical steps for growing in freedom? Our weekly challenge is to pray about the times in your life when you felt most free and identify why. And our media recommendation is the film Of Gods and Men (which is available to stream online!). We'd love to hear from you! Write to us at pilgrimsoulpodcast@gmail.com or find us on Instagram at @pilgrimsoulpodcast. Other resources we mention: - Servais Pinckaers's book Morality: The Catholic View - Then-Cardinal Ratzinger's lecture “Europe in the Crisis of Cultures” www.theway.org.uk/endeanweb/ratzinger32-2.pdf - Luigi Giussani's book The Religious Sense - St. Augustine's Sermon 169 - Cardinal Van Thuan's spiritual testament “The Road of Hope” Veritatis Splendor, the encyclical by Pope John Paul II. Our theme music is Nich Lampson's “Dolphin Kicks.”

On this episode host Bob Nalbandian is joined by two old comrades, bassist Marten Andersson currently in Steelheart and formerly with Lizzy Borden and Lynch Mob along with guitar-shredder Ira Black, who has performed and recorded with a wide-range of classic hard rock and metal bands from I Am Morbid, ATTIKA7, Westfield Massacre, Metal Church, Heathen, Vicious Rumors to Lizzy Borden and Dokken. Ira has recently formed a new band called Of Gods & Monsters alongside vocalist Kevin Goocher, drummer Simon Wright (AC/DC, DIO) and bassist Bjorn Englen (Yngwie Malmsteen, DIO Disciples) which we discuss in detail. Ira is also joined by Jessica Chase who is one of the promoters and co-founder of the Whisky Jam Night. THE CMS PODCAST NETWORK: https://www.cmspn.com HEAVY METAL TELEVISION: https://www.heavymetaltelevision.net CMStv: https://www.cmstv.net RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/cmspn BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cmspn/ ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@ClassicMetalShow:dROKU: https://my.roku.com/account/add/ CMSPNAMAZON: Search "The CMS Podcast Network" To Add Our Channel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cmspn/message

Angélique Roché talks to artist, writer, and the creator behind the Smithsonian’s Of Gods and Heroes exhibition, Jeffery Veregge. Veregge has worked on a series of gorgeous native American Heritage Tribute variant covers for Marvel showcasing heroes like Dani Moonstar, Black Panther, Spider-Man, and more, all depicted in Veregge’s iconic artistic Formline style. His work can also been seen in Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1.

Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala is an art historian and curator and [Ph. D. Cornell University] Master’s of Arts in Curating, Goldsmith College, London], and the founding director/curator of Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India. Her recent museum curatorial projects include The Future is Here: Art and Technology in Millennial Age [2019], Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post –Independent from India at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai [April 2017] and Raza Foundation, Delhi [January 2017], India Re- Worlded: Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation [2017] for which she was awarded the curator of the year award by India Today, Given Time: The Gift and Its Offerings [2016] both at Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai. After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997 [2015] at the Queens Museum, and Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India for the RPG Foundation in Mumbai, and Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India at the Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi [2011]. She was been teaching South Asian Feminism in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in the Art History department since 2019. She has curated over 150 shows at Lakeeren Gallery, which included an international program of artists from India, Pakistan, Iran, and Germany & Mexico City. She was been teaching South Asian Feminism in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in the Art History department since 2019. Dr. Lokhandwala writes on globalization, feminism, performance and new media with a specialization in biennale and large-scale exhibitions. Arshiya Lokhandwala lives and works in Mumbai and New York. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mars Attacks! Of Gods and Men A Man for All Seasons Brain Donors Fargo Shadowlands Rivers and Tides The Dancer Upstairs Sunshine The Lion in Winter Howard's End The Edge Stop Making Sense Fire in the Sky To End All Wars Glen Gary Glen Ross The Apartment 8 1/2 Primer Vanya on 42nd My Dinner with Andre Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang The Long Kiss Goodnight The Tao of Steve In America Changeling Chinatown Roger Dodger Alien Aliens Beautiful Girls The Verdict Opportunity Knocks The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Waking Life London Blvd. Persepolis Ghost in the Shell The Host This is England Get Low Another Year In the Name of the Father Big Night Dinner Rush Winchell The Foot Fist Way The Spy Who came in from the Cold Goodfellas The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) The Triplets of Belleville Sweet & Lowdown Shanghai Knights

On this Halloween episode of Gargantucast, hosts Chris McDonald and Cole Grisson are joined by Something Ghoulish podcast producer and Of Gods and Monsters co-host Zack Sokol. Together they dive into the infamous so-bad-it's-good giant monster film The Giant Claw and discuss why the titular creature is one of the most remembered bad creature effects. The three also discuss the very nature of so-bad-it's-good cult followings. - Theme song by The Tormented Teamster A Something Ghoulish Podcast

Zack Sokol joins to design a Universal Monsters Theme Park!   Here are the songs featured on today's episode: 9:24 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor -- Johann Sebastian Bach 16:15 Imhotep -- Jerry Goldsmith 17:42 Swan Theme -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 33:10 Vampire Hunters -- Wojciech Kilar 46:15  Bela’s Funeral -- Hans J. Salter & Frank Skinner 55:30 Two Hours to Live -- Hans J. Salter & Frank Skinner 1:03:17 The Creature from the Black Lagoon -- Hans J. Salter 1:07:07 Bloody Tears -- Konami Kukeiha Club 1:08:26 First Transformation -- Danny Elfman 1:14:17 Son of Frankenstein Main Title -- Frank Skinner 1:21:11 The Shape of Water -- Alexandre Desplat 1:27:05 Monster Mash -- Bobby “Boris” Pickett   Check out the Of Gods and Monsters Podcast (Explicit) on your favorite podcast app!

We go to the Dark Carnaval for this special episode of season five of Flicks XRayed for All The Horror because we are watching and reviewing Something Wicked This Way Comes. Host, Librarian Tony is joined by co-host Cigar Salesman Ryan and guests Autumn Person Duff, and Lightning Rod Salesman Zach from the podcast Of Gods and Monsters. This week we play a game of Release Year for Horror Movies based on books, The Price is Right and The Flicks Awesome Lodge Word Game for the coveted princess crown. So tune in as we discuss at length about Carnivals, Disney Obscurity, Jonathan Pryce and sooo much more.

In Star Trek: Enterprise’s fourth season, the infamous green Orion women were re-introduced, most notably in the episode “Bound.” Crystal Allen, a familiar face on many network television shows, guest-starred as the dangerous and alluring D’Nesh, and we are honored to have her on Positively Trek as our first guest ever! In this episode, Dan and Bruce talk with Crystal about her role as D’Nesh, her experiences on Of Gods and Men with Tim Russ, and get the word out about her charitable efforts to provide healthy, home-cooked meals to frontline medical workers dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. A reminder that Trek fans who donate $30 to Crystal’s GoFundMe will receive a signed photo from her, either of D’Nesh, her character in Of Gods and Men, or a publicity photo of the actor herself. Crystal Allen - Home Cooked Donation Meals to Medical Staff on GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/home-cooked-donation-meals-to-medical-staff Crystal Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItsCrystalAllen Crystal Allen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crystalallenfanpage/ Crystal Allen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystalallen13/   Show page: http://positivelytrek.libsyn.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/positively-trek/id1501468628 Twitter: http://twitter.com/positivelytrek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/561279797782106/

Texas native and veteran musician, Kevin Goocher stops by to chat about his musical career and upcoming projects. From his southern Baptist beginnings to the progression of his career, he shares how “Of Gods and Monsters” got its name, touring with JAG Panzer, Stryper, why super groups are becoming more mainstream. Why the music industry has taken such a nosedive and how he’s managing expectations from fans with the digital mentality. Upcoming tours and how touring have been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. How the American listener allows the radio to dictate who they listen to where European and South American metal listener is more open. Then he shares how power metal molded his life and how creating the album was a logistical challenge as the members are scattered across the country. And before I let him go, he gives me the low down on his solo project coming out soon and his new manager Eddie Cantu who is kicking ass and taking names in the music industry. Of Gods & Monsters Facebook Of Gods & Monsters Twitter Kevin Goocher Facebook

Daisy Dunn discusses six things with Ivan which she thinks should be better known. Daisy is a classicist and critic and author of, mostly recently, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome, and Homer: A Ladybird Expert Book. Find out more about Daisy at www.daisydunn.co.uk. Hesiod http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/fragments-2/early-greek-philosophy and https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/01/18/hesiod-doggish-translation/ Spelt http://thespeltbakers.ca/what-is-spelt/ The Warburg Institute Library https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/library-collections/library Rodin at the V&A http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O135954/the-young-mother-relief-rodin-auguste/ and https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/auguste-rodin Henry Green https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Henry-Green/Loving/141101 Shorthand https://www.troab.co.uk/history-of-shorthand This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

On February 25, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets John Murillo and Tina Chang. Introduction by Patricia Guzman.John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie (2010), which was a finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2020. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Court Green, Ninth Letter, and Ploughshares, and is forthcoming in Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African-American Poetry. A graduate of New York University’s MFA program in creative writing, he is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.Tina Chang is the author of the poetry collections Hybrida (2019), Of Gods & Strangers (2011), and Half-Lit Houses (2004). She is co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (2008). Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and The New York Times and anthologized in Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American Literature, and Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, among others. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, and the Van Lier Foundation. Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, the first woman named to this position, and she currently teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Welcome to Of Gods and Monsters the brand new horror movie podcast from Something Ghoulish. Each episode hosts Zack Sokol and Caitlin Duffy will bring a contemporary perspective to horror films of the past. Digging up everything from Universal Monster classics to silent movies and everything in between! Subscribe to Of Gods & Monsters today.

What do the Godfather and Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" have in common? I talk to Dr. Walker Cosgrove about his argument that the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri has influenced not just the Godfather trilogy, but also Malick himself and the great 2011 movie "Of Gods and Men." Whether you've seen these movies or not, this is a fun, wide-ranging conversation. There are spoilers within.

Books by Tina ChangHybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019)Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way, 2011)Language for a New Century [Editor, alongside Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar] (W.W. Norton, 2008)Half-Lit Houses (Four Way, 2004)Other Texts and Writers Mentioned in this EpisodeKimiko HahnAracelis Girmaysam saxAgha Shahid AliMira JacobToni Morrisonlucille cliftonBrenda ShaughnessyCarolyn ForchéMichael Cunningham’s The Hours (Picador, 2000)Edwidge Danticat“With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding”—Tina Chang’s Modern Love ColumnOther Relevant LinksSarah Lawrence Poetry FestivalNapa Valley Writer’s ConferenceThe Case of Loving V. Virginia

If you thought Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter was fun - wait till you hear the shocking true story of Thomas Jefferson, Monster Hunter!  We're joined by Justin Mullis who presented his paper on Jefferson's work in Cryptozoology at the Of Gods and Monsters conference at Texas State in San Marcos, in April 2019. Links of interest: Martin Rudwick - The Meaning of Fossils  Glossopetrae - an outdated theory about fossilized shark teeth  Lee Alan Dugatkin's Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose   Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - "the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century " The full poem about Lewis & Clark's pursuit of Mammoth is on Page 11 of this digitized document. Some additional reading suggested by listeners: Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology  American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity

Tina Chang was raised in New York City. She is the first female to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and is the author of the collections of poetry Hybrida, Of Gods & Strangers, and Half-Lit Houses. She is also the co-editor of the W.W. Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs decide to fly without a guest for this episode of the show, as they take our first of a two-part look at gaming in Ancient Greece 00:00 - Introduction 05:12 - Confessional - Time to own up to all those hobby purchases we have made recently. 40:53 - Our Hobby - We all talk about our recent gaming and painting 1:15:28 - Gaming in Ancient Greece, Part I - Neil & Mike chat about skirmish gaming in ancient Greece, reviewing Mortal Gods and Of Gods and Mortals 2:40:03 - Outtro - Closing thoughts. We hope you enjoy the show. The Meeples & Miniatures podcast is sponsored by Too Fat Lardies - purveyor of the finest rules and scenarios for wargaming. The Meeples & Miniatures podcast is sponsored by Firestorm Games - don't forget to use the discount code that can be found in the show If you enjoyed this episode of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast, you may want to become a supporter of the show, Details can be found on our Patreon page.

House cleaning and introduction. The Cull of Personality is out now, discussion about the politics of representation and building narratives without owning other people. Lilia reads the first chapter, ‘A Shallow Grave.’ Wild Resistance no 6 will be here any day, information about the new issue. For Wildness and Anarchy expanded second edition updates. Getting back to work on Of Gods and Country. Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth and the nature of the American identity. The frontier versus the border in terms of the colonial imagination. Eco-feminist book recommendations and the innate power of the medical industry. Mythologies of civilization’s progress. Anti-missionary book recommendations. Indigenous narrative book recommendations and the complexities of representation. Indigenous resistance versus revolutionary, from the view point of an Apache child during the Apache Wars.

America This Week Our guest this week is Richard J. Clifford, S.J. We discuss his article Women have been leading since Biblical times—they can lead again today. We also discuss these articles:  Pope beatifies ‘Of Gods and Men’ martyrs A 1940s French film is one of the most Catholic horror movies ever made Lessons from John Alan Chau (and Francis Xavier) for Catholic missions today

1-54 Forum London 4 -7 October 2018 Artist Talk Ekow Eshun (Writer and 1-54 Forum Curator) in conversation with artist Athi-Patra Ruga on his practice and first major solo exhibition in the UK, Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions, currently on display at Somerset House. Through mythical characters set in dramatic scenes and presented in multiple mediums, Ruga criticises and parodies South Africa's political status quo, ideas of utopia and the pre-colonial. Image: © Katrina Sorrentino www.1-54.com

The Shadow League's Ricardo Hazell pays us a visit to talk about the Ava Duvernay, Of Gods and Men, Urbanworld Film Festival and all things TSL culture. Rate. Comment. Subscribe. Share. Check out more from the League at: www.TheShadowLeague.com twitter.com/ShadowLeagueTSL www.facebook.com/TheShadowLeague.TSL www.instagram.com/theshadowleague

Black and Green Podcast 12: 9-6-2018.Podcast housecleaning, giving call in messages a shot. Supporting Black & Green. A bit about Of Gods and Country. Pinker, Chagnon, sociobiologists and their retelling of violence as a revisionist form of human history to bury our actual nature. Warfare and conquest. Seeing domestication in minutiae vs bigger picture. Guayaki brand yerba mate and their site cleansing, follow up to episode 8, renewed attacks. Limits of boycotts and attacking industry. Depression palate cleanser. Reading from Of Gods on the Ache.

Black and Green Review 6 timeline. Anniversaries of Charlottesville and execution of Mike Brown in the unending tension of social media and civilization. Poem break: Joan Kovatch's 'Timing'. Of Gods and Country, update, overview and reading. Murder of native women and the legacies and institutions of colonization. Intergenerational trauma and domestication. Why hunter-gatherers matter.

The boys brave the heat to look at action sequel Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Jehovah's Witness drama Apostasy, documentary Tracking Edith, dance flick Breaking Through, and fantasy tale Of Gods and Warriors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep #46 brings back the 6th edition, of the popular game, "You Can't Play This" with special guest Timothy Gaines, to play along with Troy and Randy. Tim, the former bass player of Stryper, talks about what 2018 brings with his current bands, Of Gods and Monsters, Sons of Metal, and Faith's Edge. Can these three guys agree on what songs to take off the setlists of bands like Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Journey, Cinderella and many more? Listen to find out. Ouch You're on my Hair is proud to bring you a brand new song by the band Swirl out of Southern California. Swirl is no stranger to this podcast, as they have been on before and they still ROCK!! The new song "The Lift" is featured, along with the song "Spell" on this episode. You do not want to pass up hearing this AWESOME band. For this and every other episode of Ouch You're on my Hair, you can subscribe on iTunes, Podomatic, Google Play, Stitcher, or Player FM. Also follow the show on Twitter @OuchYOMH and Facebook at www.facebook.com/OuchYOMH

This week, we are getting back to our roots. Some of the earliest podcasts we did were on the huaben (話本) story. The very first podcast we posted (we recorded others before, but we canned them because they weren't good enough) was a huaben  that we called Of Gods and Telescopes. We also did the gender-bending huaben Male Mencius' Mother and Jiang Xingge's Pearl-Sown Shirt. The huaben is just a kind of short story from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Huaben operate in a karmic universe where bad deeds are punished and good deeds rewarded. In today's podcast, we look at the Feng Menglong story, "Shen Xiu and his Bird Causes 7 Deaths." The story starts with a rich layabout, Shen Xiu, who is always out playing with his bird. While he is out, Shen Xiu collapses and Zhang, a cooper, sees him lying there with his bird. He decides to steal the bird, but Shen Xiu comes to, so Zhang kills Shen Xiu and sells the bird. Afterwards, several more people die in this trail of horrors. The question that Rob and Lee argue over is whether or not a moral balance is restored to the universe.

Podcast: A Final Adventure of Wonder Woman (1985) This episode finally, irrevocably breaks from its previous incarnation as a podcast! A seasonal/bi-annual show no more! No longer only coming out only when an issue of Wonder Woman '77 corresponds with the episode number! This edition, we cover an entire story arc, encompassing the entire (very brief) run of Wonder Woman's first female writer, Mindy Newell! That's "Tropidor Heat" & "A World in Chaos!" & " To Everything a Season..." from Wonder Woman #326-328 (July-December, 1985) plus the concluding 48-page story of the original volume, "Of Gods and Men," written by Gerry Conway! Don Heck draws most of this swan song to the Pre-Crisis Amazing Amazon, with a little help from Pablo Marcos. We also read excerpts from magazine articles and letters columns contemporaneous to the end of this era, and look forward to the next, which signals the changes coming to this show in celebration of the 75th anniversary year! In the meantime, do check out Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace: A podcast that explores the history of Wonder Woman on page and screen. It's currently five episodes deep chronologically covering the Golden Age, Iron Age, New 52, and 1970s TV show! We don't have a Magic Sphere, so if you want to communicate with us about the podcast... Tweet host Diabolu Frank directly, or commune with @rolledspine as a group. Email Diabolu If the main Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman blog isn't your thing, try the umbrella Rolled Spine Podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diabolu-frank/message

This episode finally, irrevocably breaks from its previous incarnation as a podcast! A seasonal/bi-annual show no more! No longer only coming out only when an issue of Wonder Woman ’77 corresponds with the episode number! This edition, we cover an entire story arc, encompassing the entire (very brief) run of Wonder Woman’s first female writer, Mindy Newell! That’s “Tropidor Heat” & “A World in Chaos!” & ” To Everything a Season…” from Wonder Woman #326-328 (July-December, 1985) plus the concluding 48-page story of the original volume, “Of Gods and Men,” written by Gerry Conway! Don Heck draws most of this swan song to the Pre-Crisis Amazing Amazon, with a little help from Pablo Marcos. We also read excerpts from magazine articles and letters columns contemporaneous to the end of this era, and look forward to the next, which signals the changes coming to this show in celebration of the 75th anniversary year!In the meantime, do check out Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace: A podcast that explores the history of Wonder Woman on page and screen. It’s currently five episodes deep chronologically covering the Golden Age, Iron Age, New 52, and 1970s TV show!We don’t have a Magic Sphere, so if you want to communicate with us about the podcast…Tweet host Diabolu Frank directly, or commune with @rolledspine as a group.Email DiaboluIf the main Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman blog isn’t your thing, try the umbrella Rolled Spine Podcasts.

A long episode this week as Tom and Josh explore the film, Of Gods and Monsters. A powerhouse performance from Fraser and newcomer to the acting game, Ian McKellan. The guys talk about attempted Fraser rape, synchronise on the biggest personal jinx call in history and swap ideas about what Fraser could have been, had he not already solidified his place as the best actor in history. Note: ITS ON TIME THIS WEEK! =D Help us #BringBackBrendan! Leave some feedback and a rating on Itunes. Or else! I know some of you guys are having trouble, hold it out for us! Do it for Brendan! Of Gods and Monsters Synopsis: Brendan Fraser is sexually hunted by Ian McKellan. For cereal though, this movie was pretty dope. It was multi-layered, complex and explore sexuality in an adult, forthright way that you barely see in films. Of Gods and Monsters Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn2G6YrvibM Let's bring back Brendan! www.facebook.com/BrendazzledPodcast/

Of Gods, Ghouls, And Ghostbusters: A Christian Perspective On The Supernatural by The Word and Life

Título original Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men) Año 2010 Duración 120 min. País Francia Francia Director Xavier Beauvois Guión Xavier Beauvois, Etienne Comar Música Varios Fotografía Caroline Champetier Reparto Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin, Loïc Pichon, Xavier Maly, Jean-Marie Frin, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Sabrina Ouazani, Goran Kostic Productora Why Not Productions / France 3 Cinéma Género Drama | Religión. Basado en hechos reales Web oficial http://www.sonyclassics.com/ofgodsandmen/ Sinopsis A finales del siglo pasado, en un monasterio situado en las montañas del Magreb, ocho monjes cistercienses viven en perfecta armonía con sus hermanos musulmanes. Pero una ola de violencia y terror se apodera lentamente de la región. A pesar del creciente peligro que los rodea y de las amenazas de los terroristas, los monjes deciden quedarse y resistir.

A short comment on the French film Of Gods and Men. Where do we stand on an ethical dilemma. A human beings has the capacity to be a god. Krishna, the god, has a dialogue with Arjuna about war because the gods understand the humans and humans struggle with ethics and the sins of commission and omission. Dharma talk recorded in India, February 2011.

Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O'Connell Links from today's show: Today's topics: Cardinal Dolan's address to the College of Cardinals Summary of today's show: Last week, the day before the consistory at which he was to be made a cardinal of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York was asked to address the College of Cardinals and Pope Benedict XVI on the topic of the New Evangelization. Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O'Connell walk the listeners step by step through the Cardinal's 7-step strategy for evangelization, which he peppered with many practical—and often witty—observations that itself demonstrates his call to be joyful, confident, and knowledgeable when witnessing to the beauty of a relationship with Jesus Christ in His Church. 1st segment: Scot and Fr. Mark discussed the week. Fr. Mark had an emergency last week that caused him to miss the show because he had to have a root canal. They discussed about three priests who have died recently. Fr. Mark said he went to the funeral today for Fr. Ed O'Flaherty, a Jesuit who worked for many years as director of the ecumenical office for the Archdiocese among other ministries. There were many priests and bishops at the funeral. Fr. Bill Burckhart also died this week. He was the founder of the permanent diaconate and also worked with Fr. Mark on the Clergy Funds. Fr. Jim Curtin also died, who Fr. Mark recalled him as someone who was always happy to see you. Today they will be discussing a talk given by Cardinal Timothy Dolan before the consistory in which Pope Benedict made new cardinals last week. It was highly unusual for the keynote address of the meeting to be given by one of the new cardinals. 2nd segment: Cardinal Dolan began his address: It is as old as the final mandate of Jesus, “Go, teach all nations!,” yet as fresh as God's Holy Word proclaimed at our own Mass this morning. I speak of the sacred duty of evangelization. It is “ever ancient, ever new.” The how of it, the when of it, the where of it, may change, but the charge remains constant, as does the message and inspiration, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” We gather in the caput mundi, evangelized by Peter and Paul themselves, in the city from where the successors of St. Peter “sent out” evangelizers to present the saving Person, message, and invitation that is at the heart of evangelization: throughout Europe, to the “new world” in the “era of discovery,” to Africa and Asia in recent centuries. We gather near the basilica where the evangelical fervor of the Church was expanded during the Second Vatican Council, and near the tomb of the Blessed Pontiff who made the New Evangelization a household word. We gather grateful for the fraternal company of a pastor who has made the challenge of the new evangelization almost a daily message. Yes, we gather as missionaries, as evangelizers. Fr. Mark said the Pope chose evangelization as the key topic for all the cardinals of the world. We are all called to remember that we are also evangelizers through our baptism. Scot said the cardinal then talks about the re-evangelization of Catholics as complementary to evangelization to non-Catholics. HE then continues after that: The acclaimed American missionary and TV evangelist, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, commented, “Our Lord's first word to His disciples was ‘come!' His last word was ‘go!' You can't ‘go' unless you've first ‘come' to Him.” A towering challenge to both the missio ad gentes and the New Evangalization today is what we call secularism. Listen to how our Pope describes it: Secularization, which presents itself in cultures by imposing a world and humanity without reference to Transcendence, is invading every aspect of daily life and developing a mentality in which God is effectively absent, wholly or partially, from human life and awareness. This secularization is not only an external threat to believers, but has been manifest for some time in the heart of the Church herself. It profoundly distorts the Christian faith from within, and consequently, the lifestyle and daily behavior of believers. They live in the world and are often marked, if not conditioned, by the cultural imagery that impresses contradictory and impelling models regarding the practical denial of God: there is no longer any need for God, to think of him or to return to him. Furthermore, the prevalent hedonistic and consumeristic mindset fosters in the faithful and in Pastors a tendency to superficiality and selfishness that is harmful to ecclesial life. (Benedict XVI, Address to Pontifical Council for Culture, 8.III.2008) Scot said to re-evangelize anybody we need to come to Jesus ourselves. Fr. Mark said Vatican II commissioned lay people especially to be evangelizers in the secular world. He said he spends most of his time with other Catholics. It's Catholics in the pews who meet non-Catholics in their daily life. But we can't keep our Catholic life separate from the rest of life. Scot said most people in our own country most people have heard of Jesus Christ, even if they don't believe in him or act on the belief in him. We need a re-evangelization, what the Church calls the New Evangelization. Cardinal Dolan said evangelization and re-evangelization are motivated by the same seven points he's about to describe. Actually, in graciously inviting me to speak on this topic, “The Announcement of the Gospel Today, between missio ad gentes and the new evangelization,” my new-brother-cardinal, His Eminence, the Secretary of State, asked me to put in into the context of secularism, hinting that my home archdiocese of New York might be the “capital of a secular culture.” As I trust my friend and new-brother-cardinal, Edwin O'Brien — who grew up in New York — will agree, New York — without denying its dramatic evidence of graphic secularism — is also a very religious city. There one finds, even among groups usually identified as materialistic — the media, entertainment, business, politics, artists, writers — an undeniable openness to the divine! The cardinals who serve Jesus and His Church universal on the Roman Curia may recall the address Pope Benedict gave them at Christmas two years ago when he celebrated this innate openness to the divine obvious even in those who boast of their secularism: We as believers, must have at heart even those people who consider themselves agnostics or atheists. When we speak of a new evangelization these people are perhaps taken aback. They do not want to see themselves as an object of mission or to give up their freedom of thought and will. Yet the question of God remains present even for them. As the first step of evangelization we must seek to keep this quest alive; we must be concerned that human beings do not set aside the question of God, but rather see it as an essential question for their lives. We must make sure that they are open to this question and to the yearning concealed within. I think that today too the Church should open a sort of “Court of the Gentiles” in which people might in some way latch on to God, without knowing him and before gaining access to his mystery, at whose service the inner life of the Church stands. This is my first point: we believe with the philosophers and poets of old, who never had the benefit of revelation, that even a person who brags about being secular and is dismissive of religion, has within an undeniable spark of interest in the beyond, and recognizes that humanity and creation is a dismal riddle without the concept of some kind of creator. A movie popular at home now is The Way, starring a popular actor, Martin Sheen. Perhaps you have seen it. He plays a grieving father whose estranged son dies while walking the Camino di Santiago di Compostella in Spain. The father decides, in his grief, to complete the pilgrimage in place of his dead son. He is an icon of a secular man: self-satisfied, dismissive of God and religion, calling himself a “former Catholic,” cynical about faith … but yet unable to deny within him an irrepressible interest in the transcendent, a thirst for something — no, Someone — more, which grows on the way. Yes, to borrow the report of the apostles to Jesus from last Sunday's gospel, “All the people are looking for you!” Fr. Mark said it's easier to ignore someone who's hostile to religion, but we have to want to reach out to them. Even the most hardened heart has a spark within them. This is what makes them curious, what makes them want to talk about it, even if they are completely opposed to the Church. We can use that spark to reach out to them. Scot said he knows people who are far from faith who were touched by the movie “The Way” that the cardinal gives a very strong endorsement to. Fr. Mark notes how the media is intrigued by and really likes Cardinal Dolan as the face of the Church in the US. … and, my second point, this fact gives us immense confidence and courage in the sacred task of mission and New Evangelization. “Be not afraid,” we're told, is the most repeated exhortation in the Bible. After the Council, the good news was that triumphalism in the Church was dead. The bad news was that, so was confidence! We are convinced, confident, and courageous in the New Evangelization because of the power of the Person sending us on mission — who happens to be the second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity – because of the truth of the message, and the deep down openness in even the most secularized of people to the divine. Confident, yes! Triumphant, never! What keeps us from the swagger and arrogance of triumphalism is a recognition of what Pope Paul VI taught in Evangelii Nuntiandi: the Church herself needs evangelization! This gives us humility as we confess that Nemo dat quod not habet, that the Church has a deep need for the interior conversion that is at the marrow of the call to evangelization. Scot said Cardinal Dolan gets his reservoir of confidence from the fact that he knows he's proclaiming truth, Jesus Christ. Fr. Mark said that in order to evangelize you have to be confident in the faith and in the message. A third necessary ingredient in the recipe of effective mission is that God does not satisfy the thirst of the human heart with a proposition, but with a Person, whose name is Jesus. The invitation implicit in the Missio ad gentes and the New Evangelization is not to a doctrine but to know, love, and serve — not a something, but a Someone. When you began your ministry as successor of St. Peter, Holy Father, you invited us to friendship with Jesus, which is the way you defined sanctity. There it is … love of a Person, a relationship at the root of out faith. As St. Augustine writes, “Ex una sane doctrina impressam fidem credentium cordibus singulorum qui hoc idem credunt verissime dicimus, sed aliud sunt ea quae creduntur, aliud fides qua creduntur” (De Trinitate, XIII, 2.5) Fr. Mark said some people come to religion looking for warm fuzzy feelings, but it only lasts so long. In the Catholic faith, we encounter God who became Man, who died on the cross, who chased coin changers, who was kind to Mary Magadalene and was a real human being, not a theory. 3rd segment: The cardinal's fourth point is that because Jesus is the truth, then catechesis is critically linked to evangelization. Yes, and here's my fourth point, but this Person, Jesus, tells us He is the truth. So, our mission has a substance, a content, and this twentieth anniversary of the Catechism, the approaching fiftieth anniversary of the Council, and the upcoming Year of Faith charge us to combat catechetical illiteracy. True enough, the New Evangalization is urgent because secularism has often choked the seed of faith; but that choking was sadly made easy because so many believers really had no adequate knowledge or grasp of the wisdom, beauty, and coherence of the Truth. Cardinal George Pell has observed that “it's not so much that our people have lost their faith, but that they barely had it to begin with; and, if they did, it was so vapid that it was easily taken away.” So did Cardinal Avery Dulles call for neo-apologetics, rooted not in dull polemics but in the Truth that has a name, Jesus. So did Blessed John Newman, upon reception of his own biglietto nominating him a cardinal warn again of what he constantly called a dangerous liberalism in religion: “… the belief that there is no objective truth in religion, that one creed is as good as another … Revealed religion is not a truth, but a sentiment, a taste … ” And, just as Jesus tells us “I am the Truth,” He also describes Himself as “the Way, and the Life.” The Way of Jesus is in and through His Church, a holy mother who imparts to us His Life. “For what would I ever know of Him without her?” asks De Lubac, referring to the intimate identification of Jesus and His Church. Thus, our mission, the New Evangelization, has essential catechetical and ecclesial dimensions. This impels us to think about Church in a fresh way: to think of the Church as a mission. As John Paul II taught in Redemptoris Missio, the Church does not “have a mission,” as if “mission” were one of many things the Church does. No, the Church is a mission, and each of us who names Jesus as Lord and Savior should measure ourselves by our mission-effectiveness. Over the fifty years since the convocation of the Council, we have seen the Church pass through the last stages of the Counter-Reformation and rediscover itself as a missionary enterprise. In some venues, this has meant a new discovery of the Gospel. In once-catechized lands, it has meant a re-evangelization that sets out from the shallow waters of institutional maintenance, and as John Paul II instructed us in Novo Millennio Ineunte, puts out “into the deep” for a catch. In many of the countries represented in this college, the ambient public culture once transmitted the Gospel, but does so no more. In those circumstances, the proclamation of the Gospel — the deliberate invitation to enter into friendship with the Lord Jesus — must be at the very center of the Catholic life of all of our people. But in all circumstances, the Second Vatican Council and the two great popes who have given it an authoritative interpretation are urging us to call our people to think of themselves as missionaries and evangelists. Fr. Mark said he liked that the cardinal talks about being uncompromising about telling the truth. He makes a point to say to teens or RCIA candidates or anyone else he addresses that he's not afraid of their questions, that the Church can justify its teaching or it's not the truth. Then when he can back it up, that's real evangelization. Scot said we need to understand what evangelization is and God's gives us the tools to understand the faith. We are all called to be evangelizers to whomever God puts in our path. Fr. Mark said the message of Vatican II that opened the door to evangelization and to reading the Bible is still being taught today. Many people still don't feel comfortable reading the Bible or talking about the faith. Scot's personal favorite of these 7 strategies is the next. When I was a new seminarian at the North American College here in Rome, all the first-year men from all the Roman theological universities were invited to a Mass at St. Peter's with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal John Wright, as celebrant and homilist. We thought he would give us a cerebral homily. But he began by asking, “Seminarians: do me and the Church a big favor. When you walk the streets of Rome, smile!” So, point five: the missionary, the evangelist, must be a person of joy. “Joy is the infallible sign of God's presence,” claims Leon Bloy. When I became Archbishop of New York, a priest old me, “You better stop smiling when you walk the streets of Manhattan, or you'll be arrested!” A man dying of AIDS at the Gift of Peace Hospice, administered by the Missionaries of Charity in Cardinal Donald Wuerl's Archdiocese of Washington, asked for baptism. When the priest asked for an expression of faith, the dying man whispered, “All I know is that I'm unhappy, and these sisters are very happy, even when I curse them and spit on them. Yesterday I finally asked them why they were so happy. They replied ‘Jesus.' I want this Jesus so I can finally be happy. A genuine act of faith, right? The New Evangelization is accomplished with a smile, not a frown. The missio ad gentes is all about a yes to everything decent, good, true, beautiful and noble in the human person. The Church is about a yes!, not a no! Scot said this is a homily the cardinal could have given in a parish, but he was giving this to all the cardinals and the pope. Fr. Mark said he relates to the admonition to smile. He studied in Rome and a lot of priests and nuns he saw on the street were awfully grumpy. We have to have joy in our Christianity or no one will be attracted to it. Scot said he loves that the cardinal was very practical in just telling people to smile. Fr. Mark said his father has been telling him since the day he was ordained that he needs to smile wherever he speaks or celebrates Mass. And, next-to-last point, the New Evangelization is about love. Recently, our brother John Thomas Kattrukudiyil, the Bishop of Itanagar, in the northeast corner of India, was asked to explain the tremendous growth of the Church in his diocese, registering over 10,000 adult converts a year. “Because we present God as a loving father, and because people see the Church loving them.” he replied. Not a nebulous love, he went on, but a love incarnate in wonderful schools for all children, clinics for the sick, homes for the elderly, centers for orphans, food for the hungry. In New York, the heart of the most hardened secularist softens when visiting one of our inner-city Catholic schools. When one of our benefactors, who described himself as an agnostic, asked Sister Michelle why, at her age, with painful arthritic knees, she continued to serve at one of these struggling but excellent poor schools, she answered, “Because God loves me, and I love Him, and I want these children to discover this love.” Fr. Mark said at Fr. O'Flaherty's funeral this morning, it was recalled that Mother Teresa said when you spend your time judging, there is less time for loving. The way to love is service. How do you have an effective youth group? Teach them to serve. Show them the joy of someone who receives this service. Scot said in our actions we will converts to Christ. Words matter, but so do our acts. Fr. Mark said the lesson of the Missionaries of Charity is you never know who's watching us. Joy, love … and, last point … sorry to bring it up, … but blood. Tomorrow, twenty-two of us will hear what most of you have heard before: “To the praise of God, and the honor of the Apostolic See receive the red biretta, the sign of the cardinal's dignity; and know that you must be willing to conduct yourselves with fortitude even to the shedding of your blood: for the growth of the Christian faith, the peace and tranquility of the People of God, and the freedom and spread of the Holy Roman Church.” Holy Father, can you omit “to the shedding of your blood” when you present me with the biretta? Of course not! We are but “scarlet audio-visual aids” for all of our brothers and sisters also called to be ready to suffer and die for Jesus. It was Pope Paul VI who noted wisely that people today learn more from “witness than from words,” and the supreme witness is martyrdom. Sadly, today we have martyrs in abundance. Thank you, Holy Father, for so often reminding us of those today suffering persecution for their faith throughout the world. Thank you, Cardinal Koch, for calling the Church to an annual “day of solidarity” with those persecuted for the sake of the gospel, and for inviting our ecumenical and inter-religious partners to an “ecumenism of martyrdom.” While we cry for today's martyrs; while we love them, pray with and for them; while we vigorously advocate on their behalf; we are also very proud of them, brag about them, and trumpet their supreme witness to the world. They spark the missio ad gentes and New Evangelization. A young man in New York tells me he returned to the Catholic faith of his childhood, which he had jettisoned as a teenager, because he read The Monks of Tibhirine, about Trappists martyred in Algeria fifteen years ago, and after viewing the drama about them, the French film, Of Gods and Men. Tertullian would not be surprised. Thank you, Holy Father and brethren, for your patience with my primitive Italian. When Cardinal Bertone asked me to give this address in Italian, I worried, because I speak Italian like a child. But, then I recalled, that, as a newly-ordained parish priest, my first pastor said to me as I went over to school to teach the six-year old children their catechism, “Now we'll see if all your theology sunk in, and if you can speak of the faith like a child.” And maybe that's a fitting place to conclude: we need to speak again as a child the eternal truth, beauty, and simplicity of Jesus and His Church. Sia lodato Gesu Cristo! (May Jesus Christ always be praised.) Scot said it's interesting he ends with being willing to suffer and die for our faith and the cardinals need to lead in that. Fr. Mark said we hope that we don't have to die, but we always have to be ready, especially when God himself died on the cross. He liked how Cardinal Dolan plugged Of Gods and Men, which Fr. Mark also found inspiring. It's about monks in Algerian who have to decide whether to leave their monastery in a war-torn area. Scot said even in the presence of the College of Cardinals, Dolan cracked jokes and he's sure the cardinals enjoyed this address. Fr. Mark said he remembers as a child having a Jewish neighbor who asked him why he believes in Jesus and he said, “I don't know.” Since then he's had better answers, but at least they had the conversation. 4th segment: Now as we do every week at this time, we will consider the Mass readings for this Sunday, specifically the Gospel reading. This is the last Sunday before the beginning of Lent. Beloved: Christ suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Fr. Mark said on Ash Wednesday we heard the priest say Repent and believe in the Gospel. It may be a short proclamation, but it's very true. It is everything. Scot said we have heard this many times so we shouldn't take it for granted. We need to internalize this in every way in our lives. We shouldn't put off acting now during this Lent to re-prioritize anything that separates us from God. We don't know when our death will come. How can we re-order our lives so we can have a closer relationship with God. Fr. Mark said even if you've already had a bad beginning to Lent, there's still time to start again. He added that it should be challenging. It it's too easy it may not be enough to really change us. Scot talked about the service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross this Sunday called the Rite of Election in which people who are preparing to enter the Church at Easter are welcomed.

Today's host(s): Scot Landry Today's guest(s): Victor Pap and Alexis Walkenstein Links from today's show: Today's topics: Catholic communications and public relations Summary of today's show: Alexis Walkenstein and Victor Pap discuss with Scot Landry their work at the Maximus Group, promoting books, movies, and other media—Like The Way, There Be Dragons, and Mighty Macs— that incorporate Catholic values using a grassroots efforts among Christian communities in a way that really has never bee done before. 1st segment: Scot welcomed listeners to the show. He said there are so many good books and movies and other media being produced that the owners want to let Catholic families know about, but the Church in the US is so decentralized with thousands of parishes and schools that it's difficult for the Church to promote and market those initiatives. The Maximus Group entered that market a few years ago as a professional promotional and marketing agency. Two local people who grew up in the Boston area have now joined Maximus in leadership positions and Scot welcomed Victor Pap and Alexis Walkenstein to the show. Alexis joined Maximus about one year ago. Scot asked her about her background. She grew up in the Archdiocese of Boston, starting in Framingham. After graduating from Regis College, she started with WHDH-TV Channel 7 as the news assignment manager and a producer. Her last big assignment was covering the death of Pope John Paul II. From there she wanted to serve the Church, which led her to the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, where she served as the diocesan spokesperson, for five years. She wanted to move back to Boston and after praying a novena, she was contacted by Lisa Wheeler of Maximus out of the clear blue to come work for them. Scot asked Alexis what it was like working on the Channel 7 news desk during the height of the sex abuse crisis in Boston. Alexis said you couldn't escape it. Your faith is your whole life and your job can't be compartmentalized from it. Being an objective journalist and a fearless witness to the faith was difficult. She had already been considering leaving secular news because of the type of news that they cover. But sometimes God puts you in a difficult place to be a light in the darkness. Scot then noted that the diocese of Palm Beach had two of its bishops resign after being accused of abusing young men. They were followed by then-bishop Sean O'Malley, who himself was followed by Bishop Barbarito, who Alexis worked for. Alexis said much of her desire to leave secular news was being tired of seeing the Church take it on the chin, but she also wanted to go on offense to proclaim the good news of the Church and bringing the Gospel to people. Scot then asked Victor about his background and how he came to work for Maximus. Victor said he grew up in Weymouth. One of his parents came from Hungary and the other from Brazil and they both fled oppressive governments. They met at the Colonnade Hotel. They settled in Weymouth where he grew up and went to Sacred Heart School. He didn't have an interest in government. He went to Suffolk University and got an internship at the State House. He was amazed at how the process worked. His communications and journalism degree helped him understand how he could have a greater impact. He remembers a vote on junior operator requirements to limit their driving. He was struck by how his peers didn't know how they were being affected. From there he worked in campaigns for the next 13 or 14 years and lead the group Catholic Citizenship. It was a grassroots effort of laity to work with the Mass. Catholic Conference to influence lawmakers. Victor is also on the town council in Weymouth, bringing his Catholic faith to local government. He said Catholics have to become more savvy in how we communicate with our government. Victor's Catholic faith has always been important to him, especially after getting married and having kids. He sees his own fatherhood in relation to the Father's relationship to us. In college, Victor was a member of a debate team and they were national debate champions among the Ivy League. There was a lot of travel and it was very stressful.He remembers one tournament at Cornell during his junior year where he was nervous and had a scholarship riding on it. He went to a chapel before his round instead of practicing. He ended up winning that round and it showed how important it is to go to prayer. 2nd segment: Scot asked Alexis about the history of Maximus Group. She said it was founded in 2005 by Robert DeBellis, Lisa Wheeler, and Matt Pinto, seeing the need for the Church to be represented after the years of the sex abuse crisis and the death of John Paul. They said the need to engage the media with the right message with the right people on the topic of the day. Through that process Maximus was born and has been growing ever since. Maximus has been building a bridge between the sacred and secular. They have many clients they represent. They are often known because of the films they represent, but there's a lot more they do. They are even hired by entities that are secular but want to have a reach in the Church, including Walmart and Proctor & Gamble. They represent Ignatius Press. Every day is different with Maximus. Alexis said she met Victor when he was working with Newt Gingrich promoting his film “9 Days that Changed the World.” Scot said to Victor that The Passion of the Christ was very successful and marketed very differently from other big films. It was very much a grassroots effort among churches and the idea came that this was a good way to market films. Victor said it takes a lot of organization and outreach to ensure each film or project is successful. Catholics need to realize the same is true about politics. They have to be organized a in a grassroots fashion. Marketing and promotion are the same. The personal touch of reaching out to a neighbor or parishioner is important. It's far more important than mass marketing and advertising. Scot said Maximus helped to market a new book on the changes in the Roman Missal last year by Dr. Ed Sri. This exemplifies Maximus' relationships with parishes and dioceses and Catholic media. Alexis said so much discussion about the Mass last year helped them to put the Catholic liturgy in the secular media. They haven't had an opportunity like this in decades. They put together a press availability with Sri and Cardinal Wuerl and a number of others as well to talk about the changes and the first question came from a rabbi which showed Alexis that they were bridging the gap. Victor said it's challenging as a Catholic parent who enjoys books and films and the major media are putting out so many products that are antithetical to Christian values. He was struck by the movie The Way, starring Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen, having seen those actors in other movies over the years but seeing them in a film that shares real Christian values. This made him want to be part of the Maximus Group's work in promoting this type of media. 3rd segment: Scot said the movie The Way takes place on the Camino de Santiago del Compestela about a father following his father's footsteps of the pilgrimage. Alexis worked on the promotion of the film, traveling with them around the country promoting it. It was very impactful. Churches turned out in force wherever they went to see this film which shows humanity seeking the divine and journeying as a community. Scot asked what led to them wanting o market this independent film in this grassroots fashion. Alexis said it speaks to their personal nature. Scot said it inspired him to want to walk the Camino in Spain as part of the ancient pilgrimage. Victor said there isn't necessarily an appreciation for art among Victor's generation. It allows for a form of prayer that's different from what we're used to it. It's a different kind of way to affect your community and share with it. Scot said his sense is that the momentum for The Way built over time and it got a lot more public relations coverage than other films. Alexis said it was an incredible experience to be with them. They are a unique family that attracts a lot of attention all the time anyway. They were so generous with their time. The DVD is coming out on February 21 and because the movie didn't reach every market in America, the buzz is inspiring others to want to see it too. 4th segment: Scot asked some of the other projects Maximus promoted in 2011. Films included Of Gods and Men, There Be Dragons, Soul Surfer, The Way. There many publications including Pope Benedict's book on Holy Week, Lino Rulli's Sinner, Teresa Tomeo's Extreme Makeover. Scot asked if promoting 13 Days, a religious film about Fatima, and Mighty Macs, a film about a girls' basketball team, is similar. Alexis said there is a lot of work and planning that goes into executing these projects months in advance. They have to carve out who the audience is, for example. Every project is individual. For some they're charged with only reaching Catholic audiences, while others have them reaching every audience. Victor said he's started his first project is a new film with Andy Garcia, who's got a great story of his family. The film is about the role of the Mexican lay faithful during a trying time in their history in which their faith is challenged. October Baby is another film talking about how a young woman is facing some challenges in her life. Scot said he saw that October Baby was premiered at the March for Life. aLexis said it's a story of a young woman who survived a failed abortion attempt and tries to find out who she is and her biological mother. It shows the wounds that exist and healing that needs to take place. Fr. Peter West was at the screening as well as other important lay leaders on the front lines of the pro-life movement. They were blown away by the quality of the film. She said the teens that saw the movie loved it as well. Scot said the premise of the movie sounds like the other movie Bella, which is a beautiful way to speak of the mystery of life. Victor said October Baby will be out in late March. It upholds the dignity of life, not in an abstract way, but a real human way. Alexis said they are also working on a book project written by Pope Benedict's brother, Msgr. Ratzinger.

A tad self indulgent episode in which I talk about making my first film, the Baraka Blu Ray and review Of Gods and Men

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Paul at Athens: "A Few People Believed"* for Sunday, 29 May 2011; book review: *The Mind's Eye* by Oliver Sacks (2010); film review: *Of Gods and Men* (2010); poem review: *The Grace of Grace* by George MacDonald.

We’re pleased to announce the eighth episode of our “Life After Trek” podcast, featuring Crystal Allen. Many of you will remember Crystal from her role as D'Nesh in the Enterprise episode "Bound". D'Nesh was one of the Orion Slave Girls used to gain control of the Enterprise and subdue Captain Archer and his crew. Crystal was also involved in the Tim Russ helmed fan film "Star Trek: Of Gods and Men" were she played Conqueror Navigator Yara.We originally met Crystal at last year's Starbase Indy convention, but unfortunately ran into technical difficulties and were unable to record the interview live. Crystal was a great sport and called in to provide you guys & gals with insight into her time spent in the Trek universe. If you haven't checked out "Of Gods and Men", be sure to do so. You can find more info here on the official website.We hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we did recording it. Be sure to stop by the official Crystal Allen website here to see what projects she has in store.

**Today's host(s):** Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor **Today's guest(s):** Fr. Michael Barber, SJ, director of spiritual formation at St. John's Seminary **Today's topics:** The Chrism Mass of Holy Week and Cardinal Seán's homily **A summary of today's show:** Cardinal Seán's homily for the Chrism Mass on Tuesday of Holy Week calls on priests to humility and courage and greater immersion in the Word of God in order to be strengthened in their vocations and to be united in Christ for their mission.  **1st segment:** Scot said we began Holy Week this past Palm Sunday. There are so many powerful opportunities for learning more about our Faith and getting closer to Christ this week. Today we are going to discuss the Chrism Mass, which occurred earlier today, and then look ahead to all the liturgies of this Holy Week.  At 11am this morning at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Cardinal Sean and hundreds of concelebrating priests celebrated the Chrism Mass, which is a tradition for Tuesday of Holy Week in the Archdiocese of Boston and many dioceses. There are 2 unique aspects of the annual Chrism Mass: (a) The consecration of the Holy Chrism oil: (b) the celebration of the priesthood and renewal of priestly vows. Here is what today's Mass program said about both: >All Christians are anointed because all are filled with the Spirit's gifts for the building up of the church and the church's service to the world. In every local church one Christian presides in love and orchestrates the church's ministry: this is the bishop, or chief pastor. It is not surprising, therefore, that the most ancient liturgical witnesses designate the bishop as the consecrator of the sacramental oils. Although priests once blessed the oils of the catechumens and the sick and may do so in some circumstances, only the bishop may consecrate the chrism with which the baptized are sealed at confirmation and ordination. This rite is one of the last rites of preparation before the Triduum begins. Before the local church baptizes, it prepares the chrism which will be used in the Vigil. > >This celebration has always retained a special character of priestly collegiality. Even in the centuries when eucharistic concelebration had disappeared from the church's life, the ritual for the blessing and consecration of oils retained strong elements which reminded all that ministry in the church is never the work of an individual but of a community of ministers of different gifts and responsibilities. The present celebration of the rite has been restored as a full concelebration of the bishop with his clergy and with the full participation of the laity. Scot welcomes Father Chris O'Connor our Tuesday co-host. What does the Chrism Mass mean for him as a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston? Fr. Chris said it is a reaffirmation of the priests to the Lord in a special way and it's powerful to do that with your brother priests. It's a beautiful celebration of the priesthood with the bishop. It is a priestly fraternity. It is wonderful to look around the cathedral to see so many priests who have rendered service to God's family. Scot said it is amazing to see all the priests that are there and the diversity of ages, ethnicity, and national original. Fr. Chris said what unites us is faith in Jesus Christ. He said there is also the practical reason for them to come together, which is to get the oils that they will use in their parishes throughout the year: the oils for baptism and anointing of the sick and confirmation. Scot said Cardinal Seán gives one of his best and one of his longest homilies each year at the Chrism Mass. In many ways it is a message directly to priests and indirectly to all of us who support our priests and minister with them in the Church. We're going to discuss many elements of his homily today. Fr. Chris said it was a great and rousing homily. Father Chris and Scot are joined by Father Michael Barber, the new director of spiritual formation at St. John's Seminary as of last Fall. Fr. Barber's first connection to Boston was when he was on the apostolic visitation team implemented the Vatican and he was sent to Boston. He had a very positive impression. He also got to know many Boston priests during his time as a military chaplain. Fr. Barber's background: * Saint John's new Director of Spiritual Formation, Father Michael Barber, SJ grew up in San Francisco and Sacramento, California. He followed the normal 12 year course of Jesuit studies, with philosophy at Gonzaga University, Spokane, and Theology at Regis College, University of Toronto. * Ordained in 1985, he was sent for two years of missionary work in Western Samoa, Polynesia. He was then sent to the Gregorian University in Rome to study and teach Dogmatic Theology. Father Barber's research centered on the unpublished sermon manuscripts of Blessed John Henry (Cardinal) Newman. From Rome, he was sent to Oxford University as a research fellow at Campion Hall, the Jesuit college at Oxford. He subsequently was elected Bursar and tutor in theology there. * He later was appointed by Archbishop (now Cardinal) William Levada as Director of the School of Pastoral Leadership in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, followed by eight years as Director of Spiritual Formation and assistant professor of theology at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Father Barber was commissioned in 1991 as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and currently holds the rank of Commander. He was called up for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 as Catholic chaplain to the 6,000 Marines in the 4th Marine Air Wing. He is currently assistant division chaplain to the 4th Marine Division, USMC. Fr. Barber recalls attending the Chrism Mass in the Archdiocese of Verona, Italy, and how every single space in the cathedral being filled by priests. They also had the custom of presenting new seminarians to the bishop at that Mass. Triduum means three, referring to the three days of Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday. These days represent the summit of all we believe as Christians. Scot said that if you wanted to start to take your faith seriously, this is the week to do it by focusing on the liturgies of this week. **2nd segment:**  Clips from Cardinal Sean's homily will now be played and discussed. *Costly Grace*: >At times the demands of one's vocation can seem overwhelming. It is truly a costly grace. And so it is with the priestly vocation. There are always more and more demands, more instructions from headquarters, new programs to be implemented, the bishop's latest brainchild. Today, at the Chrism Mass, I am happy for the opportunity to be able to say how much the whole Catholic community appreciates the tireless work of our priests and as your Bishop, I am particularly grateful for your generous dedication to ministry. These are very challenging times for the church. Business as usual is not enough if we are going to be able to fulfill our mission. We have to go the extra mile, turn the other cheek, give our tunic along with the cloak. Yes, our vocation is a costly grace, but at the same time it's a bargain. It is a beautiful life. And together, we can make it more beautiful. Our Chrism Mass gives us an opportunity to reflect on how precious our priesthood is and to rededicate ourselves to our vocation. As always, we look to Christ, the High Priest and Good Shepherd, to gain insight into our calling. Scot said he talks of the challenges to the priesthood and the Church and that it's time to go the extra mile. Fr. Chris said the cardinal is reminding us that priests have given their life to, and they will only be authentic when they are filled with joy and giving up themselves generously. That's when they will discover their happiness as priests. Fr. Barber said it reflects [St. Ignatius of Loyola's prayer](http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english3/p02709.htm): "To give and not to count the cost..."  Business as usual is not good enough for the Church. Fr. Chris said we can't be complacent. People aren't coming to us, we have to go find them. *Humility*: >Today, I would like to reflect on the Catholic Priest as prophet leader, called to continue the prophetic role of Jesus. And in particular, I wish to explore three aspects of our vocation to be prophetic leaders of Christ's people: Humility, Courage, and Involvement with the Word of God. The first characteristic of the Prophet is humility. "Learn of me for I am meek and humble of heart." The priest must imitate Jesus' humility and self-emptying, Jesus, who has taken on the form of a slave. John the Baptist, the great prophetic figure at the opening of the Gospel says, "He must increase. I must decrease." Fr. Barber said humility and courage are tied together because only a humble man will have the courage to get up in the pulpit and preach the Word of God even when he knows some people will not like what he has to say. He has to have the humility to know he answers to a higher authority. Priests could say sometimes, "He must increase and I must increase with Him," but that doesn't work. Fr. Chris said this is a particular and new tack that the cardinal is taking from the usual image. If priests are going to proclaim the truth, they will have to expect pushback. *Resist self-importance*: >Narcissism and an exaggerated sense of self importance, preclude a real conversion and prevent one from functioning as a prophet leader. Fr. Eugene Hemrick in his [Habits of a Priestly Heart](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158459442X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pilo0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=158459442X) speaks of the need to resist the most serious foes that can take the heart out of our priesthood: resentment, careerism and clericalism. Priestly humility is the antidote to these cancers. Some day the Pope should get all the bishops and priests together in St. Peter's Square and say to us: "Repeat after me, in the words of John the Baptist: 'I am not the Messiah.'" It may come as a shocking revelation to many bishops and priest who enjoy a messianic complex. But it is very liberating to cast off this fiction. It is rooted in the same pride that makes us so competitive. Fr. Chris said it made him reflect like this was a mini-retreat, to be challenged to examine how he had to work on these things himself. The Cardinal challenged the priests to reflect during Holy Week on how they can become better priests. Scot said there often expectations of priests to function like messiahs. Fr. Barber said some priests feel like they have to be at the center of things at Mass, to entertain. But he sees more and more churches being renovated where the presider's chair is moved from the highest and most central place. *A priest who is humble...*: >A priest who is humble knows that he needs others. In the face of his own limitations, he accepts his role as a prophet leader. He knows that he is gifted in some areas and not in others. The humble priest realizes that we are interdependent, and together we can do what we cannot do alone. The humble man believes in this togetherness, being part of a team and seeking this support from his brother priests and offering it to them. The proud man aspires to be a star, a lone ranger, a messiah. Fr. Chris said it's very scriptural. The apostles were sent out by Christ, two by two, never alone. The priests work as a body for the good of others. The lone star will burn out without a connection to others. Fr. Barber said no one priest has all the qualities of Christ, but all the priests of the Church together will reflect in some way or another the necessary qualities of Christ. *Challenges of modern priesthood*: >Priests are sometimes uneasy with accepting and exercising leadership in a world that is often suspect of its leaders. The uneasiness also comes from our own personal insecurities, fear of conflict, problems of self-esteem, fear of rejection, worries about taking responsibility for difficult decisions. I always say that in Boston every decision is a dilemma. Today, the priests face new challenges: ministering in a time when the number of priests has declined and the average age has risen. Often people have high, even unrealistic expectations of priests. The consumer mentality by which priests are to provide quick, efficient and friendly service like people expect from salespersons or hotel clerks. Scot said it identifies the reasons why it's tough for priests to lead their parishes today. Fr. Barber tells seminarians their security is rooted in their call by Christ and prayer life, not by polls and popularity. That is the source of their joy and contentment. If their source is in other people, they won't be secure. Priests are often overwhelmed by their inadequacies and will sometimes have an off-day, but they are only human and have God's grace to help them. "God chose you and the people will see and love in them something they see and love in Christ." Fr. Chris said there would be no problems if people understood that God loved them. Do you know that you are loved by Christ, because if you don't know that how will you help other people discover Christ's love for themselves? Scot said the consumer mentality causes laypeople to expect priests to be service providers. That is not the identity of priests. Fr. Chris said that is exactly right. We need to rid ourselves of a country club mentality in the Church where we come and go as we feel like it. Scot said as a parent, he has to remind his children that he is not there to simply respond to their wishes, but to lead them and raise them as strong adults. Fr. Barber has known priests who couldn't preach a homily, but where great one on one and others who were vice-versa. He sees seminarians come in from the world with all its distractions, but the men who struggle with their own temptations will make great confessors. *Courage*: >Living faithfully and ministering effectively demand courage of the priest. This virtue is built up by continuous acts of courage: facing obstacles, resisting temptation, not walking away from difficult situations, making decisions, teaching the hard words of the gospel. Luckily it does not depend entirely on us. We are not [Pelagianists](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11604a.htm). Our prayer life, our priestly friendships, the spirit who anointed us in our ordination, all help us to acquire the courage we need to be priests and prophet-leaders to God's people. Fr. Barber recalled Archbishop Vigneron facing an impossible situation in a former diocese that he was confident that if the Lord wants success, He will make it happen.  Fr. Chris said priestly friendships are a great help. No priest desires conflict so when it happens, it is great to have the support of brother priests to give feedback. The Holy Spirit is with us and stays with us. Scot's favorite part of the homily is the Cardinal saying that courage is a virtue and that is built up by acts of courage. *Being a messenger of God*: >Our task is not to impart information, but to be messengers of God whose word is a two edged sword, whose Gospel brings life and meaning to people. To do that, we must learn to love the Word of God that will nurture the contemplative aspect of our vocation. Moses, the Prophet, climbs the mountain and there basks in God's presence, receives His Word, and then comes down. His face is glowing from being in God's presence. We must spend time each day with God and His Word if we are going to be God's messengers with fire in our belly and God's glow on our face. Fr. Barber said God's Word is a two-edged sword because it always has a bite to it. The role of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Also he likes that Cardinal Sean says that your homilies must be prepared on your knees. The priest is a conduit between the Holy Spirit and people's hearts.  Fr. Chris said people can be so busy in other people's lives that they forget their own call to holiness. Scot said his dad taught him that the more you work for something, the more you receive. The work of the priest to receive more and give more is the work of prayer. *Skills of holiness*: >It is not enough for a parish priest to be personally holy. He also needs to have the skills to lead others to holiness. Fr. Ronald Knott has a good definition of Spiritual Leadership: "The ability to influence another through invitation, persuasion and example to move from where they are, to where God wants them to be, especially through the skillful use of the pulpit." He calls Catholic pulpits buried treasures waiting to be claimed. The  prophet leader has a special challenging task of reaching out to the segment of God's people who seldom frequent the sacraments or attend Mass. Fr. Knott refers to them as: "The mad and the sad; the ignored and the bored." Our motivation to accept this challenge must be our love for God and for His People. Fr. Barber said a good preacher has the ability to interpret the events and actions in people's lives through the Word of God. Don't give up, keep on striving, keep faith, and know that they are planting seeds. The priest never knows where the seed goes or when it will ever come to fruition. Fr. Chris said the priest makes a return gift of his life when he knows how much God loves him. With fewer priests and higher demands, the priest needs to know where he is being fed and that is through the Word of God. If the priest doesn't have the Word of God how will he share it with others? Scot said Cardinal Sean said in his Ash Wednesday that if we're standing still in the spiritual life, then we're falling behind. *Renewal of promises*: >At the Ordination ceremony--all the priests come forward to lay on hands, and again--all come forward to give the kiss of peace. The new priests' hands are anointed with the very chrism that this same presbyterate blessed, together with the Bishop, a few months before. All of this to indicate our unity, our oneness with Christ and with each other. And today in this Chrism Mass, we renew our priestly promises together. And it is together that we must live out this call to be the presbyterate of Boston, united to Christ, the Good Shepherd, and to our brother priests in the service of God's people. Together, in our role as priests, prophet leaders, with humility, with courage, and immersed in the Word of God. Let us make our renewal of promises, a new beginning, an opportunity to say yes again to Christ. Fr. Chris said the Cardinal is reminding the priests what they committed to on their ordination and calling them to unity within Christ. If there isn't unity, how can priests ask others to be a people of reconciliation. The priests need to be united in Christ around the Bishop around the Eucharist, then they are fraudulent. Fr. Barber said priests live that togetherness by calling each other late at night, for example, where their brother priests live alone. They give each other encouragement and hope. The bishop is the chaplain of his priests. Fr. Chris said priestly fraternity begins in the seminary. It is 10 times harder to gather priest friends in the parish when all the demands of the parish are on them. A central characteristic of St. John's is the camaraderie shared among the men. **3rd segment:** The sacred Triduum is the three days in the Church's calendar when the normal business of the Church shuts down. Fr. Chris said we are all united around the events of Christ's suffering, death and resurrection. For those three days, our parish church becomes the Holy Land where we walk with Christ. We are in the upper room on Holy Thursday and we come together in the garden as we pray before the tabernacle. On Good Friday is Calvary. At the Easter Vigil we start in the darkness of the tomb and lead to the light of Easter. By celebrating these events we too rise with Christ. Fr. Barber said no one can say that God doesn't love me when we experience the events of the Triduum. We hear the Lord's last words and his love letter to the Church in his preaching at the Last Supper. If we wear a crucifix we wear a reminder of how much He loves us. All the beautiful symbolism of the Triduum remind us of the inner mysteries of Christ. Scot said that on Good Friday the veneration of the cross brings us face to face with what Christ did for me. On Holy Saturday, the tangible act of lighting a candle and passing it on and what it means to us as faithful Catholics. Fr. Chris said he ended his homily with John 3:16 and it's the greatest love story in all the world. His vocation came to him in eighth grade as an altar server serving at all the Triduum liturgies. Fr. Barber said the veneration of the crucifix on Good Friday is a high point for him. He highly recommends the new movie ["Of Gods and Men"](http://www.sonyclassics.com/ofgodsandmen/) in which an old monk knows he's about to die for his faith and he's praying before an image of Christ. Knowing he's alone, he goes up to lay his head on Christ's side and kiss the wound in his side.

Of Gods and Men, in French and Arabic, is one of the most beautiful movies I know, even though its subject matter and otherworldly pace set it apart from mainstream entertainment. The story was inspired by real events, eight Christian monks menaced by Islamic terrorists in 1990's Algeria. The narrative takes its rhythm from the brothers' unhurried lives...

Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to give his verdict on the week's movies. Plus an interview with Riz Ahmed, who starred in Chris Morris's satire Four Lions.Riz tells us in the first hour that the film shows how low budget British independent films can reach a wider audience. Dr Kermode's movie reviews this week include Of Gods and Men, Megamind, The Be All and End All and Monsters.

Welcome back to "Two True Freaks!" Star Trek Monthly Mondays -- The BEST Star Trek Podcast on the Internet!! This month, The Freaks start off the show with a discussion of the most recent new comic book release by John Byrne and IDW. Chris has watched some more of James Cawley in "Phase II" and the "Of Gods and Men" movie. And Scott offers up a book review of the novelization of the 2009 J.J. Abrams film, so the talk turns to a re-examining of his and Chris' feelings towards "New Trek". Then, it's on to the CLASSIC TOS Era Trek and the awesome episode -- Who Mourns For Adonais? -- in which a lonely Greek God wants to reach out and touch someone so badly, he uses his big, green, glowy hand to snag the Enterprise!! It's Kirk and Crew versus Apollo!! Up next, in their continuing look at the first volume of DC Comics' Star Trek comic book series, Chris and Scott take a peek at issue #13. Kirk and Crew are in the Mirror Universe and all is not as it seems! Can they survive in this evil, twisted, fun-house version of their reality... or will they be found out? Last, but never least, The Freaks warp into the 24th Century where Captain Picard experiences the same thing Scott always does when the Ferengi show up -- a massive friggin' headache!! -- in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Battle"!! NOTE -- The Two True Freaks! now have a phone line where you can call and leave a completely inappropriate message - We just might use it on the show! It's 585-COP-LURE!! ( 1-585-267-5873 )Feedback for this show can be sent to: startrek@twotruefreaks.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!

Welcome back to "Two True Freaks!" Star Trek Monthly Mondays -- The BEST Star Trek Podcast on the Internet!! This month, The Freaks start off the show with a discussion of the most recent new comic book release by John Byrne and IDW. Chris has watched some more of James Cawley in "Phase II" and the "Of Gods and Men" movie. And Scott offers up a book review of the novelization of the 2009 J.J. Abrams film, so the talk turns to a re-examining of his and Chris' feelings towards "New Trek". Then, it's on to the CLASSIC TOS Era Trek and the awesome episode -- Who Mourns For Adonais? -- in which a lonely Greek God wants to reach out and touch someone so badly, he uses his big, green, glowy hand to snag the Enterprise!! It's Kirk and Crew versus Apollo!! Up next, in their continuing look at the first volume of DC Comics' Star Trek comic book series, Chris and Scott take a peek at issue #13. Kirk and Crew are in the Mirror Universe and all is not as it seems! Can they survive in this evil, twisted, fun-house version of their reality... or will they be found out? Last, but never least, The Freaks warp into the 24th Century where Captain Picard experiences the same thing Scott always does when the Ferengi show up -- a massive friggin' headache!! -- in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Battle"!! NOTE -- The Two True Freaks! now have a phone line where you can call and leave a completely inappropriate message - We just might use it on the show! It's 585-COP-LURE!! ( 1-585-267-5873 )Feedback for this show can be sent to: startrek@twotruefreaks.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!

Welcome back to "Two True Freaks!" Star Trek Monthly Mondays -- The BEST Star Trek Podcast on the Internet!! This month, The Freaks start off the show with a discussion of the most recent new comic book release by John Byrne and IDW. Chris has watched some more of James Cawley in "Phase II" and the "Of Gods and Men" movie. And Scott offers up a book review of the novelization of the 2009 J.J. Abrams film, so the talk turns to a re-examining of his and Chris' feelings towards "New Trek". Then, it's on to the CLASSIC TOS Era Trek and the awesome episode -- Who Mourns For Adonais? -- in which a lonely Greek God wants to reach out and touch someone so badly, he uses his big, green, glowy hand to snag the Enterprise!! It's Kirk and Crew versus Apollo!! Up next, in their continuing look at the first volume of DC Comics' Star Trek comic book series, Chris and Scott take a peek at issue #13. Kirk and Crew are in the Mirror Universe and all is not as it seems! Can they survive in this evil, twisted, fun-house version of their reality... or will they be found out? Last, but never least, The Freaks warp into the 24th Century where Captain Picard experiences the same thing Scott always does when the Ferengi show up -- a massive friggin' headache!! -- in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Battle"!! NOTE -- The Two True Freaks! now have a phone line where you can call and leave a completely inappropriate message - We just might use it on the show! It's 585-COP-LURE!! ( 1-585-267-5873 )Feedback for this show can be sent to: startrek@twotruefreaks.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!

Welcome back to "Two True Freaks!" Star Trek Monthly Mondays -- The BEST Star Trek Podcast on the Internet!! This month, The Freaks start off the show with a discussion of the most recent new comic book release by John Byrne and IDW. Chris has watched some more of James Cawley in "Phase II" and the "Of Gods and Men" movie. And Scott offers up a book review of the novelization of the 2009 J.J. Abrams film, so the talk turns to a re-examining of his and Chris' feelings towards "New Trek". Then, it's on to the CLASSIC TOS Era Trek and the awesome episode -- Who Mourns For Adonais? -- in which a lonely Greek God wants to reach out and touch someone so badly, he uses his big, green, glowy hand to snag the Enterprise!! It's Kirk and Crew versus Apollo!! Up next, in their continuing look at the first volume of DC Comics' Star Trek comic book series, Chris and Scott take a peek at issue #13. Kirk and Crew are in the Mirror Universe and all is not as it seems! Can they survive in this evil, twisted, fun-house version of their reality... or will they be found out? Last, but never least, The Freaks warp into the 24th Century where Captain Picard experiences the same thing Scott always does when the Ferengi show up -- a massive friggin' headache!! -- in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Battle"!! NOTE -- The Two True Freaks! now have a phone line where you can call and leave a completely inappropriate message - We just might use it on the show! It's 585-COP-LURE!! ( 1-585-267-5873 )Feedback for this show can be sent to: startrek@twotruefreaks.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!

In this episode of Dread Media, Desmond Reddick takes a look at three Canadian Anchor Bay DVD releases: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, End of the Line and the classic TV show The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. He then goes on to review Hexed #1 from BOOM! Studios, and then DW comes by to offer a Brainscan full of brainy goodness with a look at Zombies Ate My Neighbors! for the Sega Genesis. Talk hockey, wine and listen to the following tunes: "Mr. Jack" by System of a Down, "Of Gods and Monsters" by The Spook, "Oh My Fucking God" by Strapping Young Lad, "Blood Witch" by The Melvins and "The Wicked End" by Avenged Sevenfold. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213.

In this episode of Dread Media, Desmond Reddick takes a look at three Canadian Anchor Bay DVD releases: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, End of the Line and the classic TV show The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. He then goes on to review Hexed #1 from BOOM! Studios, and then DW comes by to offer a Brainscan full of brainy goodness with a look at Zombies Ate My Neighbors! for the Sega Genesis. Talk hockey, wine and listen to the following tunes: "Mr. Jack" by System of a Down, "Of Gods and Monsters" by The Spook, "Oh My Fucking God" by Strapping Young Lad, "Blood Witch" by The Melvins and "The Wicked End" by Avenged Sevenfold. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213.

In this episode of Dread Media, Desmond Reddick takes a look at three Canadian Anchor Bay DVD releases: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, End of the Line and the classic TV show The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. He then goes on to review Hexed #1 from BOOM! Studios, and then DW comes by to offer a Brainscan full of brainy goodness with a look at Zombies Ate My Neighbors! for the Sega Genesis. Talk hockey, wine and listen to the following tunes: "Mr. Jack" by System of a Down, "Of Gods and Monsters" by The Spook, "Oh My Fucking God" by Strapping Young Lad, "Blood Witch" by The Melvins and "The Wicked End" by Avenged Sevenfold. Send feedback to: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213.