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Respect Life Radio, hosted by Deacon Geoff Bennett of Catholic Charities in Denver.
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Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island.
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Interviews focus on key moments of discovery, and the songs/artists that have soundtracked the guest's life. Hosted by journalist and radio presenter Jenny Eliscu (@jennylsq), these are laid-back but in-depth discussions about the journey to find their creative voice and process, and how it has evolved over their career. Episodes also occasionally feature clips from Eliscu's extensive archive, which includes 25 years' worth of interview audio.
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Shields & Talbot is a podcast offering deeply rooted in educational equity and anti-racist transformation in schools for the benefit of all students; particularly youth of color. Episodes will consist of student and educator voices, co-conspirators and resources for all. Co-host Harold Shields has been an educator since his sophomore year of high school (Sunday school teacher, camp counselor, juvenile teacher, etc.). He taught Mastering Our Cultural Identity: African American Male Image and ...
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RLR interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Flee from Heresy
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"Society is lost and confused about God, morality, and eternity," said Bishop Schneider in his new book Flee from Heresy. "Catholics face persecution, from outside and inside the Church, for living their Faith. In his newest book, Bishop Athanasius Schneider — raised among persecuted Catholics in the Soviet Union — offers a systematic treatment of …
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Patti Maguire Armstrong: Nine Points of Advice to Fight the Devil
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"If you're worried about everyone liking you so you don't say anything, then it's yourself you are worried about and caring about. It takes courage to speak up," says Patti (Maguire) Armstrong in this week's podcast. "Leave it to God and pray to the Holy Spirit. I don't know where to begin. I don't know who I'm supposed to sit next to but God does.…
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"There is no political, cultural or economic solution to the crisis we're facing because the crisis is not political, cultural or economic because it's spiritual. We're losing a spiritual battle. We're losing a war for the soul of the West. Everything else flows from that," says Michael Warren Davis, author of the upcoming book After Christendom. "…
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Robert Trussel: The Logic that God Exists, a handbook on belief in God through simple reason to bring you peace
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"As you get older, if you believe in a God who has promised us a life everlasting, it changes everything. It changes your anxiety level," said Robert Trussel, author of the new book The Logic that God Exists, a handbook on belief in God through simple reason to bring you peace. "If you believe that you're on a path toward eternal bliss and everlast…
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Bill Donohue - Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of our Moral Crisis
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"The Catholic Church talks about the complementarity of men and women, the extent to which men and women compliment each other. Neither one is better than the other but they're different," says Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. "But we live…
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"Every child is a gift from God, no matter how they're here," said Sarah Stula, an attorney in Kansas City. "The point is where do we go from here to protect unborn life?" Stula recently authored an article in First Things called "Evangelical America and IVF" in response to the February decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that ruled that human em…
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Karen Hall - The Sound of Silence: The Life and Cancelling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest
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"When you ask people who knew him to describe him, the first word out of their mouth is 'brilliant.' We throw that word around a lot but he was literally brilliant. The thing that made him so incredible was that scholars could talk to him about ancient languages but someone like me could talk to him about bass fishing and Nascar," said Karen Hall a…
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Kristen Van Uden Theriault - The Mother Cabrini Companion, A Spiritual Journey with a Courageous Woman of God
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"Mother Cabrini was incredibly politically savvy, more so than you would typically expect from a nun," said Kristen Van Uden Theriault, the author of The Mother Cabrini Companion, A Spiritual Journey with a Courageous Woman of God. "Her life of service is a testament that she wasn't doing this for herself, but for the glory of God." Theriault has d…
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On the eve of the release of her beautiful third studio album, Chaos Angel, singer-songwriter and actor Maya Hawke talks about how she arrived at her finest collection yet - a group of songs inspired by the idea of fighting one's own guardian angel. I loved getting to ask Maya about the creative path that led to this album, the music she was into a…
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John Michael Talbot - Late Have I Loved You
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One night, I was out on the road with a band and I had an encounter with Jesus and it changed me," said John Michael Talbot, GRAMMY / DOVE Award winning Christian Music pioneer who has just released his first autobiography titled Late Have I Loved You. "I started reading the early Church Fathers and I saw the primitive expressions of what we now ca…
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Dale Ahlquist - Localism: Coming Home to the Catholic Social Teaching
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"G.K. Chesterton wrote about everything. He defended God against a godless society, defended Christianity specifically against other religions and then ended up defending the Catholic faith against, well, everything else," said Dale Ahlquist, author of six books, editor of 16 more, public speaker, Evangelical convert to Catholicism and Catholic apo…
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I had the best time getting to know the wonderful Gabriela Quintero of Grammy-winning psychedelic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela for this episode of the LSQ podcast. We recently met over Zoom for a conversation exploring important moments in her personal creative evolution — things like seeing an all-girl Japanese metal band when she was 10; or disc…
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Fr. Robert Spitzer - The Four Levels of Happiness: Your Path to Personal Flourishing
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"There is so much good scientific evidence for God, the soul and transcendence that I wanted to include in this book. There's so much to include that wasn't available to previous generations," said Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., the founder and president of the Spitzer Center. A scholar, teacher, author and seasoned leader, Fr. Spitzer is a pre-e…
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“I discovered the Catholic Church and found a certain stability there that was just unlike anything I'd ever known,” says Dom David Watters, author of the new daily devotional Just for Today. “There's something really powerful in this institution and something truly, really real.” The son of Protestant missionaries, Dom David grew up in Kathmandu, …
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“Men seem to have a delayed grief relative to women,” says Bryan Feger, co-author of The Grief of Dads: Support and Hope for Catholic Fathers Navigating Child Loss from Ave Maria Press. “And usually that's because they're focused on providing care and support for their wife, and so they delay their grief.” A member of the Knights of Columbus, Bryan…
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Garage rock prince Ty Segall joins the LSQ podcast on the heels of his awesome fifteenth (!!!) studio album, Three Bells, to talk about the roots of his sound: how he first fell in love with rock and roll thanks to oldies radio (Beatles, Ronettes, Kinks) and a pile of vinyl records gifted by a Laguna Beach neighbor (Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Bow…
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Rachel Hoover Canto: How to Find, Date, and Marry Someone who Shares Your Faith
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“There are countless different obstacles, all layered on top of each other,” says Rachel Hoover Canto of the journey to finding one’s spouse in today’s world. “It’s a very complicated situation, and I tried to address all the different obstacles I was hearing about and then provide at least a starting point, some tips for starting to overcome each …
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Since there was a major influx of new listeners thanks to last week's episode 105 with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, I wanted to bring back this super fun 2021 interview with VW bassist (Chris) Baio, which we recorded in the lead-up to his solo album Dead Hand Control. This is an abbreviated version of the episode, but you can find the full interv…
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“To be honest, I was in a very dark place,” says Jason Jones, author of the new book The Great Campaign: Against the Great Reset. "I wanted to give people hope--I wanted to give myself hope, and I looked to the church." Jason is also an activist, film producer, podcast host and the president of the Human Rights Education Organization (H.E.R.O.). He…
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Some bands, you love them almost instantly, and that was the deal for me with Vampire Weekend, who I was fortunate to be tipped off to early on, through some mutual friends in NYC. My love for them has only grown with each new album, as VW continue to explore new sonic terrain, including on their brilliant latest LP, Only God Was Above Us, which is…
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"We are constantly being tempted by demons throughout the day. It's not a big deal if you ignore it. That's just normal temptation. But there are billions, trillions of demons who are working to destroy everyone on the planet, whoever is on the planet at the time," said Charles D. Fraune, author of the new book "The Occult Among Us. "One of them is…
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Mary Jane Zuzolo: Unveiling the Sixth Station of the Cross
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“Christ indicated in the revelations that it’s the greatest devotion to make reparation for the greatest crime,” says Mary Jane Zuzolo, author of the new book Unveiling the Sixth Station of the Cross. The crime she speaks of is blasphemy, which she defines as any affront to God’s rights as outlined in the first three commandments. The devotion is p…
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There is no other artist quite like Beth Ditto, the brilliant singer, songwriter, actor, clothing and cosmetics designer, and frontwoman for the legendary indie band Gossip. Her voice is singular and her energy is magical. In episode 104, Ditto talks about the making of Gossip's exciting new album, Real Power, as well as her early experiences with …
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Dr. Christopher Reed: Sacred Conversations
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"We know that 93% of what is communicated in a conversation is non-verbal. That's a combination of our body language - Are we leaning in? Have we established eye contact? Have we put down our phone to signal to the other person that we're attentive? - so we have to be mindful of that as we prepare for sacred conversation," says Dr. Christopher Reed…
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Michael Toscano: The False Idol of Technology
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"It's a beautiful life that we could be living in each moment, but what many of us decide to do is to drown ourselves in false electronic contentment," said Michael Toscano, executive director of the Institute for Family Studies. In his new First Things article "Recovering our Memory" Michael writes, "It became quickly apparent to me that smartphon…
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Anthony DeStefano: The First Easter Bunny
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"You have to tune your antenna for what God wants you to do," said Anthony DeStefano, author of the new book "The Story of the First Easter Bunny," on how he decides what topics to write. Anthony is an American author, television host and activist. He has written five bestselling Christian books for adults, including: A Travel Guide to Heaven and T…
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Last fall, singer-songwriter and film score composer Dhani Harrison released a dynamic new solo album called Innerstanding, which gave me the perfect opportunity to finally interview him in depth. "To innerstand is to comprehend from a place of love and detachment, where you’re not forcing yourself or being forced," he explains. "If you come at thi…
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Dr. Peter Howard: the wisdom of Fulton Sheen helping through the turmoil of our time
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"His audience was 60% non-Catholic and so he prepared his message in such a way that people didn't know he was referring to St. Thomas Aquinas or (other Catholic documents.) He simply wanted to start with something that was common to everybody and, from there, lead them to divine truths," said Dr. Peter Howard of the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen. Dr. …
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James Valois: Our Lady of Good Success of the Purification
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When Servant of God Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres received her famous apparitions from Our Lady — known as the Quito apparitions — she was so appalled that she died. A doctor confirmed her shocking death. But thankfully, when her sisters prayed, she was raised to life again. This remarkable story is part of James Valois' new book "Our Lady's Proph…
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