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    October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    What happens when a man who is a faithful husband, loving father, celebrated lawyer, incisive writer, and devoted son of the Church is asked to either violate his conscience or face being imprisoned, hanged, drawn, quartered, and beheaded?…

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    Coming out of the Second Vatican Council, there was a faction that saw the Council's outcome as a tragic rupture with enduring tradition, while another faction seemed eager to declare a rupture with what were deemed outdated, if not…

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    In America, it is not uncommon to ask what a president achieved in his "First 100 Days." If we asked the same of Adolf Hitler after being appointed Chancellor of Germany, we would learn that he suppressed political parties, suspended civil…

  • The Wisdom of Michael Oakeshott w/ Elizabeth Corey

    September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    If philosophy is about the search for truth, what happens when the tool we use in the search — our very mind — is littered with abstractions, deformed by biases, and dismissive of experience? We will hardly arrive at the truth. In…

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    August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min

    How did a poor immigrant boy from Brooklyn rise to become Yale's Sterling Professor of Classics and History, achieve fame as the world's greatest scholar on Thucydides, and find himself compared to none other than Herodotus? Even more, how…

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  • 'Christian Persecution Today' w/ Bishop Robert Barron

    August 11, 2026 · 54 min

    Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin purportedly quipped, "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Why has the twentieth century seen more Christians martyred than all previous centuries combined? And why are we curiously unaware…

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    July 28, 2026 · 2 hr 0 min

    How and why has a nearly three-thousand-year-old story about a man trying to find his way home electrified the twenty-first-century world? And in revisiting this story, what lessons can we learn about the wonder and vexation of the human…

  • Why I Am Not an Atheist w/ Christopher Beha

    July 14, 2026 · 1 hr 49 min

    In his masterful book Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton writes of an English yachtsman who set off to find a new island in the South Seas and, through slight miscalculation, landed confused and red-faced in merry old England. Award-winning…

  • 'The Making of the American Mind' w/ Matthew Spalding

    June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

    Responding to an inquiry about writing the Declaration of Independence, an aging Thomas Jefferson answered, "Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended…

  • 'Excellent Sheep' w/ William Deresiewicz

    June 16, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Is our system of American education forming young adults who can achieve nearly anything but discern almost nothing? Are we striving to create masters of facts and monsters of efficiency or men and women of wisdom and purpose? What happens…

  • 'Great Power Diplomacy' w/ A. Wess Mitchell

    June 2, 2026 · 1 hr 60 min

    French Foreign Minister Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord quipped, "A diplomat who says 'yes' means 'maybe,' a diplomat who says 'maybe' means 'no,' and a diplomat who says 'no' is no diplomat." President Harry Truman observed, "Tact…

  • The Jacques Maritain Center w/ Therese Cory & Christopher Enabnit

    May 19, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    How did a young agnostic wracked with doubt and contemplating suicide become one of the greatest Catholic philosophers of the twentieth century? Join me as I talk with Therese Cory and Christopher Enabnit of the University of Notre Dame's…

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About the show

Tod Worner discusses the culture, faith, literature, philosophy, history, and more in stimulating conversations with renown intellectuals of our time on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Tod also shares a reflection of his own and a book recommendation in each episode. Tod curates more content like this in the quarterly print journal of the Word on Fire Institute, Evangelization & Culture. Learn more and become a member at WordonFire.Institute.