Episodes

My goal this week is to look at the Catholic view of the End Times and Tribulation – especially the five signs that the Catholic Church identifies as signaling the end times. So today is a special “eschatology” (doctrine of the end times) episode. Click to Listen: #062: Catholic View of the End Times and Tribulatoin   If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. Proverb of the week: Sirach 37:14-15 Featured Segment: Catholic View of ...

My goal this week is to look into a difficult topic. How do we have a supernatural response when someone hurts us? Some of us have been deeply wounded by friends, spouses, brothers and sisters, parents, even priests. Sometimes people wound you by accident. They never intended anything, but still you are walking around maimed. Today I’m going to share a true story that I hope inspires you to find hope in the hurt. Click to Listen: #061: When Other People Really Hurt You (This podcast is out...

Happy New Year’s Eve! I have a sore throat and my voice is shot, so instead of recording I’m sharing a really fun interview that I did with former-atheist, now-Catholic author, blogger, radio host Jennifer Fulwiler at conversiondiary.com. She recently invited me to be on her Sirius XM radio show to talk about the “coming revolution in education.” I predict that college institutions will begin to lose their grip on the market and explain why. So please listen and enjoy this different kind of p...

My goal this week is to share some secret information and the theology embedded in my Amazon Bestselling novel Sword and Serpent. (http://taylormarshall.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2014-11-19-at-9.49.35-AM-e1416412220587.png)

My goal this week is to answer a question that I get pretty regularly: “Is Saint George still a saint?” Or “Is Saint Christopher still a saint?” Or “Is Saint Philomena still a saint?” As you know, these saints were removed from the liturgical calendar and so you quite often hear people claim that Saint George or Saint Christopher are no longer saints. We’re going to look at this question from a historical, liturgical and theological point of view. Oh, and don’t worry, I’ll de...

For Advent, the team at the New Saint Thomas Institute is putting together a FREE 33 Day Consecration custom made for the Advent season. We are calling it 33Mary and it’s the perfect Advent Devotion for you and you’re family. Every day we will have 33 Saints lead us to Mary who will lead us to Jesus at Christmas. It’s a theological and Christocentric devotion preparing us for Christmas. In this super short podcast, I explain why you should sign up for this Advent at 33Mary.com and how it works...

My goal this week is to share my top 5 Advent devotions. In Western culture, the season of Advent is usually sunk under the weight of Christmas commercialism. In today’s podcast we’ll explore how to sanctify the season of Advent so that we can prepare a happy and holy Christmas. I’ll also share some of the struggles that Joy and I have faced during the Advent and Christmas season Click to Listen: #056: Top 5 Advent Devotions   If the audio player does not show up in your email or brow...

My goal this week is to talk to you about infant baptism. If faith is something someone must know and understand and it must be a personal decision from the heart, why do we baptize children? They do not make a decision? Moreover, one might say that Catholicism has so many nominal members precisely because of infant baptism. Would it better to just wait till people mature and make the decision themselves? We will look at these common objections and then the biblical and historical reasons for ba...

My goal this week is to talk to you about a controversial issue in Western culture. You may have wondered about it. You may have been asked to defend it and you did not know how to do it. It’s the question “Is God male or female?” This question touches on Trinitarian theology, Eucharistic theology, whether or not women can be ordained to Holy Orders, and even the theology of Holy Matrimony. Click to Listen: #054: Is God Male or Female   If the audio player does not show up in your ema...

When was Satan created and why did he fall? Why is Saint Michael named “Mi Cha El”? Find out in this week’s podcast Lucifer vs. Saint Michael! Click to Listen: #053: Lucifer vs. Saint Michael  If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. Proverb of the week: Prov 16:18 Featured Segment: Lucifer vs. Saint Michael Announcements: New Saint Thomas Institute Fall Enrollment is finally open again and we are offering a 40% tuition cut for new Mem...

My goal this week is to encourage you to embrace essentialism. Essentialism is the art of disciplining your self to want less, use less, and do less. You know less is more. My friend Josh Simmons turned me on to Greg McKeown new book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. The key is doing only a few really great things. Multitasking is the enemy. So today I’ll share four conclusion I’ve made for myself about become a better “essentialist. Here’s the link to the book: Essentialism...

My goal this week is to uncover the price of your anger. You know, anger is one of the seven deadly sins. I recently had an epiphany about my own anger and how it effects my life. I’m going to share two recent examples of anger in my life and how I’m learning to overcome it. Click to Listen: #051: The Price of Your Anger  If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. Proverb of the week: James 1:20 Featured Segment: The Price of Your Ange...

The Seven Sorrows of Mary are one of the most fruitful topics of mental prayer. On Fridays especially, the Seven Sorrows are a way to better contemplate the Divine Mercy of God. Here’s a video of me explaining how the Seven Sorrows relate to the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit: If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. If you don’t see the video in you, you can watch it here. And here’s the podcast version: It is a tradition for Catholics to say daily one Our Fa...

My goal this week is to talk about obstacles in your life. I recently read a great article on LifeHacker.com titled “Six Obstacles That Hinder Your Creative Projects” by Courtney Seiter. In our Episode 12, “Why You Should be More Creative”, we discussed the theology of being creative. Today we wrestle with the reasons we do not accomplish our big dreams in life. This is a follow up to that episode, so if you haven’t listened to Episode 12 “Why You Should be More Creative”, you should list...

My goal this week is to talk about some of what I’ve been learning about brain science, hormones, mental health, and prayer. In particular, I want you to understand what is happening when in physical brain while you are meditating and praying every day. If you don’t pray every day, this episode will show you why it’s absolutely essential. Click to Listen: #048: Brain Science, Your Soul & Prayer  If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen...

On my birthday, March 29, 2014, the email subscribers of my blog took a vote on our next free book. I offered several free books I'd be willing to write for you as a "thank you" for your encouragement. The winning title was Augustine in 50 Pages: A Qu...

My goal this week is to talk about ‘cleaning the inside of the cup.’ I’m going to talk about my own struggles with hypocrisy and how I’m trying to overcome it. In Matthew chapter 23, our Lord Jesus Christ warns the Pharisees about cleaning the outside of the cup, but not the inside. He also warns us about not swallowing the camel. We’ll look at these passages and try to see what Christ is teaching us. Click to Listen: #047: Don’t Swallow the Camel  If the audio player does not show up ...

My goal this week is to introduce you to the “secret” life of Saint Thomas Aquinas. It’s not really a secret if you know where to look. However, Thomas Aquinas is one of the better known saints, but few people know anything about his life. Click to Listen: #046: The Secret Life of Thomas Aquinas  If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, please click here to listen. Proverb of the week: Prov 27:5 Featured Segment: The Secret Life of Thomas Aquinas Announceme...

My goal this week is to take a look at the Evangelical Protestant teaching “once saved always saved.” Once upon a time when I was an Evangelical, I believed in this teaching. It basically holds that once you have accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you can do nothing to lose it. Catholic Christians don’t believe this. So today we will look at the key Bible verses related to this teaching. It’s going to be fun! Click to Listen: #045: Did Saint Paul Teach Once Saved Always ...

My goal this week is to talk about find the joy of your salvation. Psalm 51:12 says “Restore to me the joy of your salvation,” but how does this happen? The good news is that the Bible presupposes that we can and sometimes do lose the “joy of our salvation.” So it’s absolutely key to understanding “joy” in the context of “salvation.” To make this podcast even more “joyful,” my beautiful wife Joy will be co-hosting today! Click to Listen: #044: How to Escape Joyless Cath...

My goal this week is to talk about find the joy of your salvation. Psalm 51:12 says “Restore to me the joy of your salvation,” but how does this happen? The good news is that the Bible presupposes that we can and sometimes do lose the “joy of our salvation.” So it’s absolutely key to understanding “joy” in the context of “salvation.” To make this podcast even more “joyful,” my beautiful wife Joy will be co-hosting today! Click to Listen: #043: How to Escape Joyless Cath...

My goal this week is to talk about the process of sanctification. My good friend Dr. Ben Olson invited me to play golf with him this week and it reminded me how the spiritual life is like golf. Full of frustrations, sand traps, water hazards,

This is going to be controversial! Today we look at the classical and medieval understandings of woman as she relates to man. We do so by looking at the Genesis account and along the way we get into some dicey theology. (http://taylormarshall.

My goal this week is to share with you the 5 Intellectual Virtues according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. I sit down the Brother Bradley Elliott, OP of the Dominicans (and “Fellow” of the New Saint Thomas Institute) and he explains the 5 intellectual virtues and how they relate to the moral life and key topics such as pornography, art, and culture. Click to Listen: Podcast #041: 5 Intellectual Virtues and Pornography, Art, and Culture If the audio player does not show up in your email or browser, ...