Sword&Spade
In a world increasingly shallow and distracted, Sword&Spade offers an antidote of deep, thoughtful engagement with the topics that matter most to Catholic men and their families.
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Why Men Hunt (opens the original)
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Your Children Will See Your Failings Someday w/ Adam Taylor (opens the original)
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Adam Taylor, a former Marine and the son of Poetic Knowledge author James Taylor, has spent the last six years teaching his father's vision of education at St. Martin's Academy and is now co-founding St. Joseph's Academy in Mississippi. He tells Jason Craig how the goodness of his childhood carried him through a family tragedy and years apart from his father. He also makes the case that education has to reach the heart before the mind can build on it, a truth he says even classical schools can f
Stop Hunting the Devil and Look in the Mirror w/ Dr. Dan Schneider (opens the original)
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Jason Craig asks Dr. Dan Schneider, author of The Liber Christo Method, whether the Catholic fascination with exorcism is actually helping men fight. Schneider argues the real battle runs through a man's own senses and the wounds he hasn't dealt with, and Craig adds that a man who won't face those wounds leaves his family to carry them. In This Episode, We Cover:Why an unholy curiosity about the devil backfires, and why Schneider ranks the demon third in any battle plan, behind Christ and the ob
How to Discover the Life God Wants for Your Family w/ John Cuddeback (opens the original)
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Jason Craig sits down with philosopher, homesteader, and Christendom College professor John Cuddeback, author of The Intentional Household, to ask why a home no longer becomes a household on its own. They work through the ordinary parts of family life—meals, manners, diapers, shared work, the care of the elderly—and why these are exactly where a household is either built or lost. Dr. Cuddeback makes the case that the father who wants a real home has to know what he is building before he can deci
The Pro-Life Movement Forgot the Father w/ Alexander Hettinga (opens the original)
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When a thousand women who had abortions were asked who they consulted about the decision, the father of the baby came out first, and by a wide margin the most influential no matter what he said. Alexander Hettinga leads the fatherhood and family team at Care Net, a network of more than 1,300 pregnancy centers, and he tells Jason Craig what happens when those men are finally spoken to as fathers rather than handled as the problem.In This Episode, We Cover:The 2015 study that found the father of t
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