Sword&Spade

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Sword&Spade is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Sword&Spade, a education show with 40 episodes published.

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  Episode #40

  Evangelization Isn't Your Primary Job as a Catholic Man w/ Marcellino D'Ambrosio

  Oct 1, 202658 min

  Marcellino D'Ambrosio spent years in youth ministry trying to win kids back from the school day and the sports schedule. It didn't work. He joins Jason Craig again to explain why Catholic men have mistaken their calling for a religious one, and why the real work in front of fathers is building a culture their children can actually live inside. In This Episode, We Cover: Why the Great Commission was addressed to the clergy, and why hospitality is the layman's evangelical virtue How small acts among men—a feast-day barbecue, a bottle of whiskey for every new father—build the culture that keeps kids Catholic Why retention, not evangelization, is the church's real problem Why a parish or apostolate job can stall a young man's vocation The difference between chasing status and earning honor among men who know you Resources Mentioned: Fraternus Marcellino's First Appearance on Sword&Spade (Spotify) Marcellino's First Appearance on Sword&Spade (Apple Podcasts) Sherwood Fellows Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Chapters: 00:00: Leo XIII's overlooked call to rebuild the guilds 05:51: The evangelization mindset Catholic men inherited 11:17: The Great Commission and the layman's real job 16:51: Men as the builders of Catholic culture 20:55: Start with a feast-day barbecue 27:54: The church's real problem is retention 33:02: When a new pastor shuts down a men's chapter 37:45: Why young men shouldn't take parish jobs 42:07: Chasing status vs. earning honor 53:09: Building for a hundred years from now Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #39

  Your Children Will See Your Failings Someday w/ Adam Taylor

  Sep 24, 20261 hour

  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 forget. In This Episode, We Cover: What poetic knowledge is—the sensory, emotional way we come to know and love reality—and what Dickens's Hard Times shows about an education that deals only in facts How Adam came to terms with his father's failings in the years after the accident that took his mother and three siblings Why a father who admits fault and lets his son into his suffering keeps a bridge open to that son How real encounters form the imagination, and why Adam calls formation "a way to achieve prudence before your time" Why boys need to make and break things, even as high school seniors Resources Mentioned: Fraternus Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor St. Joseph's Academy Cornbread Catholic Catholics' Lost Cause by Adam L. Tate JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Chapters: 00:00: Adam Taylor, James Taylor, and John Senior's legacy 02:46: What poetic knowledge is, and the horse in Hard Times 10:17: A childhood immersed in the real 17:58: Seeing a father's failings, and the accident at fourteen 23:35: Letting your son into your suffering 26:11: How the Marines began the healing 31:10: What poetic knowledge looked like at home 38:59: Imagination and prudence before your time 46:02: Where classical education falls short 53:25: St. Joseph's Academy, Cornbread Catholic, and the Catholic South Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #38

  Stop Hunting the Devil and Look in the Mirror w/ Dr. Dan Schneider

  Sep 17, 202658 min

  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 obstacles blocking grace How the demon of impurity doubles as the demon of fear, and why confessing the same sin over and over can miss the unhealed wound underneath it Small mortifications to start with, like giving up meat on Fridays What the imprecatory psalm about dashing babies on the rock teaches about crushing vices early Why a husband's authority comes down to two duties: provide and protect Resources Mentioned: Fraternus The Liber Christo Method by Dr. Dan Schneider Holy League Institute The Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli Unseen Warfare, edited by St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain and St. Theophan the Recluse Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 03:09: Why Exorcism Content Has Exploded 07:46: The Enemy in the Mirror and the Five Senses 17:06: Why Impurity and Fear Share a Demon 24:00: How the Demon Plays Off Your Algorithm 28:07: Training One Virtue at a Time 31:38: Small Mortifications and Mental Prayer 35:13: Crushing Vices While They Are Small 46:02: Where a Father Should Start at Home 54:54: God Will Ask About Your Family JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #37

  How to Discover the Life God Wants for Your Family w/ John Cuddeback

  Sep 10, 20261h 7m

  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 decide what to keep out of it. In This Episode, We Cover: Why an unintentional household doesn't stop people from mattering—it just stops the home from being run as though they do Why it is not an accident that babies need changing several times a day, and what that daily closeness was designed to communicate to a child who cannot yet understand a word The one place to start when the whole project feels out of reach: the family meal, eaten together with bodily presence, manners, and unhurried conversation, no matter where the food came from Why manners are the beginning of morals, why the father has to model them before he enforces them, and why formality deepens relationships instead of stiffening them Why restriction alone never wins the argument with technology—the question is what the screen is replacing, and whether there is a life worth protecting behind it Resources Mentioned: Fraternus The Intentional Household by John Cuddeback LifeCraft Supra Dinner Society Chapters: 00:00: Intro 03:09: Why a household now has to be built on purpose 09:58: Life gets harder as it gets better 15:40: The part that falls apart without the father 21:01: Start with the meal, whatever is on the plate 25:34: What a child learns at a table the father leads 36:58: Hospitality is the layman's way of preaching 41:53: You cannot say no to a screen without a yes to something 50:18: The home that only consumes 59:10: Growing old inside the household JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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  Episode #36

  The Pro-Life Movement Forgot the Father w/ Alexander Hettinga

  Sep 3, 20261h 1m

  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 the baby is both the first person a woman consults about an abortion and the single greatest influence on her decision Why roughly a third of these fathers say nothing at all, and what "I'll support whatever you choose" actually sounds like to her Alexander's invitation to the father who has raised his own family well and now feels useless against everything else he sees Why Alexander pushes back on the room full of donated diapers, and what he wants pregnancy centers to do instead What a settled, married father can learn from men starting with nothing, including why the earlier a dad gets involved the better Resources Mentioned: The Musical Father Care Net Fatherhood & Family Doctor Dad Fraternus Chapters: 00:00: Introduction 02:51: A violinist who fell in love with fatherhood 06:00: The research that put the father at the center of her decision 09:49: The forty percent who recommend abortion, and one client who had nothing 17:18: Why serving the father is central, not mission drift 25:35: Bravado or gentleness, and what actually reaches these men 31:56: "You might think you're the Uber driver today, but you're not" 34:10: The smoothies that saved lives 44:37: Fatherhood starts at conception 57:06: Bach, twenty children, and work-family polyphony JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios .

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