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In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Roger Skrenes concerning his book Signs of Resurrection (September 13, 2022) This book is written to show that in our world there are many signs of resurrection. Life beyond death is demonstrated or modeled in many ways within the world around us. This fact should teach us to believe that our death is not an end in itself bu...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews David Ross on his book Goat-Song and Other Stories, Part 2. (August 25, 2022) Goat-Song and Other Stories is a collection of one novella and two short stories. The novella, Goat-Song, concerns an exclusive theatrical production, and the two people involved, one alive, the other dead. One short story, Gaps, concerns a recluse...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Rick Clements on his book The Meaning of the World is Love (August 25, 2022) In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson talks with Rick Clements on his book The Meaning of the World is Love. Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), a prolific Catholic theologian from Switzerland, has been called a "new Father...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews David Ross on his book Goat-Song and Other Stories, Part 1. (August 24, 2022) Goat-Song and Other Stories is a collection of one novella and two short stories. The novella, Goat-Song, concerns an exclusive theatrical production, and the two people involved, one alive, the other dead. One short story, Gaps, concerns a recluse...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson talks with Francis Etheredge on his book Human Nature: Moral Norm (082022) There is a ‘difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle: it is a difference which is much wider and deeper than is usually thought, one which involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, C.Ss. R., on his book His Divine Presence (August 18, 2022) Poetry of praise for the grace that God freely provides at every moment of our lives. https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/hisdivinepresence/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/author-to-author--4129285/support .

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, C.Ss. R., on his book No Longer I (August 18, 2022) Christ entered our world and gave himself completely to us to the point of dying for us, to become nourishment for us and a source of hope. In this book, Fr. Dennis Billy, C.Ss. R., demonstrates how this single sentence embraces every element of what he ca...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Peter Breen on his book Dear Mr Putin (August 17, 2022) An epistolary exhortation in monthly installments to Mr. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, that asks: “Are you sure about waging war and brandishing a cross against the woman who promised Russia’s conversion and world peace…?” “If my requests are heeded, Russia will...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, C.Ss. R., on his book The Wonder of the Eucharist (August 11, 2022) This book examines some of the major literary voices from the past century who deepened our understanding of the Eucharist by embedding it in their short stories, novels, memoirs, and spiritual writings. The voices within these pages give w...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, C.Ss. R., on his book The Blessings of the Beatitudes (August 11, 2022) This book is about the vision Jesus sets before his hearers of a world ruled by justice and love. The eight beatitudes provide hope to all who listen to and follow the call of the kingdom in their hearts. Without that hope, there would...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Lawrence Tucker, SOLT, on his new song The Father's Lullaby (August 10, 2022) In 1984, Cardinal Ratzinger reminded us that The Document of Puebla by John Paul ll pointed out that the preferential option for the poor is two-fold: for the poor... and for the young. Unfortunately, the "for the young" part has been almost un...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Dr. Gerard Verschuuren on his book Faith That Makes You Think Doesn’t faith contradict thinking? Actually, no. The Catholic Church teaches that there is a strong relationship between faith and reason. In fact, it’s a characteristic of us rational creatures to practice a faith that seeks understanding. This book is specifical...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Deanna Bartalini on her bible study entitled Invite the Holy Spirit into Your Life: Growing in Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control (Our Sunday Visitor, 2018). In Invite the Holy Spirit into Your Life, you will: learn how the Holy Spirit can change your life through the f...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Kevin Gary on his book Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life (August 1, 2022) Boredom is an enduring problem. In response, schools often do one or both of the following: first, they endorse what novelist Walker Percy describes as a 'boredom avoidance scheme,' adopting new initiative aft...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson talks with David Hajduk on his book Healing the Culture and the Family. It is evident that the culture and the family need healing, but before we can offer a cure, we need to know the spiritual disease ailing us. Pope John Paul II offers a diagnosis in his Letter to Families: the human family is experiencing a “New Manichaeism,” a vari...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson talks with Shannon Sánchez on her book One Girl, One Tiny Book, One Mission, Take Down BIG PHARMA, Are You With Me?: Do you know about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)? Have you heard of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)? Do you have any idea how many health conditions and diseases it can be used to improve and even cure? Everything from autoimmune,...

In this episode of Author to Author, Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Shannon Sánchez on her book Xeno, Estro, Andro, Testo, WHAT?!: My journey with PCOS and how I conquered the disease (July 21, 2022) Hormones are so confusing, especially for women who suffer from reproductive illnesses like PCOS. In Xeno, Estro, Andro, Testo, WHAT?!, author Shannon Sánchez describes her young and adult life livi...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Mary Jo Thayer on her book Close to the Soul. Through grit and grace, Carolyn Fandel survives being raped by someone she knows and trusts. She will not accept defeat—even when confronted by her rapist a second time. Instead, she uses her tragedy to help hundreds of others, some of whom she will never meet. Set in the era of...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Paul Ezinando on his book Jesus Christ: A Man of Prayer (July11, 2022) In this work, Fr. Paul Ezinando demonstrates that though we have knowledge of Jesus Christ from various perspectives, we cannot know Him enough. To help us come to a better knowledge of Jesus Christ, Fr Ezinando examines Him (Jesus) as a man of prayer...

In this episode of Author to Author, Kiki Latimer interviews Frank Calneggia on his book Assertions and Refutations: An Assessment of Dr Tracey Rowland’s Natural Law: From Neo Thomism to Nuptial Mysticism (July 8, 2022) This book unties the philosophical knot of Dr Tracey Rowland’s assertions concerning the natural moral law, Faith and reason, nature and grace. To lay bare every bend and twist of...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Dr. Larry Hopperton on his book Such Common Stories (July 5, 2022) There is one story only. It’s woven out of personal experiences and memories, the worlds that we have actually known and loved. The poems in Such Common Stories connect to our individual stories, so that the experiences they present become our own and we beco...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Holly Garman on her book The Holy Heart (June 30, 2022) “My Father will love you so deeply that We will come to you and make you Our dwelling place.” ~ Jesus (Jn. 14:32, TPT) The Scriptural truths of The Holy Heart help us to let God become fully at home in us, as we become fully at home in Him. When that depth of union is r...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Fr. Charlie Bak, MSA, on Part 1 of his Western Civilization (June 28, 2022) A History of Western Civilization from the Three Earliest Civilizations to the Completion of the Reconquista: Western Civilization, Part 1 by Fr. Charles Bak, MSA This book tells a good story, actually the best story–the real story! So much of histor...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews John Acquaviva on his book Raising Kids with a Healthy Body Image: A Guide for Catholic Parents (June 24, 2022) Raising Kids with a Healthy Body Image: A Guide for Catholic Parents is the unique approach to the body image crisis that impacts many children. From a young age, our kids are under immense pressure from a variety...

In this episode of Author to Author, Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Johnnie Bernhard on her book Hannah and Ariela (June 21, 2022) When Hannah, a seventy-three-year-old widow, finds the semiconscious body of a fourteen-year-old Mexican national in a ditch along a remote central Texas road, she has no idea someone is watching. Not until the girl’s brutal attacker arrives at Hannah’s door in t...