The Warrior Priest Podcast

The warrior ethos has been a defining feature of human society since the dawn of civilization. The idea of a warrior, one who is willing to sacrifice their own safety for the protection of their community, has been a source of inspiration for countless generations. The warrior ethos provides a sense of purpose and meaning to those who follow it, as well as a deep sense of connection to something g...

Similarly, the Nashville School Shooting was a paradoxical moment for the Christian community. Audrey Hale, a self-proclaimed atheist, targeted and murdered six Christians at her former school because, unlike her, they refused to deny their humanity and faith. In the face of such tragedy, it can be difficult to find comfort and hope. But the only hope of Christianity is in the face of death and ev...

“Adventure shatters the oppressive, insistent reality as if it were a piece of glass. It is the unforeseen, the unthought-of, the new. Each adventure is a new birth of the world, a unique process. How can it fail to be interesting?”   José Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Quixote

Jiu Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life... To understand our society, to relate myself to people, to compete in an actual self-defense tournament, to feel confident to walk on the street and to be able to help people, to be strong enough to forgive - Rickson Gracie 

In baptism, we are given a new identity, a new purpose, and a new destiny. We are no longer slaves to sin, death, and the devil, but heirs of God's kingdom, with a mission to proclaim the gospel and to serve our neighbor in love." And when the devil comes with his temptations, interferes in our lives, and accuses us of sin and unbelief, we tell him: 'I am baptized, and in that baptism I have been...

"…the lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend.”  Carl Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche

...this story reminds us that we can always go to God with our prayers and our petitions. Even when we feel like outsiders, even when we feel like we don't have a place at the table, even when we feel like our requests are too small or too insignificant to matter, we can still come to God in faith and trust that he will hear us and respond.

All children are creative. All children experiment with imaginations. As we grow older we are beaten down by systems, rules, and social norms. We are told to color between the lines, stay in our lane, and most importantly, not to rock the boat. By the time we’re adults we are so used to it we don’t even realize what’s at stake. The War of Art  will help you recognize Resistance when it creeps...

So, we take comfort in God's promise of a savior. We trust in his grace and mercy, even when we’re in full rebellion against him. And we go out from here into the world, with the assurance of his presence and the power of his Spirit, and even though we, like Noah, aren’t exactly saint material, we are chosen in Christ Jesus to be his hands and feet in a rebellious, destructive, world that is being...

This is the message of the gospel, the message that runs through the entire Bible no continues into the present. We are sinners, but God still loves us. He still provides for us. He still seeks us out, even when we are hiding from him. And he has provided a Savior, Jesus Christ, who has paid the price for our sin and made a way for us to be reconciled to God.

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“For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

Lombardi’s methodical coverage of the fundamentals continued throughout training camp. Each player reviewed how to block and tackle. They opened up the playbook and started from page one. At some point, Max McGee, the Packers’ Pro Bowl wide receiver, joked, “Uh, Coach, could you slow down a little? You’re going too fast for us.” Lombardi reportedly cracked a smile, but continued his obsession...

So faith looks at Jesus because he calls himself the Book of Life. In that book, all the ink is erased from the ledger. There are no entries for what’s owed and what’s been paid. In the Book of Life, there are no outstanding debt entries. There is only the one word written across the page in large, blood red letters: Forgiven.

“Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history. It is still a living object of power and beauty among us; and if it assumes no tangible shape or form, it not the less scents the moral atmosphere, and makes us aware that we are still under its potent spell...

“Here’s how he works.” the old pastor says. “Your heart was a tin can lying in the weeds rusting, and the Lord Jesus came along like that sanitation guy in the park, with an old cloth bag and a stick with a nail in it, and he stuck it in that tin can and he put it in his bag.”

“Sometimes prophecies seem to consist in man’s ability to experience his own wretched fate so deeply that it becomes a symbol of something larger. It is in this sense that one can compare Nietzsche with the ancient prophets. He felt the agony, the suffering, and the misery of a godless world so intensely, at a time when others were yet blind to its tremendous consequence, that he was able to exper...

No matter how terrible our lives may be, and our lives have been quite terrible, and no matter how far we fall, and we have fallen all the way to rock bottom by this point, and no matter what disaster overtakes us, and there are too many to count, we have one enormous knowledge and consolation, which is a heavenly revelation that overtakes us; that of all the terrible things that can happen to a h...

In Anglo-Saxon England a warrior owed complete fealty to his chief. A warrior was stunned unconscious during a battle in which his chief died. He revived after the battle and found himself chiefless. Several years later he recounts his plight . “ Wulf and Eadwacer” is an Anglo-Saxon poem found in the 10th century Exeter Book and famous for its difficult interpretation. I believe this poem is...

This is the savior of the world. From the very beginning of creation, God planned to become as close to us as our own flesh and blood. Even before stars twinkled on the prairies this was his idea, to go down and dirty, to come right into the mess with us. So here he is, in the mess. He gets filthy and hangs out with sinners. And here is God's voice, "This is my beloved son."

In science convictions have no rights of citizenship, as one says with good reason. Only when they decide to descend to the modesty of hypotheses, of a provisional experimental point of view, of a regulative fiction, they may be granted admission and even a certain value in the realm of knowledge—though always with the restriction that they remain under police supervision, under the police of mist...

And amongst all the stories of doom and gloom why don’t we see Jesus on our television screens? And I don’t mean American Jesus. I don’t mean the Jesus used by political fools to justify unjust wars and killing unborn babies, who smile their toothy smiles as they explain why they have to take more and more from us until we can’t even breathe without having the air in our lungs taxed. I mean the re...

“Sometimes, we don't get what we plan for. Sometimes, everything can go wrong even when you do everything right. You're going to fail...and that's okay. The question is what you do with that knowledge. If you don't even try because you might miss your goal, you miss out on life. We are all going to face defeat, and more than just once or twice. How you react under those circumstances is what matte...

At least one account has survived of a Christmas Truce gone bad: the story of Private Percy Huggins, a Briton who was relaxing in No Man’s Land with the enemy when a sniper shot to the head killed him and set off more bloodshed. The sergeant who took Huggins’ place, hoping to avenge his death, was then himself picked off and killed. In another account, a German scolded his fellow soldier...

The thrill of baptism is that on account of Jesus, there’s no pressure at all to go it alone. Instead, the will of the Son shines on our desolation. That’s his testament. That’s his redemption. That's his promise. We’re in this with him. Whether we believe it’s true or not, even when the odds are a million to one, his will is done. We are in this with him. We’re not doing this on our own. We’re no...