The Warrior Priest Podcast

Maintain a clear-sighted view of your circumstances, eschew biases and preconceived notions, and practice decisiveness. Learn to trust your intuition. When relying on only a "partial feeling," your gut - often referred to as the "second brain" - will indicate that something is wrong.

The money and habits, the whispers and gossip, the crashing and burning, and the lying that only the good die young are how we end up hung up on everything and anything, everyone and anyone who promises to reverse the curse that we were born with but can’t escape because we’re locked up in the cages that we made for ourselves. That’s why we can’t wait to listen to what God has to say, to see his f...

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about. Obviously the enemy will also be thinking of doing this, but he cannot forestall you if you do not allow him to come out. In strategy, you must stop the enemy as he attempts to cut; you must push down his thrust, and throw off his hold when he tries to grapple. This is the meaning of "t...

Bad dreams, war scars, and missing a tooth are all reminders that we don’t trust God to take care of us and that we don’t trust God to use us to take care of each other too. But everyone can be changed by God. Everyone one is changed by God’s Word, whether they know it or not. Anyone and everyone, no matter how disconnected, disjointed, or disappointed is taken care of by God; we Christians are li...

The body of the Way of Strategy from the viewpoint of my Ichi school is explained in the Ground book. It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things. - Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, chapter one

We act like we're so much better than other people in other places, but who told us that we're so special? Who told us we're so special that our facts can't be facts without censoring us? Who said that we're so special that we get to deny basic biology, expose our children to degenerates and perverts in their schools and call it progress? Who told us we're so special that we get to call good evil,...

Which dystopian writer saw it all coming? Of all the famous authors of the 20th century who crafted worlds meant as warnings, who has proved most prophetic about the afflictions of the 21st? George Orwell? Aldous Huxley? Kurt Vonnegut? Ray Bradbury? Each of these, among others, have proved far too disturbingly prescient about many aspects of our present, as far as I’m concerned. But it could be th...

Every bone broken, all the sticks, and stones that were thrown at you are because of Christ Jesus. All the moments when you feel so alone are because of Christ Jesus. That you only drink so you can try to cope is because of Christ Jesus. Every bloody nose and all the mud-caked clothes are because of Christ Jesus. When you feel like you're down inside a hole that's because of Christ Jesus.  Ev...

Today, there is little one can do without the state, or what Nietzsche called the “coldest of all cold monsters”, either taking its cut, dictating how it’s to be done, or at the very least, watching and recording our every move.

Why? Because we can't be allowed to live free. We can't be allowed to live like sheep to trust in Jesus as the only shepherd we need. We must be glued to our screens. We must be part of the machine. We must believe in science that contradicts the words of Christ. We must trust what we see on the news. It's not propaganda, it’s the truth, everything is exactly what it seems. So stay glued to your s...

“In Brave New World the soma habit was not a private vice; it was a political institution…” writes Huxley. “The daily Soma ration was an insurance against personal maladjustment, social unrest and the spread of subversive ideas. Religion, Karl Marx declared, is the opium of the people. In the Brave New World this situation was reversed. Opium, or rather Soma, was the people’s religion.”( Aldous Hu...

There's no "musts" or "shoulds" with Jesus. There's only his love that says: Come, and receive all you need for body and life from me. I will wash and feed you. I will bathe you in my blood that's supreme red, creates a new life for you, and raises the dead. I will do all this for you because I love you. I created you to love and be loved. I redeemed you to love and be loved. I sustain you in my l...

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, Alan Watts

You can wish all you want. You can wish on shooting stars, or maybe they're just satellites. You can blow apart a million dandelions until they don't grow in your yard anymore. But your wishes will never come true. Instead, look to the Lord, and expect all you need from him. He gives you all you need in due season. He opens his hand and satisfies the desires of every living thing.

You need the strength to let go of your past and get back on your feet. You need the vision to see that the path that you walk is the one that you need. You need the courage to dream while you're still broken in half and there's nothing left deep inside. You need the patience to wait for the day that you pray for, and for God to give you a sign. You need help, so God comes to you to help in every...

“…a totalitarian society is one in which an ideology seeks to displace all prior traditions and institutions, with the goal of bringing all aspects of society under control of that ideology. A totalitarian state is one that aspires to nothing less than defining and controlling reality.” Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies

But, don't give up. Don't lose hope. Our God is strong, and the Holy Spirit is a consuming fire that will burn away all our sicknesses, diseases, and even death. And yes, the days are hard and the nights are long. But our God is a fighter, so when it's dire, the Holy Spirit burns brighter in the dark. Remember, you're baptized into Jesus Christ, and he is the light of the world; so you're more tha...

Sir Orfeo  is a 1944 booklet which reproduces the text of the  Middle English  poem as edited and amended by  J.R.R. Tolkien , together with an editorial note also by Tolkien. Tolkien's translation of it was later published in  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo . Although the booklet does not identify Tolkien's editorship, a copy held by the  Bodlei...

“No longer to accept anything at all, no longer to take anything, no longer to absorb anything—to cease reacting altogether. This fatalism…can preserve life under the most perilous conditions by reducing the metabolism, slowing it down, as a kind of will to hibernate.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

We know mammon is lying to our faces, and we know it brings unnecessary drama into our lives, but we keep buying what it’s selling. No wonder we're so confused. Fake smiles, fake friends, fake breasts, fake jewelry, fake health, fake wealth, and fake happiness. We’ve become fake people living fake lives because we don’t want to see the real truth. And if we do want the truth for a change we've got...

Regardless of what culture teaches us, the distinction between man and woman is very real, and it not washed away in baptism. It is clarified, deepened, and called very good by God. What baptism does wash away is the cultural brainwashing and juvenile thinking that has emasculated men for decades. It washes away "Happy Wife, Happy Life.” It washes away "Yes, Dear." It washes away the cartoonish st...

But, regardless of what culture teaches us, the distinction between man and woman is very real, and it not washed away in baptism. It is clarified, deepened, and called very good by God. What baptism does wash away is the cultural brainwashing that has emasculated men for decades. It washes away "Happy Wife, Happy Life.” It washes away "Yes, Dear." It washes away our depression and aimlessness. It...

But in the Church, Jesus reconstructs sinners from personal destruction. He remakes us, rebuilds us, and resurrects us so the demons that hide in the cracks can't get ahold of us, the devil can't break us, and hell will never know us. And we got all this from the blood that was spilled. We get all this from the blood poured down our throats at the Lord's Supper. We get all this from Jesus in his C...

The episode uploaded before I realized I’d missed some throat clearing that needed to be taken out of the audio, so I went back and edited the episode then republished it but Spotify and Apple podcasts haven’t updated the episode yet, so I apologize if you listen to the unedited version of this 🙏 • Was Alexander the Great an alcoholic? Did Odysseus take opium in the land of the lotus-eaters? Was...

We hear people preaching that hatred's the real problem with our society, but hating straight, white men and Christians is common. Coca-Cola is telling people they should be less white. The company's advertisements preach tolerance but if you disagree with their message, they attack and demonize you. Soldiers died for this country and every one of us benefits from their sacrifice, but we repay the...