Episodes

  • Conversation Starter 16 | On Becoming What You Face with Josh Spears
    Feb 10 2026

    In this conversation starter, Josh looks you square in the face and wonders aloud over the imaginative horizons the face of the Other can bring to us.

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    5 mins
  • Conversation Starter 15 | Finding Peace Outside For The Inside with Fr. Carr
    Feb 3 2026

    In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr reflects on how being in and observing nature shapes his imagination.

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    5 mins
  • Conversation Starter 14 | Imagining the Real
    Jan 29 2026

    In this conversation starter, Andrew looks ahead (or behind) to the great precipitation, reads some Dante, and argues that imagination is of central importance.

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    6 mins
  • The Council Episode 04 | A Very Special Xmas Break Episode
    Dec 23 2025

    Nathan, Andy, Eric and Josh wish you the merriest, happiest, most blessed Advent and/or Christmas on this very special episode of the Council. There’s a heaping serving of meat and potatoes to keep the executive producers in the holiday spirit and enough shenanigans to keep the other tens of listeners in the same.

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    Nathan singing O Holy Night at Karaoke Night in 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ&list=RDMk4woNRD7NQ&start_radio=1

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Conversation Starter 13 | Courageously and Hopefully Timing Christmas with Josh Spears
    Dec 16 2025

    In this conversation starter, Josh investigates the courage needed to hope for Christmas at the right time.

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    5 mins
  • Conversation Starter Episode 12 | Self-Sacrifice: Virtue in True Action with Fr. Carr
    Dec 9 2025

    In this conversation starter, Fr. Nathan takes us upstream to our children’s life of virtue.

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    5 mins
  • Conversation Starter Episode 11 | Till This Moment I Never Knew Myself with Andrew Black
    Dec 2 2025

    In this conversation starter, Andrew turns practical, thinks about the virtue of humility, and reads some Jane Austen.

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    5 mins
  • Conversation Starter 10 | Can You See the Feast?
    Nov 29 2025

    In this holiday conversation starter, Andy Black is back from the aether with some well-wishes for our tens of listeners and some thoughts about the virtuous tension between feasting and fasting.

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    5 mins