The spiritual exercises of the Vision For You process will encourage personal discipline in harmony with our natural purpose in life. We not only have greater self-discipline, but we also have a better sense of how to direct it.
Episode 56 - From the Lonely Misery of PTSD to Faith, a Family, and Happiness
A gulf-war veteran describes how the Vision for You process changed his life: I urge you to watch or listen to this. My friend Peter Murphy was sent to the first gulf war just a few weeks after his 17th birthday. When he returned he was mentally ill for years, eventually being diagnosed with PTSD. I am a stiff-upper-lip Brit, but a tear came to my eye when he described the effect of his change had on his marriage and how it gave him a family. God is good!
Episode 55 - Dr. Lawrence Feingold: How an Art History Class Made a Theologian of Me
Episode 54 - Andrew Wilson Smith, Sculptor - Art Portrays Truths that Words Alone Cannot
Episode 53 - David Cutton, How Sports Psychology is Discovering the Church Fathers
Episode 52 - Harmonizing Nutritional Science and Intermittent Fasting with Traditional Fasting and Feasting
Episode 51 - Jennifer Frey: Philosopher, on Morality, Virtue and Happiness
Episode 50 - The Vision for You, Part 3 - The fun part! Discerning your personal vocation.
Episode 49 - The Vision for You, Part 2
Episode 48 - Talk on the Vision for You for the Institute of Catholic Culture, Part 1
This week, I am going to direct you to the first of a series of three talks that I have been invited to give for the Institute of Catholic Culture. In this one, I describe the story of how I met David Birtwistle at a cafe in the King’s Road in Chelsea, London in 1988. As a result of this contact, I asked him to take me through a series of spiritual exercises, even though I was a sour atheist. I describe how he sold me on taking this process. The result of this is that I became an artist, as I had always dreamed, and I became a Catholic (which is beyond anything I’d ever imagined for myself). The link is here. The Institute of Catholic Culture, Part 1. Scroll down to the bottom for the video, which is an hour long.
Episode 47 - Charlie Deist on anaturalmethod.com and the Body, Soul and Spirit movement
Episode 46 - Christopher West on His Techniques for Communicating to a Mass Audience
The Way of Beauty Podcast - Episode 46 Christopher West and David Clayton on techniques for popularizing theology and philosophy so as to engage non-believers and believers alike. Our inspiration is St John Chrysostom - ‘golden mouth’ - but each of us can be golden mouthed and honey tongued if we are true to our personal vocation!
Episode 45 - Adam DeVille on the Abuse of Sex and Power in the Church- Causes and Solutions
Episode 44 - Mary Anne Urlakis Interviews David Clayton, WCAT Radio. The Way of Beauty in the Formation of Seminarians and Lay People.
Episode 43 - Fr Jeffrey Kirby on His Book For Everyday Mystics
Episode 42 - David Clayton on The Book of Kells - Beauty that Beguiled Oliver Cromwell!
Episode 41 - Paul Jernberg #8 Real parishes, real situations. Reversing the managed decline of your average parish
How do you turn your average Catholic parish that follows the missalette and is a state of carefully managed decline - it has an aging and declining congregation and doesn’t mind as long as the people who go are happy? How do you persuade a successful Praise and Worship parish - whose liturgy is barely distinguishable from an Evengelical Christian worship - that there is something even better?
