I am after audio or video, and would love to hear why you like the ones you mention.
Saturday Open Thread (2): What are your favorite Podcasts?
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I am after audio or video, and would love to hear why you like the ones you mention.
The “Illumined Heart” and “Our Life In Christ” series over at Ancient Faith Radio. They are wonderful discussion of the Faith from an Orthodox perspecive.
Along with #1, I too listen to AFR…a recent discovery. There is a substantial list of podcasts available to enjoy..www.afr.com….also streaming radio..itunes, realplayer, etc., 24/7..integrating podcast and liturgical music. Podcasts in English; music is a mix of languagues but the sounds are heavenly. I have found myself quite natually leaning, even before finding AFR, toward a more orthodox way of life. Perhaps it is a sign of aging. LOL
#2 – I think you mean http://www.ancientfaithradio.com (not afr.com, which is something completely different). I am also a fan of the podcasts at Ancient Faith Radio, especially Our Life In Christ.
Pray-As-You-Go, a devotional podcast produced by British Jesuits.
I listen to Catholic Answers Live all day at the office. They rotate guests that speak on just about every aspect of the Church. There’s even a Bishop who presents Ask a Canon Lawyer. The monthly, Who Wants To Be An Apologist? show, is a lot of fun. I try to answer the questions from the “hat of difficulty” before the call-in contestants. Each show is about 1 hour long and I often play them twice before deleting.
http://www.catholic.com/radio/calendar.php
I use Juice to download the podcasts at night so they are ready to play during the day.
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net
God bless…
quite right #3…
I’m hooked on Way of the Master Radio which gives practical techniques for evangelizing 2 hours a day. I also enjoy Stand to Reason with Greg Koukl (for apologetics), but alas it’s only 2 hours a week.
I like the book interviews done by Hugh Hewitt on iTunes — he posts the entire 15 hours of radio shows he does each week, but what I like are the interviews he does with authors. (iTunes lists the author interviewed and the name of the book — and each interview lasts about the full radio hour — about 35 minutes.)
First of all he actually reads the books — in fact, he makes extensive notes and pretty extensively grills the author, but never in a harsh or “gotcha” manner. Second, he’s bright enough to communicate difficult issues in an easy-to-grasp manner. Third, he books important authors with important books – generally public policy or history. And he doesn’t stick to those authors who back his position. The first interview I heard him do was with Thomas Ricks, the military reporter for the Washington Post, concerning his book, Fiasco. It was a two hour interview – it was sharp, probing, and thoughtful and Ricks demonstrated he really knew his stuff — this wasn’t just a toss off Bush-bashing book. (I confess, I’ve long admired Ricks, but this interview also helped me find out what a good interviewer the former Justice Dept. attorney Hewitt is.)
In his regular radio shows, he’s way too pro-Bush or pro-Romney, but when he does his author interviews, he’s the best.
Another thing that might interest some, particularly those who’ve wandered onto the Canterbury Trail from various evangelical environs, is the weekly lessons at http://www.biblical-literacy.org It’s essentially the weekly lectures from a 400-person Sunday school class at Houston’s Champion Forest Baptist Church, taught by prominent plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier, who also has a seminary education.
They started out several years ago with a three-year biblical literacy course, after which they decided that the most pressing need for their class was for “Church History Literacy.” They’ve been covering the history of the Christian church from the time of Acts for about two years now, and I’ve found the lessons to be scrupulously researched. Mr. Lanier sends his lessons out to a group of folks with widely divergent denominational backgrounds for vetting, and in my experience they do a good job of fairly presenting various viewpoints on hermeneutics, denominations, etc.
It’s been very helpful “catching me up” on what was lacking in my Southern Baptist Sunday school curriculum, viz., anything that happened between Jesus and about 1970.
Boy, I messed up that link. Elves, help!
[i]We’ll fix it. If you’re pasting a short link, you don’t need to use the URL tags. The software will format it for you. If it’s a long link, however, please use the URL tags (you had them right) and give the link a short title like “link here” or something like that.[/i]
In #9, that should be http://www.biblical-literacy.com, not .org. Sorry ’bout that.
And thanks, Elves.