The Weight of Glory

Centered around the themes of the essay The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, this podcast seeks to highlight ways in which our every encounter leads another person toward beatitude or away from it

Podcasting since 2020 • 24 episodes

The Weight of Glory

Latest Episodes

a church for our children, or no church at all?

A younger version of myself confronts pre-synodal synodality in a suburban parish, In this episode (which I am reproducing here from my Substack feed), I describe a letter I wrote to an ex-priest who came to my home parish back in 1994 to offer...

May 22, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 10 • 33:26

The Shroud of Turin: What Scientists Discovered

Jack Sacco, an engineer and writer by trade, interviewed a multi-disciplinary group of scientists who were given access to study the Shroud in 1978. This two-hour presentation ...

April 08, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 11 • 2:15:43

Stations of the Cross

For Holy Week, I'm posting a special episode on The Stations of the Cross. What follows is a Stations of the Cross text I wrote in 2004, reflecting on the images Mel Gibson provided in his movie The Passion of The Christ. Each medi...

March 28, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 10 • 1:06:02

Judgment as a setting for learning and practicing hope

In today's episode, Kale Zelden and I complete our discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter on Christian hope. In the last major section of the letter, Benedict XVI speaks of the experience of judgment as a setting for hope. We pick ...

February 26, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 9 • 1:22:57

Prayer and suffering as schools of hope

In today's episode, Kale Zelden and I resume our discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter on Christian hope. Specifically, we read and reflect on paragraphs 32 through 38: Settings for learning and practicing hope. Benedict XVI speak...

February 25, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 8 • 1:05:38