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AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Jesuits and friends come together to look at the world through Ignatian eyes, always striving to live Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam -- For the Greater Glory of God. Hosted by Mike Jordan Laskey and Eric Clayton. Learn more at jesuits.org. A production of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.
Episodes
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Work of Lent: Prayer Forms the Foundation
In this episode of our limited Lenten series, Danielle Harrison, manager of the St. Charles Lwanga Center in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, invites us to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Foreign Aid Cuts Are Hurting Catholic Relief Services with Bill O'Keefe
As you have probably heard in the news over the past month or so, the Trump administration has frozen foreign aid programs and essentially dismantled USAID…
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The Work of Lent: Why We Depend on God
In this episode of our limited Lenten series, spiritual writer and campus minister John Dougherty invites us to reflect on how why Lent is a time to learn how…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Churches Overflow on Ash Wednesday with Paul Jarzembowski
Ash Wednesday is fascinating: We get these reminders of death and decay smeared on our foreheads and just walk around like that the whole day after. Not the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy the Supernatural Matters to Your Spiritual Life with Gary Jansen
The communion of saints is an integral part of the Catholic faith—and I don’t just mean in a theological sort of way. What’s the name of your parish? Chances…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastBig Questions About God, Suffering and Philosophy with Dr. Eleonore Stump
Here are a couple questions for you: Do you believe in God? Why or why not? What evidence do you have to support your belief? What different types of evidence…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow To Live An Artistic Vocation with Chris Pramuk
“What you gaze upon, you become,” says Fr. Bill McNichols. “We need to gaze on truly conversational, truly loving images.” Those words are a mystical…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFrom NFL Lineman to MIT Math Professor with John Urschel
Here’s a hypothetical scenario I’m sure many of us have faced in our lives: Imagine you were a football player good enough to make the NFL. Imagine you are…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPilgrim Spirituality for Everyday Living
What do you imagine when you hear the word ‘pilgrimage’? Do you see in your mind’s eye the laces of an old pair of boots? A walking stick? A winding trail…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastTrying to Resist Digital Distraction with Jonathan Malesic
There aren’t many things most people agree on today across all the different political and cultural divides. But this following claim probably unites most of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastAnswering the Gospel Call to Global Community with Michael Manulak
If you look out at the world today, you might notice a growing trend in global politics: Again and again, voters are putting into power leaders that favor…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastA Netflix-Worthy Story of Catholic Anti-War Protestors with Michelle Nickerson
In the early morning hours of August 22, 1971, a group of Catholic anti-war protesters broke into a draft board in Camden, New Jersey to destroy draft-related…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThree Spiritual New Year's Resolutions with Julianne Stanz
Whether you’re a big New Year’s Resolutions person or not, it’s never a bad idea to take stock our own spiritual lives. Where might we want to grow in our…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastA Christmas Challenge from the Jesuit Border Podcast
The Christmas season is upon us! We look to the manger and we see new life—a baby has been born, Jesus the Christ, and so we have reason to hope. God has once…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastDrafting Christmas Objects with Sr. Bethany Welch, SSJ and Fr. Marty Ngo, SJ
It’s time for one of our favorite AMDG traditions: Our annual Christmas draft. It’s an idea we stole outright from the sportswriter Joe Posnanski’s podcast, so…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Myth and Fantasy Illuminate Our Spiritual Lives with John Hendrix
We were assigned The Hobbit in seventh grade. We knew it was coming, too—each class ahead of us had to read Tolkien’s classic text. Everyone in school always…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy This Is The Most Important Jesuit Text You've Never Heard Of with Fr. Bart Geger, SJ
You’ve heard of the Spiritual Exercises. You’ve probably heard of Ignatius’ autobiography. But have you heard of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus?…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Thanksgiving Leads to Celebration with Vinita Hampton Wright
If you’re listening to this episode on the day it drops, then we’re just a matter of hours away from celebrating Thanksgiving in the United States. Regardless…
AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast32 Churches, 29 Schools, 40 Miles, 1 Parish: How Lay Leaders Build the Church | A Pilgrimage to Belize, Part 2
Last week, we began our pilgrimage to Belize. We met Fr. Brian Christopher, the superior of the country-wide Jesuit community. And we heard a little bit about…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastEmbracing the Ministry of Failure: Spiritual Wisdom from Brian Christopher, SJ | A Pilgrimage to Belize, Part 1
Over the next two episodes, host Eric Clayton is going to take you on an adventure. We’re going to travel to Central America, to a small country on the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe View from Rome: Communication, Storytelling & the Society of Jesus with Fr. Chuks Afiawari, SJ
Today we’re talking about the global nature of God’s invitation. Our guest — Fr. Chuks, the new director of communications for the Jesuit Curia in Rome…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFrom Refugee to Celebrity Chef with Lidia Bastianich
When the celebrity chef and restauranter Lidia Bastianich was just a few months old, the city her Italian family lived in was assigned to Yugoslavia as part of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy Faith Leads Us to Lobby Lawmakers with Tom Mulloy
From the Jesuit Media Lab, this is AMDG. I’m Mike Jordan Laskey. Today’s episode is the fourth and final one in our series on faith and politics leading up to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat’s a Journalist To Do When We Can’t Even Agree on the Facts? with Scott Detrow
For the third episode of our pre-election series, we’re going to focus on the role of the media in a democracy. Our guest is Scott Detrow, a veteran radio…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastIn Faith-Filled Pursuit of Better Politics with Nichole Flores
This is the second in our series on faith and politics leading up to the 2024 presidential election here in the United States. Our guest is Dr. Nichole Flores…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastMeet the Lieutenant Governor Who Quit Politics to Become a Jesuit with Cyrus Habib, SJ
It’s October, which means the presidential election here in the US is next month. So here on AMDG we are going to take old that rule about never discussing…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGod Walks with His People: Santos & Noehlia
Santos and Noehlia worked with Jesuits in Nicaragua; when the government began to attack the Church, they had to flee. This audio reflection is part of a…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGod Walks with His People: Fr. Sudzer & Matthew
Fr. Sudzer and Matthew support migrants at the Jesuit parish in Miami. They both have family members who’ve migrated. This audio reflection is part of a series…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThree Stories: Rock Music for Toddlers, Existential Writer's Block and Imaginary Baseball
Today’s episode is different from anything we’ve ever done. Instead of an interview, we have three audio pieces about what you could call the spirituality of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSamson: One of the Bible’s Strangest Stories with Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
Sometimes on this show, host Mike Jordan Laskey has topic in mind he’d like to cover and then he goes and finds someone great to talk about it. Other times, he…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastDoes AI Make You Less Human? This Philosopher Has Answers
Think back to the early days of ChatGPT and generative AI. It was a topic discussed on seemingly every podcast and countless news segments. Nearly every one of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastTransforming Lives Behind and Beyond Prison Walls with Fr. Zach Presutti, SJ
There aren’t that many times in the Gospels when Jesus tells his disciples how they might act if they’re hoping to get to heaven one day. When Jesus does…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy This Journalist Profiled a Jesuit for The New Yorker with Jack Herrera
A couple of weeks ago, The New Yorker magazine published a fabulous profile of a Jesuit priest: Fr. Brian Strassburger, SJ, who lives in a Jesuit community…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Surprising History of Jesuit Colleges with Michael T. Rizzi
The end of the summer and the beginning of fall means many of us will be returning to school in one form or another. Teachers, students, bus drivers, cafeteria…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastA Conversation About Racism and the Spiritual Exercises
This is a conversation about racism and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. Put more precisely, this is a conversation about how the Spiritual…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCatholic Ethics, Transhumanism & Star Trek: A Conversation with Dr. Jason Eberl
Today’s topic is one straight out of science fiction. We’re talking about transhumanism—which, as you’ll soon learn, is very much a real thing with very real…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastCelebrate Ignatius' Feast by Celebrating Jesuit History
Today, July 31, we celebrate the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Happy feast day! We'll wager a guess that if you’re a listener of this podcast, then today’s…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhy So Many Scholars Love Bernard Lonergan, SJ with Jonathan Heaps
There is a list of Jesuit giants through history you hear over and over. That list starts with Saint Ignatius and his companions, of course, then includes to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow One Gen X Theology Professor Teaches Gen Z with Scott Moringiello
A few weeks ago, our guest was the sociologist of religion Tricia Bruce, who talked about what we know about the state of the American Catholic Church today…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastSwimming From Regis Jesuit to Olympic Gold with Missy Franklin
In honor of the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris, we’re thrilled to welcome the swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist Missy Franklin onto the podcast. Maybe…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Beauty Heals at the Homeboy Art Academy with Fabian Debora
Most of our listeners have surely at least heard of Homeboy Industries, which is the largest gang intervention, rehab and re-entry program in the world…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Holy Spirit Provides with Holy Trinity's Migrant Familia
"The Holy Spirit provides." This is one of the central mantras of the Migrant Familia program at Holy Trinity Jesuit Parish. Based in Washington, DC, the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Communication Technology Transforms Cultures with Fr. Paul Soukup, SJ
The internet, wherever we access it, is so much of our lives now. Being online isn’t some alternate reality different from our real lives. The internet is real…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastWhat We Know About Today's Church (And How We Know It) with Tricia Bruce
We presume listeners to this podcast are interested in the state of the Catholic Church in North America. But if you stop to think about what you know about…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastLearning from the Martyrs Alfred Delp, SJ, and Edith Stein with Fr. Peter Nguyen, SJ
Of all the saints and heroes of the faith we have in our Catholic tradition, it can be difficult to spiritually connect with martyrs. Maybe that’s part of the…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastPathway to Priesthood: How to be a Jesuit Priest in Secular Society
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a limited audio series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. In these conversations, host Eric Clayton…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastMaking Catholic Films for Atheists with Eric Groth
If you’re as interested in Catholicism and the arts as we are here at AMDG, you might also have been excited to see that a new movie about Flannery O’Connor’s…
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Pathway to Priesthood: Answering Tough Questions
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a limited audio series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. In these conversations, host Eric Clayton…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Surprising History of Humility with Christopher Bellitto
It’s graduation season, which means it’s commencement address season. Host Mike Jordan Laskey did a quick Google search for “most common words in graduation…
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Pathway to Priesthood: How Am I Accompanied?
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a limited audio series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. In these conversations, host Eric Clayton…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThis Jesuit's on Fire: A Pentecost Story
This year marks 10 years since Fr. Paul Shelton, SJ, was ordained a priest. As a result, he's been feeling a bit reflective, nostalgic even. He's been thinking…
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Pathway to Priesthood: How Do I Know I'm Ready?
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a limited audio series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. In these conversations, host Eric Clayton…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Catholic Charities Lives the Gospel with Kerry Robinson
If you made a list of the best things about the Catholic Church in the United States, Catholic Charities USA would be in that list’s very top tier. A network…
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Pathway to Priesthood: Why Religious Life?
Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a limited audio series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States in which host Eric Clayton talks with…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastEnglish version: Reynaldo Domínguez's Deadly Fight to Care for Creation
In 60-plus years of life, Reynaldo Domínguez has never heard someone say, "I live without water and I live in peace." Water is fundamental to a healthy and…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastVersión en español: La lucha mortal de Reynaldo Domínguez para el cuidado de la creación
En más de 60 años de vida, Reynaldo Domínguez nunca ha oído a nadie decir: "Vivo sin agua y vivo tranquilo". El agua es fundamental para una vida sana y en…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastGrace, Attention and Beauty with Marilynne Robinson
The American essayist and novelist Marilynne Robinson may not be Catholic, but her writing reveals a deeply sacramental imagination. Through five books of…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastHow Poetry and Prose Change Lives with Gary Jansen
In honor of National Poetry Month - which is currently underway during April 2024 - author and editor Gary Jansen returns to the podcast to talk about his…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastThe Story Behind Flannery O'Connor's New Novel with Jessica Hooten Wilson
You might be familiar with the American Catholic novelist, Flannery O’Connor. You might have read her short stories in a class, maybe “A Good Man Is Hard to…
AMDG: A Jesuit PodcastFrom Video Game Designer to Jesuit with Shane Liesegang, SJ
There’s an old saying in Jesuit circles: If you’ve met one Jesuit, you’ve met one Jesuit. A fun list to make is all the different careers guys had before…