Kolbecast

186 Full Circle (of Fifths)

AMDG. A harmony of voices joins together on today’s episode to discuss music. Bonnie, Steven, Dr. Jordan Almanzar, Dr. Carl Hasler, and Kolbe alumna-turned-teacher Olivia Knuffke share their musical backgrounds and memories, reflections and pedagogy. With topics such as the discipline and work ethic required of both music and a Kolbe education and the formative music of folks’ teenage years, the conversation ultimately centers on the lessons learned from music (whether listening to it or making it!) and the richness it imparts to life. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
Et Tu, Iordane? 
64 Stricken by Ideas with Dr. Carl Hasler 
34 A Beauty-Linked Life with Dr. Carol Reynolds 
158 The Gift of a Mind 
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185 Developmentally Appropriate Independence

AMDG.  This episode debuts in the dreary days of American wintertime, but our topic is far sunnier: summer camp.  Bonnie and Steven visit with Josh Wattenbarger and Alyssa Wollums of The Pines Catholic Camp about the highs, lows, benefits, and burdens of the camping experience both at The Pines itself and more generally.  The conversation ranges from fun and games to unhealthy socialization like cliques and bullying, family dynamics to handling homesickness, and overall, the developmentally appropriate independence that camp fosters.  
Check out The Pines Catholic Camp here. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
105 Not Just for Special Occasions 
92: Protect, Guide, Prepare, Empower 
155 Mission Intent: Pathways to Serve 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

184 Hope & Wonder with Katie Bogner & Shari Van Vranken

AMDG.  Advent is a time of active waiting, preparation, and reflection.  In this episode, guests Katie Bogner and Shari Van Vranken share their educational and artistic perspectives on Advent drawn from their professional backgrounds and their recent authorial collaboration in All About Advent and Christmas: Sharing the Seasons of Hope and Wonder with Children.  The group discusses how experiences across public, parochial, and homeschool settings; how saints and symbolism factor into Advent; and the value of stepping back from daily routines into yearly traditions. 
Links to check out:  
Katie & Shari’s book All about Advent & Christmas: Sharing the Seasons of Hope and Wonder with Children 
Katie’s website Look to Him and Be Radiant 
Shari’s website Catholic Paper Goods 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

183 Gratuitous Gifts: Sherry Weddell on Charisms

AMDG.  Think about the idea of being the answer to someone else’s prayers.  Does that seem humbling or overwhelming, frightening or appealing...or maybe a mix of all of those?  In this episode, Sherry Weddell of the Catherine of Siena Institute visits with Bonnie and Steven about the idea of charisms.  These gifts are different from sanctifying graces in that they are given to us for us to give away.  Sherry explains how every baptized person receives at least one charism, how all the charisms are evangelizing and healing, and how charisms spring to fruitfulness from a lived relationship with God. 
Links mentioned: 
Catherine of Siena Institute 
Forming Intentional Disciples Forum on Facebook 
Fruitful Discipleship book 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes 
176 The Agenda Is to Grow with Art & Laraine Bennett 
172 A Gift-Laden Voyage with Philip Kosloski of Voyage Comics Philip relates how his experience with Called and Gifted impacted his life.  
123 A Change of the Ages with Msgr. James Shea 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

182 Festive Holidays Ahead: Preparing, Adapting, Delighting

AMDG.  Last week, you heard from a few Kolbe-connected dads about their kitchen adventures.  The theme continues this week as Kolbe instructor moms Laura Roselli Insall and Christina Davin join us to talk about cooking, upcoming holidays, and kids in the kitchen.  The conversation covers vegetarian and food allergy accommodations, the utilitarian and joyful aspects of cooking, make-ahead meal strategies, and repeating traditions for holidays versus trying new things each year. 
 Links mentioned: 
The Little Christmas Angel by Peggy Barron 
Laura’s eggless sheet pan pancakes Laura usually cuts the sugar in half, uses regular milk with about a Tbsp of apple cider vinegar added instead of buttermilk and uses half coconut oil and half butter (or almond milk with vinegar added and all coconut oil if she’s making for someone who can't have dairy). 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
181 Chef Dad 
122 Bridge Year 
81 The When and the How of Online Elementary 
82 Move & Groove 
63 The Saints Speak for Themselves with Ken & Kerri Davison, the Holy Heroes parents 
150 A Family Apostolate: Liturgical Living with Kendra Tierney 

181 Chef Dad

AMDG.  Gather in our metaphorical kitchen with Bonnie, Steven, Tony Guzzaldo, Everett Buyarski, and Craig Lengyel as the men don their oven mitts and talk food and cooking.  From stories of learning to cook early in marriage to discovering the chemistry of cooking, the group muses on how the kitchen can be a place of socializing or of solitude, the importance of feasting as a foil to fasting, and the connection between an abundant table and the goodness of creation.  They also share a few favorite memories and current go-to recipes. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
78 The Kolbe Man Show 
74 Special Teams: Kolbe Dads 
88 Built for Battle with Jonathan Conrad of the Catholic Woodworker 
146 Stepping into the Arena: Bobby Angel on Our Call to Holiness 
150 A Family Apostolate: Liturgical Living with Kendra Tierney 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

180 Grace & Accompaniment in Times of Crisis featuring Anne DeSantis

 AMDG.  Family dynamics understandably influence the day to day of homeschooling.  When crisis comes—be it separation or divorce, job loss, health emergencies, anxiety and depression, relationship issues, or other trauma—feelings of isolation and stigma can cause ripple effects in a family. In this episode, Bonnie and Steven visit with homeschool alumni mother Anne DeSantis of the St. Raymond Nonnatus Foundation, which offers prayer, priestly consultation, podcasts & videos, and programs & events for families in crisis.  They touch on a variety of topics, such as the benefits of seeking help from someone outside of a normal social sphere for greater confidentiality and specialization, how people can become marginalized by family crisis issues, the importance of both boundaries and being perceptive to where other people are, and how healing is never once and done. 
Links mentioned & relevant 
The St. Raymond Nonnatus Foundation for Freedom, Family, and Faith 
Rose Sweet 
Order of Mercy (Mercedarian Friars USA) 
The Nonnatus Foundation’s YouTube channel 
Virtual marriage enrichment series presented by Anne with Robert LeBlanc 
Anne’s personal website featuring information about her writing and other work 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
167 Sanity & Sanctity with Johanna Seagren of Interior Kingdom 
45 Grace Perfects Nature 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 

179 Translation Tug of War with Dr. Matthew Minerd

AMDG.  Professor and translator Dr. Matthew Minerd joins Bonnie, Steven, Jordan, and Everett in this episode about making connections across rites, languages, and disciplines.  Starting with a discussion of various Eastern rites of Catholicism, the group explores the blend of traditions throughout the Church, the art of finessing words from one language to another in translation, and the endeavor of teachers to stir up a love of learning in their students. 
Dr. Minerd’s works available from Ascension Press 
Made by God, Made for God: Catholic Morality Explained  
translation of Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales, which is featured in season one of the Catholic Classics podcast 
translation of The Confessions of St. Augustine, subject of Catholic Classics season two 
Other relevant links:  
Dr. Minerd’s wife Dr. Courtney Minerd was a key contributor to a Facebook Friday event focused on mental health hosted by Kolbe Academy’s Elizabeth Hoxie.  
Jordan refers to a translation project he’s been working on. Learn more about that in Kolbecast episode 135 Hidden Holiness Made Known. 
Check out this episode of Catholic Stuff You Should Know for more information about Ruthenian Catholicism. 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.