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The Yakuza & Lore w/ Fr. Anthony Sciarappa | Forte Catholic Podcast 408
Taylor & Father discuss some of their favorites when it comes to lore: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and the very silly Yakuza video game franchise. They share how all of these universes with deep lore are very fun to engage with. Taylor also has a confession about the Lore of Christianity.
Taylor & Father discuss some of their favorites when it comes to lore: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and the very silly Yakuza video game franchise. They share how all of these universes with deep lore are very fun to engage with. Taylor also has a confession about the Lore of Christianity.
We hope you enjoy this fun conversation (that made Fr. Anthony think less of Taylor)
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Main Character Energy & Ferocious Faith w/ Liv Harrison | Forte Catholic Podcast Ep 357
Taylor & Liv discuss battling Main Character Energy in our spiritual lives and relationships. They also have some alliterative suggestions for finding a way out of dryness in prayer.
Liv Harrison is back in studio to talk with Taylor about Main Character Energy. We all think from our own point of view, so how do we break out of thinking we're the main character in the story. Taylor shares a strange tactic he uses to try and not make everything about him.
Liv shares about her new tattoos & alliterative faith advice. Taylor is incredibly proud of one of his jokes & they discuss a possible solution to dryness in prayer. We hope you enjoy this episode!
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Fatherhood, Video Games & Carnivals w/ Fr. Anthony Sciarappa | Forte Catholic Podcast Ep 342
Taylor & Fr. Anthony discuss fatherhood in preparation for Father's Day & Taylor shares one of his weirdest stories as a dad. They also discuss the morality of video games & talk about the book "Get Your Life Back" by John Eldredge.
In an episode filled with laughter & new nicknames, Taylor & Fr. Anthony kick off the episode by talking about this weekend's celebration of Father's Day. Taylor shares a Catechism passage that may be the most dads have ever been represented by the Church. He also shares one of the strangest moral conundrums he has ever had as a Father that happened this past week.
The show continues with a discussion on the morality of video games. Taylor accidentally made a decision in a video game that may get him kicked out of the Church lol. He shares his shame with Fr. Anthony and they discuss if it is sinful to commit sins in a video games.
To close the show, Taylor shares some reflections from a book he has been reading by John Eldredge called "Get Your Life Back." They discuss carnivals, actively loving God, finding restoration for our tired souls & how to handle other people's bad theology.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it!
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Forte Catholic Podcast Episode 209
We tried to kick off the show with a beautiful conversation about loving our neighbor but Jon wanted to talk about straws for a while. Taylor talks about Jon's mom(and isn't offensive...wow) and how we can't love a God we can't see if we don't love the people we can. The guys have a conversation about objective and subjective truth in Catholicism and how people often get them confused in both directions. Finally, Taylor shares how big of a failure his is with the help of the trusty dog Airbud.
We tried to kick off the show with a beautiful conversation about loving our neighbor but Jon wanted to talk about straws for a while. Taylor talks about Jon's mom(and isn't offensive...wow) and how we can't love a God we can't see if we don't love the people we can.
The guys have a conversation about objective and subjective truth in Catholicism and how people often get them confused in both directions.
Finally, Taylor shares how big of a failure his is with the help of the trusty dog Airbud.
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Forte Catholic Podcast Episode 201
Bearded Blevins and Taylor discuss a few things getting back to normal like sports, restaurants and (some) schools. Jon gets to judge three new metaphors about confession that Taylor came up with & the guys share stories of intense emotion ranging from embarrassment to rage to fear.
Jon "Bearded" Blevins cohosts what he dubbed the "hangover" episode after Ep 200's celebrations. We discuss some things like sports, dining out and schools opening back up and getting just a taste of "normalcy".
In the second segment, Jon gets to judge three new metaphors about confession that Taylor came up with. They range from terrible to maybe great?? You decide!
Finally, the guys share stories of intense emotion ranging from embarrassment to rage to fear. We had a good few laughs and might have even attempted to make a point. Enjoy!
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Forte Catholic Podcast Episode 185
Fr. Anthony and Taylor talk video games and an update on Taylor’s spiritual and physical health(including an impromptu live weighing). Taylor kinda goes off the rails at some point and it’s fun to hear Fr. Anthony try to reign him in. Comedian Aaron Weber rejoins the show to bring us some deep, hearty laughter :)
Fr. Anthony & Taylor have been playing many a video game during the quarantine and Taylor tries to justify it by making it sound spiritual and finding in the games positive and negative parallels to his spiritual life. He also weighs himself live on the show(unplanned) to see how he's doing physically during the lockdown.(It's wild!)
Comedian Aaron Weber stops by the show again. The point of bringing him on was to bring joy and levity during a time we all need it, but instead Fr. Anthony yells at people and tries to teach Aaron things. Poor Fr. Anthony. But Aaron still brings deep, hearty laughter. :)
In the final segment, Taylor kinda goes off the rails and Father tries desperately to keep him and the show on track.
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Forte Catholic Podcast Episode 147
Jon Blevins cohosts and celebrates his one year anniversary of being on the show! Taylor shares why he’s been crying while listening to podcasts in the woods and Jon shares about the recent conference on engaging youth he attended hosted by the USCCB. Our guest this week is fellow Catholic gamer/YouTuber Brian Montfort to talk about the pitfalls of video games, how to avoid them and why we still play.
Jon Blevins co-hosts on his one year anniversary of first appearing on the show! Taylor shares why he's been crying while listening to podcasts in the woods and wonders if he's progressing or digressing as a human.
In the second segment, we're joined by Brian Montfort of the Work To Game YouTube channel. With two of the biggest names in Catholic gaming, the guys chat about some of the pitfalls of gaming, how to avoid them and ultimately while they still play. Taylor tries to make strange comparisons between video games and the Church. Does it work? That's up to you to decide.
In the final segment(recorded three hours later), Taylor shares that his deepest recent spiritual insight is that Jesus is a millennial which leads "seamlessly" into a conversation of a conference Jon went to recently about how to engage youth culture. This leads to a more broad conversation about how we live our lives between action and inaction.
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