Guests & links for Friday, August 12

Hour One/Four

Fr. Greg Markey –  A Modern Priest on a Medieval Pilgrimage

Father Greg Markey is pastor of St Mary’s Church, Norwalk, Conn.. The youngest of 11 children and a former journalist, Father Markey attended seminary at Mount St Mary’s in Maryland and was ordained in 1999. He has been a frequent contributor to Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Now Father Markey has filled out his missives from the camino with further reflections on his extraordinary  experience in Discovering the Camino de Santiago: A Priest’s Journey to the Tomb of St. James(Roman Catholic Books)

Steven Greydanus – Reviews of “30 Minutes or Less” and “Crazy, Stupid Love”

Steven Greydanus is film critic for the National Catholic Register, a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Faith & Film Critics Circle. Steven’s work has appeared in Catholic World Report, This Rock, and on the EWTN.com and Catholic Exchange websites.

Website: www.decentfilms.com

Hour Two

Dave Durand – Leadership

Signs that you are a professional and not an amateur
1. Pros can distinguish the difference between excuses and reasons
2. Pros tame their want to’s and fuel ther “ought to’s (embrace delayed gratification)
3. Pros think “and – both” not just “either- or”
4. Pros ask questions that lead to positive outcomes
5. Pros are studios more than curious
6. Pros deliver more than they promise
7. Pros act like they have been in the end zone before and like they will be their again

Dave Durand is an author, speaker and personal success coach. He has trained over 100,000 professionals in sales, marketing, business leadership and athletics. He is the founder of ProBalance Inc. and Dave Durand Coaching Systems. Dave’s latest book is Say This, Not That.

Website: www.DaveDurand.com

Dr. Eric Sims – The stock market’s wild ride

Dr. Eric Sims is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research. His writings have appeared in the American Economic Review and the Journal for Monetary Economics.

Eric Sims’s Notre Dame home page

Hour Three

Marlene Byrne  - Kids, the obesity epidemic, and the Socialization of Food

Marlene Byrne is a mother, entrepreneur, and founder of Project Play, a movement which uses a series of lively children’s books to inspire families and neighborhoods to play games that spark creativity and foster the imagination.

Website: www.projectplaybooks.com

Wendy Wiese – Current events (media coverage of the stock market  and Thursday’s Republican presidential debate)

The On Call Facebook page

Dave Durand’s list for Friday, April 15

Seven common communications mistakes

1. Assuming too many things about the audience
2. Failing to communicate to “three possible reactions”
3. Mistiming emotions and logic (speaking to the head and the heart)
4. Not getting confirmation on the point
5. Failing to do your homework before talking (talking only about what you know)
6. Talking over the other party (not listening)
7. Failing to verbally and nonverbally validate the other party

Dave’s website: DaveDurand.com

Dr. Tim Weldon — Philosophy and storytelling

Tim Weldon – Faring Homewards: The Philosophy of Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Dr. Tim Weldon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Francis is Joliet, Illinois. He of several essays and book reviews along with two textbooks, Subtle Wisdom: John Duns Scotus’s Philosophy of the Human Person and Be Filled with Wonder: The Franciscan Intellect Tradition. His latest book is Faring Homewards: the Philosophy of Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

 

Glen’s Story Corner — There is More in You Than You Know

March 28: There is More in You Than You Know

John Green — Streetwalking with Jesus (book)

John Green is the founder of the ecumenical Emmaus Ministries, which reaches out to men in prostitution and helps them off the streets through a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ. His new book is Streetwalking with Jesus. He is a permanent deacon for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Website: Streets.org

Fr. Alfred McBride — Staying Faithful Today (book)

Father Alfred McBride was born in Philadelphia and ordained a priest in 1953. Fr. Alfred McBride, O. Praem is the author of several well-known Catholic books and has lectured widely. His latest book is The book – Staying Faithful Today: To God, Ourselves, One Another by Fr. Alfred McBride (St. Anthony Messenger Press).

Website: http://catalog.americancatholic.org

Marcel LeJeune

Marcel LeJeune is Assistant Director of Campus Ministry for St. Mary’s Catholic Center in College Station, TX.  The Ministry serves Texas A & M University and Blinn College. It supports the spiritual development of approximately 11,000 college students during a critical transitional time of their lives….contributing to the formation of future leaders for the Catholic Church. Marcel’s new book is called Set Free to Love: Lives Changed by the Theology of the Body from Servant Books.

Website: AggieCatholic.org

Karl A. Schultz — The Gospels and gender

Karl A. Schultz is the director of Genesis Personal Development Center in Pittsburgh.  He has presented workshops internationally in education, diocesan, parish, retreat, young adult, corporate, hospital, hospice, association, men’s groups, and convention environments on lectio divina, journaling, discernment, and potential fulfillment, time and stress management, job therapy, biblical spirituality, suffering and care-giving, theology of the body, marital spirituality, conflict resolution,  and men’s and relationship issues.

His latest book is the St. Joseph Guide to Lectio Divina.

Website: KarlASchultz.com

Blog: KarlASchultz.Wordpress.com

Burke Ingraffia

BURKE INGRAFFIA is a jazz/folk singer/songwriter and WordPress developer who writes and podcasts about culture, music, religion, technology, language, and life along the Gulf Coast.

Hear great music, meet Sean in Appleton on Saturday

I’ll be speaking (briefly, I promise) this Saturday evening as the emcee at Catholic Underground of Green Bay & the Fox Cities; the “stars” of the evening will be 1) Jesus (adoration will begin at 7:00 and go until about 8:00), and 2) Catholic singer/songwriter Burke Ingraffia (his concert starts at 8:30). It’s safe to say that you really can’t go wrong spending time with God incarnate, and you’ll also really enjoy Burke’s music and what he shares about his own life and experience.

I’ve been asked to say a few words about the New Evangelization; I’ll probably talk a bit about what it’s not (a new program/directive/initiative, although it can look an awful lot like one) and a bit about what it is (you, telling your story to someone who actually wants to hear it).

Catholic Underground is an outreach of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in NYC, and is being “franchised” to other parts of the country.