Thinking Faith With Eric Gurash And Dr. Brett Salkeld

This week on Thinking Faith, Deacon Eric discusses the profound summer experience of presiding not only at his first wedding as a Deacon but at the marriage of his daughter. Show Snippet: "A lot of the questions, and I think legitimately, were from my daughter to me saying "Dad, do you actually think you can do that; officiate at my wedding without bursting into tears?" Because I can tend to get a little emotional..."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode completes our masterclass and concludes last week's examination of liturgy in culture, life, and the Mass. "If you want to make citizens for a consumer culture, you need people with low inhibitions because consumer culture doesn't like people who are self-possessed and self-controlled because they don't need to buy a bunch of garbage. What you need is people who have bad impulse control. Those are good consumers."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode examines liturgy in culture, life, and the Mass. "The culture isn't just feeding us evil, it's feeding us good in the wrong proportions or in the wrong perspective, and that throws us off. All the things we're addicted to, what are you addicted to? Work? Sex? Those are good! What are you looking for in your addiction? You're looking for something that that thing, it promises, but it can't deliver."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will conclude the topic of Real Presence and Ecumenical dialogue. Show Snippet: "There's a misunderstanding that Catholics sometimes have that the reason protestants can't normally receive the Eucharist in a Catholic celebration of the Mass, is because they don't believe in Real Presence...that's not actually the reason."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will take a deep dive into the topic of Real Presence and Ecumenical dialogue. Show Snippet: "Part of the story is that Transubstantiation stopped functioning, in the way it was designed to function, within a couple generations of Thomas (Aquinas)..."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will take a deep dive into the topic of Transubstantiation. Show Snippet: "Berengarius was right, theologians agree, to push back on this language - this ultra-realistic language - but he drew a hard line between real on the one hand and symbol on the other and opted for a more symbolic reading, and the theologians of his day said that's not gonna work..."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will continues last week's examination of the Eucharist as Real Presence. Show Snippet: "Calling it real is to say God is acting. Is the human meaning-making and symbol nothing? No, it's the whole context in which God is acting; it's where God comes to meet us. It's not nothing, but it's not sufficient to account for the whole story. It's the context in which God meets us."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will examine the Eucharist as Real Presence. Show Snippet: "The New Atheists who think that Christianity is the worst thing that's ever happened in the history of the world will come out against various contemporary ideologies that are very subjective, and the New Atheists will agree with the Catholic position. Now that seems odd at first because you expect them to just disagree with us about everything, but they're so materialistic that they reject this sense that you can just make up reality for yourself."

We continue our Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will examine the Eucharist as sacrifice. Show Snippet: "The Old Testament is aware of all this. When people are offering all their bulls and goats and lambs at the Temple, but their hearts aren't changed, the prophets call them out for that. Jesus even quotes them at one point, "Go learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'"

This week we begin a special Summer Masterclass on the Eucharist featuring a series of talks previously delivered by Dr. Brett Salkeld for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This week's episode will examine the Eucharist as a meal. Show Snippet: "It tells us a lot about why the Bible is so obsessed with food. I mean the people who were writing the Bible were people who were often living on the edge of not being able to eat. They were often poor people...and so, if you want to tell a story about Paradise, there's food you can grab off every tree. If you want to tell a story about God's Reign, its choice meats and well-aged wines."

This week Deacon Eric gathers with three recent graduates of the Archdiocese of Regina's Lay Formation program to discuss what drew them to take part, what the experience has been like, and how things have changed in their relationship with Jesus Christ, His Church, and their relationships in the world. To learn more or to register for Fall classes, contact Deacon Eric at egurash@archregina.sk.ca. Show snippet: "I had been fairly active in the parish; I'd been teaching Sacramental prep, and working with kids forever, and I want to know what I'm talking about when I'm working with the kids, and that's one of the things that attracted me to the program."

Host Dr. Brett Salkeld, ethicist, Dr. Charlie Camosy, and Jonathon Van Maren of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform continue their discussion on the overturning of Roe vs Wade by the US Supreme Court and the public discourse around the issue of abortion in Canada and the US. "I think if the pro-life movements can get together and get this data and then use that to make an informed argument for changes in public policy or shifts in public policy...I think that would be almost the starting point, to try to get as much data as we can so we're doing it in as informed a way as possible..."

Host Dr. Brett Salkeld is joined by ethicist, Dr. Charlie Camosy and Jonathon Van Maren of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform to discuss the recent overturning of Roe vs Wade by the US Supreme Court and the public discourse around the issue of abortion in Canada and the US. Show Snippet: "80% of Canadians don't know that it is not restricted at all. We go door-to-door having discussions on this...half the people you talk to will Google it and check it on their phone because they don't actually believe you that this is the case..."

We continue our discussion with Dr. Mario Sacasa from the Always Hope Podcast looking at his new online course 'Dating Well'. We'll look at fostering a healthy approach to dating and relationships and the particular challenges faced by discerning couples in our modern world. Show Snippet: "If you have this expectation that a wife is supposed to do 'x' or a husband is supposed to be 'y', and you go into it with that expectation, well then...the reality of the person who is in front of you, is never going to meet that expectation." Find out more and level up your love life at www.faithandmarriage.org 

Join the discussion with Dr. Mario Sacasa from the Always Hope Podcast as we discuss his new online course 'Dating Well'. We'll look at fostering a healthy approach to dating and relationships and the particular challenges faced by discerning couples in our modern world. Show Snippet: If we fall into an overly pious way of dating or concept of dating, then we can think, "Well, as long as we agree that Jesus Christ is the Lord, that the Catholic Church is the one true Church, that we pray together, and that's all we need"...but you know your relationship is going to be built on so much more than just going to Mass together." Dr. Sacasa's Always Hope Podcast: https://faithandmarriage.org/alwayshope/ Level up your love life in a Catholic context; https://faithandmarriage.thinkific.com/courses/datingwell

Thinking Faith has officially reached our 300th Episode!  In celebration, Eric and Brett have dug into the vault and dusted off their very first recording.  Crack open your favorite bubbly brew, sit back and enjoy the episode that started it all as we ask pointed questions like "What is Theology?" and "Why haven't these guys been canceled yet?"

Our monthly series on the Saints and Mental health continues as Deacon Eric Gurash reflects on Archangel, St. Raphael, and his role not just as a healer of physical ailments, but as a powerful intercessor and companion in times of serious grief and emotional distress. Show Snippet: "The story of Tobit and his family reminds us that these answered prayers often come in surprising, disguised ways. A coworker or friend, a bit of scripture or song heard at a time of great need, or, as with Raphael, a lonely traveler, a stranger...all may be secret encounters with the divine reaching out to give answer to the deep need of our hearts."

In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salked sits down with John Jalsevac to discuss their experiences of unhealthy approaches to faith and truth-seeking and work out healthier ways forward. Show Snippet: "We talk a lot about truth, we say, "All I care about is truth, and Christ is the Truth; I believe in Christ, therefore, I have the Truth," and then we use that to close our minds to truth."

In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salked sits down with John Jalsevac to discuss their experiences of unhealthy approaches to faith and truth-seeking and work out healthier ways forward. Show Snippet: "When you see such conviction and such certitude you say "Well, I must be missing something." You say, "Maybe I lack the spirit in some way..."

In this three-part series, Dr. Brett Salked sits down with John Jalsevac to discuss their experiences of unhealthy approaches to faith and truth-seeking and work out healthier ways forward. Show Snippet: "There's something broken in the way we're pursuing truth and fact, and I've been trying to sort out what that is."