I went back to St. Ignatius in LA this past week to give them a Lenten talk about temptation and C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters.

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TEA: Resisting Temptation With C.S. Lewis

This past weekend, I drove out to Imperial Valley, a couple of hours east of San Diego, to give a talk at "Java & Jesus". The event was rather similar to a traditional "Theology On Tap", except that it was held at a coffee shop.

TEA: Practical Tools For Everday Evangelism

Last night I gave a talk in Charlotte, North Carolina, on C.S. Lewis, telling the story of how he came to faith in Christ and how this journey influenced his own subsequent evangelistic efforts.

TEA: C.S. Lewis – Apostle To The Skeptics

Last night I gave a talk at St. Patrick's to the Goretti Group on the subject of love, drawing heavily from C.S. Lewis' book, The Four Loves.

TEA: Love is a many splendored Thing

Last week I gave a talk on apologetics at a bonfire in El Cajon on the subject of apologetics, the follow-on talk from “Evangelization for the terrified”. It turns out I wave my hands about a lot when I talk… Apologetics for the confused (Download) You can subscribe to “Theology With An English Accent” manually, or any place where good podcasts can be found 

TEA: Apologetics for the confused

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk to a Young Adult group in the Diocese about Worship in the Early Church. I’ve given this talk before (and the audio quality is better there), but here’s the latest incarnation of it: Worship In The Early Church (Download) You can subscribe to “Theology With An English Accent” manually, or any place where good podcasts

TEA: Worship in the Early Church

This Friday I returned for the final time to St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church in Los Angeles. In this talk I told my own faith journey and spoke about what I think we can do to draw the lapsed back to the Church. Catholics Come Home (Download) You can subscribe to “Theology With An English Accent” manually, or any place where good podcasts

TEA: Catholics Come Home

I was back at St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church in Los Angeles this past week. On this visit I was speaking to their Confirmation group about the Sacrament of Confession and more broadly on the subject of mercy. The group was in quite a wide semi-circle, so I walked around quite a bit so the microphone couldn’t always pick

TEA: God’s Mercy, Freely Received, Freely Given

In this episode of “Theology With An English Accent” (TEA) is the first of a few talks I’m giving this Lent at St. Ignatius in Los Angeles. This is a longer version of the talk I gave the previous week in Dodge City which was called “What is the point of Christianity?”. The first 20 minutes is basically identical, after

TEA: Life in Christ, not just improvement, but transformation

In this episode of “Theology With An English Accent” (TEA) is the second talk I gave at the Southern Kansas Young Adult Conference last week. If there was one of my talks that I’d like every Catholic to hear, this is probably in top three and is based on the my acceptance speech for the FIAT Award last December: We

TEA: Doing What you love for jesus

I was in Kansas this weekend speaking at a retreat so I didn't get a chance to put together an episode with Matt. Rather than deprive you of an episode this week, here is the audio of a talk I gave at the weekend which draws heavily from Lewis and Mere Christianity. Click on the episode title for Show Notes!

PWJ: S2E8 – Bonus – “What is the point of Christianity?”

This is the second of two talks I gave during Lent at a parish in Los Angeles this year… “Apologetics for the confused” (Download)     — Questions — • What does IHS stand for? • Who is your blog’s patron saint? • How do you evangelize at work? • How do I deal with my Mormon family attacking my Faith? • What can I do

Apologetics For The Confused (MP3)

During Lent, I gave two talks at St. Ignatius Catholic parish in Los Angeles. Here is the first talk I gave on reading Sacred Scripture: “How to read the Bible like a Catholic” (Download) Q&A (Download)   — Questions — • What does Jesus mean when he says that, to be his disciple, we must “hate mother and father”? • What is

TEA: How to read the Bible like a Catholic (St. Ignatius)

Today I gave a talk on a retreat entitled “Jesus In Disguise”, where I look at the different ways in which we can encounter God behind the veil of the ordinary. The audio is available below: Jesus in Disguise (Download)

TEA: Jesus In Disguise

Last week I was in San Antonio giving my “Entrepreneurial Faith” talk to the YCP chapter there. “Entrepreneurial Faith” (Download) Q&A (Download)   — Questions — • You’re an British Catholic. How is that possible?! • What did you read which led you back into the Catholic Faith? • How can I put the gift of writing to the service of the

TEA: Entrepreneurial Faith (San Antonio)

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