The After Dinner Scholar

The After Dinner Scholar


Latest Episodes

St. Thomas on Providence with Dr. Michael Bolin
April 25, 2023

We know, St. Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome, that in everything God works for goodwith those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.Those words from St. Paul can and should

Political Rhetoric and the Common Good with Dr. Virginia Arbery
April 18, 2023

In almost every walk of life and vocation, the ability to express yourself orally with clarity, precision, and persuasiveness are vital. Thats obvious for priests, teachers, salespeople, politicians,

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ ”Spring” with Dr. Glenn Arbery
April 11, 2023

Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (1844-1889) is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Victorian Era though, oddly, the Victorian Era never read Hopkins. While, imitating his father, he wrot

Jesus Condemned Commentary by St. Augustine read by Dr. Jim Tonkowich
April 04, 2023

St. Augustine of Hippo who lived AD 354 430 delivered 124 lectures moving verse-by-verse through the entire the Gospel of John. This being Holy Week, here is lecture 116 in which Augustine discussed

Sacred Signs with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
March 28, 2023

Papal biographer and scholar George Weigel is fond of saying that for Catholics, stuff matters. Stuff like our physical bodies, bread, wine, water, incense, candles, bells, linen, altars, and ashes.

Outdoor Week with Dr. Tom Zimmer
March 21, 2023

This week the Wyoming Catholic College campus is deserted. Our dorms are empty. The kitchen and dining hall are silent. Its Spring Outdoor week.A Wyoming Catholic College education begins with three

Philosophizing about Nature with Dr. Henry Zepeda
March 14, 2023

Whether its fermions and bosoms or air, earth, fire, and water or nothing but water, the question What is the world? has a long history and there have been many answers.Wyoming Catholic College fr

Lies and the Father of Lies in Milton’s ”Paradise Lost” with Prof. Adam Cooper
March 07, 2023

Defeated in the attempt to war against God, fallen from Heaven, chained in the fiery muck of Hell, Miltons Satan nonetheless declares: What though the field be lost?All is not lo

Exploring ”The Brothers Karamazov” with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
February 28, 2023

Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic deat

Lent Begins with Fr. Godfrey Okwunga
February 21, 2023

Exactly 13 years ago today, Pope Benedict XVI noted in his Angelus address, Lentis like a long retreat in which to re-enter oneself and listen to God's voice in order to overcome the temptations o