Peace Be With You Podcast

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Peace Be With You explores the use of mediation, pastoral counseling, and spiritual direction to create an army of peacemakers that overcome the division, hostility, and conflict that ruins man’s happiness.

Latest Episodes

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 23: Body Soul Duality Part II

Episode 23: Body Soul Duality, Part II

If I believe I am the Flesh Body and I believe in an After Life, then the Flesh Body must be resurrected. But the belief that the Flesh Body is resurrected is false, incorrect, a widespread faulty belief.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 22: Body Soul Duality Part I

Episode 22: Body Soul Duality, Part I

As we study and reflect on scripture, we discover a duality between Flesh Body and Immortal Soul or Spirit. They are not the same thing. The Flesh Body is perishable. It is transitory. Its existence is fleeting. In contrast, an immortal soul — who we are as Divine Self — does not perish. We enjoy eternal life.

You Podcast Episode 21: Expectations

Episode 21: Expectations

There are times when we fully expect to be something or do something or have something — then, when we are denied what we want, we’re ready to fight, ready to go into battle. Disappointed expectations drive us into conflict.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 20: False Attribution Error

Episode 20: False Attribution Error

When we create our inner story, we blame our trespasses on situations, on other people, or even on God. We protect our self-image. When another person crosses the line, we attribute their behavior to bad character, nasty disposition, or evil motives. When we mediate, we uncover missing information and redraft our narrative without false attributions.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 19 The Face of a Franciscan

Episode 19: Face of a Franciscan

Peacemakers must become skilled in giving this gift of Divine Face. They will want to turn to the example of Francis who spent the entire night in prayer before he traveled to meet the besieged people of Gubbio, where he tamed the fierce wolf with his prayerful presence.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 18: Authority, Rights, Interests

Episode 18: Authority, Rights, Interests

In Matthew 18:15 we read: “If your brother sins (against you), go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.” This passage advises us to take a conciliatory approach.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 17 Dear Bishops

Episode 17: Dear Bishops

The bishops meet again next month to reflect further on the path forward beyond the scandals destroying trust in the Catholic Church. With that in mind, I would like to offer the following suggestion for their consideration.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 16 God Is Love

Episode 16: God is Love

Immortal souls immersed in Divine Love are drawn into divine relationship. And, ultimately, this unity of “Being-In-Love” is what makes peacemaking possible.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 15: Diving Collaboration

Episode 15: Divine Collaboration

In a faith-based approach, we expand the collaboration model. We not only seek to satisfy our interests and the interests of the other party, we also seek to satisfy God’s interests — typically referred to as “the Will of God.”

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 14 Sculpting False Self

Episode 14: Sculpting False Self

All conflict is the result of one False Self becoming entangled in opposition to another False Self. Each False Self is comprised of ego traits and swirling clouds of intentions desires. There is one way to de-escalate conflict: Vanish the clusters of False Self traits. Peace arrives after we scrub away ego personality.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 13 Worldviews

Episode 13: Worldviews

Peacemakers encounter a clash of two primary worldviews: The dominant secular culture advances Materialism. The other worldview, a spiritual worldview, rests on the philosophy of Idealism.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 12 The Ombudsperson

Episode 12: The Ombudsperson

Large institutions, such as universities, typically employ ombudspersons. But the Catholic Church lacks such a program.

With You Podcast Episode 11 Celebrating the Incarnation

Episode 11: Celebrating the Incarnation

At Christmas we celebrate not only the birth of the baby Jesus, but also a major supernatural event — the Incarnation. Caught up in celebrating the birth, we forget to reflect on the Incarnation, on the idea expressed in John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us…”

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 10 Tribalism and Theology

Episode 10: Tribalism & Theology

Peacemakers must offset destructive Catholic tribalism by promoting widespread catechism in Benedict XVI's theology of relationship.

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Episode 9: Habitual Responses to Conflict

The False Self brings about habitual responses to conflict. Thus, for us to reconcile we must strip away the False Self, a cluster of destructive ego traits.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 8

Episode 8: The False Self

All conflicts are the result of two or more False Selves becoming entangled in opposing intentions. The False Self is a cluster of ego traits that do not reflect divine nature. In spiritual direction we sculpt away the layers of false self that taint our interests.

Peace Be With You Podcast Episode 7

Episode 7: Going Below the Line

When you find yourself managing a conflict, slow up and ask the question — what do people really want? What interest are they really trying to satisfy? Do I really know what they want?

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Episode 6: Spiritual Direction, An Introduction

Spiritual direction, an ancient tradition, focuses on reconciling relationships with God. Catholic spiritual direction seeks to bring about mystical union with Christ.

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Episode 5: Pastoral Counseling

Pastoral counseling clears away personal emotional, mental, and spiritual barriers to reconciliation. Pastoral counselors see man as an immortal soul, In order to serve the faithful, the Catholic Church must greatly expand its delivery of pastoral counseling.

Episode 4: Mediation Part II, A Faith-Based Approach

In faith-based mediation, when a person reconciles with God, their human relationships improve. When a person reconciles human relationships, their relationship with God improves. Secular models, however, dismiss the fundamental relationship between Man and God.

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Episode 3: Mediation Part I, The Basics

Mediation is the art of restoring harmony in the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is a practice found in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 18:15-18.

Episode 2: The Assisi Option, an Introduction

The Assisi Option addresses the clash between people of faith and a secular culture. It calls for the creation of spiritual direction…

Episode 1: Peace Be With You, An Introduction

People hunger for peace but they are surrounded by conflict and suffering. In response, Peace Be With You explores…